Hello! As I've been reading the reviews of the v700 and V750 and waiting for others to come in as I decide on which scanner to purchase, especially compared to the 4990, I decided to demo Silverfast on my Microtek 5900. I had a 4x5 TMax 100 image of a white stone church with dark bare trees around it. I scanned the image with Silverfast at 2400spi, 48 bit color with 8 multisamples samples and a second scan with one sample. I repeated the scan with the Microtek ScanMaker software. I kept the green channel of each image and I gave each image the same adjustments for tone, with minor adjustments for contrast and unsharp mask. The crop is of a stone railing. The noise certainly gives the images a soft appearance. To my eye, it appears that the Silverfast with 8 scans is better than with one scan is better than the Microtek. It took about two hours to do the 8 multisample scan; 10 to 15 minutes for the other two scans each. Best regards.
Mike
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