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

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Subject: [Leica] Epson V700 revisited
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Sat Oct 25 23:49:45 2008
References: <E917527D-EC3C-4832-B087-2E313186F3A9@frozenlight.eu> <DA63E057-B8E3-437A-8325-556677E9B686@telefonica.net>

Same scanner and same experience here - I never use vuescan as a result 
- too tedious too
Phx


Lluis Ripoll wrote:

> 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
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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