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But it doesn’t really matter because I’m not crazy with any of the results I get. I can convert it to a DNG file in LR, or I can gamma correct it with NLP – not sure what that does, but it’s what recommend on the NLP website – but of course both of these actions add to the time it takes me to get a finished photo (see timetable above). There is a bit more saturation in the Tiff file, and it’s a bit more magenta, but that’s really it.īut there are actually two more ways to handle the Tiff file from Silverfast, when using NLP. NLP conversion)įirst we have the direct conversion from the DNG file (Vuescan) and the Tiff file (Silverfast), I’m actually amazed by how much they look alike, there really isn’t that much of a difference.

NLP conversion from Vuescan DNG: 10,5 sec.

NLP conversion from Silverfast Tiff: 9,5 sec.

Vuescan scan: 15 sec (preview) & 2 min.

My guess is that the distance between them will be the same, on a faster machine, just short times. Scanning times was as follows – these times may vary, depending on what kind of computer you are using – I used my laptop, which isn’t the fastest in the world, but OK – but the test here is to see the difference in scan/conversion times, not the actual speed. Settings on the main panel were, color to “Autocolor 2.0 Neutral” and Tones to “Linear deep”. NLP pre-conversion settings were color model set to “Basic” and pre-saturation to “3 (default)”.

I quickly found out that in order to use the infrared cleaning feature, I could only save the image file in Tiff format, if I wanted to save as an DNG, I wasn’t able to use the infrared feature, don’t ask me why, it doesn’t make any sense to me.Īfter a bit more testing I found out that the settings I preferred were Preset 300 dpi (photo quality), resolution 3600ppi, iSRD (IR) on automatic and then save as a Tiff file. Silverfast, was another thing, I only used it a couple of times before, and since I started using NLP, I stopped using it at all. So Vuescan was pretty quickly done, setup wise. My normal setup is with Vuescan, 3600dpi, 48bit, media set to image, color balance set to none, and infrared cleaner set to “heavy”, save as a DNG file. Because that saves me a lot of work/time in the post process, with dust and scratch removal, and that is a huge factor in the “do as little as possible process”. I used a Plustek 8200i scanner for this test, and it has the infrared feature, which I’m a huge fan of, so the only criteria I had for this test, was that IR had to be in action. And remember I want to do as few adjustments for each scan as possible, which means I’m going to have as much set to auto as possible.

So I just needed to scan my negatives as negatives, for this to work.īut just for fun I also tried to scan them, where I used the two programs to convert the negative, using their internal film profiles.

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OK a bit about my procedure, I use Negative Lab Pro (NLP) – a Lightroom (LR) plug-in – for my conversions from negative to positive, because it’s gives me the best result color wise. And secondly I simply was curious to know which one was fastest. I did this because I need to scan a lot of old negatives, and I for one, think that the scanning process is the only less joyful thing to do in the whole analog photography process, and with these old negatives – mainly holiday photos – I just wanted a quick way to get through them and not lose too much in quality. That shouldn’t prolong the scanning time, unless you add more features, like noise reduction or multi scan, which I don’t use. And this part is of course a matter of individual taste, you may prefer other settings then what I used. I started out spending some time finding the right settings in both pieces of software, I haven’t included that here.

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But feel free to add a comment below, with your own experience or advice on what I could do better. You can of course tweak and adjust for perfection for each scan, and that will obviously give you the best result for each scan – in either Vuescan or Silverfast – but like I said that wasn’t my goal here.įirst off I want to make clear that I’m certainly no expert, there are a lot of technical stuff I know jack about, This is made purely from a personal perspective.

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My idea for this little test, was to see which software would give me the best result, at the shortest time.

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