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Summary: This Scanner Delivers!
Review: After searching for the best price for this scanner, I purchased it from Amazon. By using the free shipping option, the Amazon price was right up there with the best. Now for the scanner...I owned an Epson 1650 photo, which was not suitable for scanning 35mm if you want to print larger than 4x6. After reading countless reviews, I decided to upgrade. I have scanned 35mm color and B&W negatives as well as slides with the 2450. 8x10's stand up to darkroom prints made on my Leica Focomat. In many ways they are better, because I use the included Silverfast software plugin to Photoshop to adjust the image at scanning. Further tweaking in Photoshop renders wonderful prints - better than spending hours in the wet lab dodging, burning and bleaching. I also have panorama negatives taken nearly 100 years ago that are roughly 2.25 x 6 inches. The 2450 with it's 4x9 scanning area outshines the competition, allowing me to scan the entire negative at once. This scanner really delivers with medium and large format - 6x6 cm and 4x5. The resultant prints are stunning - much better than I'm able to achieve in the wet lab. The results of scanning vintage photos for which I have no negatives are also superior. I know a dedicated film scanner would give better results, but I can't pay the $3,000 to $5,000 freight for a 4x5 film scanner. Since I don't plan to go bigger than 13x19 prints, I'm happy as a clam with this setup....
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Summary: Professional Photographer
Review: Buyer Beware. I bought two of these scanners and both were defective. The first one had a large piece of plastic shaving under the scanning glass. The second one did not operate as the scanning light did not illuminate and I had to return that one too. I really liked the features that this scanner offered but I am not convinced of the reliablility of this product and would not recommend. If you decide to buy it-check your unit out closely when you get it home.
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Summary: An Epson Diehard
Review: I am a Mac OSX and an Epson fanatic. I was, however very disappointed when I got my 2450 with a USB 2.0 cable and outdated software for Mac OSX. I had to run in OS 9.1 or not at all. Or so I thought.
I called Epson for advice, they advised me to download the Twain Driver for OSX (from Epson's website) and use my existing Photoshop software(I can be rather slow at times, as well). Bingo. I'm now using the 2450 with a firewire cable and could not be happier. I've never been able to scan and print from negatives or slides, I can now! I really started to think perhaps I had purchased a scanner that was out of my league, balderdash! With some practice my prints from my Epson 890 or 960 are really
top notch. I love this scanner. Obviously I am not a pro but you can't tell it from the prints I can make with the 2450.
I do still have one question. Why offer a unit capable of using USB 2.0 or Firewire and not include a Firewire cable? In my very limited experience, USB 2.0 is relatively new, while Firewire has been in use for some time.
Now that I've gotten over my whining, let me just end with this...
The Epson 2450 is one great scanner.
j.nomograms
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Summary: Very good results with this price
Review: I bought this film scanner to scan a total of 16 rolls 36x, 35mm negatives. My review is soley based on that 16 rolls of 35mm NEGATIVES scanning which I did in 10 days, almost every night. This Epson scanner runs with my P3 600MHz with 384M ram. Pros:
1. Batch mode, which I love most. Save a lot of time to scan it frame by frame. It can scan up to 12 35mm negatives in a single batch. However, make sure you have a fast machine with a lot of memory to save those temp images. I have problem in scanning with 1200 dpi with 12 negatives all together. It always complains not enought memory. 2. Good quality with 600dpi and above. It can scan up to 2400dpi. The color is close to the originals. But as always, you have to retouch the images with Photoshop for better results. 3. Decent price, average [price] street price. It is a pretty good price compares to other brands' flatbed film scanners in terms of quality, functionality and versatility. You can scan negatives, slide, color print, magazine.... Cons:
1. Lousy software interface. Negative scanning always requires a prescan and it takes a few minutes to complete. If your harddrive run of space, your whole batch of images will lose. 2. Slow Speed. Compare to my Canoscan 2720U, which scan a single 35mm negative 2720dpi in about 2 minutes, this Epson will take more than 15 minutes. A batch of 12 35mm negative takes average of 90 minutes for 400dpi, 2 hours for 600 dpi. Conclusion:
It is a very good scanner with this price, providing all those functions that it has. Since it is not a professional film scanner like the Nikon Coolscan4000/8000 which have a digital ICE, make sure you have a few cans of dustblower before you do the scanning.
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Summary: Dead out of the box...
Review: I bought this product based on its rave reviews. I installed the software, hooked it up, and...nothing. Just a flashing red light in the front. When I consulted the manual, its advice was "consult your dealer or EPSON." For a product right out of the box??? I contacted EPSON, and the technician had me unplug it from the power strip and plug it into a wall socket. Not unexpectedly, this did nothing to solve the problem. Then she suggested I contact a repair center. For a brand new product??? I'm returning it to Amazon for a replacement, hoping I just got the bad apple in the lot. But for now, my rating has to stay at one star.
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Summary: An Epson Diehard
Review: I bought this scanner a few days ago, and was surprised by the quality of the scans. I took some 4 x 6 photos(taken with a Canon A-1 from approx a mile away) and scanned them at 1200 dpi. Be ready for some large files. They were about 75 meg for each photo. When I printed (13 x 19) them I couldn't believe the level of detail. I don't think it would be any better scanning photos higher than 1200 dpi. My only complaint is DUST. I can see lots of dust on the inside of the glass, and it shows up on the scans. I have heard it is a problem with these scanners, and there is no guarantee that if I got another one it would be any better. I guess I will have to get good with some software to try to remove the dust.
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Summary: Good Scanner for the Money
Review: I bought this scanner a few days ago, and was surprised by the quality of the scans. I took some 4 x 6 photos(taken with a Canon A-1 from approx a mile away) and scanned them at 1200 dpi. Be ready for some large files. They were about 75 meg for each photo. When I printed (13 x 19) them I couldn't believe the level of detail. I don't think it would be any better scanning photos higher than 1200 dpi. My only complaint is DUST. I can see lots of dust on the inside of the glass, and it shows up on the scans. I have heard it is a problem with these scanners, and there is no guarantee that if I got another one it would be any better. I guess I will have to get good with some software to try to remove the dust.
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Summary: Amazing piece of equipment...
Review: I bought this unit about a month ago, effectively replacing an HP film scanner which I liked a lot & a Microtek flatbed that was a great workhorse for me for years but only scanned about 8 or 16 bits. The prime motivator (other than the highly impressive reviews I found while doing extensive research) was some large format (4X5) transparencies & negatives that I'd had in storage for years & wanted to print. Well, let me tell you, the Epson Perfection 2450 Photo Scanner has exceeded my expectations by miles. I've scanned those 4X5s as well as a bunch of 35mms with superb results in terms of color & resolution. I have also scanned a collection of victorian-era floral chromolithograph prints from old seed catalogs that had previously defied all scanning & reproduction attempts on my part. The output from this unit was amazing. Printed on my Canon S9000, the prints are a close match to the originals, not an easy feat. The Epson interface is powerful & flexible but easy to use. You get a lot of format options, resolution choices, graphics applications interfaces, plus a bunch of other features, in a very friendly format. The previews & scans seem pretty quick. The system tells you in advance the size of the resulting files at various dpi. I've sold the HP - for slightly less than I paid for this Epson - because as far as I'm concerned it was redundant.
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Summary: Professional Photographer
Review: I don't know about other customers, but my 2450 is worthless to me. It looked good and got good reviews and for my interest in photography I thought this was the answer to my needs. I assumed that it really would work with windows XP. That's questionable. Epson doesn't write the SmartPanel software and there have been many issues with that. After having new, updated software installed from Newsoft and the SmartPanel still didn't work, I then received an e-mail from Newsoft which said that there likly would be problems with the new version too. A phone call to Epson brought no resistance and a quick offer of a refund. That alone might have saved a customer for future purchases of Epson products. But not this 2450.
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Summary: Check out the 2450 before you buy
Review: I don't know about other customers, but my 2450 is worthless to me. It looked good and got good reviews and for my interest in photography I thought this was the answer to my needs. I assumed that it really would work with windows XP. That's questionable. Epson doesn't write the SmartPanel software and there have been many issues with that. After having new, updated software installed from Newsoft and the SmartPanel still didn't work, I then received an e-mail from Newsoft which said that there likly would be problems with the new version too. A phone call to Epson brought no resistance and a quick offer of a refund. That alone might have saved a customer for future purchases of Epson products. But not this 2450.
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