Some films that work well include Plus-X, Pan-F, and Fuji Acros. In general, scans of fine-grain high-contrast films have been the most successful for me The results from the V500 are heavily dependent on choice of film and expertise at post-processing.

The Epson is a tremendous value and comes very close to what the Nikons can do at a fraction of the price. Drivers for Mac OS X 10.6 or later will also usually work on Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra).Įpson sold this scanner in some countries as the GT-X770.I have used the Epson V500 for several years, but also have experience with both the Nikon Coolscan V and 8000 ED.

Note that Epson drivers for Windows Vista or later will usually work on Windows 10. You need to install the Epson driver to use this scanner on Linux. On Mac OS X, this is normally already installed by Software Update, so VueScan should just work. You need to install the Epson driver to use this scanner on Windows and macOS. However, silver-based black/white film doesn't work with infrared cleaning because the silver particles look the same in visible light and infrared light. Infrared cleaning works well with all types of color negative and color slide film, including Kodachrome.

It scans with visible light in the first pass and with infrared light in the second pass. This is similar to (and we think better than) the ICE and FARE algorithms.

VueScan's 'Filter | Infrared clean' option can be used to remove dust spots from film scans. This scanner has an infrared lamp for scanning film. VueScan is compatible with the Epson Perfection V500 on Windows, macOS and Linux.

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