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Epicurus.com - Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner
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List Price: $249.99
Our Price: Too low to display
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Epson
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Epson
Color: silver
EAN: 0010343865372
Feature: Create crystal-clear photo enlargements and scan slides, negatives, and medium-format film
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Epson
Manufacturer: Epson
Model: B11B189011
Publisher: Epson
Special Features: nv:Scanner Type^Flatbed|Scanner Element^Epson MatrixCCD line sensor|Optical Resolution^6400 dpi|Hardware Resolution^6400 x 9600 dpi|Maximum Document Size^8.5" x 11.7"|Color Depth^48-bit|Gray Scale Depth^16-bit|Interface Connectivity^USB 2.0|Power Source^AC Adapter
Studio: Epson
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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Create crystal-clear photo enlargements and scan slides, negatives, and medium-format film
Easy Photo Fix quickly restores faded photos with one touch
Digital Ice technology removes dust particles and scratches from images
Energy-efficient LED light eliminates warm-up time while allowing faster scans
1-year limited manufacturer's warranty
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Epson Perfection V500 Photo features a built-in transparency unit for positive or negative film up to medium format. It scans 12 frames of 35mm filmstrip, four frames of mounted 35mm slides or 1 frame of 6x12cm medium format film at once, ideal for preserving old family images. Four easy access buttons are located on the front of the scanner to initiate scan to application, scan to PDF, scan to email and copy. They offer a quick and easy way to scan an image without the need to access settings on the computer. The scan to PDF function allows an image or multiple pages to be scanned and automatically saved to a specified PDF file, while the scan to email button allows documents or images to be copied and sent anywhere in the world at the touch of a button. Software provided with the Perfection V500 Photo includes the new Epson Scan 3.2 and Epson Creativity Suite. Epson Scan is designed to make scanning easy with its automatic mode and home mode. The needs of the advanced user are addressed with the professional mode. Epson Scan 3.2 offers high compression multi-page PDF scanning and allows ICC profiles to be embedded into the scanned files. Colour reproduction for negative scanning delivers superior image quality in critical or mixed lighting conditions. It also offers an advanced backlight correction to improve the overall visibility in the image. Digital ICE Technology ensures dust and scratches are completely removed from colour films, creating high-quality results.
Additional software includes Adobe PhotoShop Elements 4 (PC) and 3 (Mac) and ABBYY FineReader Sprint 6 Plus. An optional Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) is available for small offices that wish to use the Perfection V500 Photo for higher volumes of document scanning. Full software package - Epson Scan 3.2, Epson Creativity Suite, Digital ICE, Adobe Elements 4 (PC) and 3(Mac) and ABBYY FineReader Sprint 6 Plus Mac and PC compatible
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Scanner
Comment: Finally found a scanner that can convert 35mm slides to prints without an involved hassle. Altough a bit slow it does a good job of all types of scans, perfect for my home/office needs.
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Summary: Excellent quality for negative scans, but could take a while to scan a lot of negatives.
Comment:
I was eager to try out this scanner. Several years ago we bought a Canonscan 9950F to convert all our film into digital. At that time I converted 12,000 negatives into digital format. Since then I have used my Canonscan mainly as a flatbed scanner, although occasionally I need to convert a few negatives, for other people or when we use a disposable camera.
I set it up on a Dell Dimension 8100 on an external powered usb port. No problems with installation, I was up and running in under 10 minutes.
To compare I took a new set of negatives and scanned 6 shots in both the Canonscan and the Epson both at the same resolution and using the dust and scratch removal programs for both. Here are my comparisons
The Canonscan is faster, it took about 7 minutes to scan the 6 shots.
The Epson took a little longer, 9 minutes for 6 shots. The quality of the Epson was better, dust removal was more precise and the Epson software was better able to pick up where the edges of a very light photo were than the Canon. I wonder if the LED, (being one wavelength) helps with this clarity.
However, the Epson only has 2 slots for putting your negatives into on the plastic mask. Theoretically it can hold 12 images, but that is only if that is how your negatives are cut.
If your negatives have, say, 5 images each, you are only going to be able to do 10 a time unless you are willing to cut up the negatives.
The Canonscan mask has 5 slots, each for 6 negatives. In theory you could do 30, but I found that because of how the negatives were cut I could usually do 24 to 28.
Not an issue if you are just doing a few, but if you have a backlog of thousands it can make a real difference in how long the project would take. The scan time is not hugely different but the time involved in physically placing the negatives into the slots and setting up the scan would take longer with the Epson. The mask with the Epson is more difficult to work with than the Canon mask. The Canon has a hinge on one side, the Epson the whole front snaps out. It seems a bit flimsy, but so did the Canon and it lasted through the 12,000 scans.
I really like the LED instant on being the impatient person that I am. You do not have to wait for the scanner to warm up, great for a quicker scanning of a couple documents.
The Epson is much more intuitive. It took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to scan a negative (I, too, made the error of not putting the mask in the correct place). With the Canon I remember it taking me an hour to get the general idea and a couple hours to figure out exactly how to get it to do what I wanted.
I also could not get the front buttons to work, but you can do it all from the software. Being able to scan to a PDF is really nice.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Unable to Setup on PC with Vista. Photoshop Software not Vista-Supported.
Comment: Well, I've spent over 2 hours trying to install the scanner software on my PC running Vista Ultimate, and so far have not succeeded. The basic software to run the scanner won't start, so I am currently dead in the water.
Hopefully, I'll get this worked out and be able to update this review with scanner performance details.
Also, while the product description for this scanner says that it is designed and optimized for Windows Vista, the included version of Photoshop Elements software is version 4.0, released in 2005. The current version of Photoshop Elements is 6.0. Version 4.0 seems to open and may function somewhat in Vista, but it is not supported for Vista, and you do get a "known compatibility issues exist with this software" warning when you launch it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fascinating and a great value
Comment: This is a remarkable, fun and useful device.
Just a few years ago, you would have had to pay through the nose to get a slide and film scanner this good.
Now it is affordable, simple to use and a lot of fun to boot, You really learn quickly that that the slides and negatives you thought were focused sharp as a tack, weren't.
The Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 included with the package will not work with Vista and it is at least two versions behind. Still a good, useful package, though.
Setup could not be easier, as it generally is with Epson products. Setup instructions are on a single two-sided sheet. Make sure you follow each step, because there are a couple of "gotchas" for the impatient.
The unit ships with a carrier for 35mm film strips and 2x2 slides. You can insert two film strips (12 exposures) or four slides.
The Epson Scan application is reasonably well featured, but some may want to consider specialized third-party scanning applications.
You can scan at up to 1200dpi optical resolution.
Scanning speed is nothing to write home about. In fact, it is on the slow side.
The results on both slides and negatives are excellent. The dust removal feature works well and the backlight color correction less so.
For documents, the Abby Fine Reader works well for simple OCR. You can also scan directly to Adobe PDF or email.
Overall, this is a great value for the money. If you have a moderate qyantity of prints, slides and 35mm negatives you want to convert to digital, it's wonderful. For ordinary scanning of documents and light OCR, it is also excellent. You can, by the way, get an ADF (Automatic Docment Feeder) for the unit.
Jerry
Customer Rating:
Summary: Impressive, Big and Impressive, Very Impressive
Comment: I wanted a slide scanner because I've got a lot of slides my husband and I took four decades ago. We have no way to view them, other than to hold them up to a light, not very satisfactory. So, I was really looking forward to this.
When it came I was surprised at the size of it. This is a behemoth. I sort of pictured something much smaller, like those little photo scanners you see in the electronic section of Target. And you had to plug it into the wall, my Cannon scanner gets its power from the USB connection. Still, it was in my living room and I had those slides, so I lugged it upstairs, put in on my desk, put the CD into my computer, followed the simple directions and in no time I was good to go.
To my surprise this thing scans photos as well. I don't know why, but I thought it was only a slide and negative scanner. So, I put a photo in, pushed the button and the scanner went to town. Unlike my Cannon scanner and the HP scanner my husband has, this scanner does not work through a Photoshop plug in. That's good, because there are no onscreen clicks I have to do to scan a photo. I just put it in, close the lid, hit a button on the scanner and voila!
I'm going to stop here and say that this machine makes some weird and kind of loud noises when it works. At first I thought it was broken, but no, that's just the language it speaks.
I had the preferences set to 300 dpi and the machine did the job in about a tenth the time of our other two scanners. That was impressive. Next I loaded in four slides. To do that I had to put in the plastic slide tray and slide out the underside of the top of the scanner, so light can pass through the slides. The machine takes four slides at a time.
It takes a couple minutes for it to do the slides, but the output is fantastic. This beast is big, but it does the job and it does it very well, even if it groans its way through the work. I am very, very impressed.
Reviewed by Vesta Irene
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