Features:

• Create crystal-clear photo enlargements and scan slides, negatives, and medium-format film
• Easy Photo Fix quickly restores faded photos with one touch
• Digital Ice technology removes dust particles and scratches from images
• Energy-efficient LED light eliminates warm-up time while allowing faster scans
• 1-year limited manufacturer's warranty

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
The Epson Perfection V500 Photo offers extraordinary quality and versatility with 6400 dpi resolution and an earth-friendly LED light source for greater productivity -- all at an amazing value. Remove dust and scratches from slides, negatives and film. Or, restore faded color photos with one touch. Then, take your photos further with the included Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. When it's time to archive important documents, you can scan multiple documents fast with the optional automatic document feeder. It's all at your fingertips with this powerful performer. Best of all, the energy-efficient LED means you can work smarter with faster scans and lower power consumption. Plus, with no warmup time, it's easier than ever to get started.

Rating : - Perfection indeed.
Don't hesitate to purchase this scanner. I hunted around & checked out reviews before purchasing this, and I truly could not be more impressed. I have had no problems with it in my first few months of steady, daily operation, the resultant photo file quality is superb. I suspected the Digital Ice example as above was probably photoshopped, but it is not...this feature is truly great with faded or discolored negatives, and it does wonders with dust/specks, etc. B&W tends to need a bit of adjusting of the saturation, but again, does a superb job, and saves so much time...Almost every scan of a properly saved negative needs no touch ups at all. Easy to use, top quality, and I can't imagine what more anyone could ask for. I had been taking my old negatives to the local camera shop that supposedly specialized in "digital" transfers & processing, but the Epson V500 surpassed what they had given me and I did these photos over again with much better results. To save a negative at 8x10 size, and at 300 .dpi takes approx. 3 to 4 minutes using the Digital Ice & Grain Reduction features, but it will save you much more time than fixing up the photo doing an untouched scan.

This might not come with the trays to do ALL types vintage negatives, but there is a way to do a raw scan and pick a region, so you can do virtually any negatives, even those nasty old tiny round projector photo discs. Can't say enough about this great product - it has become my new hobby.