Please pardon a somewhat vague question, but I'm looking for information and opinions on two scanners relative to each other.
I own a MicroTek Scanmaker 8700. It's old and slow, but has worked well for a long time. I still have a version of SilverFast that is both supported by WIN10 and drives that scanner. However, I've recently moved back into 4x5 and 5x7, and I'm not at all sure that I'm getting the most from my negatives on this scanner. Visual comparison under a magnifier compared to the digital image just doesn't seem to match up; I'm missing, to my eye, a lot of detail clearly visible in the negative. I wind up with a low contrast (but this is TMAX 400, so not entirely unusual) image that I need to tweak a fair amount in PS.
I'm looking ahead to where I will be using these two formats a lot more, and I'm wondering if someone can make any comparisons between that scanner and the newer Epson V800/850 machines.
I have no scanned image immediately at hand for demonstrating what I mean, but if someone has some guidance on general improvement that would also be welcomed.
Again, I apologize for the very vague nature of this question, but I'm not sure just what to ask.
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