I tried the V700 at a local photography shop. I scanned a 4x5 that I was working on and compared it to my scanner the Artixscan 1800f. My scanner scans at 1800 dpi optical while the V700 can scan up tpo 6400 dpi optical. It did not have a 1800 dpi setting, so I scanned at 2400 dpi for the comparison. We did a straight scan with no corrections. Out of the scanner, the image was somewhat dark. It did not seem to get into the shadows as well as the Artixscan. Sharpness was about equal between the two with the Epson showing a slight edge, but then again it was at a slightly higher dpi. If the sharpness had been leaps and bounds above what I am using now, I think I would have plopped down the money, for $700 it is well worth it in my book. Plus if you get the Pro version it comes with a full version of Silverfast Ai and a special oil mounting system for flaw free scans.
I am going to predominately use this for web scans ans such, I have access to a Imacon scanner and use it for big scans but for web display I want something at home I can scan with to do that.
I would love to see some of your samples. Please let us know when you post them. I shoot 6x7 as well, and from the preliminary data it seems that the scanner performs quite well on the larger neg sizes. Especially considering the price tag. It seems a lot of folks are looking for it to rival that of a dedicated 35mm film scanner. I would not expect that kind of performance, but if I can use it to print a high quality 13x19, then I am sold!
At some point I will make the leap to digital, but this seems like a perfect desktop scanner to get me through my film days at a reasonable price. I currently have an ancient scanner that barely gives good results for the web.
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I tried the V700 at a local photography shop. I scanned a 4x5 that I was working on and compared it to my scanner the Artixscan 1800f. My scanner scans at 1800 dpi optical while the V700 can scan up tpo 6400 dpi optical. It did not have a 1800 dpi setting, so I scanned at 2400 dpi for the comparison. We did a straight scan with no corrections. Out of the scanner, the image was somewhat dark. It did not seem to get into the shadows as well as the Artixscan. Sharpness was about equal between the two with the Epson showing a slight edge, but then again it was at a slightly higher dpi. If the sharpness had been leaps and bounds above what I am using now, I think I would have plopped down the money, for $700 it is well worth it in my book. Plus if you get the Pro version it comes with a full version of Silverfast Ai and a special oil mounting system for flaw free scans.
I am going to predominately use this for web scans ans such, I have access to a Imacon scanner and use it for big scans but for web display I want something at home I can scan with to do that.
I would love to see some of your samples. Please let us know when you post them. I shoot 6x7 as well, and from the preliminary data it seems that the scanner performs quite well on the larger neg sizes. Especially considering the price tag. It seems a lot of folks are looking for it to rival that of a dedicated 35mm film scanner. I would not expect that kind of performance, but if I can use it to print a high quality 13x19, then I am sold!
At some point I will make the leap to digital, but this seems like a perfect desktop scanner to get me through my film days at a reasonable price. I currently have an ancient scanner that barely gives good results for the web.
Michael