Epson perfection v500 photo scanner price comparisons

Center area bounded in red are shown as 100% crops. Bottom left shows test target arrangement.I was also curious to compare just how much detail can be resolved by the Coolscan relative to DSLR scanning so I used a Pentax K20D+Autobellows (14.6MP) and Nikon D800+Autobellows (36.3MP) and Coolscan on the same frame of Kodak Techpan shot at ISO25 and processed in Kodak Technidol and got the following results shown below. My use of these Epsons is not optimized as intended by the OP so I don't know if these could have been improved to equal that of the Coolscan. Incidentally, no post sharpening were applied to any of these. If you don't use good film, don't take care in taking the shot, don't use good equipment or the target itself doesn't have the detail then the difference may not be so noticeable. When using test targets and shooting under optimal conditions the differences in achievable detail - provided the detail has been captured on the frame of film, is very obvious and cannot be manufactured in post. The Epson were shot at various resolution settings and I also scanned with and without ICE.

Here are scans from an Epson V500, V7XX and Coolscan of the same frame of 35mm film (Fuji RVP - ISO50) shot using optimal setup with a 4 X 4 arrangement of test charts. Does anyone know of real tests that try for the best possible results when varying the parameters that are under user control to their optimal values? I did see one web page where the results seemed to be visually as good as a 4000 dpi scanner (possibly even a bit better), but the work was not described well enough to go beyond a visual impression.Д¬lick to expand.My experience is different then yours and I consider myself pretty competent with post tools. I'm going to take a wild uninformed guess that one might be able to get into the range of 3000 effective pixels per inch, or maybe a bit more. I haven't read any reviews or evaluations or discussions that address those optimal conditions. Ideally the sharpening would be done using a true deconvolution algorithm and the best point spread function for the deconvolution process, but even unsharp mask results would be of interest. However, what I would be interested in is what is the best one can do if the film holders are very carefully adjusted to the optimum height (possibly with aftermarket film holders) and if and appropriate level of sharpening is applied and if one scans at a setting 6400 pixels per inch. Generally speaking, most reviews say that these scanners are capable of about 2200 to 2400 effective pixels per inch. OK, let me first acknowledge that this is no a new topic, but let me explain why I think a new discussion is worthwhile.

Epson perfection v500 photo scanner price comparisons