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| Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner | 
 enlarge | Brand: Epson
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $180.81
You Save: $69.18 (28%)
New (61) Used (3) Refurbished (1)
Avg. Customer Rating:  94 reviews
Color: silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 13.6
Dimensions (in): 7 x 15 x 21
nv:Scanner Type: Flatbed
Scanner Element: Epson MatrixCCD line sensor
Optical Resolution: 6400 dpi
Hardware Resolution: 6400 x 9600 dpi
Maximum Document Size: 8.5" x 11.7"
Color Depth: 48-bit
Gray Scale Depth: 16-bit
Interface Connectivity: USB 2.0
Power Source: AC Adapter
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: B11B189011
Model: B11B189011
UPC: 010343865372
EAN: 0010343865372
ASIN: B000VG4AY0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Photographic Scanner February 13, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Excellent overall. Captures the smallist of detail at a high DPI. Quick response time allows one to scan many scans quicker than most other scanners.
I have no regrets in switching from an HP scanner to my first Epson scanner.
Almost perfection February 9, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I researched slide and film scanners for quite a while. This came out to be the best product for money on the market in terms of features, specs and other reviewers on a lot of web sites. The install went without a problem. Software installed with no glitches. Scanned in a bunch of slides, even the old poorly maintained ones came out great ( I'm talking 50 year old slides!). With my Canon, these old ones were so covered in dust as to be almost unusable. ICE did a great job cleaning these up. Loved how it took the 4 slides and automatically created 4 seperate files. NO CROPPING!
If I have any knocks, it would be the included Photoshop Elements version 4 software. Other scanners are shipping with version 5. Epson went a little cheap here. A hard copy manual would be really nice addition. Instead, you have an "online help system". I really prefer a book.
Final recomendation.... Look no futher unless you have a lot more money to burn, this is the product. Buy it.
 Great resolution, software needs work February 8, 2008
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I've been using the scanner to scan negatives and slides. I think this scanner works quite well, however there are several software pitfalls waiting for the advanced user who wants total scanner control. First if you use "At Home Mode" the scanner automatically applies the unsharp mask even though there is no indication it is doing so. Not all unsharp masks are equal and if you zoom to pixels level you can see that this one is a bit heavy handed. It is much better to capture the raw scan data and then apply the unsharp mask (to your liking) in Photoshop. The second pitfall is the apparent inability of the program to maintain your settings in "Professional Mode". For example in professional mode there is a check box for Unsharp Mask. Uncheck Unsharp Mask and then do a preview scan. The check on Unsharp Mask reappears as if the machine is unhappy with your selection. If you recall saved settings it demands that you redo the preview scan and your back to square one. Hopefully there is fix in the works. Anyway if you are a casual user you probably won't notice the flaws.
 I should have listened to the previous customer comments February 8, 2008
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Could not get the software to load. There appears to be a code conflict with Windows XP. I spent hours with tech support to no avail.
Next time I will listen to previous customer comments.
A winner for slide scanning February 5, 2008
46 out of 47 found this review helpful
After extensive research I had the good fortune of looking for a photo scanner at the same time the Epson Perfection V500 became available. After scanning the first batch of 60 slides, I can heartily recommend this unit. The most significant capability of this unit, especially for the price, is the built-in ICE technology for scratch and dust removal. It is, in a word, astonishing. And, it is saving me many hours of extra work manually doing the same job. There is software-based scratch and dust removal included in the Epson software, but it is ineffective and cannot compare to ICE. I am scanning at 2,400 dpi, more than enough resolution for any practical use other than heavy cropping and enlargement. I use compressed air to "clean" the slides before scanning. When scanning with ICE turned off, the amount of dust marks are amazing. Turn ICE on and 98% of the dust is gone. It does take longer to scan with ICE, but the offset is the time saved many times over not having to manually remove the dust post-scan. Photoshop Elements 4.0 is included. I use Elements 6.0.
So far, the unit has worked flawlessly. Software installed cleanly on first try. Front panel buttons can be reprogrammed for other than the default (e.g., I changed the button for email attachment to launch the OCR to text software included.)
A tip for those who buy this unit for slide and/or film scanning with ICE and scanning 2-4 slides at a time: Click the "All" button in the preview window after prescanning (previewing) the multiple slides to select all slides, then click the checkbox for ICE to insure that all slides are processed by ICE. You won't find this in the documentation or on Epson's website. I spent time figuring out why all 4 slides weren't being processed by ICE (I thought the unit was defective at first because only the first slide, which is selected by default, was being processed by ICE), so now you know without spending the time I did. I have used the scanner for photographs and documents, and have converted articles to editable text, all with no problems and excellent results. Still, slides/film is where it shines, thanks to ICE.
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