Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5487 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Epson
• Model: B11B178071CA
• Released on: 2007-10-18
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 14.55 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
If you demand professional results from your scanner, the new Epson Perfection V750 Pro is the solution for you. With fantastic quality and flexibility it supports all common film formats from 35mm film up to 4 x 5" transparencies. The DIGITAL ICE technologies automatically removes scratches and dust from old and damaged photos and film. The Perfection V750 Pro offers outstanding performance at 6400 x 9600 dpi, with an anti-reflection optical coating on the CCD glass to further improve the scan quality and a high reflection mirror for faster film scanning.

Customer Reviews

A superb scanner that does the job and then some
I've used Epson scanners for years and been very pleased with their performance. However, the V750 is not just good, it's outstanding. I wanted a scanner that would do a good job of scanning 35mm trannies as well as the usual stuff, but I couldn't justify the cost of a dedicated film scanner. None of the scanners I've had in the past have been any more than passable in this respect, but the V750 Pro does a remarkable job, producing crisp scans that rival those of all but the really high-end film scanners (it does everything else pretty damn well too). My only real gripe is the fact that the fluid mount is not included with the V750 Pro in the UK - it has to be obtained separately from Epson, and nowhere on their website are we told how to do this (at least, I haven't been able to find anything). However, if you contact Epson UK they will send you the mount free of charge - but I had to do some searching on the internet to find this out, eventually making this discovery via an online forum. It seems odd that Epson have omitted something that would surely make the V750 even more attractive, and even odder that they don't advise people how to obtain the mount. Never mind, it didn't put me off and Epson have assured me they have the mount on order for me. In spite of this blip this is a superb scanner and I thoroughly recommend it.

Value for money
I'm so glad I purchased this. I've thousands of slide, colour and B&W negatives, mostly 35mm, but some 120 and 5x4s. This scanner does all formats and produces beautiful scans.

What you need to know.

It comes bundled with Monaco EZColor to control colour, using ICC profiles. You calibrate your system using the targets (film and paper artwork.) You get to calibrate your scanner, monitor and printer. It's quick, easy and produces consistant colour.

It comes bundled with LaserSoft Silverfast Ai. Takes a little learning due to German English, but it's very good once you get used to it. The autopilot settings produce good results straight away. Remember to get the free upgrade from Silverfast, after you have registered the copy that comes with your scanner.

It does not come with the Fluid Mount Accessory (FMA). You have to send your invoice off to Epson (email a PDF) for them to send you the FMA. If you want the very best scans this unit can produce you need to use the FMA. Especially if you have a slides and negs that are dirty, scratched or grainy. The difference after using scanner fluid is amazing. (Look up Haynes Graphic Arts Ltd and ask about the V750 (FMA) starter kit.
The Epson scan software is not bad either, many will find this sufficient to get good scans without taxing the brain cells.

This unit is so good you will be able to get perfectly acceptable 16x20 prints from those old Ektachrome / Kodachrome slides with a little care.

You will be save countless hours in Photoshop by using Digital ICE to clean up your scans.

It has a IR sensor and can be used in multiple scan / pass to render a greater dynamic range (using Silverfast.)

You can pay £[...] for a 2nd hand Nikon film scanner, that will only do 35mm film. You can pay £[...] for a new Nikon scanner that does only 35 and 120 film. The scans you get from the V750 are of similiar quality, but when you get to 120 there is not £[...] worth of difference.

I reckon this is the only scanner you need to convert your film stock to digital. It might even convert you to digitised medium format film workflow. No digital camera will hold a candle to a medium format slide / neg that is scanned using this unit. Plus, no mucking about in the darkroom.

I'm impressed, you will be if your looking for a good scanner that is good at all it sets out to do.

Worth every penny
Big brother to the V700, the V750 Pro is Epson's top of the range scanner designed to compete for the affections of professional photographers and designers against dedicated film scanners while adding the versatility of a flatbed. In comparison to its sibling it boasts improved optics and includes a full version of the Silverfast AI scanning software and Monaco EZ Color calibration software. Also included in the price, but not in the box is the fluid mount accessory (FMA) which Epson will send out directly.

Opening the box it is immediately apparent that this is a heavy weight piece of kit. It is reassuringly big and solidly built. Sitting on my desk the brushed aluminium front panel looks smart and professional, which combined with the blue guiding LED running down the centre of the transparency unit gives an air of modern technology married to old school build quality. This is a long way from the flimsy feel you often get with consumer level scanners - the transparency unit is around an inch and a half thick, but lift the lid and it feels sturdy on its hinges - ready to withstand a lot of use.

Also included are film holders for batch scanning 35mm slides and film strips, 120 and 4x5 film along with a reflective attachment for scanning documents.

After installing the included software and downloading the newest updates I loaded up the 35mm holder with the maximum 12 slides and set it in place using the built in guides on the base of the unit. As a quick test I went straight into Epson scan and ran a preview scan. In a surprisingly short amount of time I had 12 thumbnail images on the screen and chose one to process a full scan, outputting to a TIFF file. The results were beyond my expectations for this little manual effort and with the added benefit of Digital ICE to remove dust specs this would make quickly archiving a back catalogue of old slides very easy.

Leaving it at that would however be rather a disservice to the capabilities this scanner has to offer. Loading up the Silverfast software it is immediately apparent you have a level of control available here to perfect and correct the image to a truly professional degree. Among the most impressive features of the software is the ability to multi-sample an image up to 16 times in order to capture the full dynamic range of the film and eliminate digital grain - this can take some time but provided the scanner is on a steady surface the extra tone is worth the effort. Then you have the Fluid Mounting Accessory to aid in keeping large and medium film formats flat on the scanner bed - a feature seen before only on drum scanners which allows further reductions in dust levels and grain on the film. All this combined with the sharp optics of the V750 puts you firmly in the realm of scanners at many times the cost of this little gem. I was particularly impressed by the level of shadow detail which with lesser scanners can tend to merge into black.

Since getting the V750 I've already set about my film stock and found dozens of images to scan, work on in photoshop and add to my digital portfolio ready to print. In contrast with other consumer level scanners I've had before I have enough confidence in the quality of the results that I would be comfortable using them to produce gallery prints. With the profiles set correctly I can achieve a consistent and accurate representation of the original film through every stage of the workflow. That in itself means that the scanner could pay for itself in a short time.



Overall I am incredibly impressed with the results I've achieved using this scanner. Having paid a fair bit of money in the past to have film scanned `professionally' on Imacons and the like, I can honestly say that the results I'm getting with the Epson are comparable, if not better than those, given the care and control of doing it myself. If you have the space and the money to get a drum scanner you won't even be considering this as an alternative, but if you don't I doubt you'll get significant improvements in your prints from any other consumer level product. This one is more than capable of converting your film stock into a digital workflow and the convenience that brings while maintaining the image quality you can still only get from large format film.