Jeff S Posted February 3 Share #1 Posted February 3 Advertisement (gone after registration) 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 3 Posted February 3 Hi Jeff S, Take a look here Epson discontinues flatbed scanners. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
TomB_tx Posted February 3 Share #2 Posted February 3 That's a shame... hope mine holds up for a while. At my age I only need a while. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ash Posted February 4 Share #3 Posted February 4 No issue at all, go for this far better solution: https://www.filmomat.eu/autocarrier 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted February 4 Share #4 Posted February 4 52 minutes ago, Steve Ash said: No issue at all, go for this far better solution: https://www.filmomat.eu/autocarrier Not particularly useful for medium or large format scanning though. While the Epson V700 etc isn't great for scanning 35mm it does mean photographers don't need specialist bits of kit for every different film format they want to try. Also after the negs are loaded there is no touching and feeding and focusing to do, just use the software to get a digital contact sheet or do four or five high resolution scans. I imagine there will be a lot of medium and large format photographers buying up the last stocks because it's quite good with larger negs. If mine gives up the ghost I'll miss it a lot, even though I do all my high res scans with a camera nowadays. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocalHero1953 Posted February 4 Share #5 Posted February 4 I have a V500 which I haven't used for photos in years, though I used it to scan all my old family prints which had no negatives or which were in better condition than the negative. For negatives now I use a camera. I still use it for document/invoice/receipt scanning (I'm treasurer for a couple of small organisations), but it takes up a lot of space. I wonder if I could get away with one of those scanners the size of a rolling pin that you just feed a sheet through. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spydrxx Posted February 4 Share #6 Posted February 4 I gave up on mine years ago...now it sits in a cupboard where it has resided for the last 5 years...untouched. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlesphoto99 Posted February 4 Share #7 Posted February 4 Advertisement (gone after registration) I've got a V850 that mostly scans invoices these days, or the odd print. Much quicker and easier to scan with a digital camera (D850 in my case). Even with a 35mm format camera, one can get very good results with a 120 (square typically in my case) negative or slide, and with AI software easily up-res etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardC Posted February 4 Share #8 Posted February 4 The problem with flatbed negative scanners is that they were never very good. Specifications tell you that the best Epson scanner can do 6400 dpi, but the resolution you see in your file is nowhere near that. In other words, you can get sharper results with a 24 megapixel camera, a macro lens, and a light-source/neg-holder like the one linked above (other brands are available). Flatbeds are fairly decent for large format film, but that's too small a market for a company like Epson. I'm using an Agfa scanner from the mid-1990s for that, so it's not the type of equipment that they can re-sell every four or five years like a printer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einst_Stein Posted February 8 Share #9 Posted February 8 I am fine too let it RIP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhotoCruiser Posted February 8 Share #10 Posted February 8 I had several flatbed scanners, the first one probably back around 1990 but never used any of them for scanning my thousands of negatives and diapositives as results where too low quality. Now i have two printers - a Brother 2730DW B/W Laser and a Epson ET-7750 Photo InkJet and both have a scanner included and i use the Brother scanner frequently for business purposes. It is on my to-do list to scan some of my photos on film, but the lack of a with good quality scanner let me postpone it and i may do some tries with my SL2 and the 105mm macro i have. Chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpark114 Posted February 8 Share #11 Posted February 8 On 2/4/2025 at 1:06 AM, Steve Ash said: No issue at all, go for this far better solution: https://www.filmomat.eu/autocarrier That's pretty interesting !! Thanks for letting us know. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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