They also have slightly sharper characteristics at 100% view - though they don't actually extract more detail than Vuescan at 4000dpi (so possibly just USM - if so, I'd love to know how to switch it off, as I don't want the software to do any pre-processing). This is a difficult thing to be sure about, as the color is influenced by the tonality.Īnyway, the extra bonuses are that the scans are much faster. They also sometimes seem to find slightly more color 'nuance' in things like masses of leaves in a forest of trees. This is where my experiments with the latest Silverfast demo come in: the output scans are all much flatter, and maybe more boring. I find ColorPerfect, PhotoShop and Lightroom are all better at manipulating color and contrast etc than Vuescan, and I'd prefer to keep the scanning software out of the image-manipulation process, as far as possible. There may be workarounds - if you know how to fix this let me know - but my aim is to always simply export the flattest, linear, most neutral *batch* scan without needing to tweak output on a single-image basis. Instead of this, the tones get redistributed across the entire range of the histogram - which gives a highly contrasty scan where the opposite is what I intended.
#Nikon scan 4 vista full
But one scenario in particular exposes a problem I keep having trying to export totally flat, linear, color-negative scans: when the entire image is high-key (over-exposed or simply an image that's intentionally just one narrow section of the full tonal range), I find that pretty much nothing I do will give me a scan that is correctly flat and at the same time only fills the correct part of the histogram. I've been pretty satisfied with Vuescan the last few years. I just want some opinions from users of Silverfast. I'm considering the hitherto unthinkable: switching from Vuescan to Silverfast. $80 seems a small price to pay for ease of use and increased functionality. I expect when all the dust settles, I'll pursue the Vuescan approach advocated by Andy. I'd much rather spend that time standing in a cold stream with a fly rod in my hand. When younger I reveled in challenges like that - now, such challenges are just a burden. While I suppose I could find a way to make Nikon Scan work with Windows 8 using either of the suggestions made by TomB or Randy, I've reached a stage in life where working through software compatibility issues holds little appeal for me.
#Nikon scan 4 vista 32 bit
4.02 (which is the version I have) to 4.03 so it would work with Vista in 32 bit mode, and now has tested 4.03 to confirm that it works with Windows 7. Randy - thank you in particular for letting me know about Nikon Scan 4.03 - I previously was unaware that Nikon had updated v. Your views are representative of those I found elsewhere. Thank you all for taking the time to post a comment in connection with my inquiry.