Paul Stenquist wrote: > My Epson V500 scanner died today. I’ve been working it pretty hard > scanning old negs and prints for some magazine articles. I think I used > it for about four years. First it started posterizing the blacks on > negative scans, then it shutdown completely, returning only error > messages when I asked for preview scans. > > I was going to just go for the V600 but the reviews of the V850 were > too tempting to resist. I also ordered a betterscan.com film holder for > medium format, since I saw a lot of complaints about Epson's medium > format holder. Looking forward to scanning a lot of the 6x7 film I shot > in the last decade, plus some of the 6x6 I shot in the 70s and 80s.
Every review I've seen of the V850 has been excellent. I thought about the V850 when I asked recently about scanners but went for the V600, as I got a fantastic deal, which made the V850 300% more. What I hadn't thought about for my needs was the V850 scans 12 slides to the 4 I can do at a time with the V600. If, as I have, you have thousands to go through, that is some difference. I will look for a deal on one of these just before they discontinue it, as I have a feeling in a couple of years time, my V600 will be worn out. It really has been surprising for me to see how useful a good scanner is. The V850 is a good choice and certainly worth the extra cost. Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
