Slide/Negative scanning: Is the MP500 cpable of scanning slides and negatives like some of the Epsons...I have hundreds of slides and B/W negatives( majored in photography) and would like that capability...any accessories available?
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I have this MP500 printer. It is not capable of scanning negatives. There's nothing in the manual covering negative scanning.
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Well, as of June 2008, there is a post in the CanoScan 8600 vs. 8800 discussion by CM-Monkey (I believe is his moniker) where he reports buying the V500 and the 8800 and his side by side comparison ends with Epson V500 the winner! So, where do we go now with this discussion? I'd rather not have to buy both scanners to do a side by side comparison myself.
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I am trying to confirm the Epson V500 or Epson V600 software/hardware capability to scan multiple photographs and save as separate files. Can you help?Glen
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Hello,yes you can scan medium format! Also, i would suggest downloading Vue Scan to scan your negatives rather than using Epson Scan (the program that comes with the scanner) because it makes a huge difference. The white balance is a little wonky, but that's easily fixed in photoshop. I feel like epson scan sort of made my medium format scans (and my scans in general) look pretty crappy, so i highly recommend using vue scan, especially if you are using medium format and want to retain as much of the quality as possible. Hope this was helpful!
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I am looking at the V500 compared to the 4490. Any suggestions? The reviews all rave about the V500 for slides and negatives, which I too plan to scan, but I also have many old photos.
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Absolutely NOT. The scanner's light source will only cover up to a 35mm negative or slide's image area. I was hoping to do 2-1/4 negatives and super slides but there's no possible way. It does 35mm's and flat art just great, though.
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Hi B. Woodcock, I am curious about your luck with scanning prints with ICE. The description on the Epson site says that ICE works with slides, negatives and film. Since I have done the majority of my transparancies (Yeah, without ICE so I should do them again), I am curious about the division in posts about this. I know that my old Perfection 2580 won't let me use certain focussing tools depending on the item scanned, but I was hoping that in the last several years print scanning would have improved too. Athena
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Although I haven't used this feature yet, the scanner comes with all the necessary hardware to scan film and slides. it's detailed in the onscreen manual and it says you can scan 35mm film negatives, 35mm slides, (film positives) and also 120 format negatives.
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I've been mostly caught up by the phrase "all-in-one with slide/neg scanning", that is exactly what I was looking for the many years! Thanks for the link - but there is very expensive slide-scanner talk mostly.Thanks again!
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I ended up with the MP620. It seems okay so far, but I really have not done much with it yet...just printed out a few regular pages. Haven't tried the scanner, copier , or photo printing yet. Keep on meaning to , but just haven't yet....I will try some of these things in the next few days and send another reply if that will help. One thing, it said "quick start" and it doesn't seem to be very quick, but there may be some setting I have to change for that and I've pretty much just been turning it on and clicking print....
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The product is not set up that way, the holder is designed for slides only, you could buy individual slide mounts and cut your negative to fit to try. Camera digital sensors do not record positive film in the way a scanner does (scanner software turns negative to positive}.
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I did not purchase this exact item because I think this is an updated version of the one I originally purchased. I returned it. It was extremely difficult to work with in scanning slides, very slow and the color resolution was awful. I eventually purchased a Canon CanoScan 8800F flatbed scanner from Amazon (probably five years ago) and love it! I scanned almost 15,000 slides and it is still going strong. Easy to work with, great for scanning slides, negatives, photos or documents. I have Windows XP and it is compatible. Remember, I purchased it years ago so I am sure there is an updated version of the one I have. I cannot say enough good about it. Not to mention customer service for Canon products is located in the U.S. I have contacted them twice and always received knowledgeable, understandable and quick resolution to my questions. I think I paid right at $200 for the Canon, but it would be worth it at twice the price. I would strongly encourage you to NOT purchase the Pacific Image unit.
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Photos are scanned one-by-one, you need to put them into a holder that is provided to keep them flat. Slide holder has room for 4 slides and the 35mm film holder holds the 6 negatives (like they come back from being developed. The long part is getting the negative into the holder and feeding it into the unit. Once you do that the scan part if fast -less than a second (scan, view the image, hit save, slide to the next negative, etc. I usually did a role or two and then transferred them to my PC.
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The scanner is capable of scanning them, the problem is you will need to make a special holder for the negatives. 126 slides are no problem.
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I think you press the on button and then scroll through options. There is a single negative holder as opposed to the strip holder -- perhaps one slide at a time would fit into that, or could simply be slid into the slot from above, scanned like a negative, then pulled out. A typical slide is the same size as the negative holder. I have been working on negatives so far and have not yet tried slides myself, but that is what I will try when I get around to it. There is an instruction booklet that comes with the scanner, pretty basic but check it out again. Hope this helps a bit.
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I have never used it, but there is a menu choice in professional mode for either black and white or color negatives. I have used it to digitize slides as jpeg files and it worked fine.
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I've only scanned slides but I would guess photos will do well also. File format is JPEG. The file size would be limited by the space available on the micro-SD card. I'll try some photos and respond again. I am very happy with the scanner for slides, however.