Product Description
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
Customer Reviews:
Epson V500.......2007-12-29
This flatbed scanner is easy to use right out of the box. I was using it within 20 minutes. Excellent quality scans but speed is somewhat slow on some scans.
Wonderful Results!.......2007-12-27
A few reviews mentioned a weakness of this scanner was that it was slow. I however had absolutely zero issues with how long it took to scan in fact it is extremely fast on my machine (under 8 seconds for a 4X6 on 600 Res)even when using the digital ice technology and other enhancement options (under 15 seconds). The scanner does a beautiful job and everything I have scanned so far has been great.
Can also be used to scan directly into Photoshop CS2 which is a huge benefit when doing lots of older pictures that need restoration work. Film scans looked good, not great, but it does offer high quality film scans considering this is not an independent film scanner.
I personally liked the software that came with the Epson, very easy to use. Some people mentioned that settings did not remain in place when scanning multiple photos which is incorrect. If you set the scanner options the way you want, there is a check box that says reset settings after each scan. Uncheck that and your ready to go!
The Epson V500 can scan multiple images at once and separate them into their own files, another huge advantage when using CS2. I did not use the supplied copy of Adobe Elements and I strongly recomend not using it because it is very limited in what enhancements you can do to your photos.
All in all, this is a great scanner. Very powerful and fantastic results. Works wonderful in Vista and is extremely fast depending on your setup.
Epson V500 - working well for negatives.......2007-12-14
When I read the poor reviews here on Amazon, I was hesitant to purchase this scanner. I have had the scanner for 2 days now and I have done about 15 scans -- all of which have been medium format negative film (color and b/w). I am importing directly into Photoshop CS, scanning 6"x6" at 300 dpi.
So far, I have been happy w/the speed of the scans and scan quality, especially considering the price of the scanner. 6x6 at 300 dpi w/no ICE takes about 1 to 1.5 min to scan. If I turn on the ICE feature, it seems like the scans take about 2.5-3.5 min. My first attempt w/ICE came out poorly b/c I was scanning a black and white negative, I later found out that ICE does not work for black and white negs on the Epson site. I tried ICE again today with color negatives and it worked well -- no banding, mystery marks, etc.
Only complaint so far - as noted by another reviewer - is that the negative carriers are flimsy and feel very cheap.
From my experience, I give the V500 a thumbs up.
Great for B/W.......2007-12-11
I just got this scanner as an early Christmas present and I couldn't be happier. I'm running OS X on an intel Mac and had no trouble installing the drivers or using it with Photoshop. With black and white negatives, scanning has been a snap in Home Mode. Color negatives have been a bit more difficult. I've had to switch to Professional Mode and then do a bit of altering in Photoshop to get the colors to really pop. I haven't tried slide film or scanning photos/documents yet.
My only complaint is with the negative holders. They seem a bit too flimsy... and like they could break at any moment. Also, the Medium Format holder isn't nearly long enough. I can only scan two images at a time. Three would be better.
ATTENTION PHOTOSHOP USERS! TWAIN MALFUNCTION.......2007-12-08
I bought this scanner for a business trip, when I knew I would absolutely need to scan images, and couldn't bring my all-in-one Epson printer with me.
The set-up was really easy, but THEN...
I have a Mac Powerbook G 4. I usually scan directly into photoshop, using the twain import function. I tried to do the same with this scanner, and lo and behold... Photoshop would not recognize the scanner for some time, until it crashed entirely: not only could I not scan the images I needed to work on urgently, but I could not even open photoshop anymore. It crashed, everytime I tried to open it, while opening twain...
I called customer service as soon as I realized that photoshop wasn't recognizing the scanner. It was the beiginning of a 6 hours adventure on the phone with various customer services at Epson and Photoshop. Epson kept putting me on hold.... for 30 to 60 min. at a time, passing me on to various useless cutomer service representatives, to whom I had to repeat the same information over and over again, until I finally got to the "specialist" (the same one each time). It was when I was on the phone with him the first time that Photoshop crashed entirely. When it happened and I communicated that to him, the line miraculously broke off! I had to call again, put on hold again, passed through all the loops again, got that same specialist, gave my "case number" again, started menionning the photoshop problem and.... THE LINE CUT OFF AGAIN!!
This happened three times in total.
They finally said "the scanner is working, it is a problem with photoshop... call them"
The worst part of it is: the scanner comes with a cd of photoshop elements 3.0... I would think that since they send the photoshop cd along with the scanner, the two are compatible! I installed the photoshop elements hoping that I could at least use that during my stay out of town... same problem. When I called photoshop to try to understand what the problem was, they asked me to register the Photoshop Elements 3.0... I gave the serial number, and they refused to help me out because the product had already been registered... BY EPSON!!
Did I hear someone mention Kafka?
SOLUTION: if this problem happened to you, I finally found a semi-resolution on the internet, in five minutes (after my lost day on the phone): you have to disable twain from your Photoshop Applications folder:
Mac HD> Applications > Adobe Photoshop > Plug-ins > Import/Export > Twain
Just rename the Twain by adding a ~ infront of it (call it ~twain) and it disables it... you won't be able to import anything via phhotoshop, but at least your photoshop will be working again!
Apart from that, the scanner works fine.
Moral of the story: back from my business trip, I found my Epson all-in-one printer having died during my trip (an interesting coincidence). I bought an HP in replacement and will return the scanner as well. I am done with Epson forever.
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- Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner
- Excellent in just about every way
- Outstanding!!!!!!
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Product Features:
- 4,800 x 9,600 dpi resolution, 4.0 Dmax, 48-bit color, 16-bit grayscale
- Adapters for slides, film strips, medium format, and 4-by-5 film
- Epson Easy Photo Fix and Digital Ice technology
- Adobe Photoshop Elements, LaserSoft Imaging SilverFast SE 6
- USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces, PC and Mac compatible
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Product Description
Box includes Epson Perfection 4990 scanner, quickstart guide, power cord, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, scanner software, USB 2.0 Hi-speed cable and 4 Film holders. The Epson Perfection 4990 Photo is an ideal tool for the professional photographers and enthusiast. This high-performance scanning solution can handle all standard film and photo formats, restore torn or damaged originals and deliver stunning quality scans. Printing, enlarging or archiving is simple, and with its 4.0DMax optical density and the large 8 x 10" film adapter, users have the flexibility to to scan multiple film formats and in large volumes. The increidble 4800 x 9600dpi resolution retains the quality and color of your originals. Supports USB 1.1 and 2.0, FireWire Humidity - 10% to 80% without condensation (Operating) Dimensions(WxDxH) - 11.9 x 18.75 x 5.28 (304 x 476 x 134 mm) Weight - (6.7kg)
Customer Reviews:
Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner.......2007-12-07
This is my fourth scanner, and with it, I can do practically everything. with very hard work, I scanned my 14000 slides with an older scanner - with this one I could have done it more that twice as fast. It even scans the very small negatives of my wife's old Minolta quite well, not to mention the 500 4X6 negatives I scanned. Normal scanning is a snap. I can recommend this scanner to anybody who is willing to spend a bit extra for versatility and quality.
a disaster.......2007-10-17
After two weeks of trying to implement e-mail instructions from Epson, this scanner still refused to work. I returned it to seller and was informed it was phased out by Epson. Good! Now no one else will suffer the frustrations of trying to get this scanner to operate.
Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner.......2007-10-13
This might be more than you were planning to spend on a scanner, but you won't be sorry. Seems well made and produces outstanding scans. I have been using it for photos and some quite old 35mm slides and have been very pleased with the quality, speed and ease of use.
Excellent in just about every way.......2007-09-29
I've been looking for a way to scan slides and negatives and tried an Acer ScanWit a few years ago. But it was SCSI, could only scan four slides or one negative strip at a time and removing dust and scratches from the resulting images was really tedious. So I gave up pretty quickly and put the binders of negatives and slides back on the shelf.
Finally, last month I figured I'd try again. Read the reviews and settled on this scanner, mostly because a) I have a 5+ year old Epson 1640SU that I've been happy with; b) prefer Firewire over USB2 because there are no bandwidth-sharing issues (long story); 3) it claims to have Vista support.
Turns out the Vista support is kind of a an illusion: the software in the box is for XP, but I did manage to download a Vista TWAIN driver for this scanner from the Epson website. That may change in the near future, but it's a little misleading when you're expecting an out-of-the-box experience.
I never did get the SilverFast software to work on Vista and couldn't figure out from the SilverFast website if I could qualify for a free upgrade. So that leaves kind of a bad taste, but...
This scanner is wonderful, and even the Vista issues aren't grounds for removing even 1/2 a star. So far, I've scanned the 600+ slides from the 1980s (that went surprisingly fast even though it only does 8 at a time) and I'm on my first binder of negative pages and the counter is up to 915 images as I write this. I have Photoshop CS3, but I find it more convenient to scan using ACDSee, which is what I use to organize the 60GB of digital photos that these slides and negatives will be stored in. I'm scanning both 35mm slides and 35mm negatives at 3200DPI, which is equivalent to a 10mp digital camera. I am converting to low-compression JPEG (the resulting TIFFs and PNGs are absolutely huge and I didn't see much difference after converting to JPEG), and each image is about 2MB after conversion. Scans take a long time: with Digital ICE turned on, it takes about 6 minutes per slide or negative. It can scan 8 slides or 24 negatives at once, but my negatives are cut into strips of four images, so the actual rate is 16 negatives at a time, with an occasional straggler.
So I normally mount the slides/negatives in their holders and do a preview scan, which takes about 30 seconds. The Epson software nearly always frames the slides/negatives correctly. I then rotate the individual images in the preview window if necessary, check "color restoration" for slides that have faded (a great feature that does a fantastic job--I haven't had to use it on negatives, but definitely for many of my slides), then select all and check "DIGITAL ICE Technology" and "Medium unsharp mask". I've scanned many images with and without ICE and it makes a world of difference. Scans take twice as long with ICE enabled, but I don't really care since this is a long-term project and I'm not waiting for the results and it's so much faster than removing dust/scratches manually with Photoshop.
The only flaws in images I've seen are a lot of grain in some slides, which is a problem with the slide and not the scanner -- I rescanned with grain reduction turned on, which did an amazing job. A worse problem: some of my negatives are curled, and I'll occasionally get a moire rainbow pattern horizontally down the middle of the worst negatives -- usually those at the right end of the strip, the furthest from the supporting edge of the holder (I wish the holder clamped the negative between transparent panes, but it just kind of floats there). I've been able to compensate by rotating the negative 180 degrees and rescanning the worst cases, but most of the time it wasn't a great image to begin with and I didn't care and it wasn't worth the time to rescan it (I can fix it in Photoshop if I do care).
I've also scanned a few prints with outstanding results, especially in dark areas. The ICE for prints doesn't work as well as the ICE for slides (it appears to be a different technology) and I've had it mistake features in the print itself as a flaw. But I found it's safe to run it at the lowest setting as long as I inspect each scan and rescan without ICE if there's a problem.
I'm still using my old Epson 1640SU for documents (it has a sheet feeder) but I did scan a few pages with the 4990. At 300DPI or 600DPI, it's much faster than the 1640SU (actually, it's amazingly fast) and works well with Paperport. A feeder would be nice, but for the $200+ that would cost (if Epson even offered it), you could pick up a cheap scanner dedicated to office functions, or even an all-in-one printer.
So there you have it. I consider the complaints minor and see no reason that this scanner deserves anything less than five stars.
Outstanding!!!!!!.......2007-09-18
To summarize, I just have to say, this device scans perfectly! If your looking to get your money's worth and get excellent quality scans, then look no further. Trust me, you WON'T be disappointed!
Product Description
With the image quality of a dedicated film scanner, plus the flexibility of a flatbed scanner all in one affordable product, the Epson Perfection 4990 Photo delivers a total digital scanning solution.This powerful performer scans multiple slides simultaneously, as well as negatives and photos. And, with its built-in transparency unit, it accommodates film up to 8 x 10. Housed in a sleek outer case with an illuminated scan progress indicator, this scanner delivers intricate detail, due to an astounding 4800 x 9600 dpi resolution, 48-bit color depth, and 4.0 Dmax. And, it easily restores faded or damaged film and photos with Epson Easy Photo Fix and DIGITAL ICE Technology.
Product Description
The Epson Perfection 4990 Photo is the ideal scanner for the professional photographer and enthusiast. It handles all standard film and photo formats, restores torn or damaged originals and delivers stunning quality scans which are ready to print, enlarge or archive.The Epson Perfection 4990 Photo has a powerful 4800 x 9600dpi resolution and 4.0DMax optical density. This ensures you retain the quality and color of your originals, and enables you to produce amazingly clear, detailed enlargements.With the large 8 x 10" film adapter, you are provided with the flexibility to scan multiple film formats and in large volumes, saving you time and trouble. It also has a moving blue Light Emitting Diode (LED) that enables you to track the progress of your scan.
Product Description
The Epson Perfection 4990 Photo scanner boasts a high resolution of 4800 dpi, a maximum optical density of 4.0Dmax, the ability to scan a wide range of film formats (up to 8"x10" film scanning area) and sets a new standard for film and photo scanning.
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