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…..
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