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Scanning slides at 2,400 ppi took 53 seconds without Digital ICE, and 5 minutes 18 seconds with it.
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We timed the 4490 at 25 to 30 seconds for prescanning plus scanning 4-by-6 photos at resolutions up to 400 ppi. Scan speed is well within reasonable bounds. (The Epson Perfection 4990 Photo provides Digital ICE for both film and prints.) Unfortunately, however, all of the dust-removal options are available for film scans only. You have a choice of dust-removal features, including hardware-based Digital ICE for removing dust and scratches. The scans were good enough to let us print copies on an Epson PictureMate printer, and the copies were all but indistinguishable from the originals.Īlso worthy of mention is the color-restore feature, which did as good a job as we've seen of restoring color to our faded test photo. The 4490 passed it well enough, producing an image with good quality, but adjusting settings to get maximum detail took more work than with the Canon scanner.Īs you might expect from a scanner that can handle slides well, the 4490 had no problems with photographic prints. One of our test slides, with a dark tree line against a bright sky, presents a particularly demanding test. However, the scanner falls short-just barely-on dynamic range (the ability to see each shade across the entire range from white to black).ĭynamic range is primarily an issue for film, as opposed to prints. At our standard 2,400-ppi scan resolution for slides, the 4490 was a close match for sharpness and detail on most scans with the Editors' Choice Canon CanoScan 9950F, which also offers a 4,800-ppi optical resolution. Scan quality for slides is impressive for a flatbed scanner. If you're serious about photography, though, the professional mode will likely be your preferred choice, with the ability to adjust a wide range of settings, including saturation, color balance, and gamma (which effectively adjusts contrast differently for different levels of brightness).
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The Epson driver offers three scan modes, including a fully automatic mode that handles all the settings for you, much like a camera's point-and-shoot mode, and a home mode with minimal control over settings. You simply position the templates on the flatbed, place the film or slides in the template, and use the scan command. The unit comes with two templates-one for holding up to four 35-mm slides or two strips of 35-mm film, and one for holding 2.25-inch format film. Of course, the 4490's central purpose is to scan film, and, for a flatbed scanner, it does that very well. The bundled photo editor is Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, a good choice for the intended audience of serious amateur photographers. There's also a business-card program, but it didn't fare well on our tests, with three or more errors in eight of the ten cards we tested.
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The bundled OCR software read both our 8-point Times New Roman and Arial font-test pages without a mistake. The scanner also offers an optional 30-page automatic document feeder (ADF) for $200 (street), which certainly makes it more appropriate for tasks such as OCR and document management for multipage files Epson did not provide the ADF with our review unit, however.
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Like other Epson scanners, it offers a set of buttons on the front panel for scanning to e-mail, to your printer, or directly to a PDF file, or for simply opening the Epson Twain driver.
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Nevertheless, 4,800 ppi is what it offers, which makes this scanner of particular interest to photographers with a large archive of 35-mm or 2.25-inch medium format film they'd like to move into the digital age.ĭespite its focus on scanning photos, slides, and negatives, the 4490 is a good choice as an all-purpose scanner as well as a photo scanner.
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