Epson Perfection 2450 Photo Scanner

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• Shipping Weight: 13 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005OCWM
• Item model number: B11B149011
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 17, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
The Epson Perfection 2450 brings professional-quality scanning options right to your home desktop. Possibilities include batch scanning of film negatives, as well as a number of settings that let your determine specific priorities for each project. The 2450 is an excellent choice for the devoted photographer who demands both high-speed processing and exquisite attention to detail.

Designed to process slides, photos, filmstrips, and transparencies, as well as plain old text, this scanner offers stunning 2,400 x 4,800 dpi resolution. Equipped with a 4-by-9-inch transparency unit, it also delivers 48-bit color at remarkable speed, processing full-color graphics at 11 milliseconds per line. The built-in zoom feature provides a range of 50 to 200 percent, supplying plenty of options for enlarging or cropping your final prints. A cold cathode ray lamp is used as the light source, an economical choice that provides hours of efficient, powerful lighting. Maximum scan size is 8.5 x 11 inches, large enough for most office documents as well as your favorite vacation shots.

The USB 2.0 and FireWire (IEEE 1394) connectivity ensure the fastest data transfers, as well as rapid setup; you'll be e-mailing those family photos in just a few minutes. The included software bundle is designed to help you edit and organize your images, and includes LaserSoft SilverFast SE, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Epson Smart Panel, and Epson Twain. Epson provides a one-year warranty covering parts and labor.

Product Description
The Perfection 2450 offers exceptional quality for the professional and enthusiast, with outstanding resolution and a photo adapter as standard for high-resolution transparency scanning. Coupled with the high resolution are both FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces for connectivity to modern PCs and Macs.Featuring an alternate MatrixCCD with Epson Micro Step drive for high sub scanning resolution, the Perfection 2450 Photo series can capture maximum image detail. The Perfection 2450 Photo meets a variety of requirements. Its high speed is ideal for general image and document scanning whilst its built-in transparency unit can be used for scanning negatives and transparencies and is ideal for amateur and professional photographers alike.

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194 of 197 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A dream product, March 4, 2002

By	Electronics Fan (NYC) "cybersa" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

I needed a scanner mainly for scanning my old prints, negatives and slides. Initially I was going to buy a cheaper photo scanner (Epson 1250), but was disappointed by its poor quality.

The 2450 has exceeded my expectations. From prints or negatives, it is producing superb quality scans, and it does it FAST. A few comments from my experience so far:

- The scanner comes with an excellent bundle of software. TWAIN is a great product - very user friendly UI for all types of scans (scan to file, print, email, post to the Web). Not too happy with SilverFast though (bad UI and unstable). Photoshop Elements, although a learning curve is needed, is excellent photo editing tool.
- Unless you have to print a HiRes photo over 8x10's, use 300dpi: you'll get the same results as higher resolutions, and is much faster (scanning a color print at 300dpi is ~30sec, compared to over 5min at 1600dpi.
- If you scan at 1600dpi/48bit, be prepared for huge amount of computer resources for processing the image, both by TWAIN and Photoshop. I have a 2.2GHz P4, 1GB memory, and when I tried to scan a large photo at 1600dpi, about 500MB of memory was used (good thing TWAIN displays how much mem is needed prior to the scan). Photoshop's performance was also degraded.
- After some experimentation, I'm getting best results by making some pre-scan enhancements via TWAIN (mainly Gamma & Color adjustments), and add final touches with Photoshop. Assuming you have the time to spend, this will be a fun thing to do, and will feel great when you see that with a decent photo printer you can produce better photos than your originals!
- The scanner works fine with XP. Its drivers are not certified by Microsoft for XP, (which means you have to manually install the drivers that come with the scanner), but so far I had no problems.

I think this is one of the best buys I made. The only concern I can think of, is its size compared to other scanners (shouldn't be a problem to most of you, unless you live in an apartment in Manhattan as I do...). You can get a scanner at half price or less, but if you need to digitize your photos and slides, this is the way to go.

61 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Scanner Delivers!, June 28, 2002

By	DougMac "Doug" (Macon, GA USA) - See all my reviews

After searching for the best price for this scanner, I purchased it from Amazon. By using the free shipping option, the Amazon price was right up there with the best. Now for the scanner...

I owned an Epson 1650 photo, which was not suitable for scanning 35mm if you want to print larger than 4x6. After reading countless reviews, I decided to upgrade. I have scanned 35mm color and B&W negatives as well as slides with the 2450. 8x10's stand up to darkroom prints made on my Leica Focomat. In many ways they are better, because I use the included Silverfast software plugin to Photoshop to adjust the image at scanning. Further tweaking in Photoshop renders wonderful prints - better than spending hours in the wet lab dodging, burning and bleaching.

I also have panorama negatives taken nearly 100 years ago that are roughly 2.25 x 6 inches. The 2450 with it's 4x9 scanning area outshines the competition, allowing me to scan the entire negative at once. This scanner really delivers with medium and large format - 6x6 cm and 4x5. The resultant prints are stunning - much better than I'm able to achieve in the wet lab. The results of scanning vintage photos for which I have no negatives are also superior.

I know a dedicated film scanner would give better results, but I can't pay the $3,000 to $5,000 freight for a 4x5 film scanner. Since I don't plan to go bigger than 13x19 prints, I'm happy as a clam with this setup....

55 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, affordable medium-larger format scanning is here!, April 30, 2002

By A Customer

I needed a higher resolution than 1200 dpi for scanning 120 film, and I am glad I finally decided to go get this one after reading so many reviews at so many websites on this wonderful scanner. Epson must have thought of us serious but non-professional photographers who want great scans to produce sharp (if need be) and excellent quality prints but can not or will not shell out [the money] for a medium/large format film scanner.

I venture to say this scanner is fine for professional use also. Epson's smart panel software is fine, pre-scan editing features are many and quite useful, especially the color cast tool for negative film. There is a gamma set slider, brightness and shadows sliders, and you can save any settings for film used on a regular basis, or for batch scanning, especially 35mm slides and negatives.

You can make a mask out of flat black matting or mounting board if needed for different templates for batch scanning 2.25 sq film or 6x7, 6x9. The area for film scanning is 4"x9". The scans may seem a bit soft at first, but my scans have responded well to unsharpmasking once I got to Photoshop. My first A3 size print on heavyweight matte with my Epson 1280 came out razor sharp. ...

This scanner comes with Photoshop Elements-the advantage over PS 5 LE is the history palette-very useful for undoing a certain step if necesary. Photoshop 5 LE has a curves graph, something missing from PS Elements. This scanner picks up shadow detail very well; at 100% magnification, the detail is there to see. I have had very little noise with only one scan, and that can be fixed in your editing software (try gaussian blur w/ the magic wand tool).

I am simply amazed and very happy at the image quality from this scanner, and 48 bit scans, at that. I have a 4000dpi scanner for 35mm, but this one does quite well for getting 8x10 inch prints from 35mm scans (at 360 print resolution-larger at a smaller print resolution), and is convenient and fun to use. Silverfast also comes with this, and if you upgrade to Silverfast HDR you can edit in 48 bit mode also-keep all that detail!

If you are looking for a great medium format scanner, you do not have to pay a small fortune-it is all right here. With a fine pre-scan software package, 48bit scans, Silverfast AI and Photoshop Elements, warm up Epson's 1280 printer for some nice 13x19" prints and VOILA! You ARE there! ...