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List Price: $593.99
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Epson
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Epson
EAN: 0010343856899
Feature: Photo scanner reproduces photographs with professional quality
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Epson
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Epson
Model: B11B178011
Publisher: Epson
Release Date: 2006-03-19
Special Features: nv:Scanner Type^Flatbed|Scanner Element^Color Epson MatrixCCD? line sensor|Light Source^Cold Cathode Fluroescent Lamp|Optical Resolution^4800 dpi|Optical Resolution^6400 dpi|Hardware Resolution^4800 x 9600 dpi|Interpolated Resolution^12800 x 12800 dpi|Maximum Document Size^8.5 x 11|Color Depth^48-bit|Gray Scale Depth^16-bit|Interface Connectivity^USB 2.0|Power Source^AC Adapter|Dimensions^12" x 20" x 6"|Compatible OS^Windows 2000|Compatible OS^Windows 98|Compatible OS^Windows XP
Studio: Epson
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Photo scanner reproduces photographs with professional quality
6,400 dpi resolution: incredible precision and detail
Can scan slides, negatives, and medium format film
Innovative dual lens system automatically selects two lenses for desired resolution
4.0 Dmax for exceptional image quality
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Editorial Reviews:
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Get professional quality results from virtually any photographic original with the Epson Perfection V700 Photo scanner. With groundbreaking 6400 dpi resolution, this powerful scanner consistently delivers precision color and detail, whether scanning slides, negatives or medium format film. With a 4.0 Dmax, it offers exceptional image quality, excellent detail in shadow areas and remarkable tonal range. But, the Epson Perfection V700 Photo goes one step further. With its Dual Lens System, this innovative product automatically selects from two lenses for the desired scan resolution. Plus, with Digital ICE Technologies, you can easily remove dust and scratches from film, and many types of surface defects from prints, minimizing costly retouching. And, with the convenient film holders included, you can even batch scan multiple slides and negatives to increase productivity. The Epson Perfection V700 Photo represents a breakthrough in flatbed scanning by offering the highest optical scan resolution (6400 dpi) available for photo studio applications. This powerful performer gives you the industry's leading scanner technologies, all right at your fingertips.
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Summary: Thumbnails Don't Work
Comment: While scanning 35mm film strips in the film holder, "thumbnails" are NOT produced according to specifications. The scanner just slices off the film strip at a fixed interval that doesn't happen to jibe with my photos. I checked everything, reloaded all the software, followed instructions to the letter, and finally called Epson product support. I was on the phone on "my dime" for 20 minutes. All they could suggest was to use the full strip mode and crop the images on the film strip. That is unacceptable because it's a real loss in productivity. They said it might be that my photos were dark or there was a dark area in the photo. My photos were not dark in general but you can find a dark area in ANY photo.
A further disappointment was the graininess of all the scanned photos even when scanning at 2400 and 4800 dpi. I would have to edit all the photos to remove noise and graininess.
I tried the Digital ICE and was further disappointed first because the scanner stops and has to "warm up" again in the middle of processing each photo. Further, the Digital ICE photos were very grainy as well.
I bought this scanner to replace my Nikon CoolScan because that unit takes forever to scan slides and 35mm film stips. All the customer comments on this product were great but I am one that is disappointed and will be shipping the scanner back to Amazon in the morning.
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Summary: Epson V700
Comment: Epson Perfection V700 Photo Color Scanner
Easy to use, fast, quiet. A vast improvement over my old scanner.
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Summary: Epson Scanner
Comment: The Scanner and the Element 4 software are excellent. The Silverfast software that offered so much promise is very poorly documented and I was unable to get it setup or deleted properly from my computer (Mac). The scanner results using Elements IV to recover old damaged slides and negatives is terrific. The ability to scan up to 12 slides at a time is a great convenience. I have 30,000 slides and while it will take a lot of work the product will allow me to put all the material on CDs very cheaply.
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Summary: Thumbs up for the Mac!
Comment: No major review, just to say that it worked right out of the box on my Mac (Quad-Core) and was no trouble to install, configure and use. Scans previews very quickly, and final scans are also fast and good quality. I use it for documents, photos, some slides. Image prep for websites and archiving paperwork for the files. Would recommend this one. Only drawback is large physical size, so be sure you have room for it on the desk if you plan to leave it out.
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Summary: You've got to be kidding me!
Comment: For 500 dollars the least the manufacturer could do is throw in some film holders that aren't absolute garbage. I shoot medium format film through a Fuji GA645, a camera justifiably well known for having a razor sharp lens, near perfect exposure, and to-die-for autofocus. Imagine my surprise when my first negatives scanned soft and out of focus.
So I poke around Flickr a bit and discover that film laid flat on the scan bed with the film holder pressing it to the glass gives markedly better results than actually inserting the film in the holder as instructed by Epson. 10 minutes of swearing while trying to accomplish this not so easy feat (go ahead and try for yourself), and 20 minutes of scanning (while still swearing) later, I discover that, lo and behold, the Flickr folks are right.
Negatives flat on the glass scan vastly better than negatives in the holder. In fact, at 4800dpi, negatives flat on the glass so exceed my needs that I turned the resolution down a notch. I'll go one step further and say that if Epson had included film holders that weren't total GARBAGE, i.e., a double glass plate system designed to hold the negative at EXACTLY THE FOCAL PLANE, I might be giving this system five stars instead of one.
I don't know what misbegotten moron over at Epson decided to cheap out, and I don't care. I'll be searching the web for some sort of film holder that actually, you know, WORKS, (or other solution, maybe I can design and manufacture my own, get rich fixing Epson's grievous failings) since laying it on the glass in perfect alignment without curl or dust is such a monumental pain. If I can't find a solution shortly, this thing is going to be returned, and good riddance.
It'll be a cold day in damnation before I buy another Epson product.
EDIT: Ok, it is possible to get somewhat decent scans out of this heap. Follow these instructions:
First, turn your film holder over and pull out the little feet. Turn them around 180 degrees so the arrow points toward the plus sign, then put them back in. For some reason the focal plane is a bit high off the glass, about 3.5mm. Guess how high the feet are set at the factory? If you guessed 3.0mm, give yourself a gold star.
Way to go, Epson, you big wet bag of smelly FAIL.
If that doesn't work, then turn your Adjustment Options completely off and run a test scan. According to the Photo-i review I read, Digital ICE in Quality mode is garbage, while Digital ICE in Speed mode is actually somewhat useful. Your mileage may vary.
If your scans still look awful, plug betterscanning into your search engine and go buy a new film holder. Everyone that's ever used those aftermarket jobbies (that I could find, anyway) says they see a marked improvement. As it is apparent from even web sized photos that they're designed and constructed better than the OEM GARBAGE, I can see why.
For real black and white film (not the chromagenic C-41 process stuff, scan that stuff just like color, only with Image Type set to 16 bit grayscale) turn off all the adjustment options except possibly Unsharp Mask. Of course, since you're going to be slowly going crazy in Photoshop with the Spot Healing Brush taking out all the dust, you might as well turn that off too, since even at Medium the Unsharp Mask sometimes gets a bit of aliasing on diagonal lines.
I reiterate: You could not pay me enough to own another Epson product.
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