* Very slow responses to support email (same is true for VS - in fact no response from VS) * Cost - I'm pretty sure this is the only scanner I'll ever have and I really don't know how much an "SW scanner change" would cost but it concerns me. * Lack of a single "Preview and scan" option (VS has this / Epson Scan does not ) * No support for hardware "Start" button such as on the Epson v850 * Find frames is unreliable (VS is much more reliable and Epson Scan is nearly perfect) - Folks at SF support indicated they were working on it
This way I never need to worry that I'll need to go back and re-scan (Just re-process from the DNG files) - Thought it would be nice if the DNG files were interoperable so I don't need to worry that my HDR Studio is not compatible with a new OS and thus my originals become inaccessible.
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I'm pretty sold on the workflow with SF Archive Suite - being able to scan with IR and full dynamic range and then apply processing from those in batch. I think that's where SF really shines - likely I could do similar stuff in Adobe (which of would cost me another $120 a year and more "youtube training". Now in my case I'm dealing with negatives from 198x/199x cheap cameras and negatives that have been sitting in a draw for 30 years so I'm starting from a relatively low quality. Its possible that I still have not mastered VS and thus have not done a fair comparison. I'm a novice so I'm not exactly sure my opinion counts But in my testing I have been able to produce what I feel are significantly better results in SF than VS. I was hoping to see more folks doing an in-depth comparison of the quality between SF and VS.