Gadgetory

everybody has at least one person in the family with heaps of printed photos they've been meaning to turn them into digital images but they don't have the technical know-how or just haven't mustered up the energy to deal with the tedium of sorting scanning and organizing them sure they could send boxes of photos out to a service but many people are a little too risk-averse for that so the Epson fast photo FF 640 scanners for them fast photo looks like a typical sheetfed scanner but it's specifically designed to handle multiple photo sizes ranging from two by two to eight and a half by 120 and a stack of up to 30 it also has a neat novelty which is the ability to scan the back of the photo to capture any notes and it's pretty fast I clocked it at 1.6 seconds per photo for four by sixes at 300 dpi it comes with custom software that's pretty basic it lets you batch name the scans which is nice and perform some automatic corrections and color restoration there's also a browser which lets you do basic cropping and rotation or applied the same automatic Corrections one nice touch is being able to insert a creative date into the photo metadata however for the sake of simplicity the software is too limited and it's not smart enough which means there's still a lot of pre and post scan sifting and sorting to do and at least to my eyes the scans and automatic Corrections aren't great the corrections increase contrast so you lose detail and the color restoration is way too blue plus the scans are really soft even at 600 dpi and while you can use it as a regular document scanner it's still kind of expensive at six hundred and fifty dollars