kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

The price is still $219 for the V600, at Best Buy, Staples and Adorama.

I don’t have any 2-1/4 slides but a lot of negatives, as well as 120 size.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

In that $200 price range, the Epson V600 is a favorite pick. The skinny on use with a Mac is this:

You must use the 32-bit driver to get full use of all features, unless Epson Scan 2 is updated to include Digital ICE compatibility. The 32-bit driver (Epson Scan 5.x) runs on MacOS Mojave, but NOT by itself on MacOS Catalina. If your Mac uses Catalina, you have several choices:

A) Use the Epson Scan 2 driver. It's okay, but it IS crippled, compared to the older version.

B) Use the free download of SilverFast 8 SE from https://epson.com/Support/Scanners/Perfection-Series/Epson-Perfection-V600-Photo/s/SPT_B11B198011?review-filter=macOS+10.15.x

C) Use an older Mac with MacOS Mojave, or High Sierra, or Sierra, and Epson Scan 5.x.

D) Use your Catalina Mac with Parallels Desktop and Windows 10 with the Windows Epson Scan driver.

E) Use your Catalina Mac with Parallels Desktop and run MacOS Mojave and Epson Scan 5.x.

F) If your Mac supports MacOS Mojave, Install it on an outboard drive and start up from that by holding down the Option key after the chime, and until you see the Apple Logo. You can run Epson Scan from the outboard drive.

I'm currently running an iMac with Mojave most of the time (I have outboard drives that support several other versions of the MacOS and Windows, all of which boot in Parallels or BootCamp).

I also have an old 2010 Mac Mini that runs the old Epson Scan quite well in MacOS Sierra.

togajim

I use the V600 but with with a PC. Have been very pleased overall, as I am scanning the last 50 yrs of family photo negatives (actually 1970-2003 when I switched to digital, I'm up to 6900 photos and counting). Some of my observations:
1. The negatives holder can accommodate up to 12 negatives in 2 strips. Scanning in this fashion takes about 10-15 minutes/12 pictures, so you do the math
2. Scan time varies significantly depending on which scan options you choose- dpi, color restoration, Unsharp mask, grain reduction, Digital ICE. Since I'm a casual user and don't have plans to enlarge past about 8x10, I've been pretty satisfied with 1200 dpi resolution, Unsharp mask on, Digital ICE on, everything else OFF. PS or other Software does a better with grain reduction and color correction in much less time (if you're like me, you'll find less than 10% of the photos are worth fixing up anyway and if there's a couple of special ones you can always come back and scan at higher dpi). With slides you can do only 4 at a time
3. I've run into problems with Newton rings with badly curved negs. Usually scanning with the negs reversed cures that (but then you have to flip the scans in the on-board software)
4. Take extra care to clean the negs with an anti-static cloth, and clean the glass regularly, else you'll have a lot of dust spots to remove.

kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

My iMac is a "mid-2010" model and was told that it will NOT take the most recent upgrade. Currently it has 10.13.6 "High Sierra".

kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

Many thanks to everyone here in the group for their advice and suggestions. Much appreciated.

bw79st Loc: New York City

My V700 came with carrier for mounted slides. Check the web to see if someone supplies a slide mount carrier.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Then use Epson Scan with no worries.

kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

I just got back from picking it up. So, I'll give it a try later on. On the box, however, it says that it is compatible with Mac OS up through "10.12.x", but "High Sierra" is 10.13.6. Will that be a problem? I supposed there's only one to find out. Could be just that's in an older box without an updated label and I may just need to download a current driver.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

No problem — 10.12 to 10.14 are fine.

kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

I appreciate your help, as I do everyone else who responded.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Great tips!

Those who have odd film sizes (60mm wide and narrower) can find third party film holders on Amazon.

There are several good videos on YouTube that walk new users through the finer points. (There are some that are a waste of time, too...)

adamsg Loc: Chubbuck, ID

I think you have a setup that you will enjoy using and getting fine results. When I was teaching public school to pay off educational debts, I taught at Sinaloa Jr. HS and Royal HS in the early 70s. The areas between Simi Valley and Calabassas, up in the hills, had some fine places for wild flower photography. I imagine Simi Valey has grown immensely and wonder how much of the wonderful countryside remains.

Best wishes!

kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

Thanks. We live close to Simi Valley High School. Along with fire photography I like to photograph the trains near the Corriganville park.

Dalbon

I also has a Nikon Scanner and it's the Nikon Supper Coolscan 9000 film scanner. Works great with my Mac although I haven't used in some time but it's a great scanner and does the job very well.
Thanks, David

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Same here (on a macbook pro 2015)