I haven't tried SilverFast yet due to its unattractive pricing/upgrade policy, but will try it if others recommend it highly.įirst, are there any other alternatives I haven't considered? SilverFast is pricier ($50 for SE version, $218 for Ai IT8 version, and up) with 75%+ of retail price paid upgrades (and no upgrade discount for the SE version, apparently), and the version you but is locked to a single very limited set of devices (Nikon LS 50ED and Coolscan V ED slide scanners, in my case). I've used the VueScan demo and it works very well with my slide scanner and seems to make good-quality scans. VueScan is less expensive ($40 for standard version with 1 year of free upgrades and $80 for the pro version with lifetime free upgrades, and supports neatly all scanners ever made. Unfortunately, Apple's built-in Image Capture doesn't "see" the slide scanner, although it works perfectly with my flatbed scanner. In looking for replacement software for my slide scanner, I have only found two contenders: VueScan and SilverFast.
They are all family photos, and so doing this right is fairly important, but I have limited time and skill. These are all fairly old well-used slides, and so need dust/scratch removal and some color correction/restoration. I'm not a pro user I'm scanning old (early 1970s to early 1990s) color slides before they degrade too much further. The Nikon Scan 4 software hasn't been updated since 2004, in fact. I guess its been a LONG time since I've needed to scan slides. I tried to use my Nikon Coolscan V ED slide scanner over the weekend and discovered that its software doesn't work in Leopard, much less Snow Leopard.
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