April 8th, 2011IMPROVEMENT:
· Reflecta ProScan 7200: Implemented MultiExposure for ProScan 7200
· All with PrinTao: Improved color match for display of thumbnails.
BUGFIX:
· General: Scan to HDR achive format is performed without AACO corrections.
February 8th, 2011BUGFIX:
· General: some minor fixes
· Installer: fixed bug in Photoshop search routine
October 15th, 2010· NEW: General: added Photoshop Elements 9 compatibility
· BUG FIX: General: some minor fixes
July 21st, 2010· IMPROVEMENT - General: NegaFix profile for Kodak Ektar 100 has been edited or newly created for the following scanner families: Canon, Epson, HP, Kodak, Linotype, Mediax, Microtek, Nikon, Pie, Plustek, Quato, Reflecta, Umax
June 30th, 2010NEW:
· All versions with camera raw support: Added raw image support with white balance profiles for the following cameras: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, Olympus E-PL1, Panasonic DMC-G2, Panasonic DMC-G1
IMPROVEMENT:
· Reflecta DigitDia 5000: Improved color stability between prescan and multiexposure scan (especially in NegaFix mode)
· All SE with AACO: As now there is a movie for AACO in SE mode available, the movie button is shown again in SE versions
BUGFIX:
· Demo versions: Ai Demo-Versions with IT8 in the base version now show the Ai-Studio movies, when the version not yet has been serialized
· Plustek OpticFilm 7300: Improved color stability between prescan and scan (especially in NegaFix mode)
· All with AACO: Clicking the AACO's Cancel button results in ScanParameters identical to the ones present before entering the dialog
April 22nd, 2010NEW:
· Reflecta ProScan 7200: Added separate NegaFix profiles for the Reflecta ProScan 7200 scanner.
IMPROVEMENT:
· Nikon LS 5000ED / Super Coolscan 5000 ED: Added three NegaFix profiles for the LS-5000: Agfa Futura 200 APS, Agfa Futura 400 APS, and Fuji Nexia 800 APS.
January 29th, 2010NEW:
· All versions with camera raw support: Added white balancing profiles for raw images of the following cameras: Canon PowerShot G11 and Canon PowerShot S90.
· All versions with camera raw support: Added support for raw images of the following cameras: Fuji FinePix 205EXR, Leica X1, Panasonic FX180, Ricoh GR Digital III, Ricoh GXR with A12 module and Ricoh GXR with S10 module.
· All versions with camera raw support: Added support with white balancing profiles for raw images of the following cameras: Mamiya ZD, Sony Alpha 500, Sony Alpha 550, Nikon D3S, Olympus E-P2, Panasonic FZ38 and Pentax K-x.
IMPROVEMENT:
· Epson: Added NegaFix profile for Kodak Ektar 100 to the NegaFix sets for Epson scanners
· Nikon film scanners: Added NegaFix profile for Kodak Ektar 100 to the NegaFix sets for Nikon film scanners
BUGFIX:
· All versions with camera raw support: Removed black border that was visible at the right side of converted raw images from the cameras Olympus E-30 and Olympus E-620.
December 28th, 2009NEW:
· All versions with camera raw: Full camera raw support with profiles for Sony Alpha 850, Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1, Nikon D300s, Nikon D3000, Leica M9 and Canon EOS 7D.
· All versions with camera raw: Camera raw support (without profiles) for Canon PowerShot S90 and Canon PowerShot G11.
· HDR Studio and DCPro Studio: added new feature "HotFolder"
BUGFIX:
· All with IT8 calibration: Under Windows7 with an Aero-Theme active, the IT8 calibration could hang on some machines, already when opening the IT8 dialog. This is fixed now.
· General: fixed crash that could happen when using 64bit HDRi pictures in combination with iSRD,USM and descreening.
November 9th, 2009NEW:
· Epson Perfection V600 Photo: Added support for EPSON Perfection V600.
· EPSON Perfection 4490, V500 and V600: Added 64Bit HDRi, output for EPSON Perfection 4490, V500 and V600.
· General: Reduced iSRD memory consumption.
IMPROVEMENT:
· General: SilverFast now does not perform auto focus on the second MultiExposure scan anymore.
September 5th, 2009NEW:
· Epson Perfection V 300: Added support for the Epson Perfection V300.
· All versions with camera raw support: Added Camera raw support with white balance profiles for Olympus E-P1, Olympus E-450, Panasonic GH1, Pentax K7, Sony A230, Sony A330, Sony A380 and Fuji FinePix S9100.
· General: Added Mac OSX Snow Leopard support.
BUGFIX:
· Canon CanoScan 8800F: Multi-Exposure scans with the CanonScan 8800F sometimes resulted in color shifted images when a iSRD-Preview scan had been performed before.
· All versions with VLT: Fixed bug that caused errors with VLT trying to display thumbnails from image file aliases (e.g. thumbnails from synchronized iPhoto folders).
· Epson Perfection 3200 Photo/Pro: Highres prescan is now successful for any preview size.
July 16th, 2009NEW:
· All versions with camera raw support: Added support for Fuji FinePix S9100 raw images with raw profiles.
IMPROVEMENT:
· All scanner versions: SE versions allow MultiSampling only when the scanner offers it "in hardware". All higher versions (SEplus, Ai, Ai Studio) allow MultiSampling. All Demos allow MultiSampling.
· All versions with camera raw support: Added support for Nikon D300 raw images that use Nikon compression.
July 16th, 2009NEW:
· Epson Perfection V 300: Added support for the EPSON Perfection V300.
IMPROVEMENT:
· General: user defined motive settings are now contained to the corresponding popup in the JobAddOptions-Dialog.
BUGFIX:
· Nikon LS-9000 und LS-8000: The Nikon LS9000 und LS8000 do now fully support the 869M medium format holder, problems with offset and distortion when using the 6X6 part of the holder have been fixed.
· All with iSRD: possible striping of large images processed by iSRD.
· Nikon LS-5000: The Nikon LS-5000 sometimes froze when ejecting a filmstrip from the SA-21 or SA-30 holder. This is fixed.
July 1st, 2009NEW:
· All versions with camera raw support: Camera raw support with white balance profiles for raw images from Canon EOS 500D.
· DCPro and HDR versions, all scanner versions with iSRD: HDRi Format added. All iSRD Scanner versions can now save 64 Bit HDRi Color images or 32 Bit HDRi Grayscale images. Those files contain 48 Bit / 16 Bit Raw image data AND 16 Bit raw Infrared channel Information. So this is a COMPLETE raw scan for capable scanners. Those images can be loaded and processed with iSRD by our DCPro and HDR versions !
· General: Added Support for Photoshop Elements 7(PC)
· General: CanonScan 4400F is now supported by SilverFast.
IMPROVEMENT:
· All versions with iSRD: Improved automatic iSRD mode.
· All versions with iSRD: modified iSRD parameter to improve visual iSRD output on every image type. Especial reduced artifacts on Kodachrome images.
May 30th, 2009NEW:
· Epson Perfection V 750 Pro: Added full support for the EPSON X970
· Canon 4400F: Added support for the Canon 4400F
· All versions with camera raw support: Added support and profiles for raw images from Nikon D5000 and profiles for raw images from Canon EOS 1D Mark III.
IMPROVEMENT:
· EPSON V700 / V750 / X970: Improved NegaFix Profiles for Epson V700 & V750
· All Minolta: Added new NegaFix profiles for Minolta scanners.
BUGFIX:
· Epson Perfection 3170 / 3170 Photo: Added Vista 32/64 support for the EPSON Perfection 3170
· General: Kodachrome mode only available for SE + versions, but now also available in SE Demo.
March 30th, 2009New:
· Canon CanoScan FS4000US: Added Kodachrome support for Canon FS4000US Scanner.
Improvement:
· Plustek PL 3000 ADF: added support for this new Plustek Scanner.
· EPSON: Improved support for EPSON Scanners with XP64, Vista 32 and Vista 64, please see compatibility list for changes!
· all with FindFrame automatic: Added the "Copy resolution to all scan frames" menu option in the reflective mode.
· Nikon 35mm scanners.
· All iSRD scanners.
Bug Fix:
· All SE: eliminates crash in SE version when (fine-)rotating in zoomed mode, and scan frame becomes located partly outside of the viewed area.
· General: enhanced Auto IT8 Calibration for Kodachrome charts.
· Nikon LS 5000ED / Super Coolscan 5000 ED: improved Filmstrip handling, no more crashes when changing the strips while still in SilverFast.
· all CanonSDK: switched off iSRD for reflective mode.
· all CanonSDK: improved iSRD-AutoAlignment for 48 bit scans.
· Canon CanoScan 9950F.
· Nikon 35mm Scanner mit APS Halter.
· General: Scanning with enabled auto descreening in reflective mode could cause problems when scanning in transparency mode afterwards, this issue is fixed now.
December 22nd, 2008· General: adjusted AutoIT8 for Kodachrom
December 3rd, 2008New:
· All versions with camera raw support: New supported raw cameras: Nikon CoolPix P6000, Olympus SP-565 UZ, Sony Alpha 900 and Casio Exilim EX-FH20.
· Nikon LS-8000 & Nikon LS-9000: Added Offset Tool for Nikon LS 8000 + LS 9000 when using Medium Format Strip Holders
Improvement:
· All versions with camera raw support: Improved results for raw images from following cameras: Canon PowerShot G9, Canon PowerShot S30, Canon EOS 1D Mark II N, Nikon D40x, Nikon D60 and Nikon D80.
· All iSRD: Slight straightening of iSRD Workflow: formerly a new layer was created when the User ticked the SRD checkbox. Now it simply switches from iSRD to SRD, if the User wants to combine iSRD & SRD he has to create a new layer.
Bugfix:
· All Canon SDK: Sometimes after scanning some transparencies a colorcast started to show ( sometimes strong, sometimes weak ). This was especially visible on the Canon 8800F, but also on other Canon Scanners. This instability has been fixed by changing the way we calibrate.
November 3rd, 2008Improvement:
· General: Added Photoshop CS4 support for Mac and Windows
Bugfix:
· Epson Perfection 2450 Photo / GT-9700: fixed Kodachrome mode for the 2450
October 24th, 2008· Heidelberg Topaz (Mac): New and improved Negafix Profiles for Topaz
· General: Faster iSRD on multi core computers.
· all with PrinterProfilingWizard: The PrinterProfilingWizard has been augmented with another tool, the ProfileEditor, which allows to refine the neutrality of measured printer ICC profiles.
· BUGFIX: all HDR / DC etc.: Improve work flow of the DC-Pro-Target calibration.
August 18th, 2008· General: Added Kodachrome Feature to Plustek Film Scanners 7200, 7200i, 7300 and 7500i, Heidelberg Scanners Topaz, NexScan, Tango, PrimeScan and Chromagraph, Quato IntelliScan 5000
· Chromagraph Mac & PC: Added 48 / 16 Bit Output for Linotype Chromagraph Scanners. Although they only deliver 24/8 Bit, we now allow users to Output the 48 Bit we use internally. These data have been achieved by Log to linear Interpolation and is by far better then linear 24/8 Bit data.
· General: the IT8 calibration now requires a result deltaE value of less than 6.0 to be taken successful.
· Nikon LS-8000 and LS-9000: Added a better way to scan Medium Format Filmstrips for the Nikon LS-8000 and LS-9000 ! Now there is a Format selection, similar to the Nikon Maid Version.
· HDR, DC, and DCpro, etc.: The SilverFast HDR, DC, and DCpro versions now include all sets of NegaFix profiles.
· General: iSRD Worflow and handling has been improved in Preview Dialog, especially when working with multiple layers
· Chromagraph, Tango and PrimeScan: All LinoType Hell Drum Scanners now identify their Drum ID so one can prepare more then one drum before scanning !
· All SE: Batch Scanning is now enabled for ALL SE Versions !
July 16th, 2008· General: we added the following white balance profiles for the SilverFast DC line of Products: Sony Alpha 100, Leica V-Lux 1, LEICA DIGILUX 3, Pentax K200D, Panasonic L10, Pentax K200D, Pentax K20D, Ricoh GR Digital II, Sony Alpha 200, Sony Alpha 300, Sony Alpha 350,
· Nikon 35 mm Scanners: We added native Support for Nikon LS-5000, LS-4000, LS-50 and LS-40. This means we no longer need Nikon Drivers to be installed on OS X for these scanners and are able to profide rock solid Leopard support for these Scanners
· All flatbed scanners that can be IT8-calibrated: It is now possible to activate the new "Printer Profiling Wizard" by an appropriate serial number.
· CMS: Long file names of ICC profiles were listed truncated in the Option dialog's CMS panel. Now the full file name (without path) is used.
· General: Added a Service Button to the Universal Launcher so the User can easily enter the Service Mode that allows to reset the serial number, reset the Preferences or to copy the SilverFast logfile to the desktop for sending it to support.
· Bugfix: Microtek ScanMaker 9800 XL: Scans of high Multi-Sampling factors and large heights (in pixels) were scanned distorted. Corrected this by reading the true image height from the scanner in an alternative manner.
May 9th, 2008· [NEW]: Epson Perfection V200: now supported by SilverFast
· [IMPROVEMENT]: Heidelberg PrimeScan (Mac): Negafix profiles improved
· [IMPROVEMENT]: Reflecta DigitDia: corrected behaviour of automatic frame finding with respect to the frame inset defined in the SilverFast Options > Auto panel
· [IMPROVEMENT]: Heidelberg Chromagraph 3300/3400 (Mac): improved focussing routines
· [IMPROVEMENT]: Topaz, Nexscan, Chromagraph, Primescan, Tango: improved responsiveness of "Cancel" button
· [BUGFIX]: Multi-Exposure: progress bar wasn't shown during Multi-Exposure action - fixed
· [BUGFIX]: Nikon LS-40, LS-50, LS-4000, LS-5000, LS-8000, LS-9000, Multi-Exposure: fixed Multi-Exposure for grey-scale scanning
· [BUGFIX]: Microtek ArtixScan M1/F1: ordinary scan performed after a Multi-Exposure scan resulted in overexposed image - fixed
· [BUGFIX]: General: free rotation could lead to black pixels in the corners of the final image if angle was very acute - fixed
· [BUGFIX]: Praktica & Kaiser: JobManager now shows dimensions correctly, even when measurement unit varies for each JobManager entry
· [BUGFIX]: PFU PS4800 pro: automatic IT8 calibration could fail because of misinterpreted reset command to the scanner - fixed
· [BUGFIX]: Reflecta DigitDia 5000: work-around for firmware 1.09 Digitdia scanners that sometimes mistakenly report that a slide is in landscape instead of portrait orientation
March 6th, 2008· IMPROVEMENT: Multi-Exposure: Improve horizontal alignment for Multi-Exposure scans.
· IMPROVEMENT: Epson: Added Negafix profiles of Fuji NPS 160 (35mm and 6x6) for Epson scanners.
· BUGFIX: Microtek ScanMaker 6100: SilverFast now works with Scanwizard 6.5 installed.
· BUGFIX: Basic mode: SilverFast Basic mode now Leopard (OSX 10.5) compatible.
· BUGFIX: XRay: Starting up in XRay mode with flatbeds scanners that had no transparency unit, error occured - fixed.
· BUGFIX: Epson Perfection V 500: Didn't scan transparencies correctly when set to 3200 DPI or more - fixed.
· BUGFIX: Microtek Scanmaker i700, i800, i900: Line-Art scans corrected.