At Focus on Imaging today, I was satisfied that a V750 using wet mounting in combination with Silverfast will provide me the resolution from my 35mm negs that I require. I will be buying one this week. Unfortunately, Nikon's are now discontinued.
The scans that I saw from my negs at the Epson stand were of a resolution visually comparible to that that I was getting from a Coolscan 9000. I know that many disagree with me on this - and I would suggest that the error is mine - in not getting the most from the software. I would therefore appreciate your advice on scanning workflow.
I understand that the scanning software should be used simply to extract the most information from the file rather than make it pretty. Given this, what adjustments should - and perhaps more importantly, should not be used within the scanning software? For instance, will using a curve on a file enable more DR to be captured or will it simply give me less to work with in post?
The man from Silverfast told me that I ought to sharpen slightly first in the scan software, then use PK or similar to essentially do a 3 stage sharpening method using input and output sharpening which sounds different to the advice offered by many on this forum. Since I prefer to use LR rather than PS for my workflow, is are the sharpening tools within it sufficient for scanned tiffs?
Many thanks
Charly