> On May 5, 2020, at 2:49 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Silverfast is good software, but costs a lot and doesn't do anything any > better than VueScan. It *might* have a slightly easier user interface for > some things. It is also licensed as specific to a particular scanner, rather > than able to be used with as many different scanners as it can support like > VueScan does. > > The dust and scratch elimination tools are useful but aren't always perfect > and sometimes cannot work. They work best on dye emulsions like E4 slides and > C41 negatives; they are poor when operating on traditional B&W film and > Kodachrome 25 because the silver grains and pigments in these films are not > transparent to IR. (In E4 and C41 films, the silver grains have been replaced > by dye blobs.) > > Used in a flat bed scanner, the emulsion side of negative or positive images > should face the scanning element. Of course, with any useful image processing > software, you can flip images on both axes any way you want so it really > doesn't matter much: just adjust them until you get right side up and left to > right correct if you scan them in the wrong orientation.
Thanks, Godfrey. On all points. I’m pretty certain the film I used was Fuji Velvia. How would your dust and scratch removal comments apply to it? Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
