Epson PERFECTION 2450

Epson Perfection 2450 Photo

PERFECTION 2450 Review, by Richard Jantz November 16, 2001

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• Reviewed by: ahijado

  Strengths: Ease of use. Color and negative film and transparency scanning ability. Scanning a roll of film is a snap.

  Weaknesses: Scanning software can make mistakes from time to time while scanning negatives or slide film and fails at times when writing pictures to file.

  Overall: I've been absolutely happy with this scanner. It comes with film holders for negatives, slides, and the 4x7 cm and larger format (8x15 cm ?). So that this is a cheap scanner for even professionals and photoshops. The software needs some work though. It does scan everything in full auto mode nicely, but can at times make mistakes. Especially with night shots where there are a lot of dark spaces the program automatically crops out the dark spaces. Scanning negatives and color slides seems slow (approximately 30 min. for two negative strips, or 10 photos) but the quality and full auto capability is very good and makes up for the time spent. One thing that needs to be fixed in the software is when you have scanned a whole roll of film and want to save the pictures it does not give warnings that it is overwriting any files with the same name, so you have to be careful and save files in different folders.

• Reviewed by: orli

  Strengths: Not many products in this price range can scan 4x5 transparencies with this resolution.

  Weaknesses: definitely not a professional tool: Color rendition poor when comparing to original transparency, detail fuzzy, 4x5 holder cuts off edges too much changing full-frame composition.

  Overall: A great product ONLY b/c it doesn't have much competition. I'm hoping for improvement in the next generation of affordable transparency scanners, but for now, the epson products will have to do.

• Reviewed by: elfmtn

  Strengths: great at scanning negs (i do medium format 2 1/4 inch) and reproducing prints

  Weaknesses: can be slow scanning negs at high resolution, sometimes tempermental

  Overall: I bought this scanner because am a professional photographer and do alot of digital work (Olympus E-20 5 megpix) and medium format film and needed to not depend on professional labs to get stuff in a hurry-now on smaller jobs I just get the film developed and print 8x10s from the film. I use three different computers and 2 have windows 98 OS-it's pretty slow on these systems in spite of the fact I have decent memory on both, but I have a laptop with over a gig of memory and OS of Windows XP and it is much faster when scanning negs at higher resolutions. For printers I have HPs (2-1000's, 2-1215's and a 7550 and an Epson 925) and generally get good results with these-I can go on location and produce 8x10's on the spot and print them out (framed and all)-the nice thing about this scanner is that the quality is good enough so that if I need to redo a shot that I got from the lab so that it works in an wedding album I'm assymbling, I can do it on the spot-that gives me flexability that I never had before. It would be nicer if Epson would provide better documentation and software to exploit the abilities of this unit-at higher settings the software they give you doesn't work.

• Reviewed by: jw2003

  Strengths: excellent photo scan, good speed.

  Weaknesses: slow on negatives. Beware of dirt.

  Overall: I only had experiences with 50 bucks cheap scanners before and this one is a whole new world to me. Excellent scan quality on photos. To get good negative scans you need to get familiar with manual settings, and have to change according to the snap, and have to use high resolution and it takes long time (at least 8 min per negative). The first one I bought has some tiny dust particles underneath the glass and they showed up in the negative scan. So I went back and exchanged it in circuitcity and the new one has some too, but don't show up. So I will live with that. I think buyers have to be aware of this problem. Circuitcity is offering $100 rebate on this (off the $371 tag price).

• Reviewed by: fuller

  Strengths: Have spent so much time twiddling negative scanning, cant comment on strengths.

  Weaknesses: Inadequate user manual/ documentation for negatives & slides. Limited to letter size scans.

  Overall: When I used a 10' USB 2.0 cable instead of included cable, had numerous system lockups. Lockups ceased after I used USB hub to extend included cable length & downloaded Epson's software upgrade. Unsure which resolved problem. This was after 2 full days of trying to resolve problem. I've found scanning negatives a complete conundrum. Sometimes the scan produces desired results. Then it will include the template in the scan. Sometimes the negative needs reversing to positive by software. I began making record of settings, but using identical settings doesnt produce identical results. I have spent q week of rather long days twiddling. My preferenc is to scan to or from Paint Shop Pro 7, where I edit, & add captions, before saving the file. I then save the file in both tif & jpg format. My previous flatbed scanner was HP SCSI 3C. I also have HP Photo Smart Photo Scanner. Last night, the monitor began doing quick blackouts when I access or exit Epson Smart Panel.