| Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner | 
| Brand: Epson
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $124.30
as of 7/29/2010 11:00 CDT details
You Save: $125.69 (50%)
Seller: Electronica Direct
Rating:  283 reviews
Color: silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: DOS
CPU Manufacturer: Intel
CPU Speed: 1
CPU Type: AMD Athlon
Processors: 1
System Memory: 128000
Memory Type: DRAM
Hard Drive Size: 1
Graphics Card: This is the description of the PC Graphics
Graphics RAM: 256
Graphics Card Interface: AGP
Native Resolution: 640x480
Display Size: 669.2913385826772
Shipping Weight (lbs): 13.6
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 18.8 x 4.5
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
Legal Disclaimer: Shipping is 3-5 days FedEx or UPS with tracking number. Brand New. Continental USA street address ONLY, we do not ship to P/O box, APO, AE, or international addresses
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: B11B189011
Model: B11B189011
UPC: 010343865372
EAN: 0010343865372
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Create crystal-clear photo enlargements and scan slides, negatives, and medium-format film | | • | Easy Photo Fix quickly restores faded photos with one touch | | • | Digital Ice technology removes dust particles and scratches from images | | • | Energy-efficient LED light eliminates warm-up time while allowing faster scans | | • | 1-year limited manufacturer's warranty |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The Epson Perfection V500 Photo features a built-in transparency unit for positive or negative film up to medium format. It scans 12 frames of 35mm filmstrip, four frames of mounted 35mm slides or 1 frame of 6x12cm medium format film at once, ideal for preserving old family images. Four easy access buttons are located on the front of the scanner to initiate scan to application, scan to PDF, scan to email and copy. They offer a quick and easy way to scan an image without the need to access settings on the computer. The scan to PDF function allows an image or multiple pages to be scanned and automatically saved to a specified PDF file, while the scan to email button allows documents or images to be copied and sent anywhere in the world at the touch of a button. Software provided with the Perfection V500 Photo includes the new Epson Scan 3.2 and Epson Creativity Suite. Epson Scan is designed to make scanning easy with its automatic mode and home mode. The needs of the advanced user are addressed with the professional mode. Epson Scan 3.2 offers high compression multi-page PDF scanning and allows ICC profiles to be embedded into the scanned files. Colour reproduction for negative scanning delivers superior image quality in critical or mixed lighting conditions. It also offers an advanced backlight correction to improve the overall visibility in the image. Digital ICE Technology ensures dust and scratches are completely removed from colour films, creating high-quality results. Additional software includes Adobe PhotoShop Elements 4 (PC) and 3 (Mac) and ABBYY FineReader Sprint 6 Plus. An optional Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) is available for small offices that wish to use the Perfection V500 Photo for higher volumes of document scanning. Full software package - Epson Scan 3.2, Epson Creativity Suite, Digital ICE, Adobe Elements 4 (PC) and 3(Mac) and ABBYY FineReader Sprint 6 Plus Mac and PC compatible
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 283
 Perfection indeed. July 26, 2010
AnotherMusicExpert (Duluth, MN USA)
Don't hesitate to purchase this scanner. I hunted around & checked out reviews before purchasing this, and I truly could not be more impressed. I have had no problems with it in my first few months of steady, daily operation, the resultant photo file quality is superb. I suspected the Digital Ice example as above was probably photoshopped, but it is not...this feature is truly great with faded or discolored negatives, and it does wonders with dust/specks, etc. B&W tends to need a bit of adjusting of the saturation, but again, does a superb job, and saves so much time...Almost every scan of a properly saved negative needs no touch ups at all. Easy to use, top quality, and I can't imagine what more anyone could ask for. I had been taking my old negatives to the local camera shop that supposedly specialized in "digital" transfers & processing, but the Epson V500 surpassed what they had given me and I did these photos over again with much better results. To save a negative at 8x10 size, and at 300 .dpi takes approx. 3 to 4 minutes using the Digital Ice & Grain Reduction features, but it will save you much more time than fixing up the photo doing an untouched scan.
This might not come with the trays to do ALL types vintage negatives, but there is a way to do a raw scan and pick a region, so you can do virtually any negatives, even those nasty old tiny round projector photo discs. Can't say enough about this great product - it has become my new hobby.
 I should've used my All-in-One's Scanner July 23, 2010
Dr. Elaine O. Chaika (Eastern New England)
I have cartons of albums and loose pictures dating from 1908. For our 50th anniversary party slide show, I thought it would be fun to show us, our kids, our families and friends during the years of our marriage. At the same time, I decided to scan ALL of the pictures I have so they would be (1)preserved digitally, (2) restored where possible, and (3) easy to find by category, names, events, trips, get-togethers, etc. I have an Epson 810 All-in-One which has a usable scanner although it can't scan a few of our largest pictures, and it is slow going. So I called Epson, and the suport person assured me this would be faster than using the printer. If it is, it is so by milliseconds. The scanning turned out to be a tedious, time consuming, aggravating experience.
First of all, you cannot do any editing of your pictures on the scanner, except for choosing "color restoration" which adds an often sickly blue tone. The only other option is to choose color, grayscale or b&w. Yet, you can't scan a picture in unless you first preview it. The only thing the preview does is allow you to rotate before you scan. Since Windows Picture Viewer allows you to rotate, this is redundant. The required Preview that has no useful function takes a minute or more, and then you have to choose Scan, which takes from 1-4 minutes. So, a picture can take as much as 4-6 minutes to scan, and this is usual. Even very small pictures take at least 3 minutes in all. When you are scanning in your entire photo library, thousands of pictures, this is a real pain.
Why can't you just put a picture on the flatbed and scan it directly with no preview? Either that or make it possible to crop, zoom, and do other simple editing during the preview. That would make sense. Oh, and did I mention that the scanner is very noisy, making sounds like something from out of space? I haven't yet tried to scan film or slides, so I can't comment on those functions. In sum, this is slow, lacks useful features, and is noisy. Other than that, it is easy to use and the scans come out fine. There's gotta be somethig better than this on the market.
Photo Scanner July 14, 2010
Gramma Gail (Florida)
I bought this scanner for my husband to scan some old slides we did over 50 years ago and it has worked great! We are enjoying sharing many of these pictures with friends and family.
Works as Projmised July 10, 2010
Patrick W. North (Reno, NV)
The Epson V500 was easy to set up and to use. It was faster to copy the 100+ pictures I had to copy because I could do 4 at at time and they were separated for me by the scanner. The scanned quality was better than I expected especially with a few of the older pictures. I'd buy it again.
 produces red line--now scanner is useless July 10, 2010
Brenna Troyan
I was initially thrilled with this scanner. I have been scanning 100s of old photos and documents from the early 1900s. The image quality was great UNTIL the scanner started producing a vertical red line just over two inches from the right side of the scanner bed for the entire length of the bed. This line appears on anything scanned at any dpi--b/w or color. It is now only used for scanning insignificant documents for emailing.
Epson has NO 800# for tech support. I eventually learned that it would cost more to repair than to replace. I will not ever purchase another Epson product again.
There is no way to know if the one you purchase will start doing this...or when. Go with another brand.
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