Customer Ratings & Reviews

The hardware is great. Color quality is consistent, it's pretty fast, and it's easy to use. However, the software is really outdated. I'm using it on my Mac. Had to download Silverfast SE in order for it to work on my current operating system. Silverfast works well, especially its dust removal filters, but it's so hard to use. The design is just not user-friendly and it's really frustrating. Opting instead to use the built-in scanning software on my Mac, Image Capture.

After my Epson scanner started malfunctioning and leaving colored digital streaks across my photos, I decided to retire it. Given that I had been using that scanner for the last 18 years and it survived several moves and scanned thousands of pictures, I was set on getting another Epson. I'm not as big a fan of the opening mechanism they switched to over the years, and I worry that over time the catch that suspends the lid open for you will degrade and potentially cause problems with opening and closing the lid. So far I haven't heard anything to indicate that there's signs of excessive stress (cracking/popping/scraping noises), but I handle it a bit gingerly to be on the safe side because I can feel it catch and stick as I'm trying to close it if I'm not careful. Just something to be aware of. The function of the actual scanner is just what I expected though. They changed where the buttons are, and the power button is hidden in a little pocket on the right side, which took me a moment to find, but it's probably better than the rocker switch at the back of the device that they were using. And most importantly, it takes excellent scans and works very smoothly and quickly (relative to the DPI you're after of course). This one has already been used for hundreds of scans, and I think it'll be another good one that I'll be using for years. We'll see how the hinges hold up and I'll update my review if they all of a sudden seize up or snap in two on me. I do still highly recommend this scanner.

I was looking for a dedicated photo/slide/negative scanner to digitize decades of photos. A little research told me that this one was the most-feature rich and easiest to use for the money. My experience with it so far is exactly that. The scanner glass is large, so it can accommodate enlargements. The scanner includes special trays for scanning slides and various sizes of negatives. The software is integrated into the scanner and seamlessly detects the type of image that is being scanned and adapts to it -- negatives are rendered as positives, images are sized to the original, etc. The unit also includes an installation CD for Photoshop Elements (a valuable add-on!) and features for retouching blemishes on the original. All around, a very feature-rich and easy-to-operate machine.

The is my second Epson PerfectionScanner - previous was about 18? yrs old began communicate to my new/fine Dell PC only sporadically. Loved the old Perfection when it worked. This new V600 hits an excellent price point and never disappoints.

I may need to use it for color negs in the future, but for the time being I'm only using it to scan 35mm black and white negatives. Overall it seems really great so far. By default it chooses settings that the software believes are agreeable for the image in question, which is probably good for general consumer use. I like that I can put the software in 'pro mode' and choose levels manually (you set the white, black, and gamma points like a photoshop levels adjustment) to capture maximum dynamic range for further processing, which it seems to do extremely nicely from black and white film. Scans come out around 50mp (excellent!) at 6400dpi and can be a little fuzzy at full crop, but that's to be expected. I wouldn't recommend higher DPIs, anything above 6400 seems to be a shoddy AI upscale and actually has appeared less sharp to my eye at the same crop (and cropping further shows artifacts of this upscaling) but with such high res scans at 6400, that's fine. I've been scanning with unsharp mask on and all other settings off, which gives me good results for additional processing in photoshop. I played with other settings a little but they all seemed to introduce various levels of artifacts when zoomed in, which I wasn't a fan of. It gives the option of tif and jpg formats, which is great. I wouldn't have bought this if it didn't support a lossless format. As others have mentioned, the epson software is a bit dated, but I've had good luck with it so far on windows 10. Aside from failing to recognize the scanner the first time I used it (which was remedied just by unplugging the USB and plugging it back in) it's been fine. The software comes on a disc and I haven't checked to see if it's officially available for download anywhere, though if you're the sort of person who needs to scan film then you probably also have an optical drive somewhere anyway. Overall I'm extremely pleased, and it seems like a great value for scanning film, especially compared to some other scanners I looked at.

I bought this scanner because of the really good reviews: it can do a great job on docs, three dimensional objects, with provisions for negs and slides. The inclusion of Photoshop Elements 9 is a tremendous asset and makes this scanner a fantastic deal, in my opinion. BUT, not thinking of anything negative about updating my new iMac to Mavericks OS X, I did so and I immediately lost the scanner function. Now I can't use the features that make this a great scanner but rather must use the Mac Image Capture feature which is okay but not what I wanted. Epson says they are "working on the driver update" but that means a wait of unspecified time.

I am over the moon excited about this scanner. It is doing a great job with photos, slides, negatives and documents. Set up was easy and use is easy. My only wish is that it was bigger and could scan larger items. Best feature is even when multiple items on the bed, it knows to make them individual files.

I bought this scanner to digitize boxes of old photographs that my parents had. Many of the the scanned images are more clear than the photos. Very happy with the quality, ease of use and the various options for improving the scanned image. Although I used mostly the autoscan and it did a fantastic job. This scanner can scan multiple photos simultaneously and store them as separate images. The Adobe photoshop software has many nice features and is also easy to use. Overall impressed and pleased with my choice of this scanner.

I replaced an ancient HP flatbed photo scanner with the Epson Perfection V600 photo scanner, primarily for genealogy research and photo copying. This scanner is also excellent, better is some ways and worse in one or two, and overall I am quite pleased with it. It has a couple of quirks that I can live with, especially as the price is not ruinous for an amateur like me. I love that it can scan color and b&w transparencies and slides, up to medium-format film, and that the process is pretty easy. (I have found ways to scan larger negatives as long as I am willing to crop the sides significantly.) The included pdf user's manual gives surprisingly good instructions. I also like that included software does a decent imitation of Adobe PhotoShop Elements - it's not quite as capable, but generally it's good enough for my purposes. I just wish it had a spot remover in addition to general de-noise, and the scratch remover seems to be an automated whole-image function rather than something that lets me select a specific line or area. Scratch remover also isn't available on all my scans, despite using identical scan settings, for unknown reasons probably having to do with image size. De-noise works really well for some images and blurs others a little too much - mostly it works well. Color transparency scans are excellent in detail and color accuracy. Color print scans generally are corrected quite well with one-touch color correction to fix color fading/shift on old prints. B&w transparency scans have good detail but do not have the deep blacks and bright contrasts of original prints from these negatives - the images look fine until you compare them to the originals, so they're not bad, just lacking punch. I have to use the software to darken the image significantly to get strong blacks and then increase the contrast by roughly the same amount to restore the whites. Also, the default b&w negative scan setting includes compensation for backlighting, which lightens the image even more, so I turn that off. I started out using the automated scan function, but it does not scan the top and side 1/4" of the image, so you can't line up the photo along the edge of the glass. It also gets confused by photo mounting/framing or other attached components. Switching to manual Home scanning mode fixed these problems - the user defines the scan area, which CAN go to the edge of the glass. The default scan setting, at least for Home, is for multiple Thumbnail images instead of Normal. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out why my photos were being chopped up into multiple images until I read more of the (long) manual and realized I simply needed to click the Normal tab to define a single image. One quirk for which I have not found a solution is that old sepia/browntone photos often come out with browns that are too dense and sometimes with red and gold tones (disconcerting around eyes/faces), especially when some of the editing corrections are used. These images look very good if scanned in grayscale, but sometimes I want to keep the brown/beige tones for historical feel. As brownish photos must be scanned in color mode, sometimes discolorations also throw image appearance off, in many of my cases giving a pinkish cast to some areas. Overall this is a very good scanner. Set-up was easy, and instructions are good. It needs almost no warm-up and can be turned off when not in use, and with LED lighting energy consumption is low. Scans are much faster than with my old HP - fast enough for me, although I'm used to slow scanners. My attitude is that photo scans need a little more time to pull out the details, so I don't expect the super speed of an office-grade copier. I recommend this scanner for purposes like mine (don't know how it would work for a professional photographer, even though there is a Professional scan mode), and I would buy it again. I'm giving it 4 stars overall for the brown/sepia quirk and the lack of contrast in b&w negative scans, even though I'm giving it 5 stars in the areas of overall quality, value, and ease of use.

The scanner is really good for scanning printed photos, but for the old negative films the software it is not user friendly. I am an IT guy, and still I could not get a decent film scan. I have seen the high end Epson scanners results, and there is a big difference, I guess you get what you paid for. For simple tasks this is a good alternative, specially if you do not want to spend almost a thousand bucks for a pro scanner

I loved this scanner. I have hundreds of negatives that I don't even know what they contain and having them printed was a very expensive solution. I have had a great gift for my heart by finding important memories at a fraction of the cost. The quality is excellent. The only problem I can find is that the software comes on a CD and although you can download the drivers from the internet, the editing program does not, solved with my photo editing software.

My Epson V700 gave up the ghost and since I love Epson, I decided to get the latest version of the Perfection 600 Photo Scanner. It is fantastic! Very quick and easy to operate. Makes perfect scans which it keeps in its own folder, making it easy to transfer them to folders on my computer.

So far I have scanned over 3000 35mm negatives and about 100 photos. The set up is easy, just load the negatives into the appropriate holder, place on the glass scanner, close the lid, click on the applicable function of the included software and then you have a nice scanned digital picture. The software program also has image correction features. One issue to note is that if the negative is severely damaged, the correction features try to correct the imperfections, but does not eliminate all defects. This scanner is perfect for scanning all my family photos.

Works great, scans neon colors (which the V36 did not, and UPS also wasn't able to scan). It is very large though, and came with papers that were dated from 2020 even though it was 2024 when I bought it. And a CD even though most modern laptops don't have CD drives. Felt a little worried it had been sitting too long in a warehouse somewhere to work well, but so far so good anyway.

Using this to scan photo prints, and it works well for capturing TIFF files to be edited in Photoshop or other software later. I did test the image adjustment features in Epson Scan software like Dust Removal and DIGITAL ICE, and they introduced unacceptable artifacts to the image - like eyes and mouths of people's faces got cartoon-ified at the edges and shadows. Not immediately noticeable at first glance, but obvious if you zoom at actual size. Anyway, maybe they are helpful for scanning film and slides, but I have not tested that. For photo prints, I would say, keep those features off. And if that's the case, perhaps Epson V550 would suffice. I'm not sure if the V550 is any slower or worse in quality, the website is not explicit, but they appear to have the same hardware specs - except no DIGITAL ICE for photo prints, which as explained above, is fine by me. So ultimately, I am satisfied with the V600, but the V550 is probably the better value if you won't be using DIGITAL ICE on prints anyway.

For scanning 35mm and medium format film I don't think you can do much better at this price point unless you "scan" negatives with a digital camera you already own plus any extras you might need. There is definitely a learning curve and your scans will only be as good as the image present on the film. I suggest watching any of the plethora of tutorial videos out there to get the workflow down. The film I scanned came out fine once I learned how to use this, good enough quality to post online; however I question the scan quality for serious large print work (your milage may vary). I used the Epson Scan software on Windows 10 with no issues, though you can get a license for SilverFast scanning software free if you register with your scanner's serial number if you want another option. This scanner is slow and dated but it can scan both 35mm and medium format film at a decent price. To me, it's worth the time and learning curve to avoid the generally high prices for film scans at a lab.

The scan quality for this Epson V600 is a very good, especially at the max resolution setting, but the scan speed is very slow at that setting. The included software is very basic and does not do a good job of identifying and separating the borders of multiple photos scanned simultaneously. I have not tried scanning 35mm slides yet (not a priority for me) but I plan to do so in the future. When compared to my 8 year old all-in-one HP copier/printer/fax/scanner, the Epson does a noticeably (but not dramatically) better job at scanning photos, which is important to me as I am trying to digitally preserve old family photos at the best quality I can, but the old HP is much faster at this and HP's bundled imaging software is much better (more options & flexibility). In either case, you will still want to use dedicated image manipulation software to get the best possible result for fixing things like color, exposure, and sharpening out of focus photos. Overall satisfied with the scanner hardware but disappointed in the software.

This past Covid winter I took on the project of sorting and digitizing over a hundred years worth of family photos (prints, slides and negatives). My trusty Canon flatbed scanner was being worked hard until I came upon a stack of medium format b&w negatives which the Canon could not scan. A little online research showed that the Epson V600 was the only reasonably priced scanner with the capability to scan up to 6cm x 9cm negatives. I ordered from Best Buy because of price & availability. The V600 has performed quite well for both negatives and print scanning. Operation can be quite simple for document and print scanning although I found the software to be not very intuitive. Trial & error plus a few very helpful Youtube videos have resulted in some very satisfying digitized photos from negatives 70-100 years old. At this price point I highly recommend the Epson V600 scanner.

This is the absolute best scanner I have ever used. I do photo restoring and retouching and this scanner suites me perfectly. The scanner is much faster than any scanner I've worked with in the past. It seams a little bit bigger than I expected, but I have happily made room for it..

Great scanner for both slides and old photos. It is easy to set up and then given to older relatives to use. The ability to adjust the pixels is very important and easy to figure out. Highly recommend when you are cleaning up old slides and photos.