The Epson Perfection V7. Pro is the big brother of Epsons Perfection V7. Photo. The device is being delivered with the professional scanning software Silver. Fast AI6 and the color management tool Monaco. EZcolor. Included is also Epsons own scanning software Epson. Scan. For the big brother also counts that flatbed scanners are only somewhat good for scanning film material, because the picture quality doesnt come even close to the quality of a real film scanner. The results from affordable flatbed scanners, which are for marketing reasons equipped with a cheap transparency unit, are mostly miserable. Comparing the scans of a high quality film scanner with those of a flatbed scanner with transparency unit, one can determine clear quality differences, which are similar to the difference between the results of a small digital compact camera and a big digital mirror reflex camera with the same resolution. We tested the Epson Perfection V7. Pro in the summer of 2. The Epson Perfection V7. Pro differs almost solely by the software equipment from its little brother. Therefore we want to talk here particularly about the differences resulting from it. We already published a detailed test report about the Epson Perfection V7. Photo on a separate web page. You can read everything about equipment, accessories and performance data of the scanner, its installation and start up as well as scanning of different picturefilm formats in the test report on the Epson Perfection V7. Photo. Herein the scanners do not differ. Take those old Super 8, 35mm, 110, or 126 KPK slides and negatives and convert them into digital photos for protect and safe keeping. Dont pay those photo. Digital Camera Home Photo Software Vuescan 8. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR The VueScan Solution By MIKE PASINI Editor The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletter. In the following we only talk about some points which are specific for the Epson V7. V7. 00. Since July 2. Epson delivers the Perfection V7. Pro not any more with Silver. Fast Ai Studio version 6 and Monaco targets but with the new Silver. Fast SE Plus version 8. The Epson Perfection V7. Pro has been replaced by its successor Epson Perfection V8. Pro in November 2. Included software. The Epson Perfection V7. Pro will be delivered with an extensive software package. It contains the manufacturers own Epson. Scan, Adobe Photoshop Elements 3. Laser. Soft Imaging Silver. Fast AI 6 as well as the color management Monaco. EZcolor, which unfortunately wasnt included with our test device. The handling of Epson. Scan is described in the test report about the Epson Perfection V7. InformationWeek. com News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peertopeer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. Scanning your old family photographs is simple and inexpensive, and once you have digital copies, you can easily restore, organize and share them. Photo. Adobes Photoshop Elements is a good program for the simple processing of pictures like cropping, color corrections and retouching. This is an amateur version with limited functions of the professional picture processing software Adobe Photoshop and became established as standard. Laser. Soft Imagings Silver. Fast is a professional scanning software, which is available for nearly all scanner models. It can improve the image quality substantially. You can read more about the difference of scans made with Silver. Fast and Epson. Scan in the next chapter. Picture quality. Everything that was said about this topic in the test report of the Epson Perfection V7. Photo applies also to the here tested V7. Pro. So we want to talk here only about a few specific points. Since the test of the V7. Epson. Scan, the topic is mainly about the differences resulting when using Silver. Fast. Resolution. The technical specs promise much, but the V7. That shows in the resolution test despite its High Pass Optics an optical system improved in comparison to the V7. Best Software For Scanning Slides With A Digital Camera' title='Best Software For Scanning Slides With A Digital Camera' />Digital photography reviews digital camera reviews, black and white fine art photography, photography equipment tripod heads, light stands, flash, macro photography. In computing, an image scanneroften abbreviated to just scanner, although the term is ambiguous out of context barcode scanner, CAT scanner etc. Having one of each is a very desirable choice. Flatbed scanners are the best and most versatile choice for photo prints and documents, and they dominate the market now. The basic idea is pretty simple, you need a diffused, homogeneous light source, a way to hold your film, and a digital camera focused on the film. V7. 50 does by far not reach the claimed 6. New Ware Games 2012. To be precise the resolution test resulted in identical values to the little brother. The Scan of the USAF Testcharts showed the horizontal lines of the element 5. According to this we get a resolution of only about 2. The sensor of the V7. High Pass Optics system of the scanner does not nearly reach the required quality required for capturing with the full resolution. Regarding this, the Epson V7. Zbrush 3D Models. There are however many favorable film scanners, which do not offer more or offer even less effective resolution. Density range. Regarding the density range of the Epson Perfection V7. Pro, which is indicated as 4. Where those still show detail in very dark picture portions, with the V7. More information and explanations to the density range can be found on our special page about density and density ranges of scanners. Here however Silver. Fast can help. The software of course cant increase the density range of the device, but it brings a substantially more homogeneous texture into the dark portions of the picture. I. e. where Epson. Scan only presents unclear picture information, Silver. Fast still produces amazingly much detail. In general, scans made with Silver. Fast using the standard adjustments look already more naturally coloured and better balanced in the tonal distribution. After little training, one can use the adjustment possibilities from Silver. Fast in order to get the optimum from the scanner target combination regarding colour, contrast and sharpness. Epson. Scan as well as almost all other manufacturer own software packs is losing here evidently. Silver. Fast clearly upvalues the scanner thats the big difference in comparison to the V7. Color calibration. Unfortunately Silver. Fast wasnt used as a possibility to calibrate the scanner the provided version does not support this function, but a tool named Monaco. EZcolor and a suitable calibration target, instead. This software was however not provided with our test device, so that unfortunately we cannot report on the functionality and results. Too bad, because naturally were very interested in how well an IT 8 calibration with an unknown tool would work in conjunction with the Silver. Fast software. I can only assume that the original Silver. Fast IT 8 calibration is better and has a more precise target, but also is the more expensive solution. Its a pity that for the Epson V7. Pro the IT 8 calibration of Silver. Fast is not even available for a surcharge. Dust and scratch correction. Regarding transparent material the hardware based dust and scratch removal Digital ICE achieves good results with the Epson Perfection V7. Pro and cleans the negative or the slide without causing general blurring to the picture. Regarding reflected light material, the effect of ICE depends on the surface of the picture, at best hardly visible with completely smooth surfaces and at worst the scan becomes completely useless, because the original cant be recognized anymore happens with structured surfaces, e. With reflected light material other devices yield clearly to better results, for example the unfortunately no longer available Canon Cano. Scan 9. 95. 0F. Result. One can say that the picture quality of the Epson Perfection V7. Pro can be clearly improved by using Silver. Fast. The device is more suitable for demanding purposes than the V7. Creative Design Interface Software User. Epson Perfection V7. Pro already adresses with of its type designation Pro and the possibility to scan medium format and large formats. Everyone, who digitizes own slides or negatives with this device, should consider the resolution problem well. One can get 7 megapixels out of a 3. This means through scanning one gives away valuable picture information. While 7 Megapixels still sound decent nowadays, it is foreseeable that in 1. Then the old scans will stay clearly behind the current quality and one will have to redo the scans eventually. So the Epson V7. 50 Pro reaches in practice just about 4. The effect shows in the way, that one scans with the highest resolution of 6. Megapixels, thus files of approximately 1.