Personal experience - Any difference between Epson V700 vs V750?

[haring]

Hi!
Do you have any personal experience with both Epson V700 and V750? - Can/Could you see any difference in quality between the Epson V700 vs V750 scanners?
Thanks so much!

 

[haring]

I guess not too many people use these scanners nowadays.

 

[Pioneer]

This is a start.

http://www.dpug.org/forums/f6/epson-v700-750-a-2635/

or

Epson v700 vs. v750?

 

[Doug Fisher]

In terms of real world sharpness, dmax, etc., I have yet to see a well controlled scientific test that showed any appreciable difference. The extra software on the V750 was just shovel-ware to me. If you wanted Silverfast, buy the V700 and use the money saved to upgrade the Silverfast SE to Ai. You would still save money.

Doug

 

[omaha]

I recently bought a V750.

After some extensive experimenting, I've decided that Silverfast is not particularly useful to me. My high-level view of the process looks like this:



I don't see any evidence that Silverfast is capable of doing anything that can't be done (for me at least) easier and faster in Photoshop. Put another way, having already invested the considerable amount of time over the last 15 or so years becoming proficient in Photoshop, I don't see any evidence that investing time learning the intricacies of Silverfast has any pay-back. Additionally, using Silverfast feels like going back to 1998 software. The user interface is primitive by modern standards.

I'm still pleased I went with the V750, if for no other reason than it includes the wet mount holder, which I am planning on trying. But other than that, as near as I can tell the internals of the V700 and the V750 are the same.

My personal conclusion is that Silverfast is of no value to me, but wet mounting may be something worth doing, so the V750 is a reasonable choice.

 

[haring]

Thanks so much for all the responses!

 

[artobest]

as near as I can tell the internals of the V700 and the V750 are the same.

There are supposedly some differences in the internal coatings to reduce flare in the more expensive model.

From personal experience, I disagree with your assessment of Silverfast, I find it is much easier to set up to produce scans with a pleasing tonal distribution, without blocking or burning-out. Of course, I would never try and replicate Photoshop's advanced functionality in the cramped space of the Silverfast UI, but it has a certain logic (after a while) that can help you produce a scan that is pretty damn good from the get-go. The same can not be said, IMO, of Epson Scan.