I fully agree with that...
Only adding that a V850 (for deep dense shadows in the slides) should use multi-exposure feature that makes two passes at different exposures, thus extending captured dynamic range.
This is the job done by the EPSON with dense shadows.
Of course a drum is better for extreme shadows in slides, but the EPSON if good for many situations.
Steven, let me smile !!!!
You just discovered how great are slides !!!!
The problem is not the scanner itself, all the digital chain is pure crap compared to Velvia, Provia, Ektachrome, old kodachrome, or even compapred to a BW reversed process.
After the Roman Empire fall there was a cultural darkness until Renaissance... so this is not new.
The whole sRGB standard is flawed, also Adobe RGB is, and new Rec.2020 for displays is a little step to recover visual hedonistc pleasure but... if you ask a monitor to show the same than a Provia on a light table the monitor won't do it because it's a way inferior imaging system than your slide.
Slides are absolute beauty, but we have a problem. Today (we'll see in the future) that beauty cannot travel through IP networks, cannot be stored in RAM, and cannot be diplayed in commercial monitors.
The beauty you see in the light table is a personal treasure...
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