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that first one is lovely.
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How much did you get it for?
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and now i'm away to buy gw690...
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I just bought a cheap Epson v500 on ebay, so I could mae some digital contact sheets/convenience.
I think it's pretty much alright for that purpose, and stuff you posted looks good.
Surely that Fuji, and a 6x9 negative can deliver more than this, but I doubt you'll get much better with the V500.any tips on decent/cheap or free scanning software and scanning techniques?
You could download a trial of VueScan and see if it's better than the Epson software for you.
Check if your software can do multi-pass scanning.
Scan at highest resolutions / basically crank settings up and see if it improves things.
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I just bought a cheap Epson v500 on ebay, so I could mae some digital contact sheets/convenience. I'm pretty impressed with it, for what it is. These are the first two images I've ever scanned (not very interesting photos, just grabbed one b+w and one colour to test it out), using the standard Epson software, both straight out the scanner. Click through to the big versions, althought these are compressed jpgs, the resolution is pretty acceptable for my needs.- both shot on gw690 and scanned at 2400dpi.
any tips on decent/cheap or free scanning software and scanning techniques?