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

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Subject: [Leica] Epson V700 revisited
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat Oct 25 10:43:39 2008

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
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