I haven't tried that particular Epson scanner, Paul. But at that price, and the inevitable size that such a scanner has to be, it's both too big to have for the amount of use I have for it, and I don't believe it would produce sufficiently more resolution and consistency than the Nikon Coolscan V ED to be worth both its size and price. I'm sure it wouldn't outperform the Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED that I had for a time, and sold for the same reasons. That was the best film scanner I've ever used, modulo that same Hasselblad Imacon scanner (which I could rent time on at the local camera pro shop once upon a day.. the shop went out of business a few years ago). I had the Epson V700 Pro once upon a day too, and sold it because it just didn't net anything better than other scanners I had. My friend uses it quite happily still.
Of course, the Nikon scanner is long out of production and only available used now, where the 850 Pro is available new. By and large, I would not take the published resolution numbers of the flatbed scanners as being actually achievable. I measured resolution on the V700 and my ancient Epson 2450 and found the actual resolution on the V700 was only 2900 PPI and the 2450's 1800 ppi (supposed to achieve something like 2900 ppi by the specs IIRC). Measured resolution on the Nikon Coolscan V actually achieves 3950 ppi (spec: 4000 ppi). I never bought the Imacon scanner either because of its price… :) G > On Apr 11, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Epson 850 Pro offers extremely high resolution, “glass” film holders and > fine focus adjustment by means of the film holders. I’ve tried numerous > dedicated film scanners, including most of Nikon’s. The only one Ive used > that outperformed the 850 Pro was a Hasselblad Imacon scanner. But at about > 8k it’s too rich for my blood. The Epson 850 Pro isn’t exactly cheap. I think > it goes for about $1100. > > Paul > [… snip] -- 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.
