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Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner |
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| Digital Camera Printer or Scanner : Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner and Customer Reviews |
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- 4,800 x 9,600 dpi resolution, 4.0 Dmax, 48-bit color, 16-bit grayscale
- Adapters for slides, film strips, medium format, and 4-by-5 film
- Epson Easy Photo Fix and Digital Ice technology
- Adobe Photoshop Elements, LaserSoft Imaging SilverFast SE 6
- USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces, PC and Mac compatible
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Price: $449.99 |
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| Product Description |
| Box includes Epson Perfection 4990 scanner, quickstart guide, power cord, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, scanner software, USB 2.0 Hi-speed cable and 4 Film holders. The Epson Perfection 4990 Photo is an ideal tool for the professional photographers and enthusiast. This high-performance scanning solution can handle all standard film and photo formats, restore torn or damaged originals and deliver stunning quality scans. Printing, enlarging or archiving is simple, and with its 4.0DMax optical density and the large 8 x 10" film adapter, users have the flexibility to to scan multiple film formats and in large volumes. The increidble 4800 x 9600dpi resolution retains the quality and color of your originals. Supports USB 1.1 and 2.0, FireWire Humidity - 10% to 80% without condensation (Operating) Dimensions(WxDxH) - 11.9 x 18.75 x 5.28 (304 x 476 x 134 mm) Weight - (6.7kg) |
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| Photo Printer or Scanner Reviews Writed by Customer
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Good, but not Great
2008-01-21
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I bought this scanner based on the number of positive reviews that it had received. It is a good photo scanner, but I'm not so sure a great photo scanner. Perhaps it's just Epson's default settings, but I'm not a professional so I place a lot of faith on it being right 'out of the box'.
I have a less expensive HP 5370C that does a much better job on transparency scans (slides, negatives, etc.) I also do a lot of line art scans involving pastels. The 4990 Photo is inconsistent to say the least. Some pastels it can interpret fine, some it just washes out and with others, it doesn't even come close to what the actual color is.
It does some things pretty good, but at this price point I was expecting more.
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Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner
2007-12-07
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| This is my fourth scanner, and with it, I can do practically everything. with very hard work, I scanned my 14000 slides with an older scanner - with this one I could have done it more that twice as fast. It even scans the very small negatives of my wife's old Minolta quite well, not to mention the 500 4X6 negatives I scanned. Normal scanning is a snap. I can recommend this scanner to anybody who is willing to spend a bit extra for versatility and quality. |
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a disaster
2007-10-17
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| After two weeks of trying to implement e-mail instructions from Epson, this scanner still refused to work. I returned it to seller and was informed it was phased out by Epson. Good! Now no one else will suffer the frustrations of trying to get this scanner to operate. |
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Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner
2007-10-12
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| This might be more than you were planning to spend on a scanner, but you won't be sorry. Seems well made and produces outstanding scans. I have been using it for photos and some quite old 35mm slides and have been very pleased with the quality, speed and ease of use. |
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Excellent in just about every way
2007-09-28
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I've been looking for a way to scan slides and negatives and tried an Acer ScanWit a few years ago. But it was SCSI, could only scan four slides or one negative strip at a time and removing dust and scratches from the resulting images was really tedious. So I gave up pretty quickly and put the binders of negatives and slides back on the shelf.
Finally, last month I figured I'd try again. Read the reviews and settled on this scanner, mostly because a) I have a 5+ year old Epson 1640SU that I've been happy with; b) prefer Firewire over USB2 because there are no bandwidth-sharing issues (long story); 3) it claims to have Vista support.
Turns out the Vista support is kind of a an illusion: the software in the box is for XP, but I did manage to download a Vista TWAIN driver for this scanner from the Epson website. That may change in the near future, but it's a little misleading when you're expecting an out-of-the-box experience.
I never did get the SilverFast software to work on Vista and couldn't figure out from the SilverFast website if I could qualify for a free upgrade. So that leaves kind of a bad taste, but...
This scanner is wonderful, and even the Vista issues aren't grounds for removing even 1/2 a star. So far, I've scanned the 600+ slides from the 1980s (that went surprisingly fast even though it only does 8 at a time) and I'm on my first binder of negative pages and the counter is up to 915 images as I write this. I have Photoshop CS3, but I find it more convenient to scan using ACDSee, which is what I use to organize the 60GB of digital photos that these slides and negatives will be stored in. I'm scanning both 35mm slides and 35mm negatives at 3200DPI, which is equivalent to a 10mp digital camera. I am converting to low-compression JPEG (the resulting TIFFs and PNGs are absolutely huge and I didn't see much difference after converting to JPEG), and each image is about 2MB after conversion. Scans take a long time: with Digital ICE turned on, it takes about 6 minutes per slide or negative. It can scan 8 slides or 24 negatives at once, but my negatives are cut into strips of four images, so the actual rate is 16 negatives at a time, with an occasional straggler.
So I normally mount the slides/negatives in their holders and do a preview scan, which takes about 30 seconds. The Epson software nearly always frames the slides/negatives correctly. I then rotate the individual images in the preview window if necessary, check "color restoration" for slides that have faded (a great feature that does a fantastic job--I haven't had to use it on negatives, but definitely for many of my slides), then select all and check "DIGITAL ICE Technology" and "Medium unsharp mask". I've scanned many images with and without ICE and it makes a world of difference. Scans take twice as long with ICE enabled, but I don't really care since this is a long-term project and I'm not waiting for the results and it's so much faster than removing dust/scratches manually with Photoshop.
The only flaws in images I've seen are a lot of grain in some slides, which is a problem with the slide and not the scanner -- I rescanned with grain reduction turned on, which did an amazing job. A worse problem: some of my negatives are curled, and I'll occasionally get a moire rainbow pattern horizontally down the middle of the worst negatives -- usually those at the right end of the strip, the furthest from the supporting edge of the holder (I wish the holder clamped the negative between transparent panes, but it just kind of floats there). I've been able to compensate by rotating the negative 180 degrees and rescanning the worst cases, but most of the time it wasn't a great image to begin with and I didn't care and it wasn't worth the time to rescan it (I can fix it in Photoshop if I do care).
I've also scanned a few prints with outstanding results, especially in dark areas. The ICE for prints doesn't work as well as the ICE for slides (it appears to be a different technology) and I've had it mistake features in the print itself as a flaw. But I found it's safe to run it at the lowest setting as long as I inspect each scan and rescan without ICE if there's a problem.
I'm still using my old Epson 1640SU for documents (it has a sheet feeder) but I did scan a few pages with the 4990. At 300DPI or 600DPI, it's much faster than the 1640SU (actually, it's amazingly fast) and works well with Paperport. A feeder would be nice, but for the $200+ that would cost (if Epson even offered it), you could pick up a cheap scanner dedicated to office functions, or even an all-in-one printer.
So there you have it. I consider the complaints minor and see no reason that this scanner deserves anything less than five stars.
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