Printers : Epson Perfection V350 Photo scanner 4800 X 9600 DPI Auto Film Loader

Epson Perfection V350 Photo scanner 4800 X 9600 DPI Auto Film Loader

£77.00


Scanning of high quality photographs has never been simpler! Introducing the Perfection V350 Photo scanner from Epson!In fact, this scanner uses CCD technology with 4800 dpi resolution and 48 bits colour restituition that enable you to easily digitize photos and films with superior quality.The Perfection V350 Photo scanner combines power, simplicity, flexibility and refined design and is equipped with automatic film charger that gives you true scanning productivity. Thus with this scanner, scan all your photos, films and store them easily.In addition, you can restore the best souvenirs thanks to its Epson Easy Photo Fix colour restitution solution.  

  • Scanner Perfection V350 Photo 4800x9600dpi Usb2.0 - EPSON - B11B185032

Truly awful - Horrendous. After about 10 restarts, for no apparent reason the neg loader starts to work. I wish it hadn t. Slow isn t the word. Grindingly slow barely starts to get there. Agonising, maybe. After a couple of strips of C41 (nearly an hour), the third came out with images bisected by black bars - it had lost the frame marker. A less competent, slower machine would be almost inconceivable. One star, only because you can t give it no stars.

Does what it says on the box ! - Wonderful piece of kit, scans film & slides very well indeed, you just need to read instuctions first, though I found it quite user friendly, I had it scanning slides within 30 min after getting it out of the box.Auto film loader is spot on, a key feature, it does require the film to be undamaged, no kinks or damaged edges and fed in with care.Sure its a bit on the slow side but the quality of result is very good indeed, software allows for all sorts of repair and enhancement.It was able to scan repair/restore forty year old film a treat.A bargain for the casual film/photo scanner who cannot justify the high cost of a dedicated 35mm film scanner.And of course its a brilliant flat bed scanner when you ve finished with film.

Great quality let down by inattention to detail - I replaced my ailing Epson 1250 (6 years service) with a V350 on the strength of reviews saying its scans are high quality and because the old scanner produced jaggies on slide scans, even at max resolution.First impressions were not that great - there was nothing to say you should first uninstall your old scanner drivers (I did, luckily) and the V350 install seemed to freeze half way. I was about to kill it but first tried Alt Tab and found a little Next window waiting behind the main install window! Sloppy. Then I tried scanning three images at once in full auto (default) mode. It missed one entirely and cropped into the other two - because they were not straight. But it s impossible to get things straight on this scanner because it will not scan up to the edge of the glass! Why didn t they bring the plastic edges over to where it actually starts scanning? Then I tried scanning some slides but it took ages to find out how to do it because the instruction manual is so bad in this area. Eventually I found the locating holes it failed to mention.Since then things have looked up. I discovered Full Professional mode which puts you back in charge of scans. Plenty of controls and it will even save different settings (eg slides vs photos). Importing scans of transparencies into Photoshop Elements I found the 12800 and 9600dpi resolutions incredibly slow and both would only do one slide at a time before stopping with out of memory problems. Luckily 4800dpi scans are very good. They produce 24Megapixel images in Photoshop which are jaggy free and look good when cropped & resized to 5MP or so. The speed is adequate (not fast) and at least you can do other things like browse the net while it s scanning. My old scanner used to keep its progress window on top of everything.Scanning photos is pretty good. Reasonably fast (eg at 400dpi) and pretty faithful to the originals. When I figure out how to keep them straight (use a plastic ruler as a spacer?) I ll probably feel this scanner merits 4 stars. It s certainly good enough that I m re-scanning all our remaining transparencies. Fortunately we cut them down from 50+ boxes to just six a while back.I loaded all of the software offered except Arcsoft Photoimpression but I m not sure how much of it I ll ever use, as I always scan straight into Photoshop Elements.So, the price of the V350 is good and I like the quality of the scans but with a bit more thought and care it could have been a lot easier to use.

Nice scans - when it works - I think for the money the quality of the scans from this device exceeds all expectations. What a shame that it is the most unreliable, fragile, infuriating piece of kit from Epson I ve ever encountered. When using the film strip scanner (the principle reason for buying it) it constantly reports film jams (both real and imaginary), and other spurious problems. When I first got it It took three evenings to get it to do more than one scan without rebooting and it continues to frustrate. By the way I m not a beginner, I m a graphic design professional and have been scanning at work daily for well over ten years, I just needed something to digitise forty years worth of snapshot negs at home. I m staying with the V350 simply because the next step up is about £500. If you can live with its highly strung personality this scanner is remarkable value. If you re inclined to be impatient it will drive you mad.

High definition but slow - Got this to replace my Epson 1200 series scanner. The DPI on this is much higher at 4800 but - it only takes 35mm slides or negs, the automatic film loader is a waste of space and overall operation is very slow.




Epson Perfection V350 Photo scanner 4800 X 9600 DPI Auto Film Loader