If you are a serious or semi full time photographer, you are like I am and have drawers full of 35 MM color slides. Many of us have been taking quality photographs for many years whereby shooting a roll of film here and a roll of film there until over the years we have created a monster.


Now with the development of digital photography and computers replacing the old standby darkroom, what are we going to do with all those slides? I welcome the computer age it has made photography much easier and far less expensive. The tasks that at one time took hours to accomplish , now can be done in minutes at very little expense.

The major problem until now has been converting all those slides to a digital image. We only had two choices, buy an expensive Nikon Slide scanner, investing several hundred dollars in the process, or send them off to a foreign land and pay dearly for the copies.

I know I have sent several .boxes of slides off and had to wait up to two months for them to return. Not a good option. Now thanks to Epson, there is a better choice. Epson has created a line of flat bed  photo , film and slide scanners that do a quality job at a decent price.

I myself have an Epson V 300 that I purchased for around a hundred bucks. I was dubious and although the reviews were good, I developed a wait and see attitude. I wasn't disappointed, as soon as my scanner arrived ,    I couldn't wait to test it out.

As I wanted to be fair , I picked a slide of average quality some of my slides were beginning to show signs of aging and I didn't want to try the worst of the lot first. Flat bed scanners have been notorious for delivering a poor quality copy, but not this time. It by far surpassed my expectations.


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Up to this point in time I have scanned approximately 3,500 slides and negatives and am well satisfied with the results. While you may not be able to get exhibition quality prints using an Epson scanner, you probably wouldn't get those results from a 30 year old slide any way. The quality is more than adequate to enlarge to 11x14 or larger.

My Epson V 300 is now ancient in computer years, however it still gives quality results and I'm sure the new line of scanners offered by Epson give the same if not better, high quality results.

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