Silverfast hdr expert mode6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Are you saying that even with a prescan of the 1st image in a strip, you will get frame offset problems in that strip? If so, that stinks!Ģ) HDR using JM for post scan. True? You go on to discuss VLT review of each roll/strip to look at film borders. This does not strike me as a significant issue, because I do not see JM to be any faster than batch mode. Do I understand you correctly to say the basic issue for large quantities of negative scans is 1) frame offset in AI 2) frame offset in HDR? Otherwise, we seem to be left with the problems you have identified (I am a new user and do not have first hand knowledge). If, as I heard from the USA sales department, DCPro will soon support 48bit NEF (Nikon's own raw scan format), wouldn't this solve the problem? One would batch scan in Nikon Scan set to NEF and process in DCPro using Job Manager. Gregory C wrote:I seem to be the only person using SF to batch scan rolls and rolls (or strips as the case may be) of negative film with the goal of building an archive of both the 48-bit HDR tiff images and the corresponding 24-bit screen size jpg images. ![]() (If VLT could catalog the screen size images and link them to the HDR tiffs on the local hard disk or on removable discs/disks for easy access when re-scanning is required, that would definitely be a nice function.) I seem to be the only person using SF to batch scan rolls and rolls (or strips as the case may be) of negative film with the goal of building an archive of both the 48-bit HDR tiff images and the corresponding 24-bit screen size jpg images. I have been requesting these functions for almost a year without any apparent response. Only then would they have a truly efficient solution for batch scanning of larger numbers of negative images. They should also add the ability to select saved Frame Sets while editing in the Job Manager, and they should allow Batch Mode processing of folders of images with SF HDR. Lasersoft should add the ability to copy/paste frame positions/dimensions in the Job Manager. The SF Nikon Ai batch scan to SF HDR process routine works but it could be far more efficient. You must therefore edit each and every image in the queue to correct the output dimensions. With the SF HDR 6.0.2r13, there is a bug which causes the output dimensions of the selected Setting to be applied incorrectly to the imported images usually producing negative output dimensions. You cannot simply select a folder of images and tell SF HDR to batch process them. Unfortunately, there is no Batch Mode processing in HDR. I then process the HDR images using SF HDR. If any film borders are visible within the images, I rescan the affected images. After each roll of film has been scanned, I view the images using VLT to check that the frame offsets were ok. It couldn't get any slower than this.Ĭonsequently, I scan my negatives to HDR format using SF Nikon Ai's Batch Mode. The result is that you have to preview every frame (ouch!) in the Job Manager queue and draw/position the frame manually. (d) there is *no* way to copy and paste frame positions/dimensions between images in the Job Manager queue. (c) there is *no* way to select a saved Frame Set while editing images in the Job Manager. (b) there is *no* way to select a saved Frame Set dimension during import of the images into the Job Manager queue, or to copy and paste frame positions/dimensions between images in the queue. (a) the default frame position and dimensions as specified by SF are incorrect for the Nikon 4000ED. Using Job Manager with SF Nikon Ai though is useless for batch processing because The current version of Ai occasionally has problems with the frame offset but otherwise it's ok. I use SF Nikon Ai v6.0.2 to batch scan negatives to 48-bit HDR tiffs. I can shed some light in the area of batch scanning. ![]()
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