Took some time to master the controls (my incompetence not Epson) but once up and running I would have to describe it as a good buy. Reason for 4 stars only is the poor quality of the film carriers. Perhaps there is a reason they are so flexible and seemingly delicate. If so the reason escapes me.

I bought this over a year ago and finally got around to doing what I need to do, which is start scanning a few thousand 35mm slides taken from about 1970 to 1990. After studying the manual and experimenting, I settled on a set of scanning parameters and decided to use the TIFF file format for master...

Wish I could give this two rankings, one for the size and packaging and the other for picture quality. Let's do the pic quality first. Scanning chromes, and black and white negs is a joy. It's a nice scanner, great detail even when upsampling to 2400 dpi. Crisp and sharp with good range and tone.

I've had a number of scanners over the years from multiple manufacturers. I had a bunch of photos and slides that I needed to process and was dreading the amount of time it would take on my trusty old Canon 8400F, so I decided to upgrade.