Re: Photo Scanner Experience?
Perhaps you compared V700 with V600? I have an Epson V500 Photo. I think it is an earlier model than the V550 and V600 but similar. In any case, it does an excellent job with all three-- prints, slides and negatives.
I have several hundred prints (and their 116 negatives) that came from my father who used an old Kodak box camera beginning in the 1920s up to 1960 when he passed. I scan prints at 600dpi as I've found that a higher dpi doesn't seem to enhance anything other than defects. At first, I also scanned negatives at 600dpi but found the resulting images much better than the prints. So I tried 1200dpi with the negatives and got even better results. Some negatives are even better at 2400dpi. I've settled on 600dpi for prints and 1200dpi for negatives as the results are acceptable to me. Any possible improvements just aren't worth the time and energy fiddling around with various other settings.
In addition to the items mentioned above I have hundreds more prints/negatives plus several thousand slides. The V500 also does a very good job with slides using the 'holders' that enable scanning several at a time. A dedicated slide scanner might be faster. But it means buying another piece of equipment that costs more than a V500 and probably won't make better scans unless it is very expensive.
Originally posted by Kim
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I have several hundred prints (and their 116 negatives) that came from my father who used an old Kodak box camera beginning in the 1920s up to 1960 when he passed. I scan prints at 600dpi as I've found that a higher dpi doesn't seem to enhance anything other than defects. At first, I also scanned negatives at 600dpi but found the resulting images much better than the prints. So I tried 1200dpi with the negatives and got even better results. Some negatives are even better at 2400dpi. I've settled on 600dpi for prints and 1200dpi for negatives as the results are acceptable to me. Any possible improvements just aren't worth the time and energy fiddling around with various other settings.
In addition to the items mentioned above I have hundreds more prints/negatives plus several thousand slides. The V500 also does a very good job with slides using the 'holders' that enable scanning several at a time. A dedicated slide scanner might be faster. But it means buying another piece of equipment that costs more than a V500 and probably won't make better scans unless it is very expensive.
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