Scanning Snapshots? What settings? 

I recently purchased the Epson FF-680 and this is the exact video that I was hoping to find on RU-vid. Thank you for all of your effort to make this video and the detail you went into. It will save me a lot of trial and error.

One of the best videos and informative on scanning photos. I really learned a lot from your style of comparing and why you’d choose one over another. Really really helpful. Thanks

This video has been so useful and convinced me to buy the Epson 680. I’m hugely impressed with both the hardware and software that comes with it. My objective is to declutter the thousands of generational photos that I’ve inherited from relatives who have died. Bringing oneself to the point where one is actually ready to incinerate them is tough but I made the decision I’d keep one or two boxes of really precious originals and burn the rest. So I’m about halfway through and chose to scan all 5x3, 6x4 and even 7x5 at 600dpi, dropping to 300dpi on large prints (>10x8) but if the 10x8 was say a wedding group with lots of people in it (so small faces) I am using 600dpi on these so there’s enough detail to recognise them all. I will finish all scans, back up all images to a second drive, then to cloud storage, and only then will I destroy them.

Excellent insights, very practical and useable. Very timely as I am looking at options to having a shop do all the scans. I stumbled on another video from you earlier, with great tips on capabilities for tagging info about the batches of pictures in an easy way on the 680 (year, place, etc..). Thanks.

Great video! You made a lot of great points on not over doing it...

All the information I wanted. Thanks so much for the video

Thank you Wayne you are very informative

very informative video!!!thanks Sir!!!

Great video. Question, did you scan to a Tif file in your scans and then convert or straight to jpeg?

Thanks for all The great information my question is I’ve never done anything like this with photos, which machine do you recommend for me to purchase for the photos I have thousands to do thank you very much.

Terrific videos. Thank you. I’m just getting started using it today. Quick question. How do you scan into a folder you created previously (like the next day or such ). I select the correct folder but when i deselect “create subfolder”, the extension shows the main folder , not the sub folder I selected from clicking the folder icon. I know I could manually move them…or so I think? But it feels like there should be a way to go back and add to a folder created before. I’ve googled and not found an answer so I thought I’d reach out. Thx

Hi, Thanks for the info on the scanners, how does the FF680 handle dust on a stack of photos, does it create a dust streak, how often is cleaning of the lens required.

This was a great video. You have a wealth of knowledge. I am trying to decide between a flatbed scanner compared to the fastfoto. I want to use the pictures for a Photobook. With some full page spreads. What dpi would you suggest in that case? Would 600 be adequate? And if I were to get a less expensive flatbed scanner like the Epson V600 do you think that would give a better scan than the fastfoto? Sorry for all the questions. I’m very new to this and I trust your expertise.

Awesome.thx.

thank you for the info . Will the DPI make much detail difference if viewing the photos on a 75 inch or 85 inch big screen tv? I will be using a Canon flatbed scanner

Hi, thanks for the information, could you help with a question? I'm hoping to scan old 1990s colour snapshots on a flatbed cannon lide 300. I would like to scan 3 photos at a time on the plate. Do you know which software would autocrop and rotate as i scan? I thought Adobe Elements did this but, I tried researching this using AI and Google and I'm getting conflicting feedback. Thank you

Great info on the Fastfoto across your videos Wayne. What program do you recommend for the Fastfoto 680 today? The epson software does the count correctly, that doesn’t bother me overly as my family photos aren’t in order (mostly just in stacks in boxes) I notice the iPad epson fastfoto scanning app doesn’t edit the EXIF data with the date. I might try a couple of programs light silverlight or Vuescan. Or the Fastfoto app on windows and Mac. Having the correct EXIF dates I pretty handy to order your photos by date on iOS photos app.

if using the epson ff680 can you work on the photos in a program like luminar?