Epson Perfection V600 Home Photo & Document Scanner, B11B198033

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.

The Epson V600 photo has to be the most efficient and budget-friendly scanner out there. If you are a photographer who shoots on film and wants to have more control over your negatives then go for it! I have scanned 500’s of 35mm & 120 mm film negatives and I found no flaw as of yet. PRO TIP : You can get yourself a free Silverfast scan software by just entering your product ID number. Go to the EPSON website to get more details on it.