Epson Perfection V600 scanner
For over a month now I have been wondering, should I get a scanner? Should I spend all that money and potentially not enjoy this at all? Well ill just tell you the old way I was doing it first. After my first roll of film I realized it would be REALLY expensive to get them all scanned at the pro lab 10-15 dollars a roll. So I looked for cheap ways to scan film while keeping good quality for what I was doing. I took my Nikon V1 with 18mm lens propped it on a tripod, took a glass door from a cabinet and a bright led light under with photo paper on top. I would take a picture of each frame and crop it out, this was working great for black and white and medium format however, once I got to color film and especially 35mm format it all went down hill. The contrast was horrible, the colors I tried to fix my self were horrible it was all just not going to work. So I finally splurged and paid the 220 on amazon for the Epson V600 scanner. (http://www.amazon.com/Epson-B11B198011-Perfection-Photo-Scanner/dp/B002OEBMRU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405361179&sr=8-1&keywords=epson+v600)
I must say WOW this is the best 200 dollars I spent on something for film photography since I’ve started, it does medium format and 35mm plus regular scanning as well, its resolution for film scans can be set all the way to 12000 DPI I can not use that resolution as the scans come out in TIF format at a whopping 1Gig each!! Yes 1GIG!
Here is the Epson closed
Here is the Epson open with transparency unit exposed
Excuse my product shots I have no good way at the moment to do things like this especially a scanner…anyways! The resolution of this scanner is fantastic, it is considered a semi pro model under the Epson V700 which is the professional line but the main reason for not purchasing this is the price jumps and I mean JUMPS this model is only 200-220 dollars while the V700 sky rockets to around 600-700 depending on who you buy it from. Enough talk, lets get to the sample images I will be showing the old way that I was doing it and the new way as well as some new images not on this website which I am not doing the old way..
Contax T2 old way
Contax T2 same photo Epson V600 4800 DPI
Contax T2 old way
Contax T2 Epson V600 4800 DPI
I will now show you some holga shots that are color as well, when I did these color photos they were done in full auto mode with NO retouching WHAT SO EVER non at all!
Holga old way
Holga Epson V600 4800 DPI
Holga old way
Holga Epson V600 4800 DPI
The rest of these photos will be from the Mamiya 645 I do not have any color film with it yet but the sharpness if fantastic, but before I do that I would like to say one thing that is wrong with this scanner, it only happens on really light photos it can’t see really well but it happens enough to be annoying and obtrusive. The two photos above with the shirts if you notice the first one is a bigger frame, you can see more shirt to the right while the one scanned with Epson is WAY better looking it cut off some of the image because it did not see the shirt on the right side it thought there was nothing there so just cropped it out.
Mamiya 645 Old way
Mamiya 645 Epson v600 9600 DPI
As you can see these photos are FANTASTIC! WAY better quality out of this scanner so all in all I will be keeping it I love it, its amazing and I think for all you film shooters that don’t have the money to blow 600 on the V700 this is one of the best alternatives I know of, so here are some new photos for you all to enjoy from this great scanner!
Mamiya 645
Brandon Huff Photography 