Just a quick video to show a friend my new Plustek Z300 ePhoto Scanner. If it can help you in your search for a quality, affordable photo scanner, great!
Thank you for the video. I just bought the same scanner and was looking for reviews and tips on it. I climbed those stairs in your wallpaper once. It was amazing, I wish I could do it again.
Thank you very much for making this video! I'm researching the best options and I'm considering this one and this is an excellent orientation to how to use the scanner.
Can you merge the front and back into one file so you can later print them out again as a single photo? I would guess that you can but wanted to ask. Thank you for your review! When you did the white balance fix, I literally did a “sharp intake of breath” like you read in books! 😂 That was very cool.
Hi there, just wondering if you noticed any scratches on the photos after scanning them? I've been using another ADF scanner which has left tiny scratches on all of my photos as they were pulled through the machine. Thanks.
No I have not noticed any scratches, recently though I had a very old, somewhat fragile and original photo that I did not want to chance of damaging and I used my flatbed scanner. But I have not had any scratches or problems so far! Thanks for asking!
Hello, That is a great question. Yes I would still recommend this scanner. One thing I have noticed though, is that sometimes after scanning maybe 200 or so images, the scanner will stop auto cropping which will necessitate my having to do it in the program manually. Usually re-calibrating the scanner will help this. (Calibrating is pretty fast and simple, it is simply picking calibration from the menu and scanning a white photopaper provided in the packaging) Sometimes I think I end up on auto pilot myself and need to slow down, I sometimes catch myself putting in another image to scan before the first image is fully posted, so I need to slow down. I think this is mainly my problem when this happens. Sometimes I stop for about 10 minutes and start again. But using the manual crop is still much faster than the flat bed scanner I have on my printer. I recently helped my daughter in-law scan 850 images for her father's funeral, and the entire process took about 3 hours, which included stopping sometimes to use some of the included filters to bring out details in old images which were fading.
Yes, you can name the photo, there arre a couple different ways to do this. For starters, the default setting is--> 4 digit year-2 digit month-2 digit day- 2 digit hour- 2 digit minutes. Ex-> 2022-02-26-10-45, The hour is written in military time, so 3:05pm would be shown as 15-05. After all of that is the count number for that specific scan, the first scan of the day would be the above followed by 001. The next scan of the day would be 002, then 003, 004...and so on. Because the scanner can scan so fast it is possible that two different scans could have the same scan time, which would result in two different images having the exact same file name which obviously would not work. This is why the default naming system adds the image numbers (001, 002, 003...) Now if you want a more simple naming format you can change the default settings to whatever you would like. This is easily done in settings. My first goal in scanning my many large boxes of pictures was to sort them first all into groups, by person, by event, etc... but this became more challenging than I had thought. My kitchen table only has so much room to make my groups and piles. Because my pictures are not yet organized into albums, they are in LOTS of boxes waiting to be scanned first so I found it easier to stick with the default settings. The scanner will stop scanning and ask you after about 50 scans to group or put your scanned images into folders. This is where you can add and name any folder you want and drag the images into whichever folders you have created. But back to your question, yes you can create whatever naming system makes sense to you. If you have a number of pictures of your dog Fido to scan, you could set the naming system to be Fido, and then each scan would have a file name of Fido-0001, Fido-0002, .....etc. But do not forget to change the File Name before you start scanning Grandma's pictures or she will be named Fido-0003 :-) And obviously, if you keep it at the default settings you would still be able to change the name of any picture after the images are scanned and in your folders. Hope this helps!
Thank you for the video. I just bought the same scanner and was looking for reviews and tips on it. I climbed those stairs in your wallpaper
once. It was amazing, I wish I could do it again.
Thank you very much for making this video! I'm researching the best options and I'm considering this one and this is an excellent orientation to how to use the scanner.
Great video
Great review!
Very helpful!
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Can you merge the front and back into one file so you can later print them out again as a single photo? I would guess that you can but wanted to ask. Thank you for your review! When you did the white balance fix, I literally did a “sharp intake of breath” like you read in books! 😂 That was very cool.
Good
Hi there, just wondering if you noticed any scratches on the photos after scanning them? I've been using another ADF scanner which has left tiny scratches on all of my photos as they were pulled through the machine. Thanks.
No I have not noticed any scratches, recently though I had a very old, somewhat fragile and original photo that I did not want to chance of damaging and I used my flatbed scanner. But I have not had any scratches or problems so far! Thanks for asking!
Ok a question. When pictures are scanned, can you simply transfer them to a thumb drive or SD card? You can tell that I am not very techy.
Yes you can! I made a video for you-
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@@kkhorste Thank you, just saw your reply.
A few months on, would you recommend this device? Thanks for this vid.
Hello, That is a great question. Yes I would still recommend this scanner. One thing I have noticed though, is that sometimes after scanning maybe 200 or so images, the scanner will stop auto cropping which will necessitate my having to do it in the program manually. Usually re-calibrating the scanner will help this. (Calibrating is pretty fast and simple, it is simply picking calibration from the menu and scanning a white photopaper provided in the packaging) Sometimes I think I end up on auto pilot myself and need to slow down, I sometimes catch myself putting in another image to scan before the first image is fully posted, so I need to slow down. I think this is mainly my problem when this happens. Sometimes I stop for about 10 minutes and start again. But using the manual crop is still much faster than the flat bed scanner I have on my printer. I recently helped my daughter in-law scan 850 images for her father's funeral, and the entire process took about 3 hours, which included stopping sometimes to use some of the included filters to bring out details in old images which were fading.
Can you name the photo?
Yes, you can name the photo, there arre a couple different ways to do this. For starters, the default setting is--> 4 digit year-2 digit month-2 digit day- 2 digit hour- 2 digit minutes. Ex-> 2022-02-26-10-45, The hour is written in military time, so 3:05pm would be shown as 15-05. After all of that is the count number for that specific scan, the first scan of the day would be the above followed by 001. The next scan of the day would be 002, then 003, 004...and so on. Because the scanner can scan so fast it is possible that two different scans could have the same scan time, which would result in two different images having the exact same file name which obviously would not work. This is why the default naming system adds the image numbers (001, 002, 003...) Now if you want a more simple naming format you can change the default settings to whatever you would like. This is easily done in settings. My first goal in scanning my many large boxes of pictures was to sort them first all into groups, by person, by event, etc... but this became more challenging than I had thought. My kitchen table only has so much room to make my groups and piles. Because my pictures are not yet organized into albums, they are in LOTS of boxes waiting to be scanned first so I found it easier to stick with the default settings. The scanner will stop scanning and ask you after about 50 scans to group or put your scanned images into folders. This is where you can add and name any folder you want and drag the images into whichever folders you have created. But back to your question, yes you can create whatever naming system makes sense to you. If you have a number of pictures of your dog Fido to scan, you could set the naming system to be Fido, and then each scan would have a file name of Fido-0001, Fido-0002, .....etc. But do not forget to change the File Name before you start scanning Grandma's pictures or she will be named Fido-0003 :-) And obviously, if you keep it at the default settings you would still be able to change the name of any picture after the images are scanned and in your folders. Hope this helps!