![]() Sounds annoying - and it is - but once you know this stuff it doesn’t really matter. As if the IR channel has to be scanned at 5400 DPI or something. But if I enable IR-cleaning, it doesn’t matter which DPI I choose, it always goes slow. As in, if I disable IR-cleaning and go down in DPI, the scans go faster. ![]() And this requires removing and inserting the filmholder again :P.Īlso enabling IR-cleaning seems to limit the speed to 5400 dpi. But if you use the ‘batch mode’, the selected gain settings only get applied after quitting and restarting the app. If I modify the gain settings (in the settings somewhere), they become active for the normal scan mode. You need to remove the filmholder, close the app, restart the app, and when it’s started insert the filmholder again. If you don’t use the scanner for a while, it goes to some sort of sleep mode and the app looses connection. Configure it how you want and try scanning. In Silverfast you’ll see that it recognizes which of the filmholders you inserted and it’ll switch to that mode. Then when the app is started, you insert a filmholder. It can take a good 30 seconds or so for the app to continue starting. Then it inits the scanner, and it starts making noises and things start moving. I have to remove the filmholder from the device, then start a scan app (dimage / silverfast6). When the VM is started, I need to turn it on. So the moment I flip the switch on my Dimage 5400 and vmware is running, it shows up as a new connected USB device in the VM, not on my ‘real’ machine. ![]() In vmware you can set an USB device as ‘pass through’. That way the official driver still works. I use vmplayer workstation 15 player with windows XP sp2 32bit. (I did some tests with my Sony A7m2 with Sony 50mm 2.8 macro lens with NLP vs the same negs with my Dimage 5400 converted through NLP… the Minolta won hands down (in the colors, the resolution the film is oten the limiting factor), since then I never tried to DSLR-scan again). But I still scan with Silverfast6 and my Dimage5400 :). Through exiftool you might have to fix ‘camera maker / camera model’ for NegativeLabPro to pick up the correct profiles, but I managed to get this working, and the results were OK.ĭon’t use NLP anymore, so I don’t the converting from. If you set your output raw as DNG, you can create neatly Vuescan-created DNG files. Through this trick you can scan ‘from raw to raw’. The 16bit linear tiff files from a ‘scan as positive’, I even managed to through in Vuescan and then ‘scan raw from file’. But - officially - it is not available anymore. In Silverfast6 - if you get around all the bugs and quirks of the very old software - you can queue up an entire filmholder and press start and go away. Only drawback of Dimage is that it doesn’t do ‘batch’ scanning. I have a Fuji it8 target that seems to fill that range, so I can color-calibrate it to that. For positive (slides) I just scan with the gain equal and at 1.0. So, Dimage ‘scan as positive’ (and I tweak the R, G and B gain to let the filmstrip of C41 be aligned and quite high, but quite some safe margin to clipping). I think it does something wrong in this, because when I tweak - painfully by trail and error - the focus number in Vuefast I manage to get it just as sharp as Dimage and Silverfast… but Vuescan’s autofocus just doesn’t pinpoint that number (while the other two work fine!!). If you pick a spot to autofocus, it does it’s thing, but way faster than way Dimage and Silverfast are able to do. And no, I’m not scanning silver-based negs or Kodachrome. Maybe my IR channel is different to what Silverfast expects, but I get weird lineskips and blotches, areas where the iSRD goes nuts while nothing was there. And it creates artifacts (never had issues with my previous scanner with it). Silverfast8 doesn’t use Digital Ice, but their own IR-assisted iSRD. ![]() … I discovered that - for my Scanelite Mark1 at least - the only programs managing to get a good scan are dimage and Silverfast6. After drying dimage (in a VM on Windows XP 32 bit), Silverfast 6 (in a VM on Windows XP 32 bit), Silverfast 8 (good in modern OS) or Vuesca (good in modern OS)…
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