randymoe

Who is running a Epson V 700 scanner? I just bought and installed one today.

I ran a scan of two Velvia 4x5's and all looks good. I do wish computers still had Firewire. However, I am done with Firewire and am waiting for ThunderPort to become common. I use Mac Lion and PC Win 7 64.

This scanner will be dedicated to scanning film only. I have a Epson 4490 Photo for reflective and a Brother MFC for text, copies and Fax.

Do you have any tips?

Does anyone have any experience with Epson's 'Next Business Day Exchange Upgrade - 2 or 3 Year Plan'?

Today I used the included SilverFast SE 6. It seemed to work fine.

I have tiny ants crawling on my keyboard. Time to setup a spray bottle of Apple Vineger Cider for ants. It worked last year.

kayautho Loc: Boynton Beach, FL

I have the v300 and I use it for everything (not negatives). The results are excellent. The only problem is that its a flatbed which makes it inconvenient when scanning more than a few. Consequently, I bought a Fujitsu s1500 scanner which is solely an auto feed. It is a wonderful machine.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

What does the 700 have over the 500?

saichiez Loc: Beautiful Central Oregon

1) The 700 will do 4x5 film in one pass. The 500 film path is 120 film only. Some have mentioned doing 4X5 in two passes and stitching. That sounds cumbersome.

2) Seems I recall two focusing systems in the 700 vs one in the 500.

randymoe

It does do two 4x5 in one pass and 8x10 when I get there.

The V700 works like great as it should at $520 from B&H.

Now I need to make a worth my while 4x5.

That may take a little longer...

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Thanks....I think for my needs I'll go with the V500. I have tons of negatives to scan in.

saichiez Loc: Beautiful Central Oregon

I did a lot of 35mm. I did some 120. I'd have to say that for the most part I was happy with the results and the film holder for 35 on the V500.

For the 120 film, the neg/transparency holder was just OK at best. If I had a lot of medium format to do, I would certainly avoid the OEM film holder and order the BetterScanning holders from www.betterscanning.com, with the ANR glass to hold the film flat. MF has a lot of curl in the film and the stock holder just does not deal with it.

Buying the V700 does not fix the medium format problem, because the smaller format holders are the same as the ones that come with the V500. The primary reason the V700 does large format better is usually less curl in the film.

The betterscanning holders also have height adjustments rather than just fussing with paper shims on the stock holders for Epson.

As far as the scanner itself goes, my best luck was with the Epson software, without fiddling with trying to do image manipulation at the scan level. That can sorely impact your ability to post process properly in LR, or CS5, or other editing software.

Just get your best scan, and Post Process in your computer, unless that is not your goal. (to edit the image further)

randymoe

4 x 5 has no curl.

And yes, just scan and then torture the results in PP just like RAW.