TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Another vote for the V600

NBBPH Loc: Indiana

I use a Canon Canoscan 9000F flatbed scanner for prints, slides, and negatives and have had excellent results.

Bear123 Loc: Wild & Wonderful West Virginia

Same here and you can set the Canoscan to open the file in Photoshop for post processing.

CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida

The actual scanner portion of Epson scanners is pretty much the same. The speed of copying, features to allow for negatives and slide copying and some built in software is what makes the different models more expensive.
If you just have some personal photos you can use an All-in-One, like the Epson WF 3520. Set the DPI up to 1200, or more, and scan. Store it as a tiff and open in Photoshop or any other software you like.
I had some very old tiny photos, about 1"X1 1/2", and chose to scan at 9600. Had the opportunity to go for coffee while it scanned. Very slow but the tiff was workable.

LuckySpud

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LuckySpud

If you have mostly snapshot size photos, this works well. I am digitizing all my late father’s 40 family albums with it. https://flip-pal.com/

DebAnn Loc: Toronto

Are you wanting to scan printed photos or original negatives/slides? My Epson Perfection V550 Photo scanner can do both with very good results.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

My experience is that scanners built specifically for 35mm media do a better job with 35mm slides/negatives.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Prints? Slides? Negatives?

An Epson V600 or V800/V850 will do the job for all three.

The trick is learning to use the scanner interface (driver software). That's where all the power and finesse are found. Set the controls properly, and you can improve the look of your media. You can't put back information that has faded, but you can balance color, remove scratches and dust automatically, sharpen, and adjust brightness and contrast.

Personally, for critical work, I prefer rephotographing slides and negatives. I use a home-built copy rig with camera, macro lens, and color correct, full spectrum light source. The down side of the process is having to do extensive post-processing to get the color right, and to remove scratches and dust. but the upside is better sharpness and detail.

I have copied thousands of prints on a copy stand (professional rig). While it is faster than scanning in some respects, it often has little other benefit, and the post processing required is about as labor intensive as watching paint dry while scanning.

Learn to use the "scan multiple" feature of your scanner. If you have four or five small prints, you can put them all on the scanner bed, then locate them with the scanner software, and scan all of them to separate files in one pass.

When I ran a scanning department of a school memory book department of a school portrait company, back in the late 1990s, we had one operator running two scanners. She would load one, start it, load the other, start it, then prepare the next prints to load on the first scanner when it finished. She was less bored that way, and we got nearly twice the throughput. (Scanners ARE a bit faster now, but they're still slow.)

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

I use the Epson V750 with most excellent results.
Fixes fading and color shifts as a result of aging. Removes dust spots from film and slides.
Does 12 at a time for slides or as many prints as will fit on the glass and do each one as a separate photo even though all are on the glass at the same time.
As the scan progresses I get the next batch ready so no waiting as I keep busy rather than sitting doing nothing while it scans and does its magic.

bw79st Loc: New York City

Another time management tool I use is, as the second batch is scanning I open the target folder in Adobe Bridge and take care of the MetaData that needs to be inserted for each image from the first batch, such as names, dates, locations, etc. I can also do some adjustments in ACR.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Yes, very good.

John Maher Loc: Northern Virginia

I use an Epson Perfection V550 Photo with the Epson software.

So far, I have been doing mostly photos, but have done a few color negatives with good results.

300 DPI is good enough, but rather than looking for the exception, I scan at 600 DPI. Beyond that, you cannot capture resolution that is not there.

Due to loss of resolution on JPEG, I save in a lossless format -- Tiff.

Hope this helps. I am still learning and redoing a lot of photos that I scanned while learning.

Lots of good info here on UHH.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind