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Rating:  - Great !!! Bought for scanning slides.
I have owned several scanners including two pro-sumer grade Epsons, a UMAX, and 3 Microteks (one pro-grade). Only one of my former scanners did a respectable job with slides and it cost around $1,000 about two years ago. This Epson does an equivalent if not better job than the high end Microtek I used that cost 5 times as much. Slide scanning with a flat-bed has never been so good as it is now with this Epson. Scan times seem just under one minute per slide at 2400 dpi. Set-up was quick. Very pleased.
Rating: - A great scanner
I am using the Epson V500 with Windows Vista and the results are excellent. The software installed without a problem. Refer to the users manual for details. Several hundred slides, Polaroid's and prints have been scanned and the results printed. This is a well-made machine, easy to set up (do refer to the user manual) and fun to use. The greater the resolution of your scan the longer it will take to complete your task. It is worth the time and effort.
Rating: - I like it - I like it
After getting a headache with an HP scanner that we bought, returned, we ended up shopping once again for a scanner that would handle the photos, slides and negatives that I have.
This is the scanner. Honest. It was easy to load, and I was working with the scanner within a half hour testing the basic full scan mode, which I love. I started reading other reviews after we bought this scanner and kept it in mind when I was going to start all of my projects.
I will be savings LOTS and LOTS of money by doing my own scanning with this Epson scanner. I was taking my negatives into a professional lab to have put on CD - now I can do that myself. I don't need to use any of the advanced features as I like to use Photoshop Elements to correct any flaws, coloring, scratches.
It honestly did not take that long to scan from the negatives and/or slides. I wish you could scan more than 4 slides at a time, but that is fine. I like how you can just "drop" in the slides into the holder and then just pick up from the sides - never having to touch the glass or the slide itself. The negative holder could have been done a little better, but it is very doable.
The scans themselves are really good and decent. When I fixed my first photo from a negative scan it was unbelievable. I had to fix the normal dust and scratch marks in Elements, but it didn't really take that long and I enjoy working with that program.
Am I happy customer - YES, very happy!!!!!! I am an amateur photographer who loves taking pictures - thousands every year and this scanner will become one of my favorite pieces of computer equipment to be using as I still have thousands of negatives and hundreds of slides that I want to scan in...I think I will be kept busy for a while.
The only other thing that I didn't like is that each time you want to do a new scan you have to go back into the scan program instead of it just waiting for the next scan - which I can live with. I like how you can change settings for each individual scan also if you would like.
A+++++ all the way for me on this scanner. HP could look at this scanner and improve on theirs - and I used to be a dedicated HP computer person.....
Rating: - Best scanner I've ever used
Works great with Windows VISTA. I've used many scanners, starting with one of the original hand scanners, the most recent being an excellent HP scanner. But the Epson Perfection V500 Photo is by far the best scanner I've ever used. It's fast, quiet, and "smart". It easily identifies separate photos put on the glass at the same time (something other scanners did not do). The built-in adjustment features, such as color correction (which I use in the HOME mode), are as good as manual adjustments in Photoshop. But the real strength comes with the built-in slide and negative scanning capabilities. The ICE feature fixes scratches and dust spots brilliantly. Yes, it slows up the scanning operation, but compare it to manually fixing the flaws in photo-editing software and you realize the time is well spent. Eighty-year-old slides come out looking as if they were taken yesterday. Similarly, the V500 does a wonderful job with negatives, both color and black-and-white. Any negatives? Well, I wish it had a larger photo bed big enough to handle over-size photo album pages, but I can make do with the size in exchange for its excellent features and quality of output.
Rating: - Great scanner for the home user
I just purchsed this scanner about two or three weeks ago for the purpose of scanning several hundred old photos for a 50th wedding anniversary. I had been using an outdated all in one device and it was painfully slow. I read several of the reviews on several of the scanners and decided on the Epson V500. I have not been disappointed. I think that if I were a professional that maybe the speed would be an issue but even for the task of scanning several hundred pictures I think it is going to work very well.
Pros- The scanner setup was quick and easy, the speed is great for home use, the picture quality is very good for my purposes, it absolutely rocks for scanning negatives, I love that I can decide not to get a preview scan if I don't want one, and I like just about everything about it.
Cons- As with other reviewers, I agree that the plastic holder for negatives and slides is very cheap feeling and I think if you were doing a lot of work with them they would break very quickly. It's a tad noisier than I would have expected but definately not load, and it's a little slower than I would have expected.
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