SilverFast Ai Studio 8 Scanner Software Review. Which comes in SilverFast’s Ai Studio 8 scanner software. Such as those from Nikon and Minolta. Serial number silverfast ai. I have LaserSoft Imaging SilverFast Ai IT8 6.5. You should really enter the serial. And select your Nikon model: SilverFast Ai.

Ed they may be a large corporation, but their customer support and willingness to honour their promises have a lot to be desired. Do a search here and you will find details of my story. Vuescan is not a one man show. It's a family business. Every contact I made with them has been returned. Much more than I can say for the other guys.

As far as abilities are concerned, Vuescan is the cat's-meow if you want control over your scanning. Silverfast attempts to make a 'one interface suits all' which makes it difficult for it to support specific features of any scanner. I've used Silverfast and Vuescan on Macs and although each has its idiosyncrasies and distinct learning curves, I've found little to distinguish between them regarding output. There are significant differences regarding their business policies. Download Crash Team Racing Gba.

I puchased the Vuescan Pro version for $300 (I originally purchased SF 6.x in 2007 for >$300 I think). This would allow me ONLY to use the LS4000. To use the LS9000 I would need to purchase an additional license for >$300 as well. Given that I detect no differences in scanning output of B&W negs, Velvia slides and old Kodachromes from the '60's I have come down squarely on the side of Vuescan if for no other reason than to save myself $700-800. Has anyone tried Nikon Scan on Apple OS 10.7? I have it on OS 10.6.8 and it works fine, even though it wasn't supposed to work in that OS. Now I would like to upgrade to 10.7 so I can use an X-Rite i1 Display Pro which must have 10.7 or later (just ordered an Eizo monitor).

I suspect Nikon Scan won't work in OS 10.7, but I thought I'd check since it wasn't supposed to work in 10.6.8, but it did. I tried Vuescan and Silverfast some years ago and didn't care for them. I will stay on 10.6.8 as long as possible or keep another computer with it, if necessary, in order to use Nikon Scan. I got the Eizo EX2 sensor (=Spyder4), which may be fine, but there are some criticisms of Spyders on net. I also have an Optix DP94 sensor but read it might not work well on wide-gamut monitor. These sensor issues slightly off the point.just explaining need for OS 10.7.

I purchased SilverFast 8 SE to use with my Epson V750. I previously used the older version of SilverFast AI that came bundled with my scanner.

I'm scanning 120 size b/w film negatives. I want to scan the negative and then work on the scanned file in Photoshop. The preview shows the image as a positive, just like the older version of Silverfast did. However, the final scan file comes out as a negative, rather than a positive, image. I've tried several setting options, but all generate the same results.

I'm looking for a high-quality file that I can work in Photoshop at at least 16-bit. Any thoughts would be welcome. Ellen Rutchick. Yes - I overlooked that Ellen is using SE as I am so accustomed to using and thinking in Ai8 Studio; you are correct - a normal scan can only be saved in 16-bit with Ai8, not SE and not SE+. However, it is still entirely feasible of course to get an 8-bit scan with proper reversal of the negatives scanned in SE or SE+, but in 8 bit rather than 16 bit.

There are about 33 features available in Ai8 Studio that are not available in either SE+ or SE. Those are all described in some detail near the front of my book, which pages are a free download from the SilverFast website. I provided all that description so that readers could quite readily decide for themselves whether the upgrade price is worthwhile to them. Hi Ellen, I can infer (rightly or wrongly) from your posts that when you bought your V750 it came with SilverFast SE 6 (but that would be unusual - I thought with the V750 they bundled either SE+6 or Ai6, but I may be mistaken - it's years ago and I don't remember). Then they came out with SilverFast-8, so you 'up-graded' the version number (i.e. From SF6 to SF8), but not the level (from SE upward)?? If that's right and if you want 16 bit output, which anyone concerned with maximizing intrinsic quality would, you now need to upgrade from SE8 to Ai8.