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Is it possible you do or could support RAW output from pro camera bodies for 'scanning' film? If not, can you tell me what is inherently wrong with this? I know a drum scan would be better at eliminating film curvature, but I do think a modern digital camera may well be a good replacement for any 'lesser' scanner. I already think my results come close to what I used to get from scanning (with much less work, in some ways).

I think my approach to film digitization could benefit from features I remember in Silverfast, and I do think there might be some renewed interest, as digital cameras get better and better at capturing the data from film. But it seems they were not aimed at film digitization. If I converted each camera RAW file somehow, is there a way to get all that Silverfast scan awesomeness at work to improve my digitization results? If I'm not mistaken, sometime between when I ditched the old tower that drove my (SCSI-connected, circa 1998) film scanner, and now, Silverfast made products for digital cameras. (Color-wise, I've mainly been happy, anyway). I haven't yet used the IT-8 target, but might use it to produce an 'adjustment recipe' for Capture One and my camera/light source. That said, I've found I can get great detail from old slides using HDR techniques (combining multiple/bracketed exposures), but I can also get awesome dust detail, which is a pain to touch up in Capture One or Lightroom). Now I'm reluctant to buy a better scanner than I had, only to re-digitize my slides or to hire a scanning service (except for maybe a few of the very best slides), since I have a good digital camera, my old ITF-8 target, and a nice Contax bellows with slide duplicator that seems to produce fairly nice results with the camera I'm using.

I used to use Silverfast HDR with a Nikon scanner, back 'before film was dead'.

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