Epson perfection v500 photo scanner for paper and film

EPSON PERFECTION V500 PHOTO SCANNER FOR PAPER AND FILM SOFTWARE
EPSON PERFECTION V500 PHOTO SCANNER FOR PAPER AND FILM SERIES

The possibility of digitizing slides and negatives is fine for the occasional application. The Epson Perfection V500 Photo is an allround device with the primary goal of scanning papers directly at the desk, comfortably and fast. Good film scanners have a density value of 3.5 to over 4. The optical maximum density of 3.4 places the Epson V500 Photo in the low ranks when it comes to scanning slides and negatives, because the (from this figures estimated) density range of 2.8 to 3.0 is definitely not sufficient enough in order to digitize film material in good quality. The optical resolution of 6400dpi sounds great, but one can expect that in the best case effectively a quarter of it remains, so in the field of 35mm material this means that the resulting picture effectively has just 2-3 megapixels. A larger size slide up to 6x12 cm can also be scanned, but the Epson Perfection V500 Photo is clearly completely meant as office device, which brings papers fastly into the computer or into the mail outbox but just occasionally to scan one or another slide or negative. Thus it becomes clear that the scanning of slides and negatives is an additional function of the Perfection V700 Photo but not the actually intended purpose. That sounds comfortable, but is however little compared to other flatbed scanners with a transparency unit, for example the higher quality Perfection V700 Photo from the same company. Nevertheless 4 framed 35mm-slides or a 35mm-filmstrip with up to 6 pictures in the can be scanned in batch mode.

EPSON PERFECTION V500 PHOTO SCANNER FOR PAPER AND FILM SERIES

And who purchases the device with the optional single sheet feeder can automatically produce series of scans in batches.ДЇor slides and negatives a single sheet feeding brings certainly no advantage. Whoever has the device in the office can thus produce a quick scan by pushing a button, and according to Epson buttons at the front offer even comfort functions like automatic creation of a PDF, automatic scanning with direct sending by mail, as well as a copy button with direct printout at the printer. According to Epson this positively affects the energy consumption and starting time, probably however not the scan quality. The Epson ReadyScan LED technology is characterised by the usage of white LEDs. I prefer this method to scanning the whole strip and cropping individual frames since not every frame is worth keeping and I can have serially numbered keepers without having to rename the files.The Epson V500 Photo was replaced by its successor V550 Photo in November 2013. I tried using VueScan, but I could not get the dizzying number of options to work for me within a reasonable period of time. Delete any unwanted and then select All before scanning. Then duplicate the frame, move it and repeat. After the preview, a marquee frame of that size appears next to the images. I set and locked the image size to 28x28mm. This helps to keep the film (convex side down) from popping up over the ledge of the cardboard. I attached a strip of heavy paper as long as four frames to the right edge with just enough overlap to cover the sprocket edges. I made a cardboard strip 3.5' wide and 12' long and attached it with masking tape to the left edge of the bed.

EPSON PERFECTION V500 PHOTO SCANNER FOR PAPER AND FILM SOFTWARE

I am using a V500 photo with the Epson software (updated to 3.74A) in 'professional' mode. These are 30+ year old photos that initially were not of super high quality, so I am not worried about perfectly exact framing or film curl. As Jack Fisher noted, one needs to delineate each frame manually. Just found some old 126 film strips and this was helpful.

Epson perfection v500 photo scanner for paper and film