It was the first time I used SilverFast software when I purchased a CanoScan scanner. I was suitable impressed with SilverFast that it didn’t take me long to upgrade from the free bundled software to the new version. The multiple image scanning feature is extremely useful. I’m transferring a combination of old negatives and old prints. Laying all the prints on the scanner platen and scanning everything in one go is a real time saver.

As a newcomer to color negative scanning, I was surprised to find that a technically sophisticated product like SilverFast has made digitizing my archive of landscape/nature film images much easier than the basic software included with my CanoScan scanner. The time and effort spent in Photoshop editing and adjusting images produced by the Canon software far exceeds that required to produce superior results with the tools available in SilverFast. Automatic functions like Auto-Adjust, Color Cast Removal, and Adaptive Color Restoration have greatly simplified processing, and I have found that scans are significantly faster with SilverFast, even when comparing 48-bit SilverFast scans with 24-bit Canon scans. Since I have several hundred images to scan, I am looking forward to automating the process as much as possible with JobManager, which offers professional levels of flexibility and control not available in the Canon software.