- #EPSON PERFECTION V500 SCANNER REVIEW FULL VERSION#
- #EPSON PERFECTION V500 SCANNER REVIEW PROFESSIONAL#
Starting from the simplest 200ppi A4 black and white scan, which took just eight seconds, it takes very little time to start scanning, thanks to its white LED light source. The Epson Perfection V600 Photo is a quick scanner.
#EPSON PERFECTION V500 SCANNER REVIEW PROFESSIONAL#
Finally, there’s Professional mode, which gives you access to all the available setting choices.Īlso bundled are Abbyy FineReader 9 Sprint, for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Digital ICE, which automatically removes dust marks from scanned originals. Home mode gives a little more control, while Office mode offers extra settings again, though still with an eye on productivity.
#EPSON PERFECTION V500 SCANNER REVIEW FULL VERSION#
The bundled software includes a full version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 (Mac, version 6) and Epson’s excellent Scan utility, which works in four different modes with increasing levels of control.įull Auto does what it says and using default settings, scans whatever’s on the flatbed. Two reversible templates are provided to lay on the flatbed, which between them enable negatives and slides, both 35mm and medium format, to be easily positioned for scanning. Under the Epson Perfection V600 Photo’s lid you can slide off the document mat to reveal a light source for the transparency scanner. In a device the size, it’s a shame the mains supply can’t be built into the body of the scanner. At the back, the only sockets are for USB connection and for the scanner’s external power supply. It’s spring counterbalanced to stay open at 45 degree and 90 degree angles, and has extending hinges, so you can scan from bound documents.Īt the front, four scanning buttons, set by default to tasks such as copy, scan to e-mail and scan to PDF, can be programmed to start other applications, too. The lid is deep, as it includes the backlighting for the transparency scanner.
This is a tall, deep scanner, all black but for a silver keyline around the edge of its lid. Coming in at under £200, it includes the photo restoration software, Digital ICE. Epson’s Perfection V600 Photo is aimed at the photo enthusiast, either keen amateur or semi-pro. Something that may change in the next few weeks.There are several classes of flatbed scanner, from cheap and cheerful top-of-an-all-in-one class to multi-thousand pound professional art capture devices. I like the V700 very much, though I haven't done many scans from prints with it. Of course, this opinion is worth exactly what you paid for it. This conclusion was also shared by a number of the reviews I read too.
So, the current crop of high-end flat-beds is as good as they are going to get, in all probability. And scanners can already scan a print at resolutions that exceed what any normal person would need. There is no profit to be made sinking a money into research to scan negatives "better" since the film is on the say out (supposedly). I did a bunch of reading too, and what I concluded is that there is not going to be much more money spent making scanners "better" (in the optical sense). Film only scanners are a different segment. That is, the flat-beds that also do negatives. My remarks are specifically for the 'pro-sumer' versions. I'll let you figure out if it's close or not. I've got the V700 - don't know how that compares to the V500. That's fine with me, as it seems like it was good then, I'm just wondering if I'm missing any updates that have followed it.Ĭan anyone weigh in on the V500 for black and white prints in particular, or offer an alternate recommendation for something that improves on it? I'd appreciate any thoughts. My only surprise was that it seems like this scanner has been out for a few years now. I'm not concerned with scanning negatives with this scanner, it would primarily be 8x10 black and white prints. It's gotten pretty cheap over the years ($135 shipped), and seems to have all of the features that I'd want. I read a bunch of reviews, and searched these forums, and keep coming up with the Epson Perfection V500. These I feel I can do myself, I just need to pick up a reasonable scanner.
I don't have the negatives for these, but even if I did, I'd like to scan the prints themselves as he did a lot wonderful interpretation in the darkroom. I've recently found a reasonable number of his black and white prints, though, that I'd also like to have digitized.
Overall, scancafe has been great, and outsourcing the job to them was the right choice for me, as there's no way I had the time to scan his negatives properly, and the job would never have gotten done. My father was an incredible photographer, and I've been gradually using the scancafe service to digitize his slides and negatives so that they can be more easily viewed by others in my family.
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