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Epson Perfection V700 Photo Color Scanner Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very functional, nice, easy
Comment: The V700 is a very functional piece of equipment. Installation was shockingly simple, as simple as much lower-end scanners. I love it when a new device integrates with no issues. I set up the scanner, ran the install software, turned it on and got the drivers from the disk. It was immediately available from Photoshop. So I grabbed a picture off the desk and scanned it. It came through, with nothing but default settings, at a higher quality than I expected. The V700 is demonstrating it's worth right out of the box.

When scanning, you can take control of the method and image. It has a full-auto mode, which I used on that first scan, a home mode, which gives you some control, and a professional mode, which gives you a pretty high-end set of controls over the scanning method, image types, image quality, etc. It's all intuitive and easy to use, which is good since there is no printed manual. There is an online guide though. Reading through the guide, the instructions are clear and concise, so doing something like setting up negatives for scanning is easy. You can start scans from the V700 as well as from software. My wife, the graphic artist in the house (I'm tech support), prefers to pull the scans from Adobe Photoshop, which worked like a charm.

The scanner comes with templates for use with film. There are several for most standard sizes of negative. There is also a slide template. They're a bit difficult to orient correctly at first, but the documentation cleared up any issues.

Setting really high quality scans did result in longer scan times (MUCH longr), but the output was simply amazing. I was able to scan negatives (and it's not something I've had good luck doing in the past). Actually, scanning the negatives was fun. You have to get the right side up though. Again, image quality coming out of the scanner was pretty stunning.

Overall, this was an outstanding experience. The V700 is so easy to set up and use, it's kind of hard to believe it's nearly a professional level machine.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A serious scanner for important scanning jobs
Comment: There are many reasons one would one to purchase a scanner like the Epson Perfection V700. You might be a professional photographer wanting to scan your older work. You might be an amateur wanting to scan many old family photos. Either way, you might find something you want in this product.

I, for one, am an amateur photographer but I also have been working to scan in thousands of old family photos and negatives. I have previously spent hundreds of dollars getting the scans done professionally and if you do not have the time to scan the photos yourself that is an option. However, if you have the time and patience you can look at this scanner to do the work. But beware, you will need to learn how to use it because it's not just "push a button and watch it do the magic." This is a professional piece of equipment.

First, this scanner does an excellent job of producing quality images. For the price, you are getting very good quality. It is certainly above the typical scanner, as it should be. There is very little that compromises the quality of this scanner's product.

This scanner allows you to scan multiple slides at once (many more than other scans normally would). That's a great feature, but the ability to batch scan combined with the dual lens system and other features makes this scanner a hefty piece of equipment. The preview image on the product's page looks big, but you have no idea until you actually receive this item.

I have heard some complaints about the plastic film holder and other plastic pieces. While I would prefer to have a more sturdy construction in areas, I do not mark that as a complaint. The scanner is well-built and I feel comfortable that I will own it for a long time without many problems. However, the downside to a lightweight, plastic film holder is that if you aren't very careful your images might not scan properly (and might not be up to the quality they should) due to their placement against the glass (or not).

The software is somewhat easy to use but you will have to walk through many features to understand it all. Installation was a breeze and it's worth giving their software a try. But you can always use the scanner with other imaging software as well.

Overall, I'd recommend this scanner to most people, especially a professional or to those wanting to scan a large quantity of photographs. Just be prepared to work for good scans.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Four half stars, mostly perfect but not quite. For serious photographers.
Comment: My father in law, who has been scanning in thousands of slides, negatives and photos going back at least 60 years brought samples of every kind of photographic data to my house to test out this scanner.

In the past I have scanned in many, many 35mm with a Canonscan 9950F.
This scanner needed more stringent evaluation, it is obviously a powerhouse designed for serious users.

We set up on DELL XPS 600 with Windows XP. Hardware setup easy, even for beginners. Someone with experience would not even need directions.


Tried the scanner with 35mm slides, 35mm negatives, black and white color photos of different levels of quality. It worked well with all of them and was able to restore poor quality photos automatically. He had some slides that are in 7mm square cardboard frames (Ektacrome) takes more creativity to fit into the holders and has to be sort of kludged together. Those of us with some really old photographic material would appreciate the flexibility to perhaps purchase other holders for stranger sizes. Understandably, they would not be included since most people would not need them.

Color restoration on AutoScan was ok, but not Photoshop quality.
Professional mode has many good choices of setting and produced superb results. Digital Ice works well to remove dust.

We could not figure out how to do multiple scans in professional mode. This may be due to the designers figuring that if you are using professional mode that you want to tweak the inputs yourself. Went to create new field for storage and everything disappeared and had to spend time figuring out where the scan was sent.


It is an excellent idea that that transparency feature is built into the machine. Top does not flop down easily, might not seem like a big deal but makes the media much easier to load when you don't have to hold up the top with one hand. Scanning multiple pages to pdf is great and very functional. The computer file user guide was useful.

This is not a scanner for you if you want a simple product to input a few family photos. If you are serious about digitizing years worth of photos or want to do specific detail work with your pictures then you may want to invest in it. It has more flexibility than most scanners for digitizing images.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: If This Scanner Were a Man, I'd Marry It
Comment: My first scanner was an itty bitty Canon LiDE 30 and from there I moved up to an HP all in one that didn't scan any better or faster, then I got an Epson V500 photo and slide scanner and was in scanner heaven. I scanned my slides without effort and was a very happy scanner.

Now along comes the Epson V700. Boy I thought the V500 was big. This baby makes that baby look like a baby. This is one humongous scanner. But does size make a scanner good. I don't know, but this is one super scanner. With the V500 I could scan four slides at once, but now I can do an even dozen. Imagine, scanning a dozen slides at the same time.

I am so giddy every time I slide something onto the tray to scan, this is really a professional piece of equipment. Gotta have room for it though, because as I said, it's big, but it works a treat. The scans are beautiful. The V500 is the queen of scanners, of that I have no doubt, but the V700 is truly the king of scanners. It is simply a beautiful machine. If it were a man I'd divorce my husband and marry it, that's how much I love this machine.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good scanner
Comment: So far I am really happy with this scanner. Images are sharp and the color is accurate. You can scan 4 strips of negatives at a time, or 12 slides at a time, which is important to me because I still have a lot of film to scan. My other scanners only scan 2 strips of negatives, or 4 slides at a time. About the only thing I can really find fault with is it's appearance; it's big and ugly, but so what?

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