Epson Perfection V600 Color Photo, Image, Film, Negative & Document Scanner

I bought this for our family for Christmas to digitize hundreds of rolls of film negatives mainly taken on our SLR (pre-digital days). There are many great memories we wanted to preserve: our wedding, our young children, vacations, etc. We debated sending them to a digitizing service, but we figured that would still be a lot of work for us in trying to organize all the photos in proper chronological order...obviously, it would be a lot more expensive too. Overall it has been a great experience and the scanner provides outstanding images that rival our modern digital cameras. The most important thing is to get an efficient workflow going to minimize the amount of time it takes for a large job like ours. We had a few rolls taken on our children's cheap cameras or disposable underwater cameras. The scans of these negatives were significantly lower quality than our SLR photos. So the quality of the photos really affects the results you will get. Digital ICE is really amazing at removing dust/dirt from the negatives. It is a huge time saver over having to edit each photo with GIMP/Photoshop to remove flaws. I saw no artifacts from this process. The software's Dust Removal option did not work well, so I would advise using Digital ICE and leave Dust Removal off. However, using the Digital ICE options more than doubles the scan time, but I find this well worth it. Before starting, do some experiments to find the optimal settings for scanning your negatives. For most of our photos we used: 2400 DPI, Unsharp mask set to Low, Digital ICE on, all other check-mark options off. When saving the photos to JPEG files we used a quality setting of 7 (equivalent to 93 in other image tools such as GIMP). We also bought a second negative tray to make things more efficient. We bought the following, which is identical to the one provided with the scanner from Epson: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WVGFP7H Here is our workflow: 1. Insert negatives into the holder. Initially, we followed the directions and put them face down. But we found quite a few rolls had significant curvature that caused the negatives to touch the bottom glass. This creates newton rings that are impossible or take a lot of work to remove via an image processing program like GIMP. We did a lot of research on this and ultimately decided to put the negatives face up in the holder. We do not see any difference in image quality when doing some careful testing. 2. Give a few puffs of air to both sides of the negatives to remove dust/dirt. We bought a Giottos AA1900 Rocket Blaster from Amazon, which works well. Then insert negatives on scanner glass and close. 3. Hit <preview> on Epson Scan. During this minute, remove the previous negatives that just came out of the scanner and file these away. 4. Hit <all> on the preview scan pane to select all images. To undo the fact we put the negatives in upside down: Hit <mirror> button, then <rotate> button twice. Then hit the Digitial ICE button and Unsharp mask to Low. It is unfortunate that the software does not remember these settings. 5. Double click on the first preview image and adjust the brightness/color as needed (using the 4th icon). Repeat this for each preview photo. We found that most of our negatives needed between -5 and -25 on the brightness. Some needed color tweaking, mainly adding some blue. 6. Hit the thumbnail button to go back to thumbnails. Then hit <Scan>. You need to think how you want to organize the photos if you have thousands of photos you are scanning. We decided on the filename: IMG_YYYY_Rollrr_nnn.jpg where YYYY is the year, rr is the roll number for that year, and nnn is photo on the roll. It is nice the software automatically increments to photo number. We had to edit some filenames later after we found some rolls out of order. 7. During the 20-25 minutes it takes to scan the negatives, prepare the next set of negatives in the second negative holder. This is a big time saver. 8. Now you can go away form the scanner/computer and do something else. Unfortunately, the software does not indicate with a sound when it is finished the scan. We wasted a lot of time when the prior scan was finished and we were away from the computer. So I wrote a little Python program that would look at the Scanning Progress window and play some music when it was no longer on the screen. This was a huge time saver, but unfortunately most users are not going to have the programming skills to be able to do this. So as soon as we hear the music, we return to the computer. This works great. 9. Remove the negatives that have been scanned and go back to step 2. After scanning a few rolls, I then go through each image to see if any have flaws. I found that about 10% need some touch up work with GIMP, mainly to remove dust that Digital ICE could not fix properly. But these were at most 2 or 3 spots per photo. About 5% of photos need some color correction or highlight/shadow optimization in GIMP; it makes sense to try to use the Epson Scan software to get this as good as possible on the previews before scanning to avoid this post-processing work as much as possible. Overall, this is a great scanner and well worth the money and time it takes to revive old memories.

I purchased this scanner primarily for its film and slide capabilities, and it has exceeded my expectations. Starting at the beginning. . .setup was effortless. I installed it on a name brand PC with a Pentium 4 processor, 1 gig of ram, running Windows XP with Service Pack 3. Installation and operation have been flawless with this OS and hardware configuration. Next point . . . speed. I have never been able to do high resolution scans at this speed; this machine is fast. I have another scanner (different brand)that is nearly brand new, but drastically slower than this little Epson. The V600 Perfection can do high dpi scans in a fraction of the time compared to my other scanner. With my processor and memory configuration the V600 has been able to do 4 instamatic slides at 6400 DPI in about 10-12 minutes. And there is definitely an improvement in output with 6400 as opposed to 3200 resolution. But . . .resolution alone does not tell the whole story either. The output from this scanner has a visual "presence" that must be seen to be fully appreciated. I have also scanned a lot of really old 120 (620) negatives (some in excess of 90 years old). The results have been nothing short of stunning. So much for the hardware. Now to the software . . .I have primarily used the Epson scanner software without doing any "enhancement" commands. On a few occasions I have done "color correction." "Unsharp mask" has been used once or twice and "backlight correction" has been used a time or two. When I have decided to do software correction the results have been good. The color correction command has been very accurate on 40 year old color slides. So much so, that I have not needed to do any other restoration. Finally, some folks have commented on Digital Ice. I have used it sparingly, mostly for creased and torn snapshots. In one particular case, a 70 year old snapshot was creased and torn---some might say "badly mangled." The ICE result was very good, though I decided to use Photoship to finish the restoration. However, the crease and tear correction done by ICE saved me a lot of time and effort in Photoshop Elements. Bottom line . . . I can't believe this scanner was so reasonably priced. Comparing output, software quality and ease of use, the Epson V600 is THE BEST scanner I have ever owned or used (and this is the 5th scanner I have owned over the years). The Epson V600 Perfection's ability to scan old negatives and slides is unbelievably good. The learning curve was relatively rapid---though it takes a few days and some practice scans to fully learn the capabilities of this fantastic machine and software. August 31, 2011: The Epson Perfection 600 works superbly with an i7 processor in the Windows 7 64 bit environment. Huge (high pixel) scans take very little time, and continue to be beautiful, both in color and black and white. After four months and several hundred negative and slide scans, I remain totally impressed with the quality of this machine.

Update April 22, 2018, and I lied before. This will instead be my final update on this scanner. I figured that I would throw in a some more technical information. A 35 mm color negative scanned at 2400 DPI (Yes, it uses DPI) at 24 bit depth will yield just over a 4 MB size JPG image. Scanned at the same 2400 DPI at a 48 bit depth will yield over a 40 MB size TIF file. The scanner does not support PNG image files. (Mistake! Some of my jpg files from scans are around 100 MB. And some of my TIF files are around 200 MB. I never went past 3200 dpi when scanning. And some of my files reflect the sizes above, and everything in between.) Scanning a typical 120 6x7 negative with the ICE technology turned on requires an averaged of 30 minutes to scan each negative. At least I did while using my old Win 7 computer. Naturally, the smaller size 35 mm and smaller negatives and slides took less time. And there is a big difference in the time it takes to scan an image between when the ICE technology is turned on, and when it is turned off. Turning the ICE technology off allows a scan to be completed in a fraction of the time needed to scan the same image with the ICE technology turned on. While the ICE Technology is not 100% effective, it seriously reduces the amount of post-processing. Use the software in Pro Mode for your best results. While the software allows for both automatic and manual color correction, you will find that you often have to do color corrections in post-production. On the occasional times when the automatic preview does not see the entire image, You can designate the image area manually. If you are using a Linux computer, your have to manually designate the image area 100% of the time. This scanner can scan up to 12,800 DPI at a 48 bit depth on color images, and 16 bit depth for grey scale images. (I don't even want to consider the file size at 12,800 DPI.) Ok. I think I am done with my thoughts on this scanner here. I think that this V600 is the best film and slide scanner for the money when scanning 120 film or smaller. If you are scanning prints, then this is also a very good print scanner. But there are many good print scanners out there. It's major benefit concerns scanning film and slides. ************************ Update April 15, 2018 I think that this will be my final update for this scanner. I have scanned thousands of my old images, including images from my parents, since I received this scanner. I had this thing running day and night for a long time. For the price, it is unbeatable. But if price were not an object, then I would have gone for the V850. Over the winter I have scanned film from 4x5 to 110, including 620, 126, 127, 35 slide and negative, 120/220 film (Various formats), and 4x5 positive and negative film. And there was also a bunch of prints. Some of the film that I scanned this past winter dated back over 100 years. This scanner scans images up to 12,800 DPI in 8 and 16 bit depth for Grey-scale, and 24 and 48 bit mode for color. A down side is that you are limited on the type of files that you can save. My favorite file format is PNG, and I could NOT save it in this format. The 120 film and 35 mm scanning anything was the easiest type of film to scan. I ordered in holders for 126, 127, and 110 film. These holders had been 3D printed by 3rd parties. There holders fit inside the 120 mm holder. the software will automatically select the film images. (On using 120 film, you must select the correct image format before scanning for the images to be automatically selected. And on scanning film smaller than 35 mm, you must select the image manually.) It's a good idea to order in an extra set of film holder. For 4x5 film, I simply lined it up on the scanning plate and laid it there to be scanned. However, I could have made a template from an old mounting board which would have worked better. The V600 will scan a little more than 75%, or maybe 80 % of a 4x5 film image. Had I used a template to line up the film, then I could have matched up the images and combined them using various post-processing software. (Note: A template has to leave a notch at one end of the scanning plate. The scanner has an eye there.) Point, you can cut our a template from an old mount board to scan any film size. But you will need to select the scanning area in the software manually. My chief complaint was that it is slow! This maybe because I was using an older computer with only 8 GB of memory. Also, the ICE technology really slows the scan down. And using ICE is a serious slow-down.... The ICE technology takes out a lot of the dust and defaults in the film. But there will still be places that need to be corrected. The ICE technology simply makes it easier. One correction from what I posted earlier. This scanner will work with Linux operating systems. On Linux, it will not make use of the ICE technology. And you also have to select every image manually. This scanner will only work on a Linux operating system when using Xsane scanning software. The Epson Linux print software has to also be installed. Obviously, you need to keep the scanning plate clean. I used soft nylon gloves, and kept a can of compressed air next to the scanner. I also had one of those film and camera equipment bulb blowers next to the scanner. This scanner really is the best scanner for the money.... But you will question that if you using Windows and do not have a lot of memory, and you are using the ICE technology on every image.... Just uploaded a flower that I photographed in the early 1970's with 35 mm film. (And I just deleted the image of the mother and baby.) Update February 14, 2018 The scanner does a reasonably good job. It has an excellent resolution and can reproduce detail from a weak slide or negative where that detail would have been lost in a photographic print from the negative. (I used to print thousands of film prints.) I've discovered that 4x5 film can also be scanned up to 80 or 90% on the 4 inch side, and full length on the 6 inch side. This is done by simply laying the film on the scanner bed and lining it up in the center. Among it's failings are that the color and contrast is seldom exact. Epson provides the tools to correct this in it's software, but those tools are difficult to use at best. It's better to scan your image and make the corrections with some other photographic software after it's been scanned. Just make sure that you are not clipping the parts of the image that you want. (It is easy to end up with an image where highlights or shadows were clipped from the image.) Lowering the contrast is a good way to reduce this problem. A serious fault is the weak slide/negative holders which come with the scanner. They are very flimsy plastic holders. You should order an extra set of these. If you do a lot of scans, then you will probably break 1 or 2 of these film holders very quickly. (I just ordered my 3rd 120 film holder in the past 6 months.) Additionally, I am adding a photo that I scanned with this scanner of a person with a crossbow in a competition. Below is my previous thoughts on this scanner. Update: Sept. 20, 2017 6x7 120 film. There is an issue not mentioned in the scanner manual where I could find it. The default size in the software for 120 film is 6x4.5. To correct this, you need to go into the Epson scanner configuration. Select film and then select 6x7 film size. I am uploading an scan from a 6x7 negative. Also, Software thumbnails tend to me darker then the final scan. Scans will not have the same depth as the original flat art. But they will look better than the originals in some cases. (Note: The baby in this photo that I scanned and uploaded here would be approaching 40 years old now. It was simply a 120 negative that I ran across.) ************************************** Original review below. I just got this in yesterday, and scanned roughly 300 slides and negatives. It does a good job of scanning old 35 mm slides and negatives. There is a single holder for the 35 mm slides and negatives. It scans up to 12 negatives or positive film images in strips at a time in the film holder. It scans up to four 35 mm slides at a time. Most of the results were better than the originals. I haven't gotten to the 120/220/620 film holder yet. Dust and fingerprints are an issue on the scanning plate. Use lint-free gloves or cloth when touching it. The software does not seem to work on a Linux system under Wine. That being the case, I did not connect it to my Linux computers. It is attached to a Windows 7-64 computer which already had the Epson printer software installed. The software for the scanner seemed to be just an ad-in to the other Epson printer software. I would have liked to see a 4x5 holder, but they saved that for the more expensive scanners. It's reported that some people are scanning 1/2 of a 4x5 image, and stitching it together. I haven't tried this yet. The film holders are cheap, and easy to replace.

I usually wait a few days to months to write a review for a product to give it a fair shake. However, I'm so impressed by this scanner that I felt compelled to share this with anyone's who's in the same boat as me. Long story short, I have stacks of old photos that I need to preserve for future generations. My old scanner/printer combo was horribly slow and the quality was seriously lacking (600dpi max). I researched scanners and decided on this one due to the positive reviews. This is PERFECT for anyone who doesn't want a hassle to do massive scans. I got it delivered, plugged it in, downloaded the latest drivers from epson and inserted a photo to scan. EASE OF USE: One button scan, it read my photo as color, saved the image into "my pictures" folder and I was done. It took 5-10 seconds total. Woah! So I try again, this time I put three 4x6 photos. Repeat process, I click the scan button on my PC, and it recognized all 3 photos separately, and saved all 3 into the default "my pictures." I go crazy and scan in 55 photos in a matter of 45 minutes. That's unheard of for me and my scanning fiascos in the past. I've owned 3 scanners in the past 10-15 years. I've always hated scanning due to the slow speed and random error messages etc. IMAGE QUALITY: The quality is great, it was not faded nor grainy. I'm sure if I look close enough, I could probably find some differences from the original to the scanned image. Honestly, to my naked eye, it looks good to me. Even my wife was impressed with the results and she was dubious with my past failures in scanning and the results. I'm positive I can knock out our family photos in a very short time without hassle now. Pros: - Fast - Easy (I don't want to fuss with settings if I can get a good scan in one try) - Good to great image quality at this price range Cons: - Not much, but it is huge. It took a big footprint on my desk, so read the product dimensions carefully. I'm sure there are more technical reviews out there. I'm just getting to the point in my life where I just want things to work and not have to think about it. I'm sure there are a ton of other features that I've not begun to explore with this printer. At this point, I don't care since I can preserve our family photos. This was easily one of the best couple of hundred dollars that I've spent in a long time. One technical hiccup: With only the driver download from Epson, the scan button on the scanner would randomly NOT start a scan. Once I downloaded the "Epson Event Manager" application and had it run in the background, the buttons on the scanner worked like a charm. Hope this helps someone else. Maybe one day, I'll read the manual and find out what else this baby can do. For now, I'll happily start scanning the rest of the photos and finish this important "honey do" item. My machine: Windows 7 - 64 bit self built machine. I can't speak for mac users. Enjoy scanning. You won't regret this purchase.

...it is operated by a a piece of worthless software call "EpsonScan". I also doubt the hardware can do what Epson advertises since I do not have a chance to test it. When I receive the scanner, I go to their web site and downloaded the latest software/driver package for Windows 10. Installation goes well; plugged the scanner into the front USB port, turn it on and fire up EpsonSCAN for first run. Up comes the error "Cannot communicate with the scanner. Make sure the scanner is on, correctly setup and connected with no errors indicated. For detailed information, see Solving Problems in the User's Guide." Ok, scanner is plugged in, no error light, what User's Guide? Oh, this pdf file from Epson site that looks like a left-over file from a 80s high school e-bulletin board. No solution there. Spend an hour trying, get as far as hitting the scan button before it stop with the same error. Give up for the night and call Epson tech support next morning. Get some foreign person with heavy accent who practically reads from a script, constantly puts me on hold for "checking", then she asks to call me back when she find the "solution". She never does. After some troubleshooting with my old Canon 9000F scanner, I find that this scanner is very sensitive to USB ports that runs through the shared PCIe bus via the south gate of your motherboard, in addition to the way Windows Image Acquisition service runs. (And in this days and ages, who would use a USB 2.0 connection for a high data stream scanner?) So I switch the scanner to the USB ports on the back of the PC, and the symptom almost disappears (it does come up a few times for no apparent reasons, sometimes in the middle of a scan. The power saving setting for the scanner was never turned on via Epson Settings.) Then I start testing the software settings by scanning my old film negatives (using the same 4 negatives) and old photos (same 4 photos). Resolution first: from 1200 to 12800 dpi just to see what the hardware could do. The file sizes are huge (no-compression TIFF format) but I have 15TB of RAID 10 storage space and these files are just test files which will be deleted. Turning on TIFF JPEG-compression scheme the file size are down to about 1/10th with no loss in quality to my eye), Interesting that the only TIFF compression Epson offers is Windows JPEG and not other schemes. With every other options turned off, the scans are made successfully. Then I begin turning on options and mixing combinations. I find that the "Dust Removal" function is extremely limited; any scan above 1200 dpi with the option turned on will stop the scan with the error "Scanner could not allocate the required memory. Quit other application and try again." The application gives the error when it *is* the only application running on my Windows 10 Enterprise rig with OS option to allocate more RAM to it turned on. This happens on a custom-built workstation with 128GB of RAM??? Support cannot even begin to give any information on how the application allocates its memory. It looks as if EpsonScan is a 32-bit application and Dust Removal process has the 32-bit limitation of 4GB. When it works, Dust Removal is very effective in combination with Unsharped Mask option, but with RAM allocation limitation it is near useless. I do not know why EpsonScan even offers the option under higher resolutions, e.g. they could just make it unavailable when higher resolution is chosen. Another evidence of poorly written software. As others point out, EpsonScan's Color Correction function does clip off both ends, so constant adjustments are needed. In addition, choices are not cached/remembered/made default from one scan session to the next, so time is wasted resetting all choices. And the break-point for me is the limitations on file size when scanning photos: EpsonScan should make the limitation known up-front by either graying out options when certain combinations are made and explains the reasons in its documentation, or as soon as certain choices are made. Epson does neither with their software or documentation. Instead, I waste time with all the settings then get the "image size is too large..." error when hitting the Scan button (the first few times.) and find no explanation anywhere. At least Epson is free with the scanner; Vuescan Pro produces flat, dull results and its color controls are ancient, inconvenient and lacking in modern photographic works. It also has no indication that it is working after hitting the "scan" button (You hit the start button and nothing happens for long minutes); Silverfast is costly, produces better colors (less work post-scan with Photoshop), higher resolutions and better dust removal, but the interface is very confusing. For me, the Epson scanner might be a great scanner but it is rendered useless by a badly designed piece of software. I am returning this scanner.

Perfection... That is the quality of images I'm getting! The resolution is unbelievable. "Create extraordinary enlargements from film - 6400 x 9600 dpi for enlargements up to 17" x 22". I love it! I import everything I scan into Photoshop CC 2014, and it works seamlessly. And, mentioning Photoshop - a big plus for those that would use more advanced software than the other bundled apps... Adobe Photoshop Elements is included in the price - free, which I have used and it is a great imaging program. I can't say anything as far as DIGITAL ICE, and the EPSON photo fix, but judging from earlier versions of the same software, I can only imagine how good they are now. I see them as being perfect for those that just want user friendly software for minor but unwanted corrections on film and prints. The scanner is incredibly fast and very quiet compared to those I've had in the past, and the scans are perfect. Bottom line... If you're looking for a great scanner producing unbelievable resolution and clarity at a great price, you can't go wrong with the Epson Perfection V600. And now something completely different... more than a few words of praise for Amazon. I haven't seen a user review page for the company itself, so please pardon me if there is one, and I will be happy to move my Amazon.com review to the appropriate place. I bought this scanner from Amazon (obviously), which is where I buy ALL of my purchases. I do that for many reasons, chief among them is that I trust Amazon completely. I know that if there is ever a problem, their great support team will do their best to make it right. They have exceeded all of my expectations in solving the problems I have had in the past. They are truly the best in customer care in every sense of the word! I have been a Prime member since day one, and just the 2nd day delivery is well worth the price. But when you throw in the millions of songs they have to listen to for FREE in their online streaming library and the amount of video - FREE as well... it's amazing! One of Amazon's biggest and best features is AMAZON SMILE. Any company that has made part of their profits available to whatever cause or charity you choose is... simply amazing. I don't know of any other company that does all of these things for it's customers and for the world's most needy charities. Nobody forced them to institute Amazon Smile... they do it because they truly put their money where their mouth is - Amazon really helps people - and every time you buy something through Amazon Smile - YOU are helping people as well... which blows my mind. And that goes hand in hand with their company mission statement which leads off by saying something like (and I'm paraphrasing here) - their main purpose is to be the most customer centric store on earth. And they have proven that to me. Many times over.

hello, since we were ready to do our color slides to pc process, we needed a simple, but elegant looking dedicated scanner. the epson v600 was rated very high by most non amazon sites and within amazon's reviews,..excellent. this is just what we needed, it looks great, doesn't take up a lot of space, and the set up within my home network was simple. with a few color ektachrome, kodachrome, fujicolor slides for a test, i ran off a few practice runs, i do not know how it does it, but the color differences in all of the test slides was difficult as the mix was very eclectic. colorful motorcycles, ocean scenes, wild painted cars, people, and one ocean sunset with clouds. this epson v600 scanned each one of the four in the tray and transferred it to my pc with ease. the color reproduction was very clear and concise. when the epson was finished scanning the set of four, it simply put them in the direct folder i had designated for the project. it did not take very long to do and since i have some spare time, i can scan when i want to do the job, leave it for awhile, then pick up where i left off. the slides will be scanned onto a spare 1tb external hard drive i purchased from amazon and will be hooked up to my network via usb. the drive is large enough to store tons of stuff, but small enough to put in a safe deposit box. epson made a great product, amazon delivers again.... update: i recently scanned some color slides from 1967, 1971, and 1973. they were taken with a great 35mm camera and fast lens. the images now on my computer look as if i was back in those days actually setting up the shots. crystal clear and a true an image as i have ever seen. just make sure you blow off any dust particles that may have found its way onto the slides. i cannot be more excited to go through all of the slides as i am converting them to my computer. epson quality is what i read all of the time, somewhere, well, here it is in the present. thanks for a great product and service. update two: i have been using the scanner for about a month, now. so far, over 200 slides. several things popped up that you should know: when the scanner is turned on, sometimes the epson scan screen comes on. make sure that the setting is for "full auto mode" if you want the machine to scan the 4 individual slides or film strips. otherwise, any other settings will scan the complete tray, slides and anything else you have on the full glass plate. you probably will have to use your photo program to look for random lint and other stuff that gets on the image. i cleaned each slide and somehow, the old slides still had dust flecks in random areas. i had a few beach shots and there were more flecks than usual. the photo program "repair tool" took care of the flecks. now the 40 year old slides look like i just took them yesterday. the color images usually did not take much to get them to near perfect color resolution. but, yrmv... update march 08, 2013: for all of the time obsessed fanatics: this epson v600 scanner does one ektachrome color positive slide from the 60's in 1 minute 35 secs. if you fill up the 4 slide holder and scan all of them on full auto mode, then it will take about 6 minutes and 33 secs. just enough time to read an article and listen to several songs. i am almost finished scanning with my endless color positive slides from the ages. i have been told to keep two versions of the color slides on an external hard drive: one in the original scan mode (dust flecks, sun intrusions, candle darkness, weird angles, etc) to keep the feeling of moment. but as a photographer, i also make a set with all of the dust and imperfections corrected out of the photos. i like these the best. it makes the memories and slides near perfect. it does not take up a lot of room on the external hard drive, so both versions will stay. it is not that bothersome to make two files/folders of each set of color slides. one tip: when the scanner is finished with the 4 slides, make sure the slides are right side up and left to right correct. there is nothing worse than a sign or a license plate in the background reading backwards... when you go through a slide show later.

A new iMac meant that my old Canon scanner would not continue to function. It was VERY old anyway and technology has moved on. I did a lot of research and distilled my needs down to what I really needed rather than what would be nice to have. I have a large number of 35mm transparencies from the 70s, 80s and 90s, a smaller quantity of medium format transparencies, large amounts of prints from the 80s and 90s and a fair number of old family photos dating back, in some cases, over a hundred years. My research found that the V600 would cope with this well. Yes, I could get a more feature loaded and more expensive scanner, but I figure that I just didn’t need that complexity - or cost. If you’re reading reviews here let me point you to Michael Logusz’s review. It’s perfect. In fact if you follow his instructions on use, you’ll have a better experience that using Epson’s own manual. Michael should be applauded for his work. The scanner works very well. It’s not very fast but then you should be governed by the phrase “ you can have it good, fast or cheap - pick any two”. The quality is excellent - certainly with transparencies. Medium format mounted slide are a pain. I find it easier to take the film out of the mount. The built in color correction feature is great. I haven’t tried the other ICE features yet but I will be guided by Michael’s review on this matter and suggest you should be too. I did have a slight problem with a faint red line appearing on scans. I emailed Epson support and got a reply with suggestions almost by return. Their suggestion worked and I didn’t need to take any further action. So, top marks for support. One slight issue is that during the scanning process, you need to keep your cursor over the Epson software box (not a good description, sorry) and move it slightly every now and then. If you don’t, nothing happens. So it’s not a case of starting the scan and then wandering off. You have to stay with it. The software comes on a CD and so if you don’t have an optical drive (as modern iMacs don’t) then you download the software from Epson’s web site. Not a problem, but Epson don’t really tell you what to download! So far, I find the scanner perfect for my needs and the quality is excellent. The software is not intuitive, but works well. I’d recommend the scanner, but do please read Michael’s review. UPDATE: I read through various reviews again, including the negative ones that said it doesn’t work with MacOS. It does work with Mac OS Mojave! However, there were suggestions that some of the bugs I mentioned in MYERS earlier review could be fixed by going to the Epson website and downloading a ‘Common Updater V1.0) which is shown under Utilities. I also found a thing called Epsom Software Updater. I installed both and everything works much better. No jiggling the mouse to make the program run! Also the Updater updated itself too. It’s a pity that Epson don’t give you any indication that you NEED these programs. I assume their enclosed software CD would have the latest versions, but (Epson take note) CD/DVD drives are disappearing these days, so you need to be pointed in the right direction to get the essential software. Rest assured the scanner works with Mac Mojave. It remains to be seen if will work with MacOS Catalina. The software is not great, but it works.

Purpose: I bought this scanner to digitise 1000s of 1970s, 80s pictures of our family. Most of the photos were already faded and lost colour. Progress: I have already completed scanning 2000+ photos and works like charm. Exactly what I expected. Feedback: 1. Works perfectly on my Mac (despite some reviews say it doesn't). I am using latests Mac OS version on MacBook Pro. Was not hard setting it up on my Mac. Just downloaded the latest version software "Epson Scan 2" from the website and it worked. 2. Picture Quality is much better than any other scanners I tried (& bought) before trying this one. Quality is close to what you can see in the picture, is what you will get it on your file. Other scanners, though they claim 48 bit colour, they gave colour banding issues. 3. Faded colours are auto corrected if the feature is enabled during scan. (I still had to do some on Photoshop) 4. Both Colour and Grayscale pictures worked perfect. 5. Best part is, when you scan multiple photos, the photos are cropped into separate files and colour restoration works for each photo separately. Overall: No complaints so far. Bit expensive though.

Tengo un monto de negativos de 35mm y 120mm que necesitaba digitalizar. Estuve buscando varios escaners y este me parecio bueno para el precio pero tenia mis dudas. La verdad es que no me ha decepcionado. La calidad de las imágenes es bastante buena con el software que viene por defecto. Me tomó varias pruebas para lograr los ajustes (en el software) necesarios para tener los mejores resultados pero ya se pagó solo.

Fantastic piece of kit. Simple to use and does a fantastic job

I was very unhappy with the scanning of my artworks, on which I put a lot of effort in terms of the detail, the technique and the colours, only to have my ordinary scanner-printer-copier downgrade them on all those things. So I investigated scanner for artworks and I came across this one. It definitely scans so much better than the 3-in-1 copier-scanners. In fact, the reproduction of detail is so good that now I have to be careful with little errors that did not appear on the previous scanner images! Besides, it has got several adjustments you can make on colour, definition, contrast and the like. This allows you to tweak the settings gradually until you get the ideal combination of them and then you save them for all subsequent scans. But....yes, only one disadvantage: The scanner is an old model and WiFi was not even available for it. So you have to connect it with the old USB cable and the computer often struggles to make the connection with the scanner, even with the cable. Sometimes I even have to restart the computer and the scanner in the hope that they will see each other. As the quality of scanning is more important than the convenience of wireless communications, for me, I am prepared to live with this small inconveniences.

Had to buy an adapter to make it work. This was not mentioned on the Amazon.com.au advert.