Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/25

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Subject: [Leica] Epson V700 revisited
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Sat Oct 25 16:03:50 2008
References: <E917527D-EC3C-4832-B087-2E313186F3A9@frozenlight.eu>

Nathan,

Just to add to my previous e-mail, I want make a try, did you test the  
same on color slides?.

I have an Epson 3170, I've tried Vuescan and not encountered  
advantages to the Epson software...

Saludos cordiales
Lluis

El 25/10/2008, a las 19:43, Nathan Wajsman escribi?:

> I just scanned my first roll of film since this spring, and it was  
> also the first time I used my V700 with my new iMac. So I had to  
> download the latest version of the Epson software, and it kicks ass!  
> The quality seems better than before, and it is much more user  
> friendly. The best bit: after placing the two film strips in the  
> film holder (i.e. 8 images, half of a roll of 120 shot with 6x4.5),  
> the preview screen automatically showed all 8 images in the correct  
> sequence. I could adjust the cropping and the exposure for each  
> image, and then let it rip while doing something else.
>
> The other change I made was to use the maximum optical resolution of  
> the scanner, 6400 ppi. Before, being constrained by my desktop PC  
> and its 2 GB of RAM, I used to scan at 3200 to keep the file size  
> down. But no more. Even though the images are mainly destined for  
> the web, the improvement is clearly visible when I work on the  
> images in Photoshop.
>
> I used to be a big fan of Vuescan, but this new Epson software means  
> that I will not need to install Vuescan on my iMac.
>
> Nathan
>
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Replies: Reply from octabod at gmail.com (Luis Miguel Castañeda Navas) ([Leica] Epson V700 revisited)
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