The company sent us a pre-launch sample and we've been putting it through its paces. Like the Canon MP980, it's an LED light source, but it's twice the area of the Canon's light source for film. That might make you wonder if there isn't a sweet spot around $300 that can actually do the job now and then.Įpson has aimed its new $250 Perfection V600 scanner at the photographer who finds its V700 too rich for their blood but still wants a serious photo scanner.

We did get surprisingly good results from a $285 Canon MP980, though. A $100 HP G3010 did scan our test slide but it was no match for the $556 Epson V700. Our personal forays into this wilderness are worth pointing out. They'll grab a multifunction printer or an inexpensive flatbed with a transparency unit on top. Not that they'll buy a scanner that can handle film. So in the second round of the exchange, we try to explain the difference between a cheap flatbed scanner that can handle Jumbo prints and a real film scanner. If the tedium doesn't kill you, something else will.Īnd scanning software is so difficult to use, you'll beg to be put out of your misery.īut nobody listens.

Figure an hour for every roll of film on your high-end flatbed scanner or even a dedicated 35mm scanner and, well, you retired too late. Frankly, we don't recommend a scanner at all.

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