Best scanner for family photo collections & documents Plustek ePhoto Z300 Scanner Full Review

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I needed to find the best low-cost photo scanner to scan and digitize several thousand old family photographs and documents stored away in my closet. After looking at several Photo scanners I settled on the Plustek ePhoto Z300.
PROS
1 quick at 300 dpi
2 user-friendly at a very high level
3 easy to clean and calibrate
4 compact
5 good cord length
6 intuitive photo restoration program
7 got exceptional results with some older color photographs
that I thought were no longer accessible visually.
8 ability to scan sizes larger than 5 x 6
9 takes irregular sizes and thickness
10 advanced photo restoration options
11 I could contact customer service at Plustek online easily and they also responded to a question I left on Amazon on their product page.
12 in over 2000 photos I only had two jams and they were caused by me. The jams were easily fixed by opening the unit or turning it off and turning it back on.
In addition, I had one instance where it stopped working and after I turned off the computer and turned the unit back on it was back to normal. I think I scanned over 2400 items.
Cons
1 initially my resolution at 600 dpi was worse than at 300 dpi.
After calibrating and redownloading the drivers the resolution at 600 dpi was still not better than the 300 dpi setting but seems to have improved.
However, this was not noticeable unless the photo was enlarged.
I only saw two other people mention this defect in their reviews on Amazon out of a large number of reviews.
This does not seem to be a typical problem. However, I think you should be aware of it.
I looked online for a free photo colorizer and this is the best when I found and is the one I reviewed in the video
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Thank you guys again for showing up and watching me try to have a little fun or show you something that might help you out. I made RU-vid videos for fun years before they paid a penny and I will continue to do so as long as it is fun.
see ya out there.
Robb Moffett
ps
the guy in the thumbnail photo I colorized is one of my Uncles at an airbase in Alaska in the late 1940s

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Комментарии : 22

@HNXMedia 2 года назад

Wow! That colorization of that photo from the Keys and the wedding brought a legit tear to my eye. That is amazing!

@RobbsHomemadeLife 2 года назад

Digitizing and color rising these old photos has been some of the most fun I've had in a while.

@bethkoch11 Год назад

Good video. I've been considering this scanner for a while. Like many others, I have boxes and boxes of old photos, including some of my Dad's when he was in the Army during WW2, and a lot of relatives back in the 50's, 60's etc. I know who they are, but my daughters have no idea, so I need to organize, save and identify these photos while I'm still here to do it. I've already organized most of my digital photos, which of course only go back to the early 2000's, now it's on to the older physical ones - hence my interest in a scanner, so your video was very informative. I was amazed at how well the software improved those degraded photos, and I have a lot of those.

@RobbsHomemadeLife Год назад

Hello Beth, hello Beth, thanks a lot for watching and commenting. I appreciate it. When you get your scanner do some test as soon as you can to see if the 600 dpi give you a better resolution than the 300 dpi. I waited too long and could not return mine. I was very happy with the speed of my scanner, but it should have gotten better results with the 600 dpi. Still, it was a very enjoyable process and I loved searching and organizing photos in learning more about my family. Thanks again.

@sbcinema 2 года назад

I had the same problem with the image quality of a scanner, I found out later that the driver settings allowed a higher resolution than the device itself could deliver.

@oscarblom4885 2 года назад

Very nice unit. Good explanation. Thank you for sharing 👋😊🐿

@RobbsHomemadeLife 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@chopsddy3 2 года назад

Wow! That’s pretty cool. I have pictures my dad took in the Philippines during WW2. There’s even one of Douglas McArther on a PT boat. Some go way back to my great grandparents. This is something to think about. Thanks Robb. 👍 BTW, word on the street is that real internet access is nearby and heading my way. Once verified, I’m dropping my isp like it’s hot! I’ll even get a real computer. For the same money I’m looking at speeds 10 to fifty times faster than this perfunctory criminal enterprise I’m currently paying for. Fingers crossed.🤞

@RobbsHomemadeLife 2 года назад

Hey chops, a lot of my photos have degraded from being exposed to the heat and humidity here in South Florida. When I was a teenager I spent some time with my grandparents and went to their album and put some of them in a plastic covered notebook for photos and most of those are still decent quality black-and-white photos. Not many though. The others are like ghosts. I kept coming across some people in my grandmother's album that I had no idea who they were. It made me sad. Yesterday I was getting to the end of a bag of photos and I found one photo that had these people in the photograph and there was identification on the back. I found out the people I were looking at where my great-grandparents and aunt on my mother's side of the family. However someone had written on the back "do you remember us". They were looking right at the camera. The photo was from 1919. They were standing in front of their ice cream store. It almost made me cry.

@chopsddy3 2 года назад

@@RobbsHomemadeLife I hear ya Robb. I’m half afraid to go through the pile of black and white photos I have.

@Jonathan_Taylor 2 года назад

In·val·u·a·ble advice here..

@RobbsHomemadeLife 2 года назад

You are very kind. Thanks so much.

@bctruck 2 года назад

I have my old year book picture. I used that colorized you linked. I didn’t work. I look bad in color too.

@RobbsHomemadeLife 2 года назад

If you have a bad angle or a lens that distorts around the edges or catch a person at just the right moment you can make anybody look bad.

@saltyshellback 2 года назад

Oooohhh...I can scan all my vintage snack cake photos now ;-)

@chopsddy3 2 года назад

Vintage Twinky photos from childhood. Hostess cupcakes with the squiggled white icing on chocolate icing. Vintage Chunky Chocolates that were as big as bricks. “ What a chunk of chocolate “! Don’t forget the Hostess “Snowballs” With the creamy center in devils food cake and the pink marshmallow foam outer shell and coconut ! Moon Pies were as big as manhole covers.

@saltyshellback 2 года назад

@@chopsddy3 Oooohhh Yyyyyeeeaahhh :-)

@RobbsHomemadeLife 2 года назад

Oscar, I hope you are sitting down, but I have to tell you that if you flatten the little containers the snack cakes come in you can put them in the scanner and you won't even need a photo. I wish I had a snack cake right now so I could try it. LOL

@chopsddy3 2 года назад

@@RobbsHomemadeLife You just wish you had a snack cake. I confess that if I had a vintage Twinky after this talk, I would go for it. You know it would still be good.

@saltyshellback 2 года назад

@@RobbsHomemadeLife I'll try that with my latest find. Little Debbie Peanut Butter Crunch Bars!