Originally Posted by
Pere Casals
I use a V850, of course. IMHO the best choice for a not Pro.
Perhaps a pro may desire another device (or not), if one is scanning 8hours a day one may want something more expensive, but for the price the V800 is an atonishing machine.
See flickr... you will see true artists using it, some use a $3000 Universal Heliar lens, but a V700.
If one invests a lot of money one can get slightly better results with other machines but only in some circumstances, like velvia slides with deep shadows, but a true difference for that is a drum, or a Hassy X1.
For most shots results will depend much more on your post process skills than on scanner, this is including color shots.
If you have a V800/850 you have more than one can desire, really.
This is important for 35mm film, you need to obtain best from that little frame. For LF it is mostly irrelevant, as one has an obscene amount of image quality, anyway. In some cases you may want a 4m high print that can be seen at reading distance with no flaw. In that case you need a good scan, but again postprocess may be more important than hardware (IMHO).
Exception is Velvia/provia with very deep & interesting shadows... there you need a drum.
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