Thanks for your help in selecting the right solution for organizing my slides. The tools for automatic corrections are working properly and contribute to better imaging results. The autofocus accomplishes a perfect job for accurately mounted slides and smooth film strips. SilverFast 8. SilverFast 8 supports Photoshop Elements 8 to All rights reserved. Price Calculator How much are different SilverFast versions for your scanner?
Supported Operating Systems Supported Features. Movies Learn more about all SilverFast highlights and advantages. Mac OSX Intel Mac OSX Subscribe to Product News. Multi-Exposure 1. Auto IT8 2. If those test scans are crisp, and you don't have the glass MF tray, get one and it should help. Re choosing the "best" scanner software: its often very subjective. The closest I've seen to a consensus on the CoolScans is that every non-pro owner tries to "improve" on Nikon's own software by trying other premium options like SilverFast, but in the end most of them cycle back around to NikonScan.
There are certain aspects of the Nikon hardware performance including ICE if that is a big priority for you that are best exploited by Nikon's own software, funky as it can be at times. After Nikon ceased updating NikonScan for newer operating systems some years ago, VueScan became the default choice for many non-professional owners partly because the price is reasonable, and partly because VueScan is constantly updated for compatibility with new computers.
As with all these software options, some users who prioritize certain workflow elements over others find Vuescan impedes them more than Nikonscan or Silverfast, and vice versa.
Silverfast is a whole 'nother ballgame. It was and remains the professional standard, with capabilities unmatched by any other scanner software. But the learning curve can be steep just for basic operation, and getting it to better NikonScan results can be even steeper.
Elements of its interface can be incredibly obtuse: some settings that should be sticky aren't, the documentation is no help, you have to search the web for workarounds from other users. Unless you received a "free" reduced-feature version bundled with your scanner that is compatible with your Mac system, it is also very expensive to purchase and very expensive to upgrade.
To get the most from Silverfast, one usually needs to go all-out with super-calibrated monitors and more extensive profiling. If you don't plan to go completely bonkers in pursuit of utter perfection, Nikonscan is probably the best compromise, esp if you're running an older computer as host.
Vuescan is preferred by those who run multiple scanners of different brands, and want a single point of reference to operate them. It is also the only reasonable option for those who want to run less common scanners like older Polaroids and Minoltas with modern computers.
Silverfast is for the pro and pre-press market, more for the person who earns a living by scanning tho of course many advanced enthusiasts use it as well. When these were most popular between , almost all of them came with truly dreadful proprietary software.
Buggy as it can sometimes be, Nikonscan was the only one of these that wasn't terrible and could credibly compete with pro suites like Silverfast. So most who bought a Nkon scanner used and still use Nikonscan. Other brands of that era like Polaroid, ArtixSscan, Minolta, and Benq offered upgrade bundles with a crippled version of Siverfast, or you heard about Vuescan and opted for that. Or if you were pro, you just bought the full Silverfast. But NikonScan was usually the most direct path to a good result with CoolScans.
It recognized all scanner features and allows me to continue scan to documents after macOS update. Trusted by over , customers across the globe including. If VueScan isn't working with the Firewire cable, try a different Firewire port or a different Firewire cable. This scanner has an infrared lamp for scanning film. VueScan's 'Filter Infrared clean' option can be used to remove dust spots from film scans. Infrared cleaning works well with all types of color negative and color slide film, including Kodachrome.
When scanning Medium Format film, use a ruler to measure the distance from the start of one frame to the start of the next frame and then set 'Input Frame spacing' to this distance in millimeters. If you're using Windows and you've installed a Nikon driver, VueScan's built-in drivers won't conflict with this.
If you haven't installed a Windows driver for this scanner, VueScan will automatically install a driver. January 01, Happy New Year! In January , we're offering a free license to Softmaker Office to all customers who purchase VueScan. Now it's your turn to bring your scanner back to life - and keep it out of the landfill. Toggle navigation. VueScan is here to help! Here's what some of our customers are saying Read more reviews here. What is VueScan?
Why use VueScan? It's the first scanner on the market featuring ICE Professional. Thus when launching the Nikon it is the only filmscanner on the market which can digitise Kodachrome slides in outstanding quality with ICE dust and scratches removal. With a maximum original size of 6x9 cm and its highest resolution dpi the Super Coolscan ED provides an image with unimaginable megapixel.
This number even doubles if you save it with 16Bit inistead of 8Bit per colour channel. It's clear that you'll need a fast computer with a lot of RAM for these data volumes. But quickly most of it turned out to be good for learning foreign languages only. The whole user guide is available in six languages.
You get a manual with 80 pages per language which explain installation and operation of the scanner and the software detailed and understandable. With the aid of the user guide the installation is no problem even for beginners.
Install the software and plug in the scanner - that's all. This is done in 5 minutes. I found it very pleasant that the software installed the drivers for all current Nikon scanners at once.
The normal user actually has got exactly one film scanner on his desktop, but there is people like me too, who got five different Nikon film scanners standing side by side. Who already installed NikonScan 4 on his computer, e.
Of course the interesting thing about that is that Nikonscan can operate two scanners at the same time. Then there is an individual preview window for each device. This does not mean that both scanners can scan and transfer data to the computer at the same time, though. There is always only one device scanning at a time - when you initiate a scan with the second scanner it waits until the first one has finished.
So it doesn't make much sense to operate two scanners with one computer simultanously, at least when considering speed and parallel processing. Those who buy a Super Coolscan ED will be pleased indeed that the scanner can process 35mm film strips and slides but the essential reason for a LS is the possibility to scan medium format films in various sizes though.
You'll find neither bridges nor markings for the single frames on the MF strip film holder. You simply insert the film material left-aligned in turn. The ammount of possible scans results from the width of the material. Thus you can insert maximum 4 frames at 6x4. Naturally you have to advise the scan software of which format has been inserted into the holder by means of a select list.
Then accordingly sized index images are displayed if desired. When inserting the film material it's very important to leave no gap between the single images, because otherwise the software based division of the frames doesn't work correctly. Inserting trimmed single frames without gap requires some laborious use of tweezers. While the first slide bears on three sides in the holder the following images only bear on a slim rail at the top and at the bottom of the holder. Hence curled large negative or postive transparencies a harder to insert.
The Nikon LS plays to its strength when scanning whole medium format film strips, because these can be inserted into the holder in one piece up to the maximum length, of course and batch scanned.
The film strip has to be correctly trimmed just like single frames, though. If there is e. The automatic frame detection also fails if you insert very bright slides with very bright shots or very dark negatives with night shots into the strip film holder.
This is evident when you look at a negative with a night shot. The eye as well is not able to differentiate between the image border and the gap between the frames. But with normal images the automatic frame detection works perfectly when performing an index scan, so that you can already see the correctly trimmed images in the thumbnails. If the automatic frame detection fails there is the very useful image positioning tool of the Nikon scan software.
With this tool you can position the actual image area in tiny steps to the left or to the right by means of the index image, until the desired image area is displayed and thus will finally be pre scanned and fine scanned. The film strips or the single frames respectively are fixed in the holder by shutting two metal bars and normally the holder then can be inserted into the scanner.
Curled slides sagging in the holder can be re-tensioned. For doing so you have to loosen a lock at the lower metal bar and pull the tension device outwards until the film is tense. Afterwards you can fix the setting by fastening the lock. Curled slides can be easily processed by means of this very good design. Of course this construction reaches its limits when scanning a curled and a normal image at the same time: while one image is plane already the other still has to be retightened - this virtually doesn't work.
In this case only scanning these images separately helps. After inserting the strip film holder you normally perform an index scan. While one would willingly do without this index scan with 35mm films in order to save time the index scan is indispensable with medium format films in order to make sure that the film is correctly placed in the holder and the software correctly detects the single frames. As aforementioned a little gap between two frames can cause wrong partitioning of the images and you'd have to adjust the thumbnails by means of the image positioning feature.
A preview can be done of both a single frame and all frames at once. After the preview you can define the exact scan area as well as the resolution and you can adjust colour settings. When scanning medium formats you could actually do without the prescan because you'd normally select the biggest possible scan area: the actual image with a small black border around it.
When performing the fine scan you should thoroughly consider if you really need the highest resolution of dpi, because a scan with the highest resolution taxes the user's patience.
Most image editing software fails editinig such huge files if the computer does not have an according ammount of memory available. In the field of medium formats you can clearly see that the LS considerably gained speed compared to the LS While you could relaxedly go for lunch when batch scanning medium format images in the highest resolution with the LS, there is only enough time yet for a short coffee break when scanning with the LS Placing medium format positives or negatives in the FHS is not easy especially for unpractised hands.
I recommend wearing cotton gloves and using tweezers in order to avoid touching the film material. Especially in the field of medium formats it's almost undispensable to use two strip film holders FHS because placing and tensioning images in the holder takes a lot of time. It is advantageous if you can load the second holder while the first one is being scanned. For that purpose you need the mounted film holder FHM which is not included in delivery.
An extra charge of Euro is bearable though. Most owners of mounted MF slides normally will be happy that there is a film scanner accepting mounted MF slides at all. However these two slots are different: the first one takes 6x4. The bearings of the second slot are wider, so that slides from 6x7 to 6x9 can be inserted. The slide mounts are comfortably placed in the designated holders between the bearings. Two clamps at the slide holder tightly fix the slide, so that it can't shift.
The mounted MF slides can be removed accordingly easy, too. It is as well possible to place smaller slide mounts in the right large slot, but then the slides are only fixed by the clamps yet, not by the bearings. Inserting the slide is more difficult then, but scanning works very well if the whole slide holder is gently inserted into the scanner in order to prevent movement of the second slide.
By this means two mounted slides up to 6x6 can be batch scanned. This trick does not work for two larger slide mounts though because the left slot of the holder is too small. Just like with the 35mm slide mount adaptor Nikon specifies the thickness of the mounts between 1,0 and 3,2mm with the medium format holder, too.
Inserting thinner mounts doesn't cause any problems, and one or another thicker mount can be inserted as well - but in this case the clamping force is overstrained. Scanning mounted medium format slides works the same way as scanning not mounted medium format material.
However detecting the image size then works automatically, so that you can directly perform a fine scan without index- and pre scan. Overall digitising mounted medium format slides with the mounted film holder FHM is easy going. But because a single scan with the highest resolution takes a lot of time scanning a great many medium format slides is very time-consuming, especially if you insert and scan every slide individually. In this case it would be advantageous to purchase two FHM, so that you can prepare one while the other is in the scanner.
The Nikon LS can scan up to 5 mounted 35mm slides at once. For this purpose you need the supplied mounted film holder FHM. You can place up to five 35mm slides in this holder. The slides may be between 1,0 and 3,2mm thick - hence you can scan virutally any slides, no matter if they are in paper board mounts, plastic mounts or even in double glass mounts.
The slide mounts are placed in the 5 slots of the slide holder. Two clamps press the slide down against the holder, and two bearings fix the slide on the left and on the right hand side. Thus every slide, no matter how thick the mounts are, is securely fixed in the slide holder.
Placing the slides in the holder happens quickly and comfortable, without taking a risk of touching the surface of the film. Same applies for taking the slides out: five recesses on the other side provide easy removal of the slides. It couldn't be better nor more comfortable. No 35mm film scanner possesses such a good film holder for mounted 35mm slides - but this is not surprising, because the FHM is bigger than many 35mm film scanners.
Scanning the slides works as known: perform an index scan, select the images to be scanned, make a preview, adjust settings and finally perform the fine scan. The Super Coolscan ED generates the index scan very quickly. One reason for that is that the slide holder is scanned at once from start to finish and no unnecessary back and forth movement is done. Auto focus as well as auto exposure have to be performed only once.
If you execute these two steps with the pre scan already, they don't apply with the fine scan. The scan area as well as settings in terms of colour and image size don't have to be done for every slide individually.
All settings can be saved and applied to all 5 slides. In this manner you can batch scan 5 slides at once very quickly. The serial numbering happens Nikon style at the user's option, i. It's interesting to compare the scanning times with those of the smaller Nikon Super Coolscan ED, which proved to be a real sprinter in my review: even the big brother can't keep that up. Huge amounts of 35mm slides always have to be devided into portions of 5. A slide feeder wich could be used to scan 50 slides at once SF , as it is available for the LS ED, is not available for the big Nikon scanner.
But if you purchase a second mounted film holder FHM you can prepare one while the other is in the scanner. In this manner you can process huge amounts of mounted 35mm slides in a very comfortable way with the Super Coolscan LS ED, too.
Negative or positive film strips with up to 6 frames can be scanned with the serial 35mm strip film holder FHS. These can be whole film strips as well as single frames. Thus the Super Coolscan ED can digitise up to twelve 35mm images at once. To place film strips in the holder you have to open the masking frame and insert the film strip left-aligned into both bearings.
There is neither a left nor a right bedstop, i. Properly trimmed film strips have to be manually adjusted. A film strip is properly fixed by a bearing at the top and at the bottom. There are small bridges located between the frames for holding the film strip. In normal case inserting a film strip happens in a comfortable and quick way.
This matter gets extremely difficult if the film strip is strongly curled or curved. This happens for example if images from this strip were reprinted and the lab has attached a paper strip at the bottom end of the film.
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