#Vuescan vs silverfast software#

Week six’s photographs are taken with an Olympus XA2, a camera that lives in my pocket. The film is expired Fuji Superia X-TRA 400, probably stored indifferently and most likely dating to about 2004.

The back popped open about half way through the roll, damaging a number of shots. This camera had been a trial to light seal – it ended up needed double seals at the door hinge which makes the door a bit tight to close, and I guess the latch did not fully catch this time. I have run quite a few rolls through the camera ( see here for posts with this camera) and this has never happened before.

I will be more attentive to the catch click when loading the film in the future.

#Vuescan vs silverfast software#

This post shows some experiments with scanning software – if you have a solution for any problem I touch on here, please leave a comment! As I tend to, this is published simultaneously with a post on my blog that has some of the same photos, and others from the same roll. All the ones posted there have been converted to black and white from the Silverfast scans and have come out quite well. More frames and different treatments from this roll will appear on burntembers over the next few days. I use an Epson V700, which is a pretty fantastic scanner, but I struggle with the software. Initially I used the Silverfast Epson SE that ships with the scanner, but it stopped recognising the scanner consistently, so I started using Epson Scan in Professional Mode instead.

I find Epson Scan to be pretty good and quick for some kinds of film, especially black and white. But I have never been very happy with most of the colour scans.