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Brand-New from EPSON:
The Perfection V600 Photo Scanner

Scanners – and especially film scanners – are devices that are often very expensive or not much good. With its new Perfection V600 Photo EPSON wants to show, that there is another way to go. This low-current flatbed scanner with a tranparency unit in the top cover enables very fast scanning without any warm-up time due to EPSON’s ReadyScan LED technology. The V600 is supposed to scan a 35mm negativ in about 39 seconds.

Flatbed and included film holders for the tranparency unit ensure, that the V600 scans almost any original. For being able to offer our customers a scanner software for this device in usual high quality, LaserSoft Imaging has naturally started as soon as possible to build a specific SilverFast version for the new EPSON scanner. The V600 Photo is therewith as well suited for photographers and professional workings as it is for an uncomplicated, but ambitious archiving of larger hobby collections.

• Flatbed scanner with transparency unit (max. 60mm x 220mm)
• Optical Resolution: 6.400 x 9.600 dpi
• Color depth: 48 Bit (internal & external)
• incl. film holders for slides, 35mm filmstrips and medium-format panoramic film

David Brooks, professional photographer and senior editor of Shutterbug Magazine, has tested a pre-release SilverFast Archive Suite on the V600:

“The entire system of making the 64-bit scans and HDR processing is much more efficient and quicker than I had imagined it could be, so it is something I can recommend, and will look forward to further testing with a release version of both applications.”

Further information on 64bit HDRi scanning and the handling of SilverFast iSRD® using the EPSON V600 you can get here …