I have found that if the film strip is significantly curled lengthwise its very difficult to get a good scan. While I've used 4000ppi I'm not sure it is really better than 3600. I've been generally pleased with the results from my V700 for 35mm, both slides, BW negs, and color negs. You can crop the marquis to whatever size you want and then just dial down the resolution. It takes a little longer but eliminates the possibility of error.Īs for contact sheets, I've never done it, but I don't see why you couldn't. But I prefer to manually set the "marquis" for each image. It has an auto-detect feature for the individual images, which seems to work pretty well, the few times I've used it. I use Epson Scan and it does everything I need it to. I've tried the demo versions of Vuescan and Silverfast, but I've just never seen the point to them. It's running off my PC's firewire port, so I don't know if this is faster or slower than USB 2.0.
VUESCAN BATCH SCAN FULL
When set to 2400 ppi, my 4990 takes maybe two to three minutes per slide or negative, so a holder full of 24 negatives will take somewhere around an hour, a holder full of 12 slides will take about half that long. I don't use ICE because the images are noticeably softer when it is engaged, and I don't use the dust removal toggle because this feature adds unacceptable artifacts to the images. I don't use ICE or dust removal, so my scans don't take all that long. I've done quite a bit of bulk scanning with my Epson 4990, which is similar to the V700 in capabilities. Epson scan might actually be the way to go in this case, though: just put it in auto mode and let er rip. I use silverfast (tried vuescan, and it is equally capable and cheaper, but I already had silverfast. If the slide looks great on a light table / projected, it will be great scanned.). (with slides, you don't even have to change the exposure: just load the trays in the same direction and rotate the scans. The real problem with negatives is color balance, which is not a scanner issue per se. For some reason, slides appear to be faster than negatives, but that could just be my impression because I was not waiting for the scanner to finish. Note: the slide holder only holds 12 exposures at a time. Anything longer than that is probably processing / memory juggling / writing files to disk. Especially if ICE or multi-scan is used.Ī roll of film at 36 exposures takes about an hour to scan at 3600 dpi. I (recently) found a monumental improvement when I switched computers, so the answer to "how long" varies. * How much does it slow things down to enable the hardware dust/scratch removal? * Can the Epsons do a quick low-resolution "contact sheet" scan?
* How long does it take to scan a full tray (two strips of 6-exposure negatives for the V500/V600, or four strips for the V700/V750? Let's say at 2400 dpi, or some other moderate resolution (better than "for web" in case a small print needs to be made, but not the full high quality). * Are the carriers pretty easy to load, and would it be worthwhile to purchase a second carrier to allow for loading one while the other is scanning?
VUESCAN BATCH SCAN SOFTWARE
* How often does the scanner software make mistakes? (not detecting a frame, cropping to the wrong area or wrong orientation for slides, etc?) Basically, how often would I have to manually intervene or re-scan a set after doing a full-auto batch scan? * Once you have it configured, can you just load up the negative or slide carriers, hit a button, and then go do other things and come back when it is done? Or does it require more tweaking than that? I'm considering picking up an Epson scanner for scanning 35mm negatives and slides, and I was wondering if anyone can provide any personal experiences as to how well these scanners work for batch scanning? I have hundreds of rolls of film and several boxes of slides from my parents which I would like to scan, so speed and ease-of-use for semi-unattended scanning would probably take priority over ultimate quality in this case.
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