Product Description

Epson PERFECTION V350 PHOTO 4800X9600DPI AUTO FILM LOADER UK B11B185032 Scanners Scanners

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16758 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Epson
• Model: B11B185032
• Released on: 2007-10-18
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 6.39 pounds

Features

• Makes film scanning simple -scan 35mm films with
• High quality - reproduce every detail and shade
• Fingertip control - access popular tasks at the
• Total support - take control of positive and neg
• Bring images back to life - restore colour corre

Manufacturer's Description
With a stylish design, the Epson Perfection V350 Photo allows easy scanning of photos, film, documents, and even 3D objects. The Epson Perfection V350 Photo boasts a unique Automatic Film Loader that flips out of the top lid, allowing you feed a strip of 35mm film into the scanner. The Perfection V350 Photo also provides maximum resolution of 4800 x 9600 dpi, the same resolution that many professional photographers use for scanning their films and negatives.

The sleek, slim design has a flat scanning area of 8.5 inches x 11.7 inches, and can be used in either the portrait or landscape mode. The high-rise lid opens to a full 180 degrees for scanning large and bulky items. You can even scan three-dimensional items up to approximately one inch thick with the lid closed.

Four buttons let you perform the most common functions with just one touch. Automatically scan photos, negatives and documents using the Start button, and the software chooses the most appropriate settings. Copy documents and print with an easy copy utility. Scan a photo and attach it to a new e-mail message. Or, scan and create a single or multi-page PDF.

Optimize your scans when your originals are less than perfect. Epson Easy Photo Fix instantly restores color to old faded photos so that they appear to have been taken yesterday. Enhanced Backlight Correction fixes incorrectly or under-exposed images. And, with Advanced Digital Dust Correction, you can automatically remove dust on film negatives or slides while minimizing the risk that artifacts will be introduced.

The Perfection V350 Photo includes extra software that gives you the most from scanned images and documents. Whether you're a novice or an old hand at digital editing, it's easy to use ArcSoft PhotoImpression to enhance and get creative with images, using them in calendars and other fun projects. ABBYY FineReader Sprint Plus turns your scanned documents into editable text files, eliminating the need to re-type the document. And, the Epson Creativity Suite makes it simple to scan, save, manage, and edit images.

For home users and amateur photographers, the Epson Perfection V350 Photo lets you scan and produce images with amazing clarity and detail. Easy to use features will restore faded photos, remove unwanted dust, and enhance poorly lit originals. With so many digital imaging enhancement tools housed in a sleek, innovative design, the Epson Perfection V350 Photo is a wise choice for easily restoring and archiving your cherished photos, negatives and slides, while allowing you to scan objects for creative projects and scrap books.

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Customer Reviews

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.

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.