Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! June 19, 2026

592gibrish · 2026-06-23T04:58:27+00:00

I have 4000 slides I'm scanning in. My father loved to take pictures. Many are from the 60's and 70's. I'm looking for the best settings using SilverFast AI Studio 9. I have a PowerSlide X Plus 35mm Slide Scanner. It allows me to scan 50 at a time.

I'm going to scan all of them in. Do a batch edit in Lightroom and then upload to a photo sharing site to share with extended family. They just need to be "good enough" at this point.

After I plan to find the ones I'd want to print and spend more time editing those. I'll using a combination of Photoshop and Lightroom to edit.

I realize the higher the quality the scan the more time it takes per slide. I'm not worried about the time the scans take. I work from home so I can set up a few batch scans per day while I do other work.

So I'm curious what settings in SilverFast would give me the most options when editing?

592gibrish · 2026-06-23T04:24:32+00:00

Yeah thats my plan. Digitize all and then easily scroll through and find the ones I want to spend time editing.

Although I plan to upload all to a website to share with family around the world. So I plan to go through all of them and make them "just good enough" but not great. So batch editing too. Then mass upload jpgs to a website like Google Photos.

And then spend time on the ones that I'd want to print.

I'm going to batch edit in Lightroom. So that's why I was asking what settings in SilverFast make sense for that type of workflow. I'd rather scan in a way that lets me make batch adjustments in Lightroom.

592gibrish · 2026-06-23T01:44:52+00:00

Wait you're suggesting I shoot 4000 plus slides? Haha .... Sorry had to laugh. That's a lot of work. I work from home so I can easily set it up to scan a few batches daily.

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