Slide scanning

[kartracer]

I have an Epson V350, not great, I know...

Need to scan a lot of Kodachrome, Fujichrome, and Extachrome 35mm slides.

I downloaded a trial of Silverfast, which was recommended to me. It seems to have some presets, but not for the V350.

The pos/neg setting, has 3 options: Positive, Negative, Kodachrome.

Just wondering how I might fare scanning the other slides, as above?

What I'm aiming to do is to get the slides all scanned in, indexed,
and cataloged. If I need higher quality scans later, for e.g. editing or printing,
I'd buy a new, higher quality scanner (maybe a V700/750).

 

[dcash29]

try this Vuescan software instead

 

[TheBigYin]

I have an Epson V350, not great, I know...

Need to scan a lot of Kodachrome, Fujichrome, and Extachrome 35mm slides.

I downloaded a trial of Silverfast, which was recommended to me. It seems to have some presets, but not for the V350.

The pos/neg setting, has 3 options: Positive, Negative, Kodachrome.

Just wondering how I might fare scanning the other slides, as above?

What I'm aiming to do is to get the slides all scanned in, indexed,
and cataloged. If I need higher quality scans later, for e.g. editing or printing,
I'd buy a new, higher quality scanner (maybe a V700/750).

I use Silverfast (SE version) pretty much all the time for scanning transmissive media (sounds posh that - must remember it!) The Neg setting has loads of presets mainly to cope with the different coloured bases of the negative film and get a proper colour inverted shot out. As I've got the cheapskate bundles version the Kodachrome is greyed out, and the positive setting for slides is a reasonable enough starting point. I find any colour correction is best applied via CS4 anyway.