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Scanner technology tends to improve over time, benefiting consumers mostly through lowering the cost for a given level of capability. The Epson Perfection V300 Photo scanner ($99.99 direct, which includes a one-year parts-and-labor warranty) is a case ...

Scores well on quality and ease of use for scanning both photographic prints and transparencies (slides and strips of film)

Scans only four slides or one six-frame strip of film at a time

The Epson Perfection V300 Photo scanner scans both prints and transparencies (slides and strips of film) surprisingly well, and even comes with an optical character recognition program.

Excellent image quality ; Scans both photos and film

Inconvenient placement of cable connectors

Scans high-quality photos and film at an affordable price.

The $100 Epson Perfection V300 Photo is a worthy candidate if you're looking for an affordable flatbed scanner. This 48-bit, 4800-dpi, USB scanner is easy to install and use, and it's capable of producing good-looking scans from a variety of originals ...

Excellent image quality Scans both photos and film

Inconvenient placement of cable connectors

With its ease of use and impressive performance, the Epson Perfection V300 Photo is a good bargain, especially if you need to scan film and you want versatile OCR capabilities

I'm a graphic designer. When I was in college back in the 90's- I had a PowerMac & a SCSI Epson Scanner. The PowerMac died before the scanner did & I migrated to a PC & didn't get a SCSI controller since they are expensive. Instead, I got an HP scanner w...

Allows you to scan negatives. Software included integrates with Photoshop well ; Negative trays store on the lid

I haven't done any heavy duty scanning with negatives so none that I can think of

Overall, I am very pleased with this scanner and would definitely recommend it.

I found this a breeze to set up and use. I have done 600 photos so far and it has been excellent. I have just started doing slides and they come out beautiful on 800 dpi. Works very well for doing multiple photos at once and the built in photo corrections...

I have had a couple instances where, after a couple hours of scanning, it gives me "scanner has stopped working" errors but if I turn it off and give it a break it picks back up fine. As others have said, the slide and negative holder does seems delicate...

This works great as a high resolution scanner so long as you only scan small postage stamps. If you want to scan a photo or an entire page at very high resolution, this is not the scanner for you because it won't work. Not a big deal but the lid of the s...

at low resolution settings, it's relatively fast ; the software interface isn't too bad

the software interface isn't too good ; if you want to scan at high resolution such as 4800 dpi, you will be unable to scan a regular size 4x6 photo. It fails with an error that says "Image Size is too Large. Reduce the Resolution or Scale setting or decr...