Customer Ratings & Reviews

I purchased this shortly after finding out my grandma has a few weeks left to live. I wanted to start scanning all her photos so my whole family could have access to these sweet memories. This is a little more complicated to use (just watch a few YouTube vids, it will help!) but it really does the job well!! The color correction is AWESOME. See photos for an example

Works well. To get the best resolution is a little slow but you’re not spending thousands. This photo is from a slide that’s seventy years old

It works good scanning negatives and photo's .. I work with a lot of old photos and scan them larger to work on ... this scanner does a great job with the photos..

I inherited many old negatives, photos & slides. So I'm scanning & making flash drives to give to my sisters & other relatives. I'm excited because so far the quality has been great as the slides I've done are very old.

An excellent flat bed scanner. Its a rarity to find a scanner of this quality at this price point.

We buy these scanners to scan alignment prints for large commercial display graphics printers. This is only scanner that works for this application. We travel extensively with these scanners and they last for years. Pretty tuff in my estimation.

I mainly use this scanner for scanning film photography, and for that it works amazingly.

It's doing a great job so far, I haven't been able to use it a lot but what I did do turned out very well. Not a big problem getting setup, I even lost the CD but downloaded what I needed and worked just fine.

Film photography was getting a little expensive for me so I decided to scan my own negatives which led me to purchase the v600 scanner. It was in my price range and I liked the color. Best decision I have ever made, I have more freedom on how my negatives are scanned and the scanner hasn’t disappointed me yet.

The big problem with this scanner is the inability to scan the edges.... you must move the photo or document away from the edge... this is very time consuming. If you put the photo against the edge it will crop 1/4 inch of the photo or document. So if it is a small photo you will lose a good portion of the photo. It is a good scanner especially for slides. But the edge problem is a deal breaker for me. They even admit to the problem on their web site.

Epson has apparently discontinued the V370, so when my latest V370 broke (hardware), I was forced to buy the V600 at nearly twice the price. As others have reported, prints get cropped if placed as directed in the corner of the scanning bed. Worse, when I tried to scan standard 35mm slides, the scanner indiscriminately scans them in the wrong orientation (landscape/portrait) -- even though they are standard 35mm and placed in the holder as directed. In some cases I could fake out the scanner, and reposition the slide in the holder (contrary to the instructions on the holder) after the preview scan, but this is not a viable solution given the number of slides I want to scan. I got a response from Epson Tech fairly quickly, but three rounds of resetting options, running tests and taking screen shots -- and hours later, there is no solution, just more variations of the problem. Oddly, the scanner will sometimes "read" a slide correctly in one test, then in the next change the orientation of the very same slide in the very same position from landscape to portrait or the other way around. Sometimes the scanner will read the full image but still mis-orient the scan (as in preview #2 in the photo). As for the V370, I wore out two (fog under the glass; platen scrapes the bottom), each after less than 2 years, and two were defective out of the box, so the conclusion is that the hardware is junk. But at least it was relatively inexpensive, and I never had any of the software issues I read about in reviews; I considered it worth the price for the number of scans I got. The V600, at nearly twice the prices is a complete fail. I won't ever get to find out if the hardware is any more durable than the V370 because I don't expect to keep this. None of the 5 scanners (4 V370s and 1 V600) from 3 different vendors came in a box sealed with more than standard packing tape. 2 Photos: A: Slides positioned in the holder as directed. B: Resulting preview (incl. preview #2 showing full image but image still cropped as portrait vs. landscape)

I purchased the Epson Photo V600 from Best Buy about 14 days ago and found almost immediately that Digital ICE does not work with my new iMac that is running MacOS 11 Big Sur. In fact, Digital ICE did not work with the last version of the MacOS 10.5.5 Catalina. I was pleased when I learned that Silverfast was offered for free to correct this problem; however, it's the cheapest version of Silverfast, Silverfast SE and it's outdated (rev 8.8.0.24) from November 2020. So my software is six months old, and my scanner is seven days old. When I tried to update it to the latest version, which is now Silverfast 9 SE without paying the full price, which is $99, there is no discounted rate for registered users, which I am. However, since Epson made a deal with Silverfast, then there's no discounted updates or discounted upgrades. It's like we're not really registered users -- Epson is the registered user, and we received a gift. I don't want a gift -- I want a scanner that works as advertised. The selling point of this scanner is the Digital ICE dust and scratch removal, as it's promoted on both the Best Buy and Epson websites. They even have the Digital ICE logo emblazoned on the bottom left of the front of the scanner. I am very disappointed and displeased, and if I cannot get a discounted version of this update or a discount on an upgrade to SE Plus, for example, then I am going to return it Best Buy as I have nine days left to return it, which I am certainly going to do. I'd rather wait for Epson to come out with a new version of an affordable flatbed photo scanner than have one that doesn't work as promoted. If you have a Mac that's running Catalina or Big Sur, then I recommend that you consider an alternative. Otherwise, be prepared to shell out more than $100 to update it, and even more to upgrade it. I don't understand why Epson continues to sell this product when Digital ICE stop working on the MacOS years ago as well as offering an outdated version of Silverfast that can be updated or upgraded at discount.

I'm only giving this two stars, because I've discovered it will crop the edges of photos when lined up with the edge of the glass, as you would when making a xerox copy (see pic). I dug around in the manual and it says, if this happens, to move the picture about 3 to 6 mm from each edge when scanning. I thought the idea of butting up pics and docs into the top right corner (where the arrow is) was to keep it aligned! I find this extremely annoying, and fortunately, I've had this less than a week, so it's going back a.s.a.p.

Love this for scanning 35mm film. It comes with holders for 35mm as well as 120 film. You can also scan slides and Polaroids/Instax film.

does a nice job, faster than my older one, still learning its operations

$300 for a scanner and after a few months of test scans preparing for holiday orders, I'm ready to make final scans, but the app now has a big line through it and gives me the following error (see screenshot attached): "EPSON Scan.app" needs to be updated." The developer of this app needs to update it to work with this version of macOS. Contact the developer for more information. So I can't even use the scanner. It wants me to contact Epson to tell them to update their app. What a waste of money and time. I'm beyond frustrated.

Artists be warned... If you are going to be scanning large artwork or photo this scanner is Not for you. Just bought it and scanned a piece of art a little larger that the platen. There was a darkening around the edges...after several tries. If you need to make multiple scans to recombine in Photoshop it won't work well. Very disappointed... wast of money for my needs.

I purchased this scanner specifically for digitizing slide photos. At a resolution setting of 600 it takes 6 minutes to scan 4 slides, if that is normal then everything is great... I had 1000 slides to digitize. That's 100 hours to complete this task, it took more than that because I wasn't there all the time and missed my 6 minute cycle many times and added more time to my 100 hours. Did I say this was slow at digitizing slides? I digress, focus - the digital pictures came out pretty good, because I didn't have the ability to view the slides on a screen, hence this purchase, I couldn't tell if the slide was slightly out of focus or the scanner made them out of focus (Most of them came out crystal clear) my guess would be the photographer was out of focus. Size copying - The Artificial Intelligence of the programming sometimes would crop a slide that required no cropping because of darkness on the slide, very frustrating because even if you turned the slide it would still crop it. I didn't waste time trying to figure that out. Ease of use - The programming made the use of this machine very easy, press a button on the scanner then confirm that is what you want and the program takes over. Yeah! Quality of scanned slides - I would say that the quality in color transfer and image capture was excellent, as long as the slide was perfect. Over exposed slides would scan overexposed and the photo correction program included is not intuitive AT ALL to help you in making the photo look normal. I would suggest getting a good photo correcting program that you have used before and know how to use to help you. Overall - I enjoyed using this scanner once I realized its' shortcomings, and would recommend it to anyone who doesn't have to get a big job done by tomorrow. It IS a good scanner, copying photos are the best and the resolution choices are fantastic especially for the price. (With all due respect, it IS "Photo" scanner not a dedicated slide scanner).

This scanner was exactly what I needed for a project involving old family photos. It delivered excellent high-resolution scans that really brought the images back to life. The setup was simple, and it was very easy to use—even for someone not super tech-savvy. The photo quality exceeded my expectations, and I’m really happy with how everything turned out. Highly recommend for anyone working with photo restoration or archiving!

I purchased this scanner for multiple reasons. I enjoy photographing on both 35mm and medium format film, and wanted to be able to save money when processing by scanning my own negatives. This scanner does a great job at scanning both, and offers a good amount of dynamic range from the negatives (DMax of 3.4). Other more expense scanners offer a DMax of 4.0 (And maybe higher), but at a significant price increase. The next and main reason I bought this scanner was to scan my immediate family's library of 35mm film, as well as my extended family's one-of-a-kind photo prints dating back to the early 1900s and, even some earlier, I believe. The scanner does a great job and produces great scans. Probably as good as the average person will need, and even does will under professional scanning (how I am using it). While it's not the very best you can get, it's certainly well geared towards enthusiast/semi-pro level scanning and archiving. If you need the absolute best for archival, you need to look into a commercial scanner, or the V850. This will definitely get the job done for the vast majority of people, including those looking to shoot on film still today. The Epson software is horribly out of date, though, so don't expect that aspect to blow your mind. It works though, and that is what is important. I believe the software is from the early 2000's, and looks like it. It does run and work fine on my 2014 5K iMac, running macOS 10.13.4 (latest at the time of this review), so you should be good to go on any modern platform of macOS or Windows.