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You can place as many photos as can fit on the glass document bed, then select and make image adjustments to each photo separately, and finally scan them as a group. The Perfection V500 rivals dedicated film scanners although occasionally, medium-format film buckled slightly in the plastic film holder. Out of the box, the color reproduction is so accurate that I didn’t bother to calibrate and profile the scanner. The quality of the film and photo scans I made was excellent. At these high settings, file sizes can be big and unnecessary, because quality scans can be obtained at lower resolutions. A 35mm slide scanned at 48 bits at 6,400 dpi, using color restoration and Digital ICE, took 5 minutes. To ensure image detail and smooth color gradients, the V500 has a maximum optical resolution of 6,400 dpi for film and 4,800 dpi for reflective copy at 48 bits. These features increase scan times but save time back in your imaging application. Two powerful features are especially impressive: Digital ICE to remove dust and scratches from film and Easy Photo Fix technology to remove dust and magically restore color to faded photographs.
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The three levels share some common features but the professional level provides the most options for image correction. The interface has three levels of sophistication for the beginner, intermediate, or professional. It can be used as a standalone desktop application or accessed through third-party imaging applications, such as Photoshop.
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The Epson scan driver is easy to use and quite good. The lid can also be removed or raised to accommodate scanning 3D objects.
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When raised, the lid locks in place, freeing your hands to arrange documents. The glass document bed measures 8.5×11.7″. The film holders are anchored for exact alignment with the lid’s built-in light source. With USB 2 connectivity, the V500 scans both reflective copy and film from 35mm through medium format. This is the first Epson scanner to use the faster LED (light-emitting diode) as its light source, eliminating the conventional warm-up time.
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The thumbnail detection is also much more effective especially for 35mm slides – although it doesn’t cope very well with the square frames of my family archive of 126 Kodachromes – for 6×6 it crops a bit too tightly.
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The bundled TWAIN software is also much improved replacing an exposure slider with a histogram with fully adjustable white-point, black-point and gamma sliders and greatly improving the control of all aspects of the scan. The combination of LED light sources and USB2 means it starts up instantly, and scans much faster. So how does it perform? Well it’s much, much faster.
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Looking at the spec I didn’t see a big enough difference between the V500 and the upcoming V600 to justify the extra money. The V700 or V750 would offer more future scanning options (up to 4×5″ or larger) and scan more frames at once, but both cost a bit too much more. I finally settled on the Epson Perfection V500 Photo, because it scans up to 6×12 out of the box, but without breaking the 200 quid barrier. This was getting frustrating, and I’ve been looking at replacing the 1650 for some time. The speed issue is also worse for medium format, scanning a negative twice the size of a 35mm frame obviously takes twice as long, but on top of that I have to scan it again, and then spend time stitching, so from starting the scan to editing the photo takes more like 5 times as long. The noise problem is most obvious on the left – it’s not so much the level of noise but that it forms stripes in the direction of scanning, which are much more distracting than purely random noise. Here’s an example of a frame from my Bronica S2A scanned with the 1650.