A question about scanners

[WhiteRaven22]

I just recently picked up an Epson Perfection V500 photo scanner to save on lab scanning costs. Epson is selling them for $150 plus free shipping on their website and it includes holders for scanning 35mm negatives, 35mm slides, and 120 negatives.

Here's the link.

I pulled out a 4.5x6 120 negative from a bit back to test it, taken on Kodak Ektar 100 on a cloudy day. Scan is at 1200dpi. No tone correction (tone curve set to "flat"). Digital ICE turned on (Digital ICE is a technology that scans the negative/transparency again in long wave infrared to detect dust on it, then removes the dust from the digital image). Here's the result:

12.8MB Uncompressed Bitmap Scanner Test (may take a minute to load)