The Silverfast HDR studio is basically identical to the scanning software so no improvement there either… but being able to apply dust correction and color correction on a master file anytime after scanning is a great convenience. And there is basically no useful documentation on how to use it. That said Silverfast as a software is very annoying until you get used to its quirks. That said the color and textures were still inferior or at the very best, “almost as good” in my subjective opinion, and that coupled with the fact that I was losing dust removal by using NLP… I ended up just using Silverfast. I got better results with NLP with basically no import presets. This was particularly the case when NLP was set to “noritsu” or “frontier” import settings. NLP gave me weird smooth waxy skin tones… And the colors were consistently better with Silverfast. And I consistently was getting better results with Silverfast than I was with NLP. During these last 3 rolls I made the point to make direct comparisons between Silverfast and NLP each with varying settings. The interface is as bad as SF9.Īlthough I have preferred NLP in the past, I have recently converted 3 rolls of negatives and my opinions have changed. PPS Tried a demo copy of SF HDR but didn’t like it. PS Doing three scans per frame is proving expensive in disk space and have just ordered a 1T external SSD With SF9 getting rid of the colour cast can be tricky and you have to do this at scan time but NLP analyses the positive scan and does a better job of removing it. What I do like about NLP is the non-destructive editing so you can go back and adjust with SF9 once you’ve done the scan that’s it. When i’ve finished i’ll probably cancel the lightroom subscription after exporting to TIFF or JPEG. ![]() The direct SF9 scans are good but some will require post processing and lightroom / photoshop will help. While dust removal is good its not perfect and you can see artefacts in both the positive and SF9 scans. In general I preferred the NLP results from positive scans but its subjective. I was hedging my bets as I have about 80 rolls to process. I have NLP and SF9 AI my conclusion was to scan 64 bit Raw DNG, Positive with infra-red dust removal and as Silverfast negative to positive using an Epson v850 at 2400 PPI resulting in files of about 45MB an 60MB raw.
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