I don't sell scanners nor scanning services, my only agenda is separating true performance from hype. Others here have commercial interests, not me.
Specs are here, I viewed it a lot of times. http://www.hasselblad.com/scanners/flextight-x5
X5 will blow the V700 with dense film specially if you use Epson Scan software or bare Silverfast SE, using SE Plus (V750/850 included) version allows multiexposure and multisampling and then V700 improves a lot. Then in some cases the X5 will blow Epson, Creo etc just in the same way.
Yes, there is stray light in the optic system, a drum has none, al flatbeds have some, and X5 has much less stray light because Flextight system, thus aproaching to drums, even the manufacturer rates it al 4.9D it won't work well at such a density, but note the film with more density we normally have is Velvia/Provia at 3.8DMax
I don't think so, it may be a slight difference. No difference in color / grey tonality, at the end sRGB triangle is the limitation, Velvia has beautiful colors that are not in the sRGB or AdobeRGB space.
IMHO it's far better a new V850 and having a budget for drum service for the shots that any flatbed can deal with.
No, not at all. It depends on the job. Not at least for Velvia deep shadows. Look my post #124.
X5 and drums deliver higher microcontrast quality because lower stray light that cannot be later well corrected by soft. Some BW shots deserve a Drum/X5, for other it is irrelevant.
About comparing V750 vs high end solution I full agree with what Paul Bohman says here, and with his working method:
http://photo.net/film-and-processing-forum/00Zdeb
Look... $1000 in a new V850 and the rest in the pocket !!! If the scan result is not good just improve your skills, because it's not the scanner.
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