Customer Ratings & Reviews

It does a perfect job scanning pictures and slides. The quality is great. A black and white old picture turned out better than the original. Easy to set up (read all the instructions.

This photo scanner is the "best buy" for the price. It has several different templates that accommodate from small film to oversize negatives, which is the one I needed. It is very user-friendly and easy to understand the scanning process. Some of the negatives scanned were over 60 years old and the quality of the scan was amazing. The only complaint is that Best Buy did not accept our 501(c) status and taxes were charged. Highly recommended the product.

Very easy to use. Does a great job scanning older photos. The slide mounting fixtures make it a breeze to scan a dozen slides at once. Very fast.

Highest of quality, which is exactly what I wanted! Happy with this item, and will be happier when I have more old photos scanned! This is my daughter - she’s almost 25 years old now, and I couldn’t be happier with the quality of this scan!

The scanner works very well. I am pleased with the results. I am a long-time Epson scanner user. I decided to retire my V700 which is in very good condition to upgrade to newer technology. The reason for the low review is the Epson Scan software. They decided to remove the Office Mode option which is needed to easily scan 8.5" x 11" pages. This option has been available in Epson Scan software for many years. I spent much time with Epson tech support to learn how to perform a scan of 8.5 x 11 inch pages using the V850 interface. They told me to purchase a third-party software scanning software. An additional step is required in Epson Scan Professional Mode. First the document must be previewed, then the page size set to 8.5 x 11. This must be done for each page. I purchased Silverfast 9.0 to perform the scans at 8.5 x 11. As a result, I do not recommend this scanner as an upgrade since the interface is not sufficient. Excellent scanner with a useless interface.

This is an excellent professional grade photo scanner with all of the adapters necessary for every type of film negative. We purchased this to be able to scan my mother's old family photos and load them onto an iPad so that she could zoom in and see them with her failing eyesight. At $1200 it was not cheap, but it is *very* good. We were able to scan hundreds of photos and remove some of the scratches, correct for faded colors and even brighten underexposed photos so they we could actually see who was in them. It took a bit of trial and error at first to find the settings that worked best for our photos, and most of the color photos had to be done with a low size or resolution due to memory issues. The black and white ones were no problem. We've only done a few scans of negatives, but the film adapters worked quite well also. We shared the photos with other family members in their 70s and 80s who were so excited to actually have copies of the family photos from their childhoods. If you are looking for a high quality photo scanner, this is definitely an excellent choice.

This is, in my opinion, the best scanner desktop scanner you can get for an affordable price. The image quality is excellent, I wish the film holders were better, they seem sort of flimsy and easy to break. These are on or off the market, scanners are disappearing rapidly, and there seems to be little if any movement to do much further improvements. That being said, if you are in need of a higher end scanner, this one is a jewel. I use it for prepress work and it is easily the best. I recommend VueScan software for it than comes with it, as it is much easier to manipulate it. This is the second Epson high end (Epson V750 previously) I've owned, and the other is still outstanding and serving another job site for me.

I bought the V850 as an upgrade to my V600 that I purchased about five years ago. The V600 is a very good home scanner but the V850 is definitely an upgrade in terms of its capabilities (but the software is basically the same). I am using it to scan thousands of 35mm slides and old negatives and was looking for a way to speed the process up. Not only does the V850 scan at a faster speed it can scan 12 slides at a time, as opposed to only 4 with the V600. It also scans my odd-sized (2.5x4.5 inch) negatives from the early 1900s. Still learning all it does. So far so good!

The V850 works exactly as advertised. I’ve now finished scanning about 500 color negatives with no issues. The machine is comparatively quick and the Epson software easy to use. I’m running the machine through a USB port on my HP Windows 11 PC. Per usual Windows was a bit finicky making the connection at first but has remained nicely connected since then. I’ve been using a Lightroom gallery on the web for sharing pics. It functions well but had only limited security/access features. To date about 6 different platforms have viewed the gallery with no problem.

The Epson V850 scanner is amazing to archive film and photos. I found it easy to use after a little time getting used to the features and I have scanned slides, film and photos with ease. The scan quality is the best I have seen of any scanner. The only downside is the price is a little high.

Does a great job scanning 35mm, 120, 4x5, and larger! Buy the additional wet mount for even more capability! Comes with 2 of every adapter so you can be scanning one and prepping the other!

I ordered the Epson V850 to do a slide scanning project, of well over 10,000 slides. Once you successfully download the Epson Scan, and Silver Fast software, you have your choice of two very good software packages. If used properly, both will give you good results. The Silver Fast software has a higher learning curve, but you can achieve some stunning results with it. The scanner comes with a variety of film holders, which will accommodate 35mm film strips, 35mm slides, and larger B+W and color negative films or transparencies. In addition to being a very good scanner for negatives and transparencies, the V850 is capable of scanning documents and pictures up to 8.5" X 11.7" in size. Finally I would recommend buying a warranty extension, if you plan on doing thousands of scans.

The scanner is fabulous, easy to use, and the quality is superb. We have scanned over 1000 slides in just over a week

I had fun using the scanner. I recently scanned all of my mothers pics she had saved and distributed to all of my siblings. The only issue I had was with the software. I wanted to make all the scans JPG but it would at times change it to TIF so I had to keep an eye on it.

Great machine. Epson quality. Able to scan 8x10 vintage negatives,

Quality of scanner is excellent. Software including silverfast SE plus has steep learning curve to maximize workflow

Love it! It does what I want it to do. I love the preview so I can crop it before the 2nd scan.

Excellent Scanner. I use it for everything from slides to just regular docs. Easy to use and very good results.

Hands down one of the best film scanners in the industry outside of industrial sized units!!!! This scans pretty much all of the popular sizes of film/slides. When you get into higher resolution scanning it is a bit on the slow side but that is expected with this sort of thing. Quality of scans is more than acceptable and have printed 30x40 with zero issue and could easily do larger prints (depending on post production and sizing techniques of course)

Easy to use. I love the fact that I can scan film. It scans fast. Best scanner I have purchased