Alan4color wrote:
I would give silverfast software a look, it might provide better control of the the scanner. (Scanner manufacturers typically don't invest in updating scanner software) And if your scanning film slides you can pay a small fee to silverfast and unlock 16 bit color.
Presently thinking about it.
Would you think my present scanner’s just too old, though?
Lousy older - tech CCD, something like that?
Alan4color wrote: Scanning at a higher-than-optical resolution does not provide additional useful information for AI photo reconstruction. AI reconstruction models are trained to infer and add plausible high-frequency details from the data that is already present. If the original scan lacks detail, the AI will create, or "hallucinate," the missing information rather than retrieve it from the image.
I’m presently scanning at 600 DPI, which produces 8MB PNG photos on the average (not even sure that’s the best format - just chose it because it was lossless). The scanner is quoted to do 4800x4800 DPI optical, so in reality that would be 2000x2000 DPI at the most (just guessing, based on what I read at Filmscanner dot info, seems to be reasonable to reduce stated optical values in half).
What I’m curious about is going at a higher optical resolution, not a higher softeware interpolation (which is in itself primitive AI) - would this give future AI more meat to work on?
Oct 28, 2025 at 05:59 PM
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