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Many photo labs offer scanning as part of their services, often using large scanners able to process a full roll of 35mm film in a few minutes. But, just like developing at a lab, having a lab scan your film costs money, which is why many people like the idea of scanning negatives themselves. There are a lot of options when it comes to digitizing film yourself (including simply using a digital camera), but some of these methods require complex setups, some have huge equipment costs, and some just aren't very good. Others, meanwhile, are actually pretty good and affordable. Meet the Epson Perfection V600.

The Epson V600 retails for $229.99, although there were several deals around the web for under $200 at the time of writing this article. In the box you get the scanner, two plastic film holder inserts, a power cable, a data cable and an Epson software CD.

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Before I get too deep into breaking down what using this scanner is like I want to give some context. First, while the Epson V600 can be used for a variety of scanning applications, I'll only be talking about using it to scan film. Second, I've been scanning my own film for several years using all sorts of various film scanners, and let me tell you there is a steep learning curve. Everything can be done right, but it just takes time to piece together each element and make sure you're processing things in a way that works for you.

Once unboxed and set up, using this scanner is pretty straightforward: you lay your film in one of the supplied plastic holders, snap it shut and place it in the scanner so that your negatives are centered on the scanner bed. You'll be able to scan up to twelve 35mm photos or four medium format photos at once. The scanner also comes with an additional film holder for mounted slide film.

When I initially set up the V600, I had it connected to my Windows 10 desktop and quickly found the software to be unstable, crashing frequently during the preview scan. Eventually I couldn't even get my computer to recognize that the scanner was on and connected. This is apparently not an uncommon problem either (I tried all the fixes in the link to no avail). I ended up following a bunch of tutorials online to fix the problem and still wasn't able to get it to work reliably.

More important than how this scanner stacks up against itself is how it stacks up against scans done by professionals in a photo lab. Below is a gallery comparing photos scanned on the Epson V600 to ones scanned by the professionals at Panda Lab here in Seattle, WA.

Second, he states that the scanner didn't produce the image detail that a scan done by a professional photo lab was able to achieve, but he handicapped the Epson scan by using it in "home" mode which, by his own admission, is not able to use the scanner's full resolution! He also failed to mention what resolution or hardware the photo lab was using.

More info on scanner compatibility with MacOS: I just read on Wikipedia (see link below) that Apple removed support for 32-bit software and 32-bit device drivers starting with version 10.15 ("Catalina"). This very likely explains why Canon's software and driver support for their older scanners ended when Catalina arrived. Credit must be given to Epson for at least creating a 64-bit driver that can be used with Catalina and later versions of MacOS with Apple's Image Capture utility.

One thing not mentioned and I feel to be a major draw back it crops the edges of the scanned image. Crops anywhere from 3 mm to 6 mm about.

Owners manual pg 22.

Make sure the upper right corner of the document or

photo is against the corner of the scanner, next to the arrow mark.

pg 133

Scanning in Full Auto Mode, or using thumbnail preview in Home Mode Professional Mode, move the document or photo about 6 mm away from the horizontal and vertical edges of the document table to avoid

cropping.

If you are scanning using normal preview in Office Mode, Home Mode, or Professional Mode, move the document or

photo about 3 mm away from the horizontal and vertical edges of the document table to avoid cropping.

I also find the placement of the doc to be a clumsy as it is about 18 inches from the front of the scanner as well as the on off switch. Both should be at the front which would make it faster to scan multi docs.

The software seem out dated and look likes and acts like from 2000.

Very disappointed. 2 drivers, Scanner & Scanner2. Epson recommend that you use Scanner2, so that's the one I installed (autoinstall is a complete joke and loads lots of rubbish you're never going to use). Scanner2 won't work on windows 7 with 8gb when trying to scan 6x6, nor does it have digital ICE and the dust removal is useless.

Scanner works well and has digital ICE.

Scanning older 35mm slides (40 years old) I found that the scanner introduced artifacts that weren't in the slide. My 20 year old Nikon coolscan iv is getting past it's best but still produces pretty good results without the artifacts, it's a pity that it doesn't scan 6x6.

Lots of bugs in the software, obviously not Epsons priority to test it properly.

When initially trying to get a preview I get a message for about 20 seconds saying that the scanner isn't responding, this eventually goes away and starts the preview.

Overall impressions are very disappointing. Once I've scanned all my 6x6 I'll sell the thing.

I read here people talking all kind of nice things about Epson V600, I have now been testing the scaner for 2 days after seen many video on how to do the right set up for negative and Color Transparency. of 35mm.

I think the whole scanner is a joke. I have been very stupid thinking that with a 300 dollars scanner I would get a similar quality to those professional photo lab with scanners of 7000 to 10.000 dollars.

I mean no way..!

I still think I am doing something wrong...it can not be that quality is so bad.

Question: How big was the glass you put on top? The flatbed is 12x9". Was it overlapping the sides or edges? Was it slightly smaller than the Epson flatbed glass? Was the glass thin enough that the scanner cover closed properly?

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I use the v600 / v550. IF you shoot 35mm film that has edge-to-edge curl (I get this mostly with Tri-X), you can NOT get decent scans with the supplied negative carrier. The film will bow down, and the middle 2 or more frames will touch the glass, giving long Newton rings. If you flip the negs the other way, the bowed portions are outside the proper focus range of the scanner.

Good scanner for the price I have but one feature I miss from a few of my old days with SCSI scanners is the ability to create a contact sheet. I could lay a whole notebook sheet of Negs on the bed and scan the whole sheet a make a contact sheet and then go back and pick out the few to really scan. These newer ones have these fussy "holders" . I tried using a light panel as the backlight ,but could not get find a way to fool it to get the scanner strip to shut off.

I own/ed and used epson, hp and canon scanners. I think HP scanjet 4020 is the best in recapturing photo scan, it does a good job with negative too. Since it is old tech it scan for ever, and not sure if there are updated driver. It sit in my box on a closet since it is huge like this epson. I get my negative developed at panda lab too, but I scan my own since it would cost more. I don't shoot film anymore, so I'll leve my huge scanner in the closet.

My deskspace is limited. Its occupied by a state of the art custom AMD PC, USB audio interface, 3d printer, mic and cam dock. I dont own a printer nor a scanner anymore. Putting this boatanchor in my workflow will never happen again. 250 USD probably covers all my slide scans I will never ever do.

I've used the V700 on various versions of Windows and various PC's and never had any software hiccup whatsoever. The scanner is handy for all kinds of documents besides photography, and a cheap laser printer rounds off my setup nicely. Worth their space on my desk for sure.

Much the same here. I used an Olympus E-M1.1, 60mm f2.8 marco with a Polaroid slide duplicator. The slide duplicator needs a 46-52mm step up ring and throw away the crappy plastic lens that comes with it. It's pretty well perfect for 35mm slides. For backlight, I used a small Ledgo LED light on a lamp stand, the camera on a tripod and away I went with a couple of thousand slides.

For strip film I used a Porta-Trace light pad, a Lomography DigitaLIZA 120 Scanning Mask for 120 film and a Pacific Image 35mm film strip holder.

Just couldn't see the value is a slide scanner. I have a standard scanner for prints.

All done now. Hope never to see film again.

For the WIndows 10, try this: . Delete the scanner in Device Manager > Imaging Device. Then uninstall the program and install it again from their website rather than the DVD that came with the unit. Also, you have to install the USB after the software is loaded and with the scanner power ON.

I've recently upgraded to the Epson V850. Its fim holder has ANR glass that keep the film flat and height adjustments for best focus. These are 4x5 samples that compare favorably with a Howtek 8000 drum scanner. I also use Epsonscan software.

For practical reasons any flatbed will be a better option for scanning. Drum scanners are far past end of life. They are hobbled along by certain experts or say Aztec for former Howtek scanners. Operator skills show much more variation with drums, so unless you have someone that makes a scanner sing with maintained hardware, a simple Epson will be better at producing a reasonable scan. On top of that drum scanners scan positives better than negatives! Epson software sucks, I'd say Silverfast is the best option.

I do think the V850 is a great choice, if I were still scanning that would be it. This little scanner is a poor choice for quality scans.

At those resolutions, the scanning time is more acceptable and if you use good conversion software the results can be quite good.

But you need a better dedicated film scanner or a nice ILC-scanning setup to get more detail. ff782bc1db