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| Brand: | Epson |
| Item Height : | 11.3 centimetres |
| Item Width: | 27.2 centimetres |
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- Professional level 4800 x 9600 dpi resolution
- 3.4 Dmax for wide dynamic range and greater image quality
- Epson Easy Photo Fix to restore faded colour photos
- Built-in transparency unit
- Powerful software package for photo and document scanning
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The Perfection 4490 Photo offers the photo enthusiast a great value film and photo scanner. Digital ICE Technology automatically removes surface defects such as scratches, dust, dirt particles and fingerprints from film so you can easily restore damaged film and turn your photo library into a vibrant, digital image collection.
Product Description
You can be confident of retaining even the finest details from your originals with the Epson Perfection 4490 Photo. At 4800 x 9600dpi optical resolution and 48 bit colour, its not only a professional colour scanner, its also easy to use. Just four buttons control the process: Start, Copy, Scan to email and Scan to pdf. In addition to standard 35mm filmstrips and mounted slides, the built-in film adapter also supports medium format up to 6 x 12cm, negative and positive film. The Epson Perfection 4490 Photo comes with all you need to restore old film and photos. During the scanning process DIGITAL ICE Technology automatically removes scratches, tears and dust from old or damaged film. An advanced software package including Adobe© Photoshop© Elements 3.0 and Epson Creativity Suite gives you total control over the enhancement and editing of your scans.FeatureProduct FeaturesWeight & dimensionsDimensions W x D x H272 x 475 x 113mm Weight4000g Weight4kg Energy managementPower requirements220 - 240V 50 - 60Hz Power supply20/22.5/13.5/13.5/3.8W ConnectivityInterfaceUSB 2.0 I/O ports1x USB B Environmental conditionsMaximum operating temperature range T-T5 - 35¶øC Storage temperature range T-T10-32¶øC Operating relative humidity range10-80% Operating temperature range T-T5 - 35¶øC System requirementsMac compatibilityY Compatible operating systemsWindows 98SE/Me/2000/XPMac OS X 10.2.7 ScanningMaximum scan size35mm Scan typeFlatbed Optical scanning resolution4800 x 9400DPI Scan speed3.5sec/page Hardware scan resolution4800x9400DPI Colour scanningY Film type35 mm Density range3.4D Sensor typeCCD Scalable resolution50 ?_" 6400, 9600, 12800 Maximum resolution12800DPI Colour depth48-bit Film scanningY Scan speed in preview mode7
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68 of 68 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Recovers old 35mm negatives superbly once you know how to use it,
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This review is from: Epson Perfection 4490 Photo 4800 x 9600DPI Firewire / USB 2 (Electronics)
I've been using this for a week to scan 26-year-old negatives. I'm delighted with the results, particularly in terms of dust removal. There were a few hurdles to overcome:(1) To start with I thought Digital ICE was having very little effect - the scans still looked very dusty. The answer to this is easy once you know it... when you prescan, and have (for example) 8 thumbnails, if you then apply settings (e.g. Digital ICE), they will only apply to the first thumbnail. You have to either select each thumbnail in turn and apply the settings you want to each one, or select all the thumbnails, and then apply the settings en bloc to all. I haven't seen a way to specify my typical settings as defaults. So the user interface is logical once you're used to it, but fooled me initially. (2) I was often getting a discoloured area in the middle of the negative; solved once I realised this was a curled negative touching the glass. The holder can't hold a curled negative fully flat. Solution: put the negative in the other way up (so it curves upwards from the holder), and you can then choose a mirror-image scan. The image doesn't seem at all distorted, despite the curve on the negative. (3) odd coloured spots on the scan, unlike the dust on the negative I'd seen earlier. I retried a few times, with canned air and even dry screenwipes to get dust off the negative, but had the spots again only slightly shifted. Then I realised that this was a speck of dust on the scanner glass - cleaned the glass and all was ok. Speed - ok, it can take 40-60 minutes to scan 8 negatives at 2400 dpi with Digital ICE, but the results are well worth it. My conclusion - if you want a scanner to scan negatives, make sure you get a machine with Digital ICE. The Epson 4400 has done everything I wanted once I'd worked out how to use it.
49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid all-rounder,
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This review is from: Epson Perfection 4490 Photo 4800 x 9600DPI Firewire / USB 2 (Electronics)
Installation takes a while, including two reboots; however, other than the reboots and switching between two CDs it's automated so you can leave it to work while doing other things. Lack of a paper manual seems odd in a scanner of this price, but the documentation on the CD was enough to get scanning a few minutes later.Document scanning is decently fast, taking less than a minute per page at 300dpi, and the 'Scan to PDF' feature is very useful. The 'Digital ICE' seems very effective at removing dust and small scratches while scanning negatives, but with it enabled at 1200dpi each negative takes several minutes to scan. That's as much down to the scanner 'warming up' before scanning every single negative as the time taken to do the scan itself; I hope that's effective at increasing the lifespan of the scanner, because otherwise I'd have thought the software should be smart enough to keep it powered up when it knows it has a dozen negatives to scan. On the plus side, the negative scanning software is very good at finding the individual negatives on a strip, so there's minimal adjustment required. The Epson scanning software is a bit bizarre, sometimes it forgets that you have an option enabled and you have to disable and re-enable it again to make the software notice it's on. Similarly, when you scan negatives, it doesn't apply the current settings to every negative in the strip, you have to manually apply them to each one. I may have missed some configuration setting to force defaults, but I haven't found one yet. I bought the scanner to scan in old photos, documents, etc before I emigrate so I won't need to take them with me; therefore I was slightly disappointed that it has a UK-only power supply, since most electronics these days seems to take 110V and 240V. However, as it's just a small external supply hopefully it won't be difficult to replace. Scan quality is generally good, though scanning negatives at more than 1200dpi does seem to introduce some artifacts; however that may be due to the film itself rather than the scanner. Certainly I'd say it's probably better than the 50,000 pound scanners I used to use at work a decade go, at a tiny fraction of the price! Photo scans often seemed a little overexposed, but not enough to be problematic. Overall though, while these issues are a little annoying at times, none of them are a reason not to buy it. Even the fairly slow negative scanning is only really a problem if you have a need to scan a lot of negatives in a short period of time, since the scanning software will happily work in the background while you're doing other things; you can start it off and come back half an hour later when it's done. It's not quite a five-star product, but it's a solid four.
163 of 165 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Film Buff goes Digital - Shock Horror!,
This review is from: Epson Perfection 4490 Photo 4800 x 9600DPI Firewire / USB 2 (Electronics)
I waited many months to get a scanner of this quality at the right price and here it is. The Epson 4490 comes with all the software and accessories to enable digitising 35mm and medium format negatives and slides. Now, I've only tried black&white negatives so far but that is why I bought it. I've been shooting B7w since 1988 in both film formats and I started by scanning a range of 35mm and 6x6 negs at 1200dpi and what a surprise I got. Although it is slow - it is worth it. This machine delivers quality scans that I found to be amazing. All that with minimum effort. I'm thrilled I bought it. The only reason it dropped a star in the ratings is that on first impressions colour takes a little computer manipulation to put right whereas b&w doesn't.
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