Prints I suggest getting the least expensive EPSON you can find. I still love my EPSONġ640 I bought as a refurbished unit for $50 five years ago. The Nikon and Minolta scanners is never really that easy or smooth Most fun to use because their software is the best. With the 4990 that it just may be better than a dedicated film scanner.ĮPSON makes no dedicated film scanners. Will be better spent on a dedicated 35 mm film scanner which I coverĪgain, the 4990 is so ridiculously good, and gave the best color I'veĮver gotten on a scan of a color negative, that as I get more familiar You only shoot ordinary 35 mm film, slides or prints your money probably Is hit-and-miss depending on what film you use. The great news is the threeĬolor negatives I scanned on the 4990 actually looked great better This is because there is no standardįor color rendition with negative film and I usually get awful colorsĮvery time I try to scan or print it. I hear Velvia is the toughest, thus if I like it on Velvia it oughtĭon't shoot color negatives. You shoot panoramic, medium or large format film then the 4990 mayīe the only scanner you ever need. Guess what? Even without color calibration the colorĪccuracy of the basic 4990 PHOTO is the best I've ever seen fromĪny scanner, and that's right out of the box without doing anything!
Got only the basic $400 PHOTO model since I already have the colorĬalibration software and targets that come included with the $599 Multi-PRO film scanner for which I spent $3,000 five years It's almost as good (maybe better than) my dedicated Minolta The resolution to one-tenth (one-hundredth of the total pixel count)ĮPSON 4990 underscores how scanners get better and better every year. Image I scanned from the 4990 (huge 1MB file). I've alwaysīought these online since if I hate them I can easily return them Of 2006 Epson announced a more expensive and better V700 / V750 It just makes great scans of anything, and makes it fast and easy. See an example of its color accuracy here.įind to fault the 4990.
See an example scan from a 6x12cm transparency here. It's 99% as good, and maybe better, than my $3,000 My film than running comparisons to my more expensive film scanners. So well that when I have time to use it I'd rather be scanning Please treat the rest of this review as an historic piece from 2005 since you can't get the 4990 new anymore, and be rest assured that the 4990 is a superb scanner regardless of age.ĮPSON 4990 is a dream to install and use and easily gives greatįilm scans, especially from hard-to-scan Fuji Velvia 50. The 4990 is an excellent scanner regardless of year, however if buying a scanner in 2008, I'd look at the current Epson V700, V750 and V500, which replace it.
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