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Canon's product range predominantly consists of flatbed scanners for digitizing reflective originals. Some scanners feature an additional transparency unit, that allows to also digitize negatives and slides.

SilverFast is included in many Canon scanner's package of delivery to turn these scanners into professional devices, which's scans really don't need to be hidden.


  The new SilverFast 64bit HDRi RAW data format contains any recognizable image information - including the infrared channel's data for later image optimization.


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Kodachromes and the new SilverFast 6.6
(Kodachrome Workflow Flash for Canon scanner)



Considerable quality increase and time saving for Canon scanners* with the new SilverFast 6.6.1r6 - now including iSRD and Kodachrome support.
* for Canon Canoscan 8400F, 8600F, 8800F, 9000F, 9900F, 9950F.



SilverFast Multi-Exposure® - for significantly better details in scans

Dynamic Range is the most important factor for high quality scans, and a higher dynamic range ensures significantly better scans. Better scans means more visible details in highlights and shadows as a result of higher dynamic range.
SilverFast Multi-Exposure® increases the Dynamic Range of the Canon 9000F from 3.15D (without ME) to 3.95D (with ME). This increase shows that the scanner can see more levels of gray, an increase from 1.415 levels to 8.920 levels of gray (based on ISO Standard 21550*). That is a remarkable difference!

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* Report of Institute of Image Engineering, Frechen here.



iSRD - perfect Dust and Scratch Removal

Canon Scanner users can expect quite a difference with the new iSRD in SilverFast 6.6.0r4. The new iSRD® is similar to CANON's FARE, an infrared-based Dust and Scratch Removal technology. But iSRD is different from FARE. In addition to being a fully automatic function, iSRD allows the user full controllability regarding strength and effect. The advantage of iSRD's user control is to preserve crucial image details that may suffer deterioration from CANON's more simplified FARE technology. SilverFast's iSRD also has a special preview to monitor the controlling of the final iSRD effect and to also combine iSRD and SRD. SRD is SilverFast's only software-based dust and scratch removal function. In SRD the user can add layers (in addition to iSRD) with the masking option to handle more complex and demanding dust and scratch removal tasks, which cannot be solved with iSRD alone.

Through the utilization of iSRD® & SRD® as well as several layers & masks it is even possible to remove dust and scratches from very challenging film material such as Kodachrome or B/W film reliably. This isn't achievable with similar systems from other manufacturers.*

Another advantage of SilverFast's iSRD is the lack of deterioration (smoothing) of image details. Scans exhibit sharper details, no artifacts and retain more details of the film grain. Since iSRD's technology makes full use of Multi-Core processors, the speed of scans with iSRD is significantly faster! This advantage can more than double the productivity of SilverFast for Canon Scanners!





* Note: Scanning silver halide black and white films with iSRD® can produce artifacts in your pictures. In such cases it is recommended to use the software-based SRD® technology. Black and white chromogenic films developed with C-41 should not present any issues with iSRD®.



Kodachrome - Special Profiles for Brilliant Results

Now with the new special SilverFast Kodachrome profiles for Canon Scanner you can enjoy three significant advantages over the standard Canon software:

  • Maximum Dynamic Range
  • IT8-Calibration
  • Dust and Scratch removal
Kodachromes scans can present an unsurmountable challenge due to the exceptional high density of the unique film material. Kodachromes can have a density of 3.8D - which equates to 6300 levels of gray or a contrast ratio of 1:6300! Due to our patented SilverFast Multi-Exposure technology our software helps Canon scanners to acquire the huge dynamic range almost completely. This ensures that no shadow details become lost in Kodachromes.







The Speed up - Scans get up to 3X faster

The new SilverFast 6.6.0r4 gives your Canon scanner a speed boost. Reduce the effective scan time by 60% (Comparison of Canon ScanGear and SilverFast - see Chart). This is achieved by using the latest programming techniques within SilverFast, i.e. applying Multi-Threading (parallel processing) and code optimization for Duo- and Multi-Core processor technologies. This approach ensures the most efficient use of your computer's architecture.

Optimum workflows, numerous automatic functions and applying batch-scan operation assist in making your scans with SilverFast up to 3X faster!




SilverFast supports a multitude of high-quality Canon scanners.



Canon CanoScan 9000F Canon CanoScan 9000F

SilverFast 8 supported
Multi-Exposure supported
Windows 7 (32/64) / Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) compatible



Canon CanoScan 5600F Canon CanoScan 5600F

SilverFast 8 supported
Windows 7 (32/64) compatible



Canon CanoScan 9950F Canon CanoScan 9950F

SilverFast 6.6 supported
Multi-Exposure / Printer-Calibration supported
Windows 7 (32) / Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compatible



Canon CanoScan 9900F Canon CanoScan 9900F

SilverFast 6.6 supported
Multi-Exposure / Printer-Calibration supported
Windows Vista (32) / Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) compatible



Canon CanoScan 8800F Canon CanoScan 8800F

SilverFast 8 supported
Multi-Exposure supported
Windows 7 (32/64) / Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compatible



Canon CanoScan 8600F Canon CanoScan 8600F

SilverFast 8 supported
Multi-Exposure supported
Windows 7 (32/64) / Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compatible



Canon CanoScan 8400F Canon CanoScan 8400F

SilverFast 6.6 supported
Multi-Exposure / Printer-Calibration supported
Windows 7 (32) / Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compatible



Canon CanoScan 4400F Canon CanoScan 4400F

SilverFast 8 supported (only on Windows)
SilverFast 6.6 supported (only on Mac OS X)



more supported Canon scanners ...

What are users saying about SilverFast?
Roy Sprague (8600F) - ... To get the best results with Canon (or any other mid-range) scanners, I would recommend use of SilverFast software. (more ...)
Anthony Faust (8600F) - It was the first time I used SilverFast software when I purchased a ConoScan 8600F scanner, I'm using WinXP. I was suitable impressed with SilverFast that it didn't take me long to upgrade from the free bundled software to the new version 6.5. The multiple image scanning feature is extremely useful. I'm transferring a combination of old negatives and old prints. Laying all the prints on the scanner platen and scanning everything in one go is a real time saver. I would certainly recommend the new V6.5 SilverFast version.
Thomas Nestinger (8600F) - ... the new multi exposure feature delivers a substantial increase in image quality.
... thanks to the excellent quality of my CanonScan 8600 F and the new SilverFast V 6.5 Multi Exposure, I believe I will be happy for a long time® (more ...)
Ralf Frick (8600F) - ... Due to the excellent initial results of SilverFast, I quickly upgraded to SilverFast SE Plus. This version contains a function called "Multi Exposure". By making several scans of a negative with different exposure times, the scan quality is dramatically enhanced and the quality of the scan result is amazing. The "Multi-Exposure Feature" effectively removes noise allowing even large size printouts of the scans.

All my expectations were exceed. The "CanoScan 8600F is a great scanner - but only the combination with the SilverFast software does it deliver truly excellent results!!! (more ...)
Hans Schwarzkopf (8600F) - First, I had a HP ScanJet-SCSI-Scanner. For that scanner I invested in SilverFast Ai 5.0. When the HP-Scanner stopped operating I discovered by chance that CanoScan 8600F is bundled with SilverFast. This made me buy the CanoScan 8600F. After the purchase I quickly upgraded to SilverFast 6.5. Together with SilverFast the CanoScan 8600F provides me great universal use at a high quality level.
Serge Eymann (8600F) - I have only used SilverFast SE+ 6.5 Multi-exposure for a few weeks, but I am already conquered. Indeed, compared with the software offer delivered with the scanner there is nothing to hesitate, SilverFast replaces the latter without any regret. The scanner used is CanonScan 8600F under Windows XP Pro 32bits and the principal use is the scan of magazines or booklets. It is for that that I particularly appreciate the possibilities of decreening with SilverFast, which I didn't find anywhere else. The possibilities with SilverFast are multiple.
Gregory Knipp (9950F) - ... SilverFast really allows the scanner to make the most of it's capabilities. ... (more ...)
 

SilverFast Highlights

Kodachrome new!
Many features

Multi-Exposure® improved!
More image details

AutoFrame Alignment improved!
Rotate your images automatically to be horizontally aligned.

Auto IT8 improved!
Scanner calibration

ICC Printer Calibration improved!
ICC Printer Calibration
 

NegaFix®
Negative conversion

SRD®
Smart Removal of Defects

Descreening
Printing screen filter

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