Great color, good shadow detail, sharpness - it really gives up precious little to units costing many times as much. We've scanned over 200 slides so far, and continue to be impressed, amazed, really at the quality. I'd been researching film scanners for several months and had decided against the $500 Nikon, which apparently has problems with Kodachrome slides, and was considering Epson's $450 V700 when I chanced on the announcements for this little beauty. Like many boomers, we've been wanting to digitize our 35mm slides, as well as a few B&W and color negatives. With such great hardware, why can't you find some better software to go with it?Ĥ1 of 42 people found the following review helpful. I would guess that they haven't tweaked the core source code for at least six years.Ĭome on, Epson. The app for Mac OS X is a poor reworking of a Mac OS 9 app which is a poor reworking of a pre-XP Windows app. You launch the bundled OCR app and it forces you to get the scan through the Epson software instead of interfacing with the scanner itself. If you want to use OCR (scanning to a text file) it's a sorry experience. Duh! Why didn't somebody in Quality Control notice this? Too bad you can't use it - the software's file size limit means you can't scan an 8x10 picture at full resolution. Although the TWAIN drivers are compatible with Apple's "Image Capture" application, they don't play well with other software and so you pretty much are forced to use the clunky interface provided by Epson. There are old and poorly ported versions of stuff that was probably written for Windows 98. The "install log", rather than saying what was installled (and where) just says "Application installed successfully". Installation from the included CD uses a non-standard installer (what's wrong with Apple's Installer?), requires multiple license agreements, and spews four or five small applications all over your Apps folder. Scans are very rapid through USB 2.0 interface. The scans are good too, and hardware installation was trivial, just power brick and USB cable. The hardware is quite nice, attractive and slim design with a side-opening high-capacity lid for bound material. Five stars for the hardware and one for the software averages to three stars. This one has the best scanner and the worst software of any of them.
I have owned three different scanners in the last eight years. 74 of 77 people found the following review helpful.
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