Epson price vs performance intersect
Old 06-06-2011   #1
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Epson price vs performance intersect
Taking two boxes of early '60's slides home from visiting Dad. Looks like 2-400 slides...

Will be scanning them for him and for family "posterity".

Since nobody has seen these things in 50 years..and probably won't again.... I don't need a mega, super monster scanner to do this work. Will only be used for internet viewing..and if somebody wants to do mega precise prints..they can do themselves...

That said... What Epson should I buy? I'd prefer not being chained to the thing for the next 3 years scanning though

Thanks in advance ya'll for your recommendations...
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Old 06-06-2011   #2
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The Epson V700 holds twelve slides at a time from memory and does a decent job. I scanned a batch of slides (about 300) from a friend recently ... it was boring as all hell and took me a couple of evenings to complete.
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Old 06-06-2011   #3
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I, too, recommend the V700 though a V500 will do the trick for less money. The V700 will let you do more slides at once.
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One thing I meant to mention about the Epson if you go that way is stay away from 'digital ice' ... I tried using it and the slides took forever to scan and all the details came out very smeared. It's damned near useless!
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Old 06-07-2011   #5
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For simple work, I started with a V300 and it's fine for snap shots and proofing. I think it held only 6 35mm slides, though. I didn't find the V700 to do too much better, quality wise. The V300 was also smaller and faster to use.

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Old 06-07-2011   #6
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What Keith said - the V700 with DICE switch off (and you with compressed air / duster instead) will be fine. To speed things up, order one or two extra holders from Epson, they're cheap and speed up the process no-end as you can load one whilst the other is scanning.
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I have a v600 which has the same mounting stuff as the v700 (12 slides at a time) but slightly lower grade optics. Not that much difference between outputs afaik.

V600s can be had for verrry cheap.
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Old 06-07-2011   #8
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I've posted an example scan from my Epson V330 Photo scanner in this thread:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...d.php?t=106460
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