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Epson Perfection V350 Photo scanner 4800 X 9600 DPI Auto Film Loader | 
 enlarge | Brand: Epson
Category: CE
Buy New: £77.00
New (24) from £77.00
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 2551
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.4
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 15.8 x 5.5
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
MPN: B11B185032
Model: B11B185032
EAN: 5051749528336
ASIN: B000HVDYLE
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Epson V350 photo scanner with high-rise lid for scanning 3D objects, auto-feed film loader, 4800 x 9600 dpi scanning, easy color photo restoration and automatic scanning of photos, slides, negatives and documents. |
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Product Description
Scanning of high quality photographs has never been simpler! Introducing the Perfection V350 Photo scanner from Epson!In fact, this scanner uses CCD technology with 4800 dpi resolution and 48 bits colour restituition that enable you to easily digitize photos and films with superior quality.The Perfection V350 Photo scanner combines power, simplicity, flexibility and refined design and is equipped with automatic film charger that gives you true scanning productivity. Thus with this scanner, scan all your photos, films and store them easily.In addition, you can restore the best souvenirs thanks to its Epson Easy Photo Fix colour restitution solution.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Manage your expectations! November 19, 2008
Mr. A. R. Pilkington (Sussex, UK)
I bought the V350 primarily because I wanted to scan 40-year old 35mm slides. To say the results were good is an understatement. All of the slides had a strong pink tinge - a film fault (Gevacolour) similar to an over-exposure, and they have been like that since the day they were developed. The V350 comes with colour correction software, and it performed a miracle restoring the original colour to every slide. It was like seeing my past magically come back to life and in faithfully reproduced, crisp and clear colour!
At 1200dpi it took 2 mins to load,scan and save 2 slides as independent images. Now that might seem slow but the scans were 1st class. The slide holder is sturdy unlike some of the competition that use a flimsy strip you have to peel apart.
No doubt there are faster machines and some that can scan more than the 2 slide maximum the V350 offers - but be prepared to pay a lot more! I've not tried scanning 35mm filmstrip yet (hence 4 stars) but so far I have found the V350 easy, intuitive to use and flexible.
Too many people today expect a Ferrari for the cost of a Ford. You get what you pay for and with the V350 it's excellent value for money.
 Truly awful November 5, 2008
David J. Edwards (UK)
Horrendous. After about 10 restarts, for no apparent reason the neg loader starts to work. I wish it hadn't. Slow isn't the word. Grindingly slow barely starts to get there. Agonising, maybe.
After a couple of strips of C41 (nearly an hour), the third came out with images bisected by black bars - it had lost the frame marker.
A less competent, slower machine would be almost inconceivable.
One star, only because you can't give it no stars.
 Does what it says on the box ! June 11, 2008
Spiderpig (UK)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
Wonderful piece of kit, scans film & slides very well indeed, you just need to read instuctions first, though I found it quite user friendly, I had it scanning slides within 30 min after getting it out of the box.
Auto film loader is spot on, a key feature, it does require the film to be undamaged, no kinks or damaged edges and fed in with care.
Sure its a bit on the slow side but the quality of result is very good indeed, software allows for all sorts of repair and enhancement.
It was able to scan repair/restore forty year old film a treat.
A bargain for the casual film/photo scanner who cannot justify the high cost of a dedicated 35mm film scanner.
And of course its a brilliant flat bed scanner when you've finished with film.
Great quality let down by inattention to detail March 12, 2008
Eric Baker (London)
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
I replaced my ailing Epson 1250 (6 years service) with a V350 on the strength of reviews saying its scans are high quality and because the old scanner produced jaggies on slide scans, even at max resolution.
First impressions were not that great - there was nothing to say you should first uninstall your old scanner drivers (I did, luckily) and the V350 install seemed to freeze half way. I was about to kill it but first tried Alt Tab and found a little "Next" window waiting behind the main install window! Sloppy. Then I tried scanning three images at once in full auto (default) mode. It missed one entirely and cropped into the other two - because they were not straight. But it's impossible to get things straight on this scanner because it will not scan up to the edge of the glass! Why didn't they bring the plastic edges over to where it actually starts scanning? Then I tried scanning some slides but it took ages to find out how to do it because the instruction manual is so bad in this area. Eventually I found the locating holes it failed to mention.
Since then things have looked up. I discovered Full Professional mode which puts you back in charge of scans. Plenty of controls and it will even save different settings (eg slides vs photos). Importing scans of transparencies into Photoshop Elements I found the 12800 and 9600dpi resolutions incredibly slow and both would only do one slide at a time before stopping with "out of memory" problems. Luckily 4800dpi scans are very good. They produce 24Megapixel images in Photoshop which are jaggy free and look good when cropped & resized to 5MP or so. The speed is adequate (not fast) and at least you can do other things like browse the net while it's scanning. My old scanner used to keep its progress window on top of everything.
Scanning photos is pretty good. Reasonably fast (eg at 400dpi) and pretty faithful to the originals. When I figure out how to keep them straight (use a plastic ruler as a spacer?) I'll probably feel this scanner merits 4 stars. It's certainly good enough that I'm re-scanning all our remaining transparencies. Fortunately we cut them down from 50+ boxes to just six a while back.
I loaded all of the software offered except Arcsoft Photoimpression but I'm not sure how much of it I'll ever use, as I always scan straight into Photoshop Elements.
So, the price of the V350 is good and I like the quality of the scans but with a bit more thought and care it could have been a lot easier to use.
Nice scans - when it works March 20, 2007
Brian S. Meredith (Exeter)
90 out of 91 found this review helpful
I think for the money the quality of the scans from this device exceeds all expectations. What a shame that it is the most unreliable, fragile, infuriating piece of kit from Epson I've ever encountered. When using the film strip scanner (the principle reason for buying it) it constantly reports film jams (both real and imaginary), and other spurious problems. When I first got it It took three evenings to get it to do more than one scan without rebooting and it continues to frustrate. By the way I'm not a beginner, I'm a graphic design professional and have been scanning at work daily for well over ten years, I just needed something to digitise forty years worth of snapshot negs at home. I'm staying with the V350 simply because the next step up is about 500. If you can live with its highly strung personality this scanner is remarkable value. If you're inclined to be impatient it will drive you mad.
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