I have been scanning documents, photos and films with the Epson Perfection 4490 Photo flatbed scanner since 2006. Its driver and software (Epson Scan) still work on Windows 10.
Before this scanner, I tried to scan films with a handmade adapter for a digital camera. But then I scanned films only with the scanner. Scanning with the Epson 4490 is slow, especially at the highest resolution, but the result is quite good even today.
For scanning films, a film holder should be used. And there is an additional (upper) lamp in the lid. Unfortunately, the lamp of my scanner is not bright enough anymore.
On the preview images are almost invisible:
After scanning, there is a lot of noise in the image.
The result is completely useless.
I was looking for a new lamp, but it is difficult to find one. I thought about buying a similar used scanner, but I am not sure if its lamp will work well.
So I keep the scanner for normal non-film scanning, while I want to go back to digitizing films with a digital camera.
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