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: Four half stars, mostly perfect but not quite. For serious photographers.
Summary: 4 Stars
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
My father in law, who has been scanning in thousands of slides, negatives and photos going back at least 60 years brought samples of every kind of photographic data to my house to test out this scanner.
In the past I have scanned in many, many 35mm with a Canonscan 9950F.
This scanner needed more stringent evaluation, it is obviously a powerhouse designed for serious users.
We set up on DELL XPS 600 with Windows XP. Hardware setup easy, even for beginners. Someone with experience would not even need directions.
Tried the scanner with 35mm slides, 35mm negatives, black and white color photos of different levels of quality. It worked well with all of them and was able to restore poor quality photos automatically. He had some slides that are in 7mm square cardboard frames (Ektacrome) takes more creativity to fit into the holders and has to be sort of kludged together. Those of us with some really old photographic material would appreciate the flexibility to perhaps purchase other holders for stranger sizes. Understandably, they would not be included since most people would not need them.
Color restoration on AutoScan was ok, but not Photoshop quality.
Professional mode has many good choices of setting and produced superb results. Digital Ice works well to remove dust.
We could not figure out how to do multiple scans in professional mode. This may be due to the designers figuring that if you are using professional mode that you want to tweak the inputs yourself. Went to create new field for storage and everything disappeared and had to spend time figuring out where the scan was sent.
It is an excellent idea that that transparency feature is built into the machine. Top does not flop down easily, might not seem like a big deal but makes the media much easier to load when you don't have to hold up the top with one hand. Scanning multiple pages to pdf is great and very functional. The computer file user guide was useful.
This is not a scanner for you if you want a simple product to input a few family photos. If you are serious about digitizing years worth of photos or want to do specific detail work with your pictures then you may want to invest in it. It has more flexibility than most scanners for digitizing images.
Digital camera Review: Good scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
So far I am really happy with this scanner. Images are sharp and the color is accurate. You can scan 4 strips of negatives at a time, or 12 slides at a time, which is important to me because I still have a lot of film to scan. My other scanners only scan 2 strips of negatives, or 4 slides at a time. About the only thing I can really find fault with is it's appearance; it's big and ugly, but so what?Digital camera Review: Good scanner, not such a good company
Summary: 2 Stars
The scanner is pretty good, but Epson no longer deserves a high reputation as a company. They advertise, for example, that your package includes Adobe Photoshop Elements, but what you get is Elements version 3, which has been obsolete for 3 years! Elements 6 is the current version. And,if you check their website there is no provision to make general contact to register a complaint.Digital camera Review: Good scanner, poor software
Summary: 4 Stars
This scanner comes with Laserfast's "Silverfast SE" It was impossible to install the latter inspite of help from tech reps on line and on the phone. Fortunatly it has the Epson software also which works well but does not offer some of the things that made me elect this scanner.Digital camera Review: Good value High Learning Curve for a Post-Film Era Film Scanner
Summary: 3 Stars
As film has rapidly fallen into disfavor, film scanners have been more difficult to find. As a semi-professional photographer for over 15 years, I have thousands of 35mm transparencies that still have value as long as I can scan and digitize them in marketable quality.
Previously I owned two Konica-Minolta film scanners. They were small enough to fit unobtrusively in my workspace, and I loved their ease of use and intuitive software. However, since that company left the photography market several years ago, they no longer support their scanners, and the driver and other software is not compatible with Windows 7...meaning I was forced to find a new replacement. I was amazed by how few options there are. Nikon makes a scanner of small size but it retails for over $3000.
After some research this Epson Scanner looked like one of my only options. The price (~$700) was right, and I've always been a fan of other Epson products (esp. printers). Nevertheless this product has three drawbacks worth considering...
First, because it is a flatbed, it is ENORMOUS. Sure, I was aware of the dimensions when I ordered it, and sure, it will scan twelve slides at once, but I would gladly sacrifice the volume/productivity for a "feed-through" style scanner capable of producing high-quality scans while taking up a third of the worksspace of this scanner.
Second drawback is, again, that this is a flatbed scanner. My initial skepticism (that it would be able to produce sharp scans of high detail and good dynamic range) has passed, and the scans I have made so far are great. However, the flatbed itself is kind of a pain. The twelve-slide bracket snaps in to the roof of the scanner, and it a little bit of a pain. Also, b/c it is a flatbed, and there is a gap between the bed and the roof, I think this scanner will be prone to lots of dust and debris getting into it, and it will require frequent cleaning.
Finally, I'm (at least initially) impressed with neither the Epson driver/scanning software nor the "SilverFast" productivity software that came with the scanner. Neither are very intuitive, and while I'm learning to use it, and producing some good scans, there have been some tough times. Both of these programs are too loaded with featurs. I liked Konica Minolta's simple software which allowed the user to make some basic pre-scan/exposure corrections, befroe taking the images into Photoshop to do the heavy-duty post production work.
In general, it's too soon (only a month) for me to wholeheartedly endorse this scanner...but on the other hand, there are few affordable options that render similar marketable quality. I'll probably need to pick up the pace in the next few years and scan as many of my old slides as possible with this scanner, because I suspect film scanners will soon be very rare beasts.