Epson V500 scanner   

Anyone have any experience with this scanner, especially experience scanning 
slides.

Tom

date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:39:55 -0700   author:   Tom from WI

Re: Epson V500 scanner   

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:39:55 -0700, "Tom from WI" 
wrote:

>Anyone have any experience with this scanner, especially experience scanning 
>slides.
>
>Tom 

Tom I have it and it has worked well.  The default will give you some low dpi on
slides -- 300 as I recall.  I adjusted it.   I can not see that ICE did much
good, but getting a can of dust remover is really helpful.

The have new Twain drivers, but you must install the CD before the new Twain
drives.

If you have several hundreds (i.e. thousands) of slides this is going to be
slow.  You can load 4 slides in the rack.  I have a neighbor who has the 
V700.  I believe that model holds 8 slides.  

I suggest you download and read the manuals on models you are seriously thinking
about.  
________

Gordon Potter
Atlanta, GA
USA
The numeral "2" cybers@gmail.com

date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:28:32 -0400   author:   Gordon

Re: Epson V500 scanner   

"Gordon"  wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:39:55 -0700, "Tom from WI" 
> 
> wrote:
>
>>Anyone have any experience with this scanner, especially experience 
>>scanning
>>slides.
>>
>>Tom
>
> Tom I have it and it has worked well.  The default will give you some low 
> dpi on
> slides -- 300 as I recall.  I adjusted it.   I can not see that ICE did 
> much
> good, but getting a can of dust remover is really helpful.
>
> The have new Twain drivers, but you must install the CD before the new 
> Twain
> drives.
>
> If you have several hundreds (i.e. thousands) of slides this is going to 
> be
> slow.  You can load 4 slides in the rack.  I have a neighbor who has the
> V700.  I believe that model holds 8 slides.
>
> I suggest you download and read the manuals on models you are seriously 
> thinking
> about.
> ________
>
> Gordon Potter
> Atlanta, GA
> USA
> The numeral "2" cybers@gmail.com
I was reading about the V700, it can do 12 slides at a time. I had an old HP 
S20 which did ONE slide at a time. I did scan about  a 1000 slides on it, 
but it barely converted to XP and was DOA with Vista. I did do a lot of 
"dust blowing" on the slides I have done and didn't have much of a dust 
problem. I guess I should go through the thousands of slides that I have and 
see how many I really think are worth scanning.

From what I read about the V500, it looked like you have to adjust each 
slide before the scanning starts. Is that true? Can't you just load the 
slides and let it scan them? I can always adjust them later.
Tom

date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:44:07 -0700   author:   Tom from WI