I already had the 64-bit version of Vuescan installed to drive my old flatbed scanner, and I had tried to use it with the CrystalScan 7200. How about using a thin dashed line so I can see what I’m actually doing? It is slow too and changes thickness when you’re dragging it, so it involves much guesswork. It uses a thick (2 pixels) red border to show the cropped area. One other thing that annoyed me no end was the crop tool. Then there’s the CCR (Colour Cast Removal) checkbox in the Negafix dialog (above) and a Colour Cast Removal slider in the levels dialog (right). So if you check it and then decide you don’t want the effect it won’t help to uncheck it. It turns out the Auto Mask checkbox is non-reversible. For instance, what does the Auto Mask checkbox do? What does Auto Mask even mean? And how does it interact with the film profiles?Īll the help pages on the web are completely outdated and only deal with old versions of SilverFast where the controls were different. The documentation for this software is also severely lacking. And whatever it does, it does it inconsistently.
Even though I’ve been working with photos digitally for at least a decade I simply cant describe in words what this slider actually does. The main culprit is the Auto Tolerance slider (left). Pull one slider and you might find it has affected some setting somewhere else.Īll in all it is very hard to get consistent results from frame to frame. They do interact though, there’s no question about it. It is far from obvious what they do and how they interact with each other. 🙂įrom day one the sliders in SilverFast have driven me half crazy. This made me realize I haven’t blogged about my scanning progress for quite a while, or the fact that I have abandoned the bundled software SilverFast and gone with Vuescan instead.īy now I’ve scanned about 50 rolls of film, or close to 1,400 photos.
I got an e-mail the other day asking what I thought about my negative scanner, the Reflecta Crystalscan 7200. Monday, April 4th 2011 Why I switched SilverFast for Vuescan How to upload photos from a Canon/Nikon DSLR to an Android phone.
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