Last night I tried out the new soft on some colur film. My 3170 is not turning out very good pix from the negative colour film. Nor are the slides as good as the 4490.
I tried copying some slides on my 3170 and was very disappointed with the results but got excellent pictures from some 35-year-old negatives. The slides gave equally bad pictures on a 2700dpi dedicated 35mm film scanner - in both cases muddy, blurred and very poor colour from the same bright and sharp original (and saved as a TIF, not as a JPEG).
I guess it's the software packaged with the scanners that's at fault but I was surprised with the negative material results - they are virtually indistinguishable from the original prints.
I seem to remember from another thread on this subject a few months ago that Conan uses the more expensive Silverfast package, not the SE version, but I may well be wrong.
GG