Scanning Color Negatives With Silverfast

Negafix in silverfast se 8 and se plus 8 the basic negafix functions allow even beginners to scan negative film with little effort but very good results.

Scanning color negatives with silverfast.

Yes the guys at silverfast want you to believe that no color calibration is necessary when scanning color negatives by applying the negafix filter for the film you are scanning. Choose film manufacturer and type activate the automatic eventually switch on color cast removal ccr and silverfast will do the rest. If you don t intend to use the dust and scratch removal features srd or isrd for example because your scanner does not support isrd in the first place or because you are scanning black and white negatives the workflow to create linear scans remains similar to what applied to previous versions of silverfast. There are exceptions such as vuescan or silverfast of course.

The intension was to show you how you can get beautiful scans similar to fuji frontier. It is a two part workflow using lasersoft imaging silverfast 8 5 and adobe lightroom. One note about negafix. Scanning color negative film with silverfast ai studio 8 5 and adobe lightroom sebastian schlüter.

Silverfast s reliable dust and scratch removal now available for black and white film. Individual color profiles for each scanner individual negative profiles integrated auto it8 calibration efficient dust and scratch removal tools for automatic and manual optimization. More about srdx. Negative scanning is highly dependent on the particular software used to drive the scanner and in many cases the software is limited to that scanner.

It also has a built in feature called negafix which allows you a significant amount of control on how your negatives are interpreted. Silverfast has been developed for professional image processing as well as for beginners who enjoy their analog images and intend to keep them in digital form. In this video tutorial i show you my color negative scanning workflow. Compared to other scanning software silverfast s main advantage is the ability to get the best detail rendering possible for the scanner you are using.

This however would mean that the negafix filter would dynamically adjust itself to any color shifts produced by the hardware the scanner.