#Silverfast epson v700 driver
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#Silverfast epson v700 software

Owning multiple scanners or operating systems and or expecting to acquire new scanners then VueScan would be a much more affordable software solution with nearly comparable results Would I buy SilverFast again - yes - but with my limited scope of ONE major archiving project and knowing that I'm not ever likely to own a 2nd scannerġ0. The cost can be somewhat reduced if as with my Epson V800 you get a starter version of SilverFast included as a bundleĩ.

My own experimentation and results place SilverFast ahead of VueScan by a short head or maybe a neck and from a purely financial standpoint I can understand that the cost might not be justified for many peopleĩ. Most important thing I learnt - you need at least 2 film negative and slide holders when batch scanning - the preparation, dust removal, loading etc takes more time than the actual scansĨ. For colour and b&w film and Kodak colour slides my results have been very satisfying for an amateur user - don't do much reflective scanning at all so not commenting on thatħ.

#Silverfast epson v700 upgrade

So far with version 8 I've had free upgrades to my full SilverFast Ai and HDR package but there is an implied threat that at some point in time a major upgrade might cost serious moneyĦ. The SilverFast user interface isn't intuitive - but neither is VueScan for me - and I've seen many worse software packages and overall it is a lot simpler than Photoshop to learn and useĥ. SilverFast was and still is at times quirky and buggy (?) and the SilverFast online support is seldom inspiring BUT usually restarting the software after a glitch gets things working againĤ.

#Silverfast epson v700 manual

The lack of a decent user manual and documentation is further badly served by the hotch-potch series of SilverFast video tutorials BUT I found loads of useful independently produced advice on the www and youtubeģ. Yes SilverFast is expensive and the 100% repeat cost for replacing the software if you change or have a 2nd scanner would be unacceptable for most peopleĢ.

#Silverfast epson v700 plus

I got better results from the start with SilverFast than with Vuescan and my results improved with practice and experience, plus many useful sources of advice from the Overall my experience has been:ġ. Busy building a new home in Thailand after retiring from university lecturing - and not keeping up to date with image processing developments - I was amazed in 2015 how much things had changed and I had a steep learning curve to catch up. My background is a lifelong amateur photographer and computer user with 8 years experience of UK university lecturing on basic IT and and introduction to digital image manipulation between 1998-2006. I very soon upgraded to the fullest version of SilverFast AI and the HDR package plus I got VueScan. In Jan 2015 I bought an Epson V800 scanner which came with a basic version of SilverFast with the immediate objective of scanning about 400 35mm colour slides of surveying in Nepal during 1982-85. I stumbled on this topic by chance just looking for recent discussion of SilverFast and thought SilverFast deserves an essentially satisfied post from a fairly experienced amateur user. However I will mainly be using the Plustek for B&W scanning, so maybe it will be a bit faster on that. The major downside of Vuescan, which others have mentioned, is that it is quite slow to use.

I actually found that Epson's own software for slide scanning on the V700 worked better than the bundled Silverfast.

#Silverfast epson v700 driver

I also have an Epson V700 flatbed film scanner but that has gone down to France, as Canon decided they could not be bothered to provide a Yosemite/Sierra driver for the LIDE 600F I had there (or the LIDE 35 my wife used in the UK). Given that I first bought Vuescan in 2002/3 to use on my Polaroid Artixscan 4000, it is pretty amazing I am still getting free updates. Ed Hamrick also is pretty good on the technical help, if sometimes a tad abrupt.

Its interface just does not seem logical to me, whereas Vuescan could not be simpler. I have always loathed Silverfast, right from the days it was bundled with some digital camera (maybe the Digilux 2). I have just re-downloaded the latest version of Vuescan, as I have a new (old stock) Plustek Opticfilm 7400 on order.