Have you ever created an accurate ICC device profile for your scanner using a Kodak Q-60 target? Unless you have done this you may not appreciate the vast difference. "I do not understand why is Nikon Color Management bad? After all, you can use all the colorspaces, embed them into the files and manipulate them in photoshop." The colour management of NikonScan is poor to say the least. I use NikonScan for trannies but I end up assigning my own ICC device profile to the image once it is in Photoshop. the ability to adjust for tungsten source lighting) has also been useful on occasion. Although I don't use it much Vuescan's colour balance controls (e.g. I especially also like the Vuescan feature where I can save the IR channel off into an alpha channel with the scan - I can then easily see the spots on the film where the filter has worked its magic and make any alterations that are not quite to my liking. The dust and scratches filter works better for me on chromogenic B&W emulsions than the ASF equivalent. There are other features of Vuescan that I like. If you've ever spent long hours colour correcting colour negative images after NikonScan has been at them then you may appreciate Vuescan or Silverfast. NikonScan does not have this sort of profiling and simply uses a generic algorithm to remove the orange mask and invert the image. This is done with a database that Vuescan has containing the colour characteristics of each type of film.īy using the advanced workflow you can lock the expsoure and the orange mask so that the film profile can then perform a correct negative-positive translation. One of the biggest advantages of Vuescan, and probably Silverfast, is the ability to accurately remove the orange mask from colour negative film and invert the image to make a well balanced colour positive.
Vuescan vs nikon scan 2017 software#
If Nikon could remedy this problem and allow you to set color samplers in the image the software would improve a lot. The biggest problem with the raw scan workflow is that the image changes slightly when imported into Photoshop, because you cannot use your monitor profile when Scanner RGB is your color space. The Scanner RGB mode allows you to use the LCH editor and still output a raw scan. This way you can make your color adjustments in curves or levels and then use the lightness curve in the LCH editor to adjust the brightness of your scan without altering the color balance of the image. You can use it the way you can use LAB in Photoshop, since it also separates contrast from color. I find the LCH editor in Nikon Scan to be very good. GEM,ICE and ROC are far superior to the Vuescan equivalents though, so I wind up using Nikonscan for most of my scans.
Vuescan vs nikon scan 2017 plus#
I have Vuescan and can only find 2 plus points, (1) It does a better job with the latest generation of Agfa negatives than Nikonscan, (2) It has less of a blue cast when scanning Kodakchromes than Nikonscan.
Like you I too am puzzled by the enthusiasm for Vuescan and Silverfast versus Nikon scan.
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