Comments about Epson Epson Perfection V750-M Pro Photo Flatbed Scanner, 4800 x 9600 dpi, 48 bit, built-in 8" x 10" Transparency Unit, USB 2.0 & FireWire:

This is a remarkably easy scanner to set up and use right away. Sure, I haven't used all the bells and whistles, but I purchased it to prepare for a pressing exhibition of my vintage photo images. It has saved the day for me as I have been able to achieve highly successful scans from my older slides in a brief period of time .

Comments about Epson Epson Perfection V750-M Pro Photo Flatbed Scanner, 4800 x 9600 dpi, 48 bit, built-in 8" x 10" Transparency Unit, USB 2.0 & FireWire:

Scanned about 5 photos over 2 year period. Now doesn't work. Customer support knows it is a common problem. Works well as a place to stack stuff on that is about it. You will expect more from a [$] scanner. Look elsewhere. If i could give it zero stars i would

Comments about Epson Epson Perfection V750-M Pro Photo Flatbed Scanner, 4800 x 9600 dpi, 48 bit, built-in 8" x 10" Transparency Unit, USB 2.0 & FireWire:

Excellent color restoration on old photos.

Comments about Epson Epson Perfection V750-M Pro Photo Flatbed Scanner, 4800 x 9600 dpi, 48 bit, built-in 8" x 10" Transparency Unit, USB 2.0 & FireWire:

This is an excellent scanner if you've got a lot of scanning to do and want the best possible photographic quality. I'd have given the scanner itself 5 stars if I hadn't had a bit of trouble with the software that came with it.

I got this scanner to replace an old Epson flatbed that just wouldn't work with my ever-newer computers and couldn't do 35mm slides with anything resembling decent quality anyway. I also need to scan in a whole bunch of slides and filmstrips, including some 1940s-vintage Kodachromes. I have an (old) dedicated slide/film scanner, but I never could get it to work with the newer Macs (my main computer is an 8-core Mac Pro)--the SCSI to Firewire converter simply wouldn't work with it, even though it was supposed to. I also do "scanner art" (scans of physical objects), which you can really only do on a good flatbed scanner.

I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the slide scans with this scanner, even the antique Kodachromes. Scans of reflective images--photos, graphics, documents--also come out very well. And scans of objects (the "scanner art") are excellent!

As long as the slides I was scanning were relatively clean, a light dosing of Digital ICE cleaned up most of the remaining dust/scratch problems adequately. Color reproduction (after calibration, which wasn't straightforward because the files needed were not on the CD that came with the scanner and I had to find them online) and resolution on the slide scans were as good or better than what I get on the dedicated film scanner, with vast improvements in the time it takes to scan them (using a significantly faster and more powerful computer than the slide scanner is attached to, which helps). The 12-slide mount is not bad, and focus seemed to be correct with the default mount settings (I tried the two available adjustments, one that sets it a bit closer and one a bit further away, but the way it was set out of the box seemed best). I have not yet tried the fluid mount attachment, but will do so in the near future to see what the results might be, particularly with older slides/films, some of which will have scratches and other damage.

My only complaint is about the Silverfast AI software which, while powerful, would be quite confusing to anyone who's not used it before (I have, though not this version). The manual, which I downloaded, is HUGE and not particularly helpful, though for someone who is familiar with prior versions of the software, you can probably find what you need. But my real problem was that Silverfast was initially completely unstable. When the scanner was first attached to the Mac (via Firewire) at first it didn't work at all--it simply wouldn't see the scanner, even though the Epson software did. Then, after multiple uninstalls and reinstalls, it would work for a while, then lose the connection with the scanner in the middle of a scan or a batch of scans (I was trying to do 12 slides at a time). On the recommendation of the Silverfast support folks, I switched to USB, which helped, but I had to switch USB cables a couple of times before it would be mostly stable (the longer the cable, the more unstable it was). The Epson scanning software, which was pretty stable (though it didn't like the longest of my USB cables either) doesn't provide enough flexibility for batch scanning of slides (the function that "finds" the frames has a tendency to chop off parts, even when you set preferences to the largest possible size, and you can't adjust the frames after the fact).

Anyway, this is an excellent scanner and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants the best possible quality scans of their photos, slides, films and objects.