Epson v600 Review

Digital cameras are quickly making film obsolete, but millions of people still have negatives and slides. Unfortunately, these types of media degrade over time, so many people are now looking for ways to digitize their photo collections. If you have the time, you can hire someone to do it for you. But if you're a do-it-yourselfer or simply don't have the money to pay someone to scan all your old images, a slide and film scanner is the way to go. They're easy to use and today's products produce amazing results for relatively cheap prices.

If you're one of those people who have been thinking about getting a slide scanner, the Epson v600 is one of the top-rated flatbed scanners currently on the market. On Amazon, it has an impressive average rating of 4.5 out of 5-stars, with nearly 200 customer reviews. That's a pretty strong endorsement for this piece of equipment. Users like it for its quality (6400 x 9600 dpi resolution), flexibility to handle multiple formats (prints,slides, negatives and medium-format panoramic film up to 6 x 22 cm), and features such as one-touch color restoration and DIGITAL ICE retouching technology. It also offers Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for converting scanned documents into editable text. This is great for anyone archiving old documents and news articles as well as images.

The Epson Perfection v600 also gets high marks from PC Mag editors. They gave it 4 out of 5 stars saying, "The Epson Perfection V600 Photo offers high-quality scans for prints and both 35mm and medium-format film, plus an exceptionally easy-to-use scan utility."

This page has a more detailed Epson v6000 review that gives real-life samples of scanned slides, an example of what photos look like with the color restoration feature turned on, as well as comments on the pros and cons of this machine.