Epson Perfection V700 Photo Color Scanner by Epson
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Digital camera reviews of Epson Perfection V700 Photo Color Scanner
Digital camera Review: Epson 700 Scanner experience.
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought to scan, cataloque organize and archive over 50 years of pictures in various formats, ranging from 2 1/4 square to 35 mm slides. Am working from prints, slides, B&W and color negatives.
Scanner installed quickly, without problems. Can now succesfully do everything I wanted, but lack of instructions required much patience and trial and error opration to acccomplish dsired results. At this price, instructions in use should be included, if only in reference to content availble on Epson site.
Scanner performs very well, and can be recommended. Ability to batch scan multiple pictures is vital, considering total number of pictures I have.
Digital camera Review: Epson Perfection Scanner
Summary: 4 Stars
Outstanding product quality, but it takes work to get the best out of it.
We bought this scanner to use mainly for scanning medium format film.
The scanner resolution is excellent, and the ability to scan in 16 bit mode provides extended dynamic range and ability to capture subtle tone details. However, achieveing this always requires changing the default exposure levels, particularly on the low end of the scale. A limitation of the software, however, is that the histogram tool for setting the levels always shows the scale in a linear 8 bit mode (0 to 255 levels), whereas a log scale or optical density scale would probably be more appropriate for 16 bit scans. Photshop also does not have this feature but would benefit from it.
A more troubling problem we have experienced is that all our film scans require changing the gamma of the blue channel significantly in order to achieve color balance. Once we had that figured out, the results have been excellent.
The software documentation is pretty lame, as usual.
As far as film handling goes, the slide holders seem adequate, but the film holders feel like they are going to break every time you use them. The medium format holder only holds the film by the long edges, which doesn't provide much support. One solution for this would be to improvise a filmholder which is like an enlarger holder in that it clamps the film on opposite sides of the image. The Epson filmholders have holes in them that the scanner uses to detect the holder type, and the software does a good job of detecting the borders of each image and presenting them all to you in the preview window.
Despite these nit-picks, this scanner is an excellent value. The scans we are getting off of Fuji Velvia 100 are breathtaking. I hope that the availability of these will renew interest in medium and large format film, as these offer creative options which are impossible with digital cameras.
Digital camera Review: Epson Perfection V700 Photo Color Scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
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This is an incredible scanner and seems built very, very well. I know this will last for a long time, just like all the Epson equipment I've had in the past.
Installation was a breeze, no problems at all. Just make sure to follow the instructions and install the software before connecting and powering on the scanner. I'm running Windows XP on a laptop with a dock and it took all of 25 seconds for the scanner to be ready on my machine once I powered the scanner on. VERY fast and easy.
The scanning software is very easy to use. You can scan using 'Auto' mode, 'Home' mode or 'Professional' mode, each mode giving you more options to choose in your scanning.
I tried all three scanning modes and I got beautiful scans with the 'Auto' mode, so I didn't fret about having to select a bunch of different options when scanning. But, I also liked using the advanced modes and getting different looks to my scanned materials. There's a great preview button that lets you view the options selected so you can quickly change an option if you don't like it.
The scanning plate for negatives is easy to use and the scans came out wonderful! I love seeing my old pictures again! And it's wonderful that I can save the ones I want and delete the scanned items I don't want. No more wasting time figuring out which negatives I should get made into photos. And no more wasting money going to the mall to get photos made out of my negatives!
Digital camera Review: Epson Perfection V700 Photo Color Scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very happy with this machine. I was needing a contact printer for all my old negatives of every size and shape. I now have it. The V700 is even better than my old enlarger style set up. I can set the resolution to what ever I want which I could not do before. I highly recommend this product to all the old enlarger buffs out there.Digital camera Review: Epson Perfection is good
Summary: 5 Stars
Some of the other reviews frightened me a little and it was with apprehension that I opened the box, installed the software and plugged in the scanner. Since my slides had not arrived I dragged out some old negatives for practice. WOW.... Easy, Good, Better than I dreamed. I only used mid level scans as the neg's were not in good shape, will increase resoultion when I start the slides.