Epson Perfection 2450 Photo

Advantages Great Look, quality of workmanship, great resolution, speed (USB 2.0 and IEEE firewire connection
Disadvantages Will not scan anything beyound 8.5" x 11" max

...If you are looking for a great performing scanner that would allow you to stretch your creativity to its full capacity, than perhaps you should look more closely to this great product. Epson Perfection 2450 scanner is a truly amazing scanner. The workmanship and ergonomics of this unit are first thing you will notice about this product thus making it a nice addition to your equipment. The slick design (Width: 11.79" (30.4 cm), Depth: 18.74" (47.6 cm), Height: 4.80" (12.2 cm), Weight: 12.8 lb (5.8 Kg) ) will make this unit fit almost anywhere no matter how constricted you are for the space. The unit also comes with a built in transparency unit thus allowing you to scan a wide variety of media (including slides and negatives, without need to add any extra equipment to it). Paired with an appealing design and choice of colors (two... Read review

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...Summary: This scanner for the most part has done very well for my 120 film scanning. It scans film and slides very well, although I did notice some noise in shadow areas in a few slides that were very contrasty, with very bright highlights and very dark shadows, but the midtones were okay. These same scenes were also shot with film (I am talking about Velvia and Reala), as I was testing 2 identical cameras. The Reala scanned very well, with no noise, however the Velvia samples were somewhat difficult because of the contrasty nature of the exposures. The software has prescan editing tools for setting gamma, shadow detail & highlights, color cast removal, a somewhat quirky curve tool, and an automatic button setting exposure brightness. For me, the colorcast tool is helpful, and I just recently experimented with the automatic... Read review

Advantages Fast, Easy to use, Come with film adapter
Disadvantages USB cable is not very long

...This scanner can scan film, negatives and positives (slides) really well, and scans photos at a good enough quality to reprint (with a photo quality printer obviously). It is much quicker than the previous scanner I had and comes with very useful software. Also has quick features such as three buttons on the scanner itself: one to tell it to copy and send straight to printer as a "photo-copier", one to just scan and save in a default directory, and one to scan and attach to a new e-mail. Installation is very straight-forward, took less than 30 minutes to set up. Unfortunately couldn't place it where I originally intended because USB cable is only 1.8m long. But it looks like a standard A to B cable so I think I can replace this. Is not as thin as many scanners, but that is due to the required light for scanning films.... Read review