I used to be a big fan of Vuescan back when I shot 35mm film and scanned it
with a Nikon film scanner. I found Vuescan far superior to the Nikon Scan
software. But with the Epson 700, I just could not get Vuescan to work
properly, and on the other hand, the Epson software is fairly complete and easy
to use, as Chuck notes. I do not let it to do any sharpening and make sure that
the scan is rather dull looking (no clipped shadows or highlights), save it as
a 16 bit TIFF file and continue in Photoshop.
Cheers,
Nathan
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On Mar 27, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I have been using Epson Scan with my V700 simply because it's much
> easier to use than VueScan. I use its "professional mode" which seems
> to have all the controls I've needed so far. In particular, after doing
> a preview scan one is presented with a histogram and levels sliders.
> There are other controls as well but, off the top of my head, I can't
> recall them. Maybe that's because I haven't needed them much. In any
> case, I've been happy with the results and certainly haven't seen
> anything like a big highlight spike.
>
> Having said this I should also note that I've done very little film
> scanning with the V700 since I got it. I have yet to seriously embark
> on what is probably a multi-year project to scan many thousands of
> slides and negatives from the past including those from my father's
> photography in the 50s and 60s.
>
> My first scanner was an Acer Scanwit 2720s. The scanner is capable of
> doing a good job but the packaged software (Mirafoto) left a great deal
> to be desired. Consequently I used to use VueScan with it exclusively.
> When I got the V700 I tried using VueScan again but had great
> difficulty trying to set up VueScan to recognize the coordinates of all
> the images in the film holder. I needed to scan about 6 negatives
> quickly and, after futzing about with Vuescan for about 1/2 hour, I
> still hadn't figured out how to get it to recognize the locations of the
> images in the film holder. And that was just for the images in one of
> the four film strip columns. At that point I got frustrated and
> reverted to Epson Scan. I didn't like that at first until I discovered
> the "professional mode" which made a dramatic difference in the scans
> since it allowed easily setting levels in the histogram.
>
> When and if Epson Scan fails to deliver on the big project I'll be
> willing to go back and try to figure out how to make VueScan properly
> locate each image. Until then I'll stick with Epson Scan since it seems
> to do a decent job.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 3/26/2011 7:24 PM, Moose wrote:
>
>> Two points:
>>
>> 1. I think it is an issue with Epson Scan. Simple reasoning points that way:
>>
>> a. Tri-X has been around since 1954.
>> b. XTOL is also a Kodak product that's been around for decades.
>> c. If that combo did weird things like I see in these images, Kodak
>> would have changed the developer.
>> d. If that combo did weird things like I see in these images, everybody
>> would already know it.
>> e. Therefore, the problem isn't in the negatives.
>> f. You say you don't do any post processing work that could do it.
>> g. Therefore, it is happening in the scanning step.
>> h. Tests of that scanner don't show the big highlight spike.
>> i. Therefore, it is happening in the software.
>>
>> For reasons I won't bore you with, I have ended up with Canon scanners,
>> Epson photo printers and HP general printers. So
>> I have no experience with EpsonScan. The problem with the above logic is
>> that the B&W and color scans using EpsonScan in
>> Vincent Oliver's extensive review of the V700 on photo-i don't show any such
>> effect.
>> <http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson%20V700/page_11.htm>
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