epson perfection v700 photo desktop scanner

The scanner works with a so-called Dual Lens System, meaning there are two lenses - the Super Resolution Lens for the scanning of film material in film holders and the High Resolution Lens for non-transparent images and film material with the film area guidance.

These high resolutions make only sense with negatives or slides - with images on paper or similar it's not useful at all. The maximum theoretical resolution is 6400 dpi for film material, which becomes scanned using corresponding film holders, and 4800dpi when scanning opaque images or film material, which is being placed without holders on the scanner's surface. The Epson Perfection V700Photo offers a scanning surface in the size of 20x30cm. Equipment, accessories and performance data of the film scanner The Epson Perfection V700 Photo has been replaced by its successor Epson Perfection V800 Photo in November 2014. We tested the device extensively in the summer of 2007 and wrote the test report on this page. In the following I will describe my experiences with the Epson Perfection V700 Photo - mainly about the scanning of negatives and positives. The test is thus only to show whether the Epson V700 as all-in-one solution produces useful data when digitizing film material, so one could perhaps avoid spending the purchase costs for a film scanner. However it cannot be expected that a flatbed scanner, which is designed to mainly scan reflected light material, will yield as good results when it comes to scanning film material as a pure film scanner, e.g. So there's nothing opposing a comparison. The price also is in the range of an affordable film scanner. With the Perfection V700 Photo, Epson offers a flatbed scanner, whose technical data at least on the paper come up to those of a film scanner. In our online shop there are film holders and accessories for the Epson V700 Photo still available.Ĭomparing the scans of a high-quality film scanner with those of a flatbed scanner with transparency unit, one can determine clear quality differences, which are similar to the difference between the results of a small digital compact camera and a big digital mirror reflex camera with the same resolution.

Epson perfection v700 photo desktop scanner