
Remove dust and scratches with DIGITAL ICE™ technology. Create extraordinary enlargements (13" x 19", 17" x 22" or larger) from film with 6400 dpi. Plus, with no warmup time, it’s easier than ever to get started. Best of all, the energy-efficient LED means you can work smarter with fast scans and lower power consumption. It’s all at your fingertips with this powerful performer. When it’s time to archive important documents, you can scan multiple documents fast with the optional automatic document feeder. Then, take your photos further with the included Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. Or, restore faded color photos with one touch. Remove dust and scratches from slides, negatives and film. The Epson Perfection V500 Photo offers extraordinary quality and versatility with 6400 dpi resolution and an earth-friendly LED light source for greater productivity — all at an amazing value. Optional ADF to scan multiple documents fast.
True-to-life reproductions with 48-bit color. Built-in TPU — scans slides, negatives and medium format film. New ReadyScan LED technology for fast scan speeds. Easy Photo Fix® restores faded color photos. Dust and scratch removal with Digital ICE®. Extraordinary 17" x 22" enlargements from film. Warm up is virtually nil (it uses LED's) as opposed to the MFU or AIO unit that often take fifteen seconds every time you want to scan. One thing that the scanner from a MFU or AIO is unlikely to have is Digital ICE a feature to remove dust and scratches from film. So just finding a few unreplaceable images makes the cost worthwhile.
I am always amazed that with film negatives they always manage to get separated from the printed pictures and only by using a product like this do you stand a chance of finding that long lost image that frequently cannot be replaced, certainly true as you become older.
It does this job well and indeed whenever I review one of these specialist units I always transfer some of my transparencies and negatives to the PC. It is likely that to want this scanner you have a lot of negatives or transparencies that you want to digitise. Doing a full install takes around 360MB of hard disc space under XP. A raft of software is supplied and you can choose to let it install it all or you can untick stuff you do not think you will want.