The installation poster is very clear. Install the software. Connect the scanner and turn it on. Although the scanner is very light and small, you really should not move it around once you've set it up. Scanners are delicate that way. The V has a lock on the back panel to protect the scanner from damage when it is being moved. The lock cleverly obscures the USB port when in the locked position.
Make sure you lock the scanner whenever you do move it. Software installation was pretty straightforward. On our system, Epson Scan wasn't the only thing installed.
And the Epson Scanner Monitor application was installed. A directory with more Epson software was installed, too, but that was support software with items like Event Manager, Common and Copy Utility directories. The V has a set of four buttons that can be defined by the Event Manager.
You define a button by setting the action that's launched when you press the button on the scanner. We've never been big fans of scanner buttons. They aren't as functional as those buttons on copy machines used to be.
Launching an application isn't nearly the same thing as completing the task. So you end up pressing the Scan button, then going to the computer to complete the scan operation anyway. This saves you time? In Photoshop that spawned an Epson Scan session that delivered the scanned image back to Photoshop. The V cover is finished in an attractive flat black with piano black highlights on the control panel. The base is just black plastic. It's one of the more attractive flatbed scanners we've seen, with a four-inch blue light bar right under the buttons that lets you know when it's working.
What application is launched when you press them is set by the Epson Event Manager software. The back panel has the gray scanner lock above the USB port and a round connection for the power adapter brick.
It's light enough to be, as Epson claims, wall mountable, but there are no screw holes in it. It didn't get warm to the touch during normal operation.
The transparency unit connects to the base at the back as well, but the cable is not removable. Just as well, really. When you open the cover which is also the transparency unit , it locks in the upright position at 45 and 90 degrees. To scan film, you must remove the white foam-backed background from the lid by simply grabbing the handle at the top end and sliding it up and away. It's held in place by four small tabs near the corners. Very simple. That reveals the transparency lamp, which is large enough for two six-frame strips of negatives.
They align to the glass platen with three pin locations on the left side of the glass marked A, B and C. Pop the A tab of the template onto the A pin on the scanner to scan filmstrips. While filmstrips are held in the frame, mounted slides are merely aligned to the glass by the frame.
You put the template into position first and then drop your slides into the four holes marked for them. The scan bed on the V is 8. That won't quite handle legal-size paper. But it's bigger than letter-size scanners. IT8 Target. We had no control over the crop of the V image in Epson Scan. After setting up a scanner, the first thing we normally do is scan our reflective and transparent color targets to profile the scanner.
But because Epson Scan doesn't know how to read the values on the IT8 targets, you'll have to settle for a comparison of the IT8 scan with a couple of others. We chose Professional Mode for our more exacting tests, although we did use Full Auto Mode extensively. Full Auto Mode is a great idea because people new to scanning could use some help.
If cameras can figure out how to set themselves for half a dozen different situations, why can't scanners? We tried document scanning by loading the scanner and pressing the front panel button to create PDFs. Our first scan was the IT8 slide. We found it surprising Epson Scan would not let us edit the output dimensions, so we picked a resolution that delivered a scan as close as possible to the MP and M1 IT8 scans.
By default, Epson Scan also insists on auto cropping the image very tightly. To change this, click Epson Scan's Configuration button to bring up a panel with four tabs. The Preview tab the first one has a Thumbnail Cropping Area slider with three settings: Small, medium, not labeled and Large.
Set it to Large to get the full frame. Thanks to reader John Mack for pointing this out to us! Our first image slide was the Yosemite shot we featured in the G review. Again, we couldn't match the settings, but we did specify bit scanning at dpi. We also enabled a few Adjustments. Unsharp Masking a checkbox with three selectable levels is essential for slide scanning.
But we also tried Color Restoration another checkbox because this is a very old slide. Epson Scan reported that it would take four minutes to perform the scan. And that for film scanning, it can not adjust skew an option buried in the Preferences. On this test, the V most resembled the V rather than the G Color balance was excellent, detail clear and the image pleasantly rendered. We did convert to 8-bit channels, resize to match the other samples and did an unsharp mask at the new size.
The Maserati. Beating the G isn't much of a test, but the MP which also uses an LED light source made a very nice scan of a Maserati shot on Kodachrome x full res version.
It's a high contrast image whose color is difficult to get right. The red of the car paint and the green of the grass make for a difficult combination. Again the V did very well. Color balance was very good, detail nicely captured. It's a bit bluer than the MP capture with less contrast but still credible.
A Rose. Our film shot of a rose needed a little flattening. So when we slipped the front corners under the small fingers of the holder, we also laid the plastic flattener on the rear edge of the film. When we closed the holder, it helped flatten the film as you can see in our illustration.
For this scan, we thought we'd pull out all the stops, scanning at the full dpi resolution. It's a black and white image, so we restricted the scan to bit grayscale.
Just as using bit channels in color gives you some room to play with tone and color, using a bit channel on a black and white gives you some room to play with tone. Scanning at bits and full resolution took a long time, however.
Epson Scan estimated 30 minutes for what turned out to be a MB file. This is one of those tasks that would have been faster on a fast USB port, no doubt. But even then, you can see from this one example why you should retire early. Click for the dpi 6. The image itself was a pleasure to work with. We made a large midtone shift to darken the petals, did a little dust removal hadn't cleaned the negative very well, apparently and indulged in some creative sharpening that delivered a gorgeous MB image.
Color Negatives. Despite the wider latitude of color negative film, the conversion to positive makes this a more difficult scanning task.
The orange mask necessary for making prints complicates things but each color negative emulsion requires a different curve to optimize the conversion. High-end software usually prompts the user for the particular emulsion to apply just such a curve. Epson Scan doesn't. And while the scans show the same resolution as slide scans, the color balance can be quite a bit off. Color negative scanning was the one disappointment we had using the V but we can't blame the V entirely.
This is one of those areas where the software's limitations also plays a role. In Pro Mode we could enable the color restoration feature, which helped punch up the saturation. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information.
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