EPSON FastFoto FF-680W (Best Photo Feeder) Epson Perfection V850 Pro (Highest Quality Scanner) Canon CanoScan Lide 300 Scanner (Best For PDFs) Plustek Photo Scanner (Best For Multiple Photos) Epson Perfection V600 (Best Flatbed Scanner) What We Looked For In The Best Mac Photo Scanners.The software is decent enough for a casual user, but photographers looking for added control will definitely want a more sophisticated package. Speaking of the modes available in the scan software, there are four: fully automatic, home, office and professional, with each affording slightly more control than the last. Ideally, if you are serious about restoring prints you'll need to enter into the professional mode of the Epson Scan software, and then adjust tweaks (such as curves and colour balance) in your post-processing software of choice. Sometimes the colours would be a little more solid, and others, the colour would 'bleed' out into the surrounding Polaroid frame. Initialising and sending a scan to a JPEG file using the automatic settings took just under 40 seconds.Īs for the colour correction, it was rather hit and miss over several attempts. The flatbed scanner was the first to get the testing treatment, so we placed a Polaroid onto the plate to see how it would cope with a standard scan, and then colour correcting for the faded film using the tweaks in the Epson Scan software. After everything has been set up, you can initiate the scanning procedure using the buttons on the front of the scanner or through the Epson Scan interface. Installing the scanner software is relatively straightforward, and you can choose to install selected items of software (such as drivers and OCR only) or the entire lot in one go. Unfortunately, the software provided with the scanner doesn't allow you to profile or calibrate the scanner in any way so to get the most out of the final scans it's going to be necessary to get a bit of Photoshop action (provided along with the scanner in its Adobe Photoshop Elements guise).

Like most consumer scanners the V600 uses an LED light source. The V600 comes with film holders that can take 35mm, 120 film or slides.Īs for the specifications of the scanner, the maximum resolution the V600 can achieve is 6400dpi at 48-bit colour depth. Open up the lid, and underneath you'll see the removable flatbed padding and the glass plate onto which you place paper, photo prints or transparencies (after removing the padding though).

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