Review on Experience Ultimate Color Accuracy with Epson Perfection V600 Colour Flatbed Scanner by Seunghyun Nahm ᠌

Name: Experience Ultimate Color Accuracy with Epson Perfection V600 Colour Flatbed Scanner
Item: Experience Ultimate Color Accuracy with Epson Perfection V600 Colour Flatbed Scanner
Rating: 4

November 28, 2022

I'm satisfied, the product is exactly as described.

Bought to scan old slides, films and photographs. Digital ICE often helps, but also adds artifacts (Without this feature, it scans an order of magnitude faster). Periodically, the work of Digital ICE on old photos is not noticeable at all. Delivered from USA in 2022. With the shipment and purchase of a 220V power supply (I had to tinker), it cost 10 thousand. (a year later in 2022 it was more expensive, not to mention the price after the devaluation). In general, the device is very worthy, although of course I would like to see better software. Since I didn’t particularly notice the sense of the infrared scanning mode, it’s not a fact that I would buy such an expensive scanner for photos and slides again.

Pros

Fast (if you do not turn on the infrared mode). The resolution is far greater than what might actually be needed. Removing dust and scratches (scanning in infrared mode). Automatic photo correction modes help a lot (not as high quality as manually, but they save time when scanning a large archive). Photoshop Elements included (not the latest).

Cons

Very weak software, did not expect this from Epson. Background correction never worked. Can't find borders of multiple photos automatically. Cannot align a crookedly placed photo (when there are several of them, this is critical). It is very inconvenient to fix the film in the holder. Pulling out slides within frames is not very convenient. The settings are saved disgustingly (if there are several photos, then it is better to change them first, and then start selecting areas with a photo). Software on Win 7 crashed many times. There is software for Linux, but only for primitive scanning. Fine Reader comes with a very old one, incl. there is no use for him.