The Epson Perfection V500 Photo is one of the most impressive scanners yet for the price, delivering high-quality, fast scans in fully automatic mode.

High-quality scans for prints and film; LED light source eliminates warm-up time

A little weak on office tasks; but that's the trade-off you get for its focus on photos

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Decent Scans

Price

I bought this scanner to scan negatives, as I had it's predecessor (HP reviewed on here as well).

Excellent speed and image quality; good price; holds 12 negatives

Difficult initial setup for me; odd resolution choices; small number of slides fit

This scanner worked well once I figured out how to operate this item. Friends loved the picture I shared in Facebook. Finding the button that operate the scanner became an accomplishment. I am elated with this product.

My old printer had a scanner on it but for some reason it stopped working. So what I did was buy an Epson Perfection V500 Photo - flatbed scanner. IT didn't cost that much. I think I paid like $150 for it. Yes I know It sounds like a lot but really it isn't. Not for everything that it does.

I use this scanner with Mac OS X. The hardware works well and the photo scans are of good quality. The software is another story. Download the drivers from the Epson website. Don't use anything else. Make sure to download the Event Manager as without it nothing works.

Seemed to have all needed features, so purchased V550 to scan large number of old historic family photos. Seems to be OK; other than had to re-load software 3x, before operations were relativley seamless; tho, still infrequently receive ERROR msg when scanning photos, having to reinitialize the SCAN...

Does exactly what I want, need. Haven''t tried the slide/film scanning yet but don''t have many slides left from the ''60''s! Speedy, easy web site!

Very quiet; lid easily stays partially open but well out of the way; super DPI range; immediately recognized and connected to OS X; quick ''warm up''; great controls for pre-scan improvements

Would be nice if it could be shared on the network

Amazing how this machine can scan and produce excellent for the price. Slides,negatives and prints all turn out very close to the original document. I am very pleased with this scanner. Would certainly recommend to others needing one.

Overall, it's a good scanner if you use Professional Mode and adjust the image visuals manually. I do have two major problems with it though. First, a big issue with the software - the most logical option would be to allow people to adjust the marquee / image selection SEPARATELY from the image...