20 Best Scanner For Old Photos (2023 Updated)

I replaced an ancient HP flatbed photo scanner with the Epson Perfection V600 photo scanner, primarily for genealogy research and photo copying. This scanner is also excellent, better is some ways and worse in one or two, and overall I am quite pleased with it.

It has a couple of quirks that I can live with, especially as the price is not ruinous for an amateur like me. I love that it can scan color and b&w transparencies and slides, up to medium-format film, and that the process is pretty easy.

(I have found ways to scan larger negatives as long as I am willing to crop the sides significantly. ) The included pdf user’s manual gives surprisingly good instructions. I also like that included software does a decent imitation of Adobe PhotoShop Elements – it’s not quite as capable, but generally it’s good enough for my purposes.

I just wish it had a spot remover in addition to general de-noise, and the scratch remover seems to be an automated whole-image function rather than something that lets me select a specific line or area.

Scratch remover also isn’t available on all my scans, despite using identical scan settings, for unknown reasons probably having to do with image size. De-noise works really well for some images and blurs others a little too much – mostly it works well.

Color transparency scans are excellent in detail and color accuracy. Color print scans generally are corrected quite well with one-touch color correction to fix color fading/shift on old prints. B&w transparency scans have good detail but do not have the deep blacks and bright contrasts of original prints from these negatives – the images look fine until you compare them to the originals, so they’re not bad, just lacking punch.

I have to use the software to darken the image significantly to get strong blacks and then increase the contrast by roughly the same amount to restore the whites. Also, the default b&w negative scan setting includes compensation for backlighting, which lightens the image even more, so I turn that off.

I started out using the automated scan function, but it does not scan the top and side 1/4″ of the image, so you can’t line up the photo along the edge of the glass. It also gets confused by photo mounting/framing or other attached components.

Switching to manual Home scanning mode fixed these problems – the user defines the scan area, which CAN go to the edge of the glass. The default scan setting, at least for Home, is for multiple Thumbnail images instead of Normal.

I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out why my photos were being chopped up into multiple images until I read more of the (long) manual and realized I simply needed to click the Normal tab to define a single image.

One quirk for which I have not found a solution is that old sepia/browntone photos often come out with browns that are too dense and sometimes with red and gold tones (disconcerting around eyes/faces), especially when some of the editing corrections are used.

These images look very good if scanned in grayscale, but sometimes I want to keep the brown/beige tones for historical feel. As brownish photos must be scanned in color mode, sometimes discolorations also throw image appearance off, in many of my cases giving a pinkish cast to some areas.

Overall this is a very good scanner. Set-up was easy, and instructions are good. It needs almost no warm-up and can be turned off when not in use, and with LED lighting energy consumption is low. Scans are much faster than with my old HP – fast enough for me, although I’m used to slow scanners.

My attitude is that photo scans need a little more time to pull out the details, so I don’t expect the super speed of an office-grade copier. I recommend this scanner for purposes like mine (don’t know how it would work for a professional photographer, even though there is a Professional scan mode), and I would buy it again.

I’m giving it 4 stars overall for the brown/sepia quirk and the lack of contrast in b&w negative scans, even though I’m giving it 5 stars in the areas of overall quality, value, and ease of use.

I’m using this scanner specifically for medium format 120 film. So far, it’s been okay. I have had mixed results so far from a sharpness perspective, trying a couple different ways to try to get the negative sharp on the scanner.

I have been going through a lot of different online threads and groups regarding this scanner and the jury is still out for me. The included plastic negative holders don’t seem to keep the film flat, especially when come a bit curled up from the lab after development.

I’ve read people using all sorts of techniques to get sharp images but part of me just doesn’t want to spend more time and money into trying other accessories. I just want it to work consistently. Maybe it’s that my images aren’t 100% in focus.

Just from my anecdotal searching, it seems the majority of opinions I’ve come across state that their images aren’t the sharpest coming out of this scanner. However, some people love their results. It’s really hard to say for me at this point.

I think from a functional perspective it works great – it connected easily to my computer. Epson Scan 2 scans very quickly. For the cost, I am not sure if I can complain too much about it. I also looked into dslr/mirrorless scanning but the cost of that is exponentially higher than this.

I did a very basic test with a homemade contraption that pushed light into a negative, and shot the negative with a mirrorless camera. It seemed that it was a bit sharper – but is it worth the hundreds to thousands more of expenses having to buy another camera (I don’t have a high resolution one that’s recommended), a whole setup, etc.

? I am not sure yet. My personal recommendation is this – seek out various methods for scanning before just jumping into this scanner like I did.

I bought the Epson Perfection V850 in 2014 almost exclusively for scanning medium format negatives, but also as a scanner for general use. Overall, it has performed very well. I use it with the supplied Epson software for general use, and find that entirely adequate, but limitations with the bundled SilverFast software led me to use VueScan for negative scanning and the combination of both works well.

The quality of reproduction is good, not up to drum scan standard, but completely satisfactory for most uses. I have not tried the wet scan method that is likely to enhance the scanning performance of the V850.

I do not as a rule use any of the noise and dirt reduction systems available with this scanner’s supplied software as I find they are too broad in effect, preferring to scan as clean a negative as possible with minimal processing and do spot repair of specks, scratches and dust with Photoshop.

The equipment is reliable as shown by several years of use, constructed to good consumer standards. Like some others have noted, I do find the negative holders for 120 film to be poorly designed with some difficultly loading and aligning 120 strips, although once properly seated the scanning process works well.

The plastic film holders do attract dust and require a clean with a lens wipe or a good blowing between uses to keep the dirt to a minimum, but are fine with those provisos. Apart from the seating issues with 120 negative film (not present for other film sizes), I find the negative and slide holders to be easy to use and all are well adapted to the scanner.

They are of adequate construction, all plastic. Paper and printed photograph scans also work well. Black and white and color reproduction is good if you pay attention to the scanning software settings and choose the best for the type of film you are using.

You will need to spend some time to master the best settings for this scanner, although immediate use results are probably good enough for most people. Resolution is good too, with lots of options for bit depth and hence resulting file size.

I’ve not tried other scanners in the Perfection series so I cannot compare, but I do use a dedicated Plustek 35mm negative scanner for that type of film. The V850 simply cannot match the quality of the Plustek, although it is far faster to operate and can scan multiple sets of 35mm negatives at once, a point in its favor.

Overall, a very useful piece of equipment to those of us photographing with film.

Got this mostly to high-res scan very old 35mm slides and various negs. which works better than expected in transparency mode. The downloadable drivers integrate with Corel PhotoPaint v 5 so also good for scanning docs to pdfs in Windows 7.

Should work in Win 11 OK using an Oracle VM. The user interface has multiple modes and a steep learning curve to unravel while the unit itself is bulky.

Color is good and images are plenty sharp. Scanning time is relatively fast. But, when I need it to scan 120MM negatives, it’s worthless. It insists on chopping each image scanned into 2 parts. I’m speaking of the resulting image, not the actual negative.

I stopped wasting time trying to get to function properly and went out and bought a slide and film scanner that will handle 120 size film.

I already had a 4490 scanner that was several years old when something in the light bar track system went on the fritz and it wouldn’t function. I checked out an authorized repair shop and it looked like the repair would have started at @$95.

For that amount, I checked online and was able to pick up this unit for only a little more. It’s in better shape than my old one and the interior scanner bed glass is cleaner, giving me a better, more consistent scan.

Delivery was sooner than expected, everything was there in the box and in good shape. I already had power and connectors in place, so I just had to hook it up and try it out. It performs well and I’m happy with the purchase.

The only reason I don’t give it five stars is that i don’t have a broad experience with multiple scanners, so I can’t say that this model is right for your particular needs. For me it is so-so on scanning slides and negatives, but excellent for flatbed stuff.

In late spring of 2021 my existing flatbed scanner of another brand died on me as I was approaching the end of a multi-year project of digitizing thousands (30-50k) of family photos from my parents estate.

The direct replacement for what I had (originally same price as the V39) had tripled in price over the prior 3 years. I finally decided it had to be replaced anyway. The V39 seemed to be the most affordable option with high resolution capabilities.

After downloading the necessary software & drivers the V39 appeared to do decent work. Color accuracy seems pretty good. Scan speed is reasonably fast. The physical unit does fairly well. My primary issue and the reason for the so-so rating is that Epson software.

It doesn’t allow for the level of flexibility I had become used to with my previous scanner. There seems to be very limited options for setting scan area, resolutions etc. It doesn’t always retain last used settings.

The auto scan function seems to clip edges off of anything that is not a rectangular photo print and even clips edges of those photos as well. It will scan multiple photo prints at once and create separate image files.

That feature seems to work well. If I could use the software from the other brand with this unit I would give it a 5-star review. As it is, I may just have to spend the extra to go back to what I had before.

Recently purchased a new Dell PC with Windows 11 so finally, goodbye to my old (& I mean old) Canon scanner because Windows 11 simply would not support it and Canon never did an update (built-in obsolescence ).

So, I purchased this new Epson scanner. It works GREAT but here is the rub. With Windows 11, at first, it appeared it simply would not work and I was going to return it the BB. But, I decided to call Epson Support and here is the fix or work-around.

They are having some combability problems with Win11 so what you have to do is to boot up your Win11 PC, plug in this Epson Scanner, then (drum roll) reboot your PC. Yes, this is not a typo. Reboot you PC and then, and only then, does the PC and the Epson software you have to download btw, recognize the scanner.

The service people said they will soon have a permanent fix which will enable Win11 to immediately recognize the scanner and software without the reboot but until then, you must do the reboot. I, personally, can live with that and I love this scanner.

You will too. Oh, if you have any other operating system other than Win11, you should not have to do the workaround. Did I mention that I LOVE this scanner?.

Scanner came with big chunk of dust under glass that could not be cleaned off. Had a hard time connecting to the PC for power. Tried three different USB ports and finally one worked. When connected, had to restart software periodically after it stopped working and had to reboot PC a few times when power stopped via the micro USB cable.

Could not select highest 4800 dpi setting due to errors. Highest setting that would work was 1200 dpi, which was good enough for small photos but not for larger ones. Especially with the dust showing up on every picture.

Was able to scan more than one picture at a time, but no more than 3 due to having to space them apart enough for software to recognize individual ones. Auto rotate did not work well and had to rotate most by hand.

Some software GUIs were unreadable since it did not scroll or allow for resizing of box to perform selections. Returning to store.

I have not yet attempted to scan transparencies with this scanner, but its performance in scanning reflective images is good, and in line with my expectations from having previously used previous Epson Scanners of the same general character, which performed well.

I have two small reservations. One is the location of the power button, low down on the right hand side. The only place I can put my scanner is in a corner against 2 walls, which means I can’t see this button, and have to grope for it.

Owing to the power-saving feature, which switches it off after a period of idleness, I have to do this almost every time I use it. It would be much better if this most important button were on the front of the machine, with the other buttons (which I never use).

The information that comes with the scanner could also be a bit fuller – for example there is no indication of how one uses it with an image editing application such as Photoshop, which I imagine is what a high proportion of users intend to do – or whether (as was once the case) any driver needs to be downloaded, or what.

In fact the installation of the software from the disk does set it up for Photoshop with no further ado and no need for driver, which is good, but it would save some time and bother in the setup (looking for information) if the information made this clear from the start.

Overall, though, a good machine. I would be happy to recommend it as a good value option for most graphic design purposes using reflective images.

What a fiasco! The installation drivers supplied on the CD don’t work on my Mac and there are no instructions where to find them online. Very poor installation and setup instructions – just the usual visual walk-through that is too small to read, doesn’t apply to the software provided and is unclear.

Very poor. I finally found some drivers on the epson site that seem to work and after about 2 hours struggling I finally got it to scan. The scan result looked pretty good. Only problem is that whenever I try to fire up the Epson software it tells me it can’t find a scanner until I reboot the computer.

The buttons on the scanner also don’t work.

Bought this after viewing YouTube reviews and initially it seemed fine. Scanning prints produced fine images for the computer but when I went to scan transparencies or negatives in the “professional” mode I encountered problems in that I would have to “nudge” the cursor in order to scan each image.

It will not scan more than one at a time. Research on Mac forums showed up this problem. Slows thing down terribly but can’t complain about the quality of the final image file produced. Just the time to complete the multiple scanning.

Maybe needs a software fix?.

Although a slightly older model, this scanner performs equally as well as the Epson Perfection V600. Downloading the utilities from Epson Support, they installed without flaw. Scanning modes provided function from full-auto to professional, full-manual for scanning, cropping, sharpening, color restoration, and dust/scratch removal.

Although, some of these features did not provide the quality of image restoration as I was looking through all of the function modes, I did not have a problem creating a quality image file in professional, full-manual mode.

Overall, I used this scanner in professional full-manual mode with relative ease, with the exception of having to individually toggle “off,” then “on,” each photo enhancement attribute to apply them to the photo in the preview window (the check-boxes should have indicated which enhancement attributes were going to be applied when it was preview-scanned).

I like the way it will preview scan 2 strips of 35mm film in one go & pick out the individual shots & allow you to adjust the rotation etc before scanning the ones you select. I also like the facility to scan the older 6 x 9cm negatives.

There is also a wide choice of scanning resolution so you can choose the best you can get with your negatives, although it takes a lot longer to scan with high resolution. I don’t like that it doesn’t come with an instruction manual so you have to go to the website to see the manual.

It took me a while to get the hang of using it as a result. I also find it a bit temperamental. While scanning the 6 x 9 negatives it would sometimes split them into two & I would have to switch the scanner off & on & close & open the software to get it to do it properly again and once while scanning 35mm it lost contact with the scanner & it took several attempts at giggling the cables & switching on & off before it would connect again.

I am writing this review for anyone who, like me, needs to scan non-standard size slides. In my case in 2″x2″ mounts, but larger than 35mm (I think the film size was 828 from memory, but anyway it was about 38mm wide).

I earlier bought a dedicated slide scanner, which was quick but cropped my slides quite badly and the quality was not good – too contrasty and harsh colours. I contacted Canon about their Canoscan 9000F and they said I would have to take the slides out of the mounts, though I’m not sure if they understood the question correctly.

Anyway I played safe and bougght the Epson V500 instead and am very glad I did. I switched off thumbnails as I read somewhere that this was advisable, and selected Professional mode on the Epson software.

This enables me to set a mask (they call it a marquee) on each slide for the area I want. I overscan and then crop to size later. This way you can even ignore the instruction to scan all slides in landscape configuration.

The other big bonus is the picture quality. I’m not an expert but even I can tell it is far superior to the previous scanner, with much better rendering of detail and more natural looking colours. The only reason I don’t give it 5 stars is because it is very slow in high resolution – I found 2400dpi was about right for slides.

But if you have non-standard size slides – or just want to make sure you get to the very edge of 35mm slides – this scanner is ideal.

I collect vintage slides and negative, and still shoot film on occasion. After having a slide badly scratched for the third time by the photo lab I was using I decided to go ahead and purchase a scanner.

I didn’t have the buget for both a flatbed scanner and a dedicated film scanner for small format shots, so after some research I settled on the Epson V700. I recieved it quickly from Adorama (as usual).

The scanner is very easy to set up, although the directions are a little sparse. The software installed fine on Windows 7. Although the included software is very basic, it is easy to use and will be fine for most users.

If you desire something more advanced there are several after-market programs with many more options. After getting everything hooked up and installed it was time to scan some photos. First the pros, my first scan was of a 4X5″ 1940s erea B&W negative.

As one would expect from a negative this big, the quality was amazing, even at a low DPI. I also tried some color 35mm negatives that I had shot on cheap film as a kid. The color and exposure on them was pretty bad.

However the scanner’s color correction option did an admirable job fixing the former problem and the rest can be tuned in post processing. However after a couple more hours of use it became appearent that the scanner has several short-comings (although nothing to bad considering the price).

First off the dust removal program quite frankley sucks. It failed to remove much on any of my slides or negatives, which range from month old perfectly clean shots to filthy, eighty plus year old photos.

While this can be corrected in post processing it’s a rather timely process, and I’d much rather let the scanner do it for me. A much bigger problem is this scanner does a poor job scanning anything under medium format.

While a higher resolution scan will be adequate for internet postings and smaller prints I wouldn’t use them for anything larger than an 8X10 and even that’s pushing it. They also tend to not be as sharp as I’d like (not bad, just not great either).

Overall its a good scanner and is a great value. It is very much worth it for medium and large format negatives and prints, however if most of what you will be scanning is 35mm I recomend you look at a dedicated film scanner (I will be purchasing one as soon as my wallet recovers).

Overall, I’m happy with my purchase and wouldn’t hesitate to recomend the scanner to a potential customer.

Hello Everyone, This is my 4th and probably final scanner. I’ve had the Acer A 320 (great for paper), the Epson 3200 (great for paper and film from 2 1/2 x 2/14 and up, the Nikon 8000 (film up to 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 -fantastic), and now the Epson Perfection V700 (paper and film).

If you’ve already owned a flatbed or film scanner, then it’s quite easy to work with the V700. The software that Epson provides has Grain Reduction, Digital ICE, and unsharp mask. I’ve tested the unit with some 35mm slides and was impressed what a flatbed scanner could do with a slide.

The results were great in terms of no grain, capturing fine detail, and very little dust. I scanned the slides at 4800 DPI and came up with a 1. 12″ x. 84″ size of 62. 5 MB. I then enlarged the image to 7.

875″ x 10. 5″ @ 514 DPI for the same file size of 62. 5 MB. You really don’t need to go so high, as the human eye is satisfied with 300 DPI and can’t resolve any higher! I used my 1270 Epson printer (about 10 years old now and still working great!) to make the print.

You should have (and most of you undoubtedly have) a fast computer (mine’s a slow 2. 0 ghz PC) and Photoshop. Now for some good and bad (but not so bad): 1. The D-Max is 4. 0 (the ability to capture a range of tones from dark to light) compared with the more-expensive V750 (D-Max of 4.

3). However, anyone knowing Photoshop would know that you can scan the same slide at different exposures (to capture light and dark tones) and then blend them altogether in Photoshop (the specific command escapes me for now).

So spending the extra $ 300. 00 really isn’t worth the cost. Also with the V750, you can use oils to fine-tune your film and eliminate scratches (a messy technique). 2. Like most scanners, the parts are “plasticky”.

Be careful to avoid breakage, and use a well-lit room. In this way you won’t break off small pieces of the film holders. 3. Use a dust-cover because the higher the resolution of the scanner, the more it will capture – especially dust or scratches, even if you use an anti-static cloth or brush! 4.

I purchased the Nikon 8000 to transfer my collection of 8000 slides to digital. I’m a teacher who had a large slide collection like anyone else. I started out scanning my family slides and after I did that (about 500 slides that my father had taken in the 1950’s and early 60’s I called it quits.

For teaching purposes I could download images from the Web. Try to buy 1 used – $900-1400 if you can! Why did I mention that? Because each slide takes time to scan. You have to do a preview, and then scan.

You then do some small retouching in Photoshop, save the file and backup, and you have about 8 minutes of work. Multiply that by 100 slides, you get 800 minutes or about 15 hours of work! Are you a good editor? Do have like staying indoors in winter? Once you’ve done some fine-tuning for your slides (Kodachrome, Ektachrome 5500 and 3200 Kelvin, Fujichrome,you can scan 12 slides at a time.

5. It’s hard to find a used V700 on e-Bay. If you buy a scanner, you’ll most likely keep it. In my case, I bought it from someone who needed to copy a set of images, and then resold it. Most of the time the sellers are stores.

Another slightly annoying thing was that Epson raised their price for this scanner by $100. 00 from 2008 to 2009!. T In conclusion, if you’re serious on keeping all those “historic” film or print images to pass on to your sons and daughters or to the next generation, then this is the scanner to have- period!.

I had previously purchased the Epson Perfection V600 but then discovered that I needed a different scanner due to large format negatives (4×5). This device is significantly larger yet uses the same Epson Scan software, though they do include Sliver Fast SE 8 along with Photoshop Elements.

For the price I feel the scanner technology is improved though the film holders seem a bit flimsy given that the V700 retails for over 3 times what the V600 does currently. The larger scanning bed is extremely valuable and it’s good to have a device that can handle all formats.

Overall I’m pleased with it and recommend it to anyone that needs to scan photos or prints.

I purchased my Epson V370 as a refurb directly through Epson here on eBay over a year ago. For frame of referenceI am on a Mac (OS 10. 11. 6) and it was super easy to set up. I was up and running inside of 10 minutes.

Iam back because this will be a great gift for my Dad as he has thousands of images to scan to turn family photos into digital files. The scanner software – there is a bit of a learning curve but its not huge.

Learn the basics and along with some trial and error you will grow to love this little scanner as much as I do. Slide scanning: I was born in 1970 and my Dad worked on Madison Ave. For some reason, perhaps lots of Dads did this, my Dad shot a ton of slides.

Slides are great for Slide shows but are a bear when you want to scan and go digital. The Epson V370 has you covered. Again a bit of a short learning curve but today I scanned over 100 images including dozens of slides and images from both black and white and color 35MM negatives.

It worked amazingly well. Really pleased. Scanning photo prints: The Epson V370 is the best photo scanner I have used. I have had several printer / scanner combos and have learned you give something up when you have a combo unit – even when its an Epson.

I decided to go with a one purpose unit and I am glad I did. The images Iget scanning prints is superior to anything I have tried before. Is it the best ever? No. however I paid less than $100 for this little scanner and for that price it blows everything else I have tried out of the water.

If you are considering a slide / negative / photo print scanner I believe the Epson V370 is a solid choice.

Pros: It is a good scanner with plenty of scope for producing high quality images from old negatives. If you make them too high resolution the pc can struggle to allow editing. It has an auto off feature.

It can scan negatives, slides and prints. It was bought to replace an Epson v330 which started giving marks on more negatives I needed to scan. It is a good scanner for prints as each print can be selected and scanned as an individual image stored on the pc.

Image sizes of around 2mb in negative scan mode and 4mb for prints were achieved. Cons: It is quite slow, often it takes nearly 30 minutes to scan 6 negatives. Loading the negatives can be quite fiddly using the supplied negative carrier.

I found cutting up every other negative strip into two to give 6 negatives in the carrier helped. It took me around two weeks to scan 20 sets of negatives. It will not handle other film formats like 126 or 110 or large format negatives.

If you are doing a lot of scanning it helped to have an old laptop permanently connected to the scanner. You will need to install image editing software that can crop, or even invert the images later as sometimes the scanner gives more than the image you want or you put the negative in upside down or inverted.

I bought this scanner a few months ago when I was looking to scan every single piece of paperwork in my apartment. I have scanned photos, magazines, A4 printouts, and anything else that would fit. I’m very pleased with the quality.

The only thing that is odd about the software is that after clicking “scan”, I have to move the cursor slightly, otherwise the scanning process won’t kick off. That might be specific to the iOS version of the software.

It was also initially challenging to find the correct settings (if you go with the basic settings, your scans won’t turn out), but once I got a hang of it the scanning went quickly. I would like to see better editing options – for example, if you’ve scanned 20 pages and accidentally click out of the screen, there’s no way to add 10 more pages to the PDF and you have to start all over if you want one document.

I also haven’t tried the text recognition functionality yet, so I can’t comment on that.

Pros: Before buying this scanner I read PC Magazines review for scanners for Mac and other user reviews. (The V800 was more than I wanted to spend so I bought the V550. )Used for scanning old (1950’s – 1980’s) transparencies – this achieved outstanding results compared to a cheaper scanner I had bought, and well worth the extra money.

The quality of detail revealed is amazing. Like comparing the view from a filthy dirty window to a clean one! Colour restoration and dust removal works really well. Easy to use once you have got the hang of it and worth spending a bit of time experimenting with settings.

Inspite of the negatives, I think this is a great product and I wish I had bought it before I scanned 150 boxes of slides on the cheap one I initially bought. The difference in quality of the photos is such that I am now going to go back and re scan those boxes.

If you are concerned about budget, don’t waste your money on a cheaper scanner just buy this one, you won’t regret it. Cons: The instructions and help information tabs are quite technical and assume you are a photographic expert, which I am not.

That said it is reasonably easy to work it all out and the basic fully automated setting gives good results without the need to fiddle with other settings. It does take time to complete a scan of 4 negatives in Professional Mode, but not as long as the system will initially show.

Although it doesn’t tell you to do so, I found you do need to click on the screen to instigate the scan of each negative, otherwise it just sits there doing nothing!Some people have commented on the glass scanner bed getting dusty.

I lift the slide holder off each time and wipe the glass screen with a dry E Cloth for glass which removes any stray dust particles. I also give each negative a quick flick with a large clean make up brush to remove any dust.

In doing this I have not had any problems with dust etc.

I purchased the Epson V550 scanner with a little apprehension as a result of reading others experience with the compatibility with Windows 10. I first installed the software and drivers from the CD that accompanied the scanner and then downloaded and installed the updated software from the Epson site before ever attaching the scanner to my Win 10 PC.

I have easily scanned over 1000 slides, photos and negatives, in which I have only experienced the software hanging after walking away for about an hour, during which time the PC also went into standby mode.

The scan quality and color restoration have worked very well. The ICE mode for scratch and dust removal does extend the scan time considerably (at least by 2 – 3 times normal) but without it set, the scan time per picture or slide were acceptable.

The software has multiple modes to select which have different feature capabilities. For slides, the tray holds up to 4 and the features can be set for each slide on a single scan when using preview.

Over all, I have been happy with my purchase. There is no real photo editing software that comes with the V550 that apparently does come with the V600, so I have also installed Paintshop to edit the photos as necessary.

From my experience I would not hesitate to recommend this scanner.

These HP ScanJet scanners do a good job scanning documents and photos and they also scan 35mm slides and 35mm negatives. This particular model (G4010) only scans 35mm formats, but some similar models scan larger format negatives and transparencies.

I do not think they make similar flatbed scanners any more and therefore you need to buy them used. I was able to download the software from the HP web site. The only problem that I have had with the scanner is that the button for scanning negatives does not seem to work as expected — the “back light” did not work with that setting.

I was able to scan black and white negatives by using the button for scanning slides which used the back light. After capturing the image, I opened the file in Photoshop and changed from color to gray scale and inverted the image to get a positive.

I ordered this scanner because the glass on mine was messed up. But the glass on this scanner was worse than mine is. I wanted to use it to scan photo’s into my computer but the resolution is bad and the marks on the underside of the glass leaves marks on the photo’s.

The shipping was excellent and it did come in it’s on box. Great packing too.

I used this model of scanner at school for many years and I loved it. It is fast and does a great job of scanning. I have scanned books, papers, pictures, slides and negatives. I love the quality. When I retired, I wanted only this model and was delighted to find this scanner.

Highly recommended for any purpose.

Great quality scans and fast processing! Digitizing family photos can be a daunting task and this scanner makes the process so much easier than scanning one photo at a time on a flatbed scanner. My wife and I scanned an entire photo album yesterday and it only took about a half hour to scan over 200 images.

Most of the effort is spent removing the photos from the album and re-inserting them afterwards. Scanning is the easy and fun part of the process. The really fun part is seeing your small photos come to life on a big PC monitor screen.

It would be a simple step to later organize photos into slide shows if so desired for a simple presentation. We scanned at 1200 dpi with auto-correct turned on. The software offers the ability to scan and keep the original photo, then generate a separate photo with the auto-correct applied.

However, in almost every case we preferred the corrected version and turned that feature off. Another great feature is the scanner’s ability to scan the back of the photo whenever writing appears. This speeds up filing the scanned photos if you are organizing later by date.

Once the photos are organized, you can then just delete the backside image unless of course the handwriting is sentimental, and you want to save that as a photo memory as well. The scanner does not remove dust specks or scratches which would be nice feature to have, but the quality of the scans is good enough that in most cases further editing is unnecessary.

Another great feature is the wireless connectivity, so you can place the scanner on a large table or work area and have access to the scanner as part of your “assembly line” workflow. Lastly, this can be used as a document scanner with some additional software from Epson.

That’s probably something we will check into after all of our boxes and albums are scanned.

I’ve had it for a day but I love this scanner already. Having a lifetime of photos to scan, I was looking for a photo scanner with a document feeder. At the intermediate setting, the file size is about 4Mb, and takes about 3 seconds per photo, and this afternoon I did about 100 photos in less than 10 minutes.

The Setup allows you to generate an exact copy of the original and/or an enhanced copy. I started with both but eventually changed the setting to automatically accept the enhancements as the images are much sharper and brighter than the original photo.

The image generated does not need cropping or editing, and the clarity is amazing. With a bundle of photos in the feeder, it jammed a few times but this was because of turned edges on the photos or uneven original photo sizes.

Feeding them one at a time resolves this, but even in this mode, having to click ‘continue’ for each photo is still way faster than using a flatbed. I’ve used the Epson GT1500 document scanner (at about $500) for years and it was time to replace it but for an extra $200, this one does everything the GT1500 does so the photo scanning is almost a bonus.

All the reviews I read were correct and I can’t recommend this machine highly enough.

I purchased this scanner to create PDFs of original documents for work (while WFH) instead of having to go to Staples to do so. Perhaps one day I’ll find a printer that I like that has a good scanning feature, but b/c of Covid the pickings were slim and I couldn’t find a printer/scanner that I liked that wasn’t too bulky, so I ended up with a simple Brother printer.

I ordered this flatbed scanner to supplement my printer – something that I could easily remove and get out of my sight when I was done. Please note that it is connected by USB port which is included.

I did use the CD Rom to upload the software and it went smoothly, and it took me a few minutes to figure out how to change the options so that I could just scan using the buttons on the printer. (There is a application tool box that is uploaded – and once you access it, you can select the automatic feature).

Well, this scanner worked like a charm. I didn’t really care too much about the quality of the PDFs since I just need legible enough copies, but they were surprisingly clear. I was curious about the how well this scanner would take to photos, so I scanned a couple of photos and to my surprise they came out really good.

I guess I’ll scan old photos when I have some down time. Also, it makes copies. Once I figured out how to make use of the buttons on the scanner, I chose “print” instead of “scan” and my little Brother printer spat out a nice clear copy of my document.

I should also mention that in that scanning tool you can select the program for the output of your files. This probably makes a difference in the quality of the scanned image. Overall I am surprisingly pleased.

The scanner does what it’s supposed to do and it does it fast. I am going to give this scanner 5 stars because I was able to get it running myself without hassle and because it does what it’s supposed to do and does it very well.

My only critique is that the instructions that come with the product could be more detailed, on a scale of 1 to 5 these instructions get a 3 for not being more thorough – these are totally bare-minimum instructions ever.

In Canon’s defense, they provide relatively good instructions on their website.

This is a solid scanner with good scan quality, though not much different than my LIDE 220 that’s six years old. I bought this one because my Mac Studio wouldn’t recognize the LIDE 220, and I wanted a scanner that used USB-C.

This one does. However, it has one irritating quirk: it will regularly “wake up” and run for a few seconds. You can hear the scan head moving back and forth. This happens multiple times throughout my day when I’m not even using the computer it’s connected to.

It got to be so irritating I’ve now unplugged it and will only plug it back in when I need to use it. My old scanner never did this, so I’m not sure what’s going on. But overall I’m happy with this scanner other than that one issue.

I wanted to scan around 200 black-&-white family photos about 45 to 70 years old, and around 800 colored family photos 20 to 50 years old. My initial budget was up to $300, I ended up buying this $89.

00 CanoScan LIDE 400 scanner. I am absolutely satisfied with the performance. A few tips/suggestions: (1) For latest SOFTWARE, download these directly from (not from CD that comes with the scanner) www.

usa. canon. com/internet/portal/us/home/support/drivers-downloads There are two software, which require (18. 24+58. 46) MB of computer space. (2) MANUAL: From the same above link download very comprehensive manual for Window, Mac or Linux.

“Canon IJ Scan Utility” has the option of scanning for Auto, Document, Custom, Photo, OCR, Stitch, ScanGear and PDF Editor. Understand the Manual thoroughly, especially pages 58 to 79 on “ScanGear” topic.

(3) SCANGEAR: This has “Basic Mode” and “Advanced Mode”. After comparing the output from various options, I decided to do all my scanning work from Advanced Mode tab of ScanGear. I think I got the best scanned images (from photo papers) from this tab.

My work was done diligently; first previewing, then adjusting the settings and then final scanning. I avoided making too large files. I have used it only for one month, which has served my purpose. I do not know the performance-life of the scanner.

Scanning speed was not my requirement.

This is a great scanner for the price and I like the photo scan features but have been disappointed with the pdf scanning performance. The user guide say it an scan serially up to 100 pages so I decided to scan my daughters year books from school which I thought would be most useful for them as reference.

Well it turned out that the scanner software randomly decides when it has had enough and forces you to save the pages already scanned. This can vary from 32 to 3, the highest I ever got was 32. Contacted the support via Chat and they were great bit could not resolve the issue and decided to ship another unit.

This arrived the next day which is great service but as expected this is not a hardware but software issue. So until they can sort this out I will have to use additional software to merge the many pdf resulting from the scanning of one yearbook.

(Think it was 13 for one 85 page book). Having said this, I did not purchase the scanner solely for this purpose but mainly for scanning old photos so I can live with this, but it is certainly disappointing.

This is a great scanner. Just wish I had got one long before now. I had pictures that were over 75 years old and when they were scanned they looked great, better than the original. I had pictures that were dark and the scanned copy was perfect.

I am so happy wit this purchase and would definitely recommend. One thing, I read the reviews before I purchased and so I made sure I followed their instructions and downloaded the software before I plugged the scanner into the computer.

It worked without any problems from the first scan. I can’t wait to order the one for the negatives as I have many old negatives.

The adapter works but It wasn’t designed or tested well before going to market. the white plastic casing cracked the first week using it with a new MacBook. Perhaps the spacing of the Mac books ports are too close together to have the power cord plugged in and this adapter next to it, but with a usb2 cord plugged into this adapter acts like a lever and cracked the outer casing or shell.

But making the plastic thicker would not help because 2 cords would then not fit in a Mac side by side.

I bought several of these adapters. At this price and size I put one on each of my hard drives and DVD drive. Now I just grab the drive and plug it in. No more plugging and unplugging using Apple adapter.

Bought this to allow Apple Car play to work in my new MBZ. Works perfectly as well as MBZ’s $70 adapter cable.