I used one of these to digitize all my parents' photos after their deaths. It's wonderful now to have them in digital albums for all the family to enjoy without having to store large albums. I was impressed with how well it corrected old yellowed photos, also.
So , after You scan all your Family Photos, What do you do with the Scanner ? Do you sell the $500 dollar paper weight? Can I Buy it from You? Does anyone have a used on to sell Me?
one more thing: Update to your video: I purchased this scanner at Office Depot a few months ago. It came with a large sleeve designed to be used for small photos that would normally get jammed in the scanned. It opens like a hinge and you place the tiny photo up against the hinged side. Run the sleeve thru the scanner and the tiny photo scans in undamaged!!
So , after You scan all your Family Photos, What do you do with the Scanner ? Do you sell the $500 dollar paper weight? Can I Buy it from You? Does anyone have a used on to sell Me?
Very cool. I need to get this. Scanning the backs is very important for me because my grandma and mom wrote notes on almost all of them. Thousands and thousands of photos.
Me as well. Not quite sure how 2 organize them 2 make sure I write the correct information on the backs, without having 2 stop 2 turn the pic over 2 look at it. Then turn it over & proceed 2 write the exact message on the back of the new pic & b sure it matches. It just seems like a daunting, intimidating, train wreck, waiting 2 happen. I believe I have 34,657 photos alone. Without even thinking about the videos. So I fully understand. I wonder if a regular, personal use printer is going 2 b able 2 handle that many photos constantly going thru it, so even say 3 hours a day. I need 2 know if this printer will work 4 me? Has anyone used this printer on large amounts of photos?
I bought the same scanner for about 1,000 photos, I love it! It was also able to scan badly curled photos one at a time, still faster than a flatbed. The old albums left sticky residue on the photos, I discarded those albums and bought “archival tissue” to separate the photos and protect them from further damage. I bundled photos in piles with belts of ordinary paper secured with scotch tape. This scanner also does a great job with documents or receipts to create PDF files.
So , after You scan all your Family Photos, What do you do with the Scanner ? Do you sell the $500 dollar paper weight? Can I Buy it from You? Does anyone have a used on to sell Me?
@@itsmeray01not for sale. I still have a lot of photos to scan in various shoeboxes, plus it is an excellent and very fast document scanner (different app), much better than my old small desktop scanner 😊
Thanks for this video- super informative. You can select the drive that the photos go to - wonder if on the max if I can select to go to my photos for iCloud like you can with google drive.
THank you, I recently purchased the Epson, however, after scanning a few books, I found more photos from the same year. I am labeling them per year ie; 1996 etc because that's how I had the books labeled. So, my questions is: how do I put the photos I found from 1996 into the 1996 folder?
I saw on another video that there was a clear sleeve to put damaged photos in to scan. Could this be used for small photos also? Does this clear sleeve not come with the scanner? Thank you for the good video
I haven’t bought one yet but the epson website says the scanning sheet which can be used to scan small/delicate/torn/thicker cardboard backed photos etc is included in the box along with a microfibre cloth
I purchased the Epson FastFoto FF-680w in 2020 for $425.00, currently it sells for $600. My goal was to digitize every photo and document my wife and I collected in our eighty plus years before we left Utah in October 2021. No more moving stacks of memory boxes. Now, every picture and document has be scanned and saved onto a 5TB Hard drive and then duplicated to four additional 5TB drives and given to our children and adult grand children. I highly recommend the FF-680w. It was the perfect tool to complete my monster project. Even the oldest of my parents pictures were color corrected as they went through the scanner. The additional graphic tools provided with the Epson will do it all. The smallest pictures were placed together in the Clear Sleeve and easily duplicated. With the thousands of pictures I scanned I did need to replace the original clear sleeve. I used it many time for odd sizes of drawings, business cards, drivers licenses, and Polaroid Photos. It is important to keep the scanner clean and you will get reminders to help you. Cleaning is not difficult once you learn what and where. My wife and I are so thankful Epson helped us digitize our lifetime of pictures. Do you want to know the next step in using those pictures in telling your life stories?
In my experience, I had to clean the "lenses" inside the scanner FAR MORE frequently than you mentioned. Usually after every 10 -15 scans. And I'm cleaning the photos BEFORE I place them into the scanner tray. So it takes a long time when you are fussy about quality.
Thanks Tony for the nice review, the Epson scanner is an awesome idea , but unfortunately seems to have a serious problem. After scanning, the original photo is damaged. I bought two from two different suppliers, and countries (Netherland and Italy) both products with the same issue, …am I unlucky ? It is easy to see longitudinal lines on the photo after scanning , if you put them under a light source, especially with glossy photos. The original photo is scratched. I’m really disappointed, because all in all , it looked really good and fast. I bought two of them and I returned them 😢
only assuming no compression. As it's interpolated (and pixel values are highly correlated spacially) we should expect less than 4 times. 4 times would be the absolute worst case, which is unlikely to be possible due to the interpolation anyways.
I’m just about to bring photos to a local service but might rethink my strategy. I’ve talked with a few people who have digitized their photos and they threw the pictures in the trash after scanning to free up space. Why did you save yours ? Excellent video.. thanks.
@@TonyFlorida Thank you Tony. I’m a few days away from finishing the purge/sorting of my family photos. I’m trying to justify buying this product since I only have approximately 700-800 photos and a few boxes of slides that might cost approximately $300. to have professionally scanned.
@@bflathead I do a lot of vhs to digital for ppl it’s sooo time for consuming it’s hard to justify $599 to scan pics if u will prolly never use it again’ can’t believe it so expensive’ sometimes it’s better to know when to call n the pros look for coupons or sales maybe u could get them done for 200-250 on sale I may get this only because I could add photo digitalization to my camcorder and vhs service but still can’t believe it’s 600 wow
Excellent review. There are 2 models of same scanner. One has only 300 dpi and the other one has a range from 300 to 1200 dpi. I assume you have the second one? The second question, do you recommend scanning at 300 dpi for photos? Thanks a lot
Thanks for the feedback! I scanned at 600 dpi because it was an available option and 1200 dpi was too big of file size. I'm sure 300 dpi is just fine. The only reason you really need a higher dpi anyway is if you plan to print and enlarge the pictures.
Thank you for this information I really need to do this but I think I’m just going to store the photos out of the photo albums. In a storage container that is for photos .
Hi Thank you for sharing this video. Question: when you finished scanning your stacks to complete the album........Did your pictures appear in the same order that you scanned them? I have this issue where the pictures are all random in my files. It took me a very long time to set them in the right order only to have them come out random. Please send me your thoughts. Thank you
I think another backfire to this scanner is the order they're scanner. The photos are fed in from the back, so it scans the last page first and the first page last. If they're in particular order, there is one program that renames files and you can reverse the order of the numbering. It takes learning, but once you understand the program, it take 10 seconds to do. BulkRenameUtility - I use it multiple times a day.
@@Sean.1972 Thanks Sean...For some odd reason I could't figure it out. I tried many ways to fed them and it always stacked them as it pleased. However, I did notice that the more colours (pixels) the pictures had the longer it took to upload ...hence those pictures were stacked at the end. Maybe if I have 16 hours again ....I will try it again one day haha. Besides that...its a great scanner.
Thanks! I shopped around for cheaper alternatives too, but ended up paying the premium for this scanner since I only wanted to do it once and had thousands of photos
to send the photos to google photos, did you have to buy additional storage, or did you already have that service? I do like the facial recognition portion of GP, BUT I have identical twins and it is terrible at differentiating my boys. They look a LOT alike, but you would like it would start to identify their wives, but not to be. I usually have to rename all their photos.
Thank you for the review. I may purchase this based on your information. I do have one question. Can you have this directly send the photos to a folder on an external hard drive as opposed to my computer?
Great video.......thank you. We are looking to buy the Epson Fast Photo FF-680W photo scanner. How would you suggest scanning 2'x2" photos that are 75 yrs. old ? Also, should we worry about old photos getting jammed in the automatic feeder ? Should we consider a flatbed scanner ( at least 1000 photos old & newer) ? Lastly, what do you think about the Omni Photo Stick ? Thank you again
Yes, for small wallet photos, you have two options. 1 - Tape them to a piece of paper and scan that paper. The colors might be off, but... 2 - Flatbed scan - These are much higher quality and you can scan multiple photos at once and they're saved as individual photos. The backfire is how long they take.
Hi Tony, I am wanting to scan about 20,000 photos and then doing a slide show on my television at Christmas. Can I do this through google photos, or is it able to save to a memory stick?
Thanks for the review. How does this do with dust? Every scanner I've had always adds tons of little dust spots on each photo which forced me to go into Photoshop to remove, a real pain!
Thanks for the review! Random q: How loud is the machine (eg, as loud as a printer, which I would consider too loud for my needs, or is it pretty quiet)?
Great review I have the scanner. I wish I had seen you review first. I scanned a lot of photots at 300dpi only to discover they were about 400KB a photo. at 600dpi they are about 7MB a photo which seems quite a jump in file size. I was looking for somthing inbetween lol.
So like how long do u think it would take for right around 30,000 pictures and about 250 videos? Do you think that the machine would last 4 that many photos? Or should I go ahead & break the bank with a service? I am retired & almost always home, so time isn't an issue. Although, I am sure it would take me a little bit 2 copy that many. One more question, sorry, but I do know I have many duplicate photos. Bc I was saving things such as Time Hop & Google photos, that they send 2 me. Plus those little videos that Google loves 2 put together and send 2U in your notification box, & then I am also guilty of taking 100+ pics of the same object sometimes, just 2 find the exact perfect picture. And then when I am finished with the 1 or 2 pics that I want 2 edit & keep, I tend 2 not go back & delete the other 98 or 99 pics. Since I have 6 grandkids & 2 daughter's that love 2 take pics & send to "MayMay" plus my own so, it's a bit overwhelming just thinking about how 2 get rid of all the duplicates without knowing if I have saved the perfect "right" pic.
Tony!!!!! I want to do this! But first I need to buy the scanner🤔 i have 3 giant boxes of photos that unfortunately through our move got disengaged from their albums or were put in shoeboxes 😩 (those were very very old). This was a useful video. Once the photos are on my computer, what is the best / modern way to catalog them into a digital album/book so there are no more loose pics? Then they can be viewed as a photo book rather than an old fashioned album?
Hey Nadine! Once you have the photos digitized, I would suggest uploading to Google Photos. This will allow you to put your photos into virtual albums and share with family. That's what I did/am doing. Cataloging them takes a really long time as you would imagine with lots of photos.
I’ve read that you can use the scanner wirelessly to mobile device, but I’ve also read that one is limited in features if they’re used. Any info on that to clarify? Btw, your video is very well done. ❤
Hi, excellent video. I bought the scanner based on your review. Can you tell me how I can add a background to the photos I scan? I have vintage photos with damaged corners and want a true representation of the photo. Thanks for your help
This printer comes with a photo sleeve that protects the photo as it feeds through the scanner. It scans the sleeve and the photo so the sleeve serves as a white background to the photo.
Do i always have to get 2 images of each photo? Why is slow mode light lite up? Does it slow the way photos scan. Can i scan faster? I have a refurbished epson 680. Thank you
Hi! My son got me the Epson perfection V600 Photo, flatbed scanner. It's very slow but it auto-corrects the picture quality as it scans. Is the Epson FF 680 able to auto-correct while scanning? What I mean by auto-correct is that it improves the quality of the photo.
Hi I have some photographs in the albums if I try to remove them they will be damaged Bron repair is there any way I can scan them or photograph them in the albums.
Great video. Very clear. I've got the FF-680W and all set up and running fine. The problem lies with the Auto upload to Google.. You indicate a seamless routing thru to Google Photos. The clickable icon in the Epson UI is to Google Drive and when I click it, it will initiate the Google Drive account selection, with Permission to Allow FastFoto to the Account followed by "Uploading these images may create duplicates in your Google Drive account. Continue anyway? > Continue at which point it tries to upload, but then prompts an error "Google Drive reports an error. Please try again." Any clues or suggestions? I'm running WiFi to an iMac and stacks of space on GoogleDrive and can't see the way to resolve or auto-direct to GooglePhoto as you seem to have mastered..
Fantastic video, Tony! I wonder how often the scanner gets “jammed” or messes up the scan of a few consecutive photos in a large batch because-for example-multiple photos accidentally get fed through the fast scanning system at the same time. I’ve had issues like this with similar scanners like this one, and I’m wondering if it’s also the case with this Epson scanner?
Same with paper, the first photo has enough friction/static to grab the next photo in the tray when being pulled in for scanning. Simply separate the photos and put it back in the stack.
Mind seemed to do great on older photos, but newer (especially the waxy) ones end up blurry with what looks like many tiny white dots when zoomed in, especially in areas that are supposed to be dark. Any advice to fix this.
hi, I am looking to buy a scanner for the photos. have you seen the Canon RS-40. it is a bit cheaper and I am deciding between that or this epson. can you review the RS-40 also?
Hello, I also have this machine and started my family photo project about a week ago. I very much like the machine! When you were complete with 6,000+ images and 44G of data what was your next step? Did you move the photos to a thumb drive and place in a fire safe box, did you purchase an external drive or only place them on Google photo. Did you make a separate email address to send them to? Thank you for your thoughts.
We scan slides, negatives and photos. We recommend an external drive, or two, for safety. You can also be store in a cloud. Most do charge by month, though. Warning: Some free cloud storage sites shrink your files so they don't take up a lot of space and you lose the actual scan quality.
Thank you! I was just looking at the cost of using a service and realized it would be so much more than buying a scanner. Will it scan polaroid pictures?
I think you answered my question: I want to upload my photos to Google Photos (GP). I'm concerned about the storage capacity for future. Can you address that please. Also finding the photos later I assume will be accomplished with the facial recognition of GP. Do you have to set that up or does it automatically attach names based on the names already saved in my GP?
When you upload all your photos Google will automatically group faces and you will need to name them manually. Every so often Google will then show you two similar faces and ask for your confirmation on whether or not its the same person, its actually a fun little exercise. Regarding cost - You'll need to pay $30-50 a year for a decent chunk of photos and upwards of $100 for an enormous collection. This cost is somewhat negible considering the features you have access to - Auto face grouping, lifetime backup of your photos etc.
Hi Tony, thanks for the video. If I want to also scan documents, legal, real estate, etc. do you think this Epson can handle paper 8.5"x11" size too? thx.
Great question, Elizabeth! I’d love to know the answer to this too. Also I wonder how often the scanner gets “jammed” or messes up the scan of a few consecutive photos in a large batch because-for example-multiple photos accidentally get fed through the fast scanning system at the same time. I’ve had issues like this with similar scanners like this one, and I’m wondering if it’s also the case for this Epson scanner?
You can probably mix sizes in the stacks, but the smaller ones might rotate a bit when going into the feeder. I always scanned different sizes separately
Hi, I use an older model epson DS-510 to scan postcards to sell online. Do you know if this scanner has the edge fill option which allows the scan to show say 1/4 of an inch all the way around. Essentially I need the potential customer to see the edges without it being blocked. I tried the epson es-400 II but it didn't have the edge feature available. thanks!
Does this Epson DS-510 scan both sides of the photos on one file? Or will be 2 files with back and frontside? Can it simply count the filename up as 10001, 10002, etc
@@Gabber1981 yes you can select either one side or both. You can have it stitch together as one image or separate. And yes you can set the naming convention.
Hi. What can't you do on the Android app, that requires a computer? I want to bulk-scan photos and documents. For documents, I want to create searchable, mult-page PDFs.
If you can get cheaper than $0.36/photo locally, then do that. Otherwise, the scanner is worth it. You could always sell it as used after you're done with it
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I used one of these to digitize all my parents' photos after their deaths. It's wonderful now to have them in digital albums for all the family to enjoy without having to store large albums. I was impressed with how well it corrected old yellowed photos, also.
So , after You scan all your Family Photos, What do you do with the Scanner ? Do you sell the $500 dollar paper weight? Can I Buy it from You? Does anyone have a used on to sell Me?
Was just thinking that.., return to store?
one more thing: Update to your video: I purchased this scanner at Office Depot a few months ago. It came with a large sleeve designed to be used for small photos that would normally get jammed in the scanned. It opens like a hinge and you place the tiny photo up against the hinged side. Run the sleeve thru the scanner and the tiny photo scans in undamaged!!
So , after You scan all your Family Photos, What do you do with the Scanner ? Do you sell the $500 dollar paper weight? Can I Buy it from You? Does anyone have a used on to sell Me?
Extremely helpful. Thank you. And not 30 minutes long!
You're welcome!
Bingo!
Very cool. I need to get this. Scanning the backs is very important for me because my grandma and mom wrote notes on almost all of them. Thousands and thousands of photos.
So many photos!
Me as well. Not quite sure how 2 organize them 2 make sure I write the correct information on the backs, without having 2 stop 2 turn the pic over 2 look at it. Then turn it over & proceed 2 write the exact message on the back of the new pic & b sure it matches. It just seems like a daunting, intimidating, train wreck, waiting 2 happen. I believe I have 34,657 photos alone. Without even thinking about the videos. So I fully understand. I wonder if a regular, personal use printer is going 2 b able 2 handle that many photos constantly going thru it, so even say 3 hours a day. I need 2 know if this printer will work 4 me? Has anyone used this printer on large amounts of photos?
Now this is the REAL review.
:)
I bought the same scanner for about 1,000 photos, I love it! It was also able to scan badly curled photos one at a time, still faster than a flatbed. The old albums left sticky residue on the photos, I discarded those albums and bought “archival tissue” to separate the photos and protect them from further damage. I bundled photos in piles with belts of ordinary paper secured with scotch tape. This scanner also does a great job with documents or receipts to create PDF files.
So , after You scan all your Family Photos, What do you do with the Scanner ? Do you sell the $500 dollar paper weight? Can I Buy it from You? Does anyone have a used on to sell Me?
@@itsmeray01not for sale. I still have a lot of photos to scan in various shoeboxes, plus it is an excellent and very fast document scanner (different app), much better than my old small desktop scanner 😊
Thanks Tony, this is something I have to do really soon. Have a great day.
Sure thing! Good luck
Exactly the kind of video and advice I was looking for. Thank you so much for your video, research and sharing this journey. ❤
Thank-you for ALL your replies! This is a VERY helpful decider!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much Tony, I was looking for a way to scan hundreds of family photos, your video was very helpful indeed!
Great tips and so cool you have so many family photos!
Great detailed video. Thanks!!
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful video. Thank you for explaining in such detail!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this video- super informative. You can select the drive that the photos go to - wonder if on the max if I can select to go to my photos for iCloud like you can with google drive.
Thanks Tony, this is a great tool!
You're welcome!
THank you, I recently purchased the Epson, however, after scanning a few books, I found more photos from the same year. I am labeling them per year ie; 1996 etc because that's how I had the books labeled. So, my questions is: how do I put the photos I found from 1996 into the 1996 folder?
Tony in the settings. in Organization - where do i save my photos to.
You can choose any folder on your computer. You can also plug in a USB drive and save the pictures on there too.
Hi, do you have comparison reviews of the photo scanners including pricing? thanks.
Nice job with your video. Very helpful....
Glad it was helpful!
White cotton gloves my friend 😊
Yes, thank you
I saw on another video that there was a clear sleeve to put damaged photos in to scan. Could this be used for small photos also? Does this clear sleeve not come with the scanner? Thank you for the good video
I'm not familiar with the sleeve. It does not come with this scanner
I haven’t bought one yet but the epson website says the scanning sheet which can be used to scan small/delicate/torn/thicker cardboard backed photos etc is included in the box along with a microfibre cloth
I purchased the Epson FastFoto FF-680w in 2020 for $425.00, currently it sells for $600. My goal was to digitize every photo and document my wife and I collected in our eighty plus years before we left Utah in October 2021. No more moving stacks of memory boxes. Now, every picture and document has be scanned and saved onto a 5TB Hard drive and then duplicated to four additional 5TB drives and given to our children and adult grand children.
I highly recommend the FF-680w. It was the perfect tool to complete my monster project. Even the oldest of my parents pictures were color corrected as they went through the scanner. The additional graphic tools provided with the Epson will do it all.
The smallest pictures were placed together in the Clear Sleeve and easily duplicated. With the thousands of pictures I scanned I did need to replace the original clear sleeve. I used it many time for odd sizes of drawings, business cards, drivers licenses, and Polaroid Photos.
It is important to keep the scanner clean and you will get reminders to help you. Cleaning is not difficult once you learn what and where.
My wife and I are so thankful Epson helped us digitize our lifetime of pictures.
Do you want to know the next step in using those pictures in telling your life stories?
In my experience, I had to clean the "lenses" inside the scanner FAR MORE frequently than you mentioned. Usually after every 10 -15 scans. And I'm cleaning the photos BEFORE I place them into the scanner tray. So it takes a long time when you are fussy about quality.
Oh wow. Yeah I didn't not clean my photos. Mine were mostly protected. Did you store them in albums?
@@TonyFlorida It's a real "mix." Some were in albums, and others were not.
Fantastic, practical advice. Do you have similar tutorial for digitizing slides?
Thanks! Sorry, what do you mean by slides?
Older technology. Slides can only be viewed using a projector.
@@sssweedler his comment cracked me up and made me feel so old
@@cking2002 😎👍
Awesome video! Does this scanner send the digital file to go direct to a thumb drive?
Great video. Thanks for the info
Tony, thank you!
Thanks Tony for the nice review, the Epson scanner is an awesome idea , but unfortunately seems to have a serious problem. After scanning, the original photo is damaged. I bought two from two different suppliers, and countries (Netherland and Italy) both products with the same issue, …am I unlucky ? It is easy to see longitudinal lines on the photo after scanning , if you put them under a light source, especially with glossy photos. The original photo is scratched. I’m really disappointed, because all in all , it looked really good and fast. I bought two of them and I returned them 😢
Probably yea as they use rubbery grip or gear to roll the picture
Did you choose to tick in any picture corrections
I like your video and it was very helpful. I am though having trouble now getting them on to a flash drive. Any suggestions?
FYI. 1200dpi uses 4 times the storage space as 600dpi (not 2 times).
only assuming no compression. As it's interpolated (and pixel values are highly correlated spacially) we should expect less than 4 times. 4 times would be the absolute worst case, which is unlikely to be possible due to the interpolation anyways.
I’m just about to bring photos to a local service but might rethink my strategy. I’ve talked with a few people who have digitized their photos and they threw the pictures in the trash after scanning to free up space. Why did you save yours ? Excellent video.. thanks.
Hi Daniel, the photos that I've scanned are being stored at my parents house. No reason for keeping them.
@@TonyFlorida Thank you Tony. I’m a few days away from finishing the purge/sorting of my family photos. I’m trying to justify buying this product since I only have approximately 700-800 photos and a few boxes of slides that might cost approximately $300. to have professionally scanned.
@@bflathead I do a lot of vhs to digital for ppl it’s sooo time for consuming it’s hard to justify $599 to scan pics if u will prolly never use it again’ can’t believe it so expensive’ sometimes it’s better to know when to call n the pros look for coupons or sales maybe u could get them done for 200-250 on sale I may get this only because I could add photo digitalization to my camcorder and vhs service but still can’t believe it’s 600 wow
Great video. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Hi great video! Quick question: Did the feeder ever jam when scanning in bulk? Thank you.
AWESOME!!! Thanks!
Excellent review. There are 2 models of same scanner. One has only 300 dpi and the other one has a range from 300 to 1200 dpi. I assume you have the second one? The second question, do you recommend scanning at 300 dpi for photos? Thanks a lot
Thanks for the feedback! I scanned at 600 dpi because it was an available option and 1200 dpi was too big of file size. I'm sure 300 dpi is just fine. The only reason you really need a higher dpi anyway is if you plan to print and enlarge the pictures.
@@TonyFlorida thank you so much indeed. You helped me a lot.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you for this information I really need to do this but I think I’m just going to store the photos out of the photo albums. In a storage container that is for photos .
You're welcome :)
Savng them digitally ensures protection from fire. And, they can easily be transferred to family and friends
Hi Thank you for sharing this video. Question: when you finished scanning your stacks to complete the album........Did your pictures appear in the same order that you scanned them? I have this issue where the pictures are all random in my files. It took me a very long time to set them in the right order only to have them come out random. Please send me your thoughts. Thank you
I think another backfire to this scanner is the order they're scanner. The photos are fed in from the back, so it scans the last page first and the first page last. If they're in particular order, there is one program that renames files and you can reverse the order of the numbering. It takes learning, but once you understand the program, it take 10 seconds to do. BulkRenameUtility - I use it multiple times a day.
@@Sean.1972 Thanks Sean...For some odd reason I could't figure it out. I tried many ways to fed them and it always stacked them as it pleased. However, I did notice that the more colours (pixels) the pictures had the longer it took to upload ...hence those pictures were stacked at the end. Maybe if I have 16 hours again ....I will try it again one day haha. Besides that...its a great scanner.
Anyone else home for the holidays watching this video?
Yup 😂
wow, excellent vid. I want so much to do this. BUT, can you recommend something a little less pricey???
Thanks! I shopped around for cheaper alternatives too, but ended up paying the premium for this scanner since I only wanted to do it once and had thousands of photos
to send the photos to google photos, did you have to buy additional storage, or did you already have that service? I do like the facial recognition portion of GP, BUT I have identical twins and it is terrible at differentiating my boys. They look a LOT alike, but you would like it would start to identify their wives, but not to be. I usually have to rename all their photos.
I have the 2TB plan on Google which I pay extra for
Hey Tony what was the software you mentioned?.
I have lots of photos that are old and a number of sizes, not many of the size I 've seen in domos. Would have have to resize in input try constantly?
Thank you for the review. I may purchase this based on your information. I do have one question. Can you have this directly send the photos to a folder on an external hard drive as opposed to my computer?
Yes you can specify the output folder on an external drive
@@TonyFlorida thank you.
Great video.......thank you. We are looking to buy the Epson Fast Photo FF-680W photo scanner. How would you suggest scanning 2'x2" photos that are 75 yrs. old ? Also, should we worry about old photos getting jammed in the automatic feeder ? Should we consider a flatbed scanner ( at least 1000 photos old & newer) ? Lastly, what do you think about the Omni Photo Stick ?
Thank you again
Yes, for small wallet photos, you have two options. 1 - Tape them to a piece of paper and scan that paper. The colors might be off, but... 2 - Flatbed scan - These are much higher quality and you can scan multiple photos at once and they're saved as individual photos. The backfire is how long they take.
Hi Tony,
I am wanting to scan about 20,000 photos and then doing a slide show on my television at Christmas. Can I do this through google photos, or is it able to save to a memory stick?
You can definitely do this on a memory stick. I'm not sure if Google Photos has a slideshow feature
@@TonyFlorida thank you!
Thanks for the review. How does this do with dust? Every scanner I've had always adds tons of little dust spots on each photo which forced me to go into Photoshop to remove, a real pain!
You might have to dust off the photos if they contain dust, otherwise the scanner will likely pick it up.
Thanks for the review! Random q: How loud is the machine (eg, as loud as a printer, which I would consider too loud for my needs, or is it pretty quiet)?
It's quiet in my opinion
Great review I have the scanner. I wish I had seen you review first. I scanned a lot of photots at 300dpi only to discover they were about 400KB a photo. at 600dpi they are about 7MB a photo which seems quite a jump in file size. I was looking for somthing inbetween lol.
Question.. does it have the ability to scan directly to a usb hard drive? Or do I need to scan to my Mac first?
You can choose the USB drive as the scan destination directory
So like how long do u think it would take for right around 30,000 pictures and about 250 videos? Do you think that the machine would last 4 that many photos? Or should I go ahead & break the bank with a service? I am retired & almost always home, so time isn't an issue. Although, I am sure it would take me a little bit 2 copy that many. One more question, sorry, but I do know I have many duplicate photos. Bc I was saving things such as Time Hop & Google photos, that they send 2 me. Plus those little videos that Google loves 2 put together and send 2U in your notification box, & then I am also guilty of taking 100+ pics of the same object sometimes, just 2 find the exact perfect picture. And then when I am finished with the 1 or 2 pics that I want 2 edit & keep, I tend 2 not go back & delete the other 98 or 99 pics. Since I have 6 grandkids & 2 daughter's that love 2 take pics & send to "MayMay" plus my own so, it's a bit overwhelming just thinking about how 2 get rid of all the duplicates without knowing if I have saved the perfect "right" pic.
Do I need to purchase additional software to make photos into a slideshow for graduations, weddings, or funerals?
Can you tell me how to print the photos after scanning them? Do you know if you have to use Google Photos or DropBox ? Thanks!
Tony!!!!! I want to do this! But first I need to buy the scanner🤔 i have 3 giant boxes of photos that unfortunately through our move got disengaged from their albums or were put in shoeboxes 😩 (those were very very old). This was a useful video. Once the photos are on my computer, what is the best / modern way to catalog them into a digital album/book so there are no more loose pics? Then they can be viewed as a photo book rather than an old fashioned album?
Hey Nadine! Once you have the photos digitized, I would suggest uploading to Google Photos. This will allow you to put your photos into virtual albums and share with family. That's what I did/am doing. Cataloging them takes a really long time as you would imagine with lots of photos.
Is it preferable to digitalize negatives as opposed to photos?
That's my understanding
I’ve read that you can use the scanner wirelessly to mobile device, but I’ve also read that one is limited in features if they’re used. Any info on that to clarify? Btw, your video is very well done. ❤
Hi, excellent video. I bought the scanner based on your review. Can you tell me how I can add a background to the photos I scan? I have vintage photos with damaged corners and want a true representation of the photo.
Thanks for your help
Awesome! I'm actually not sure how to do that
This printer comes with a photo sleeve that protects the photo as it feeds through the scanner. It scans the sleeve and the photo so the sleeve serves as a white background to the photo.
Great video. Is this scanner also good to scan Polaroids and older photos (I have a lot of black and white pictures)?
Yep, you can actually see this setting at 1:24 (Instant photos)
@@TonyFlorida Thanks for the reply!
Do i always have to get 2 images of each photo? Why is slow mode light lite up? Does it slow the way photos scan. Can i scan faster? I have a refurbished epson 680. Thank you
Will this scanner allow.saving to a computer file outside the software? I don’t want to be locked in to the software
Yes. All photo files will be accessible on your filesystem through Windows Explorer
Hi! My son got me the Epson perfection V600 Photo, flatbed scanner. It's very slow but it auto-corrects the picture quality as it scans. Is the Epson FF 680 able to auto-correct while scanning? What I mean by auto-correct is that it improves the quality of the photo.
Yes, there is an option for autocorrecting. It can generate an autocorrected version of the photo in addition to the raw version
Hi I have some photographs in the albums if I try to remove them they will be damaged Bron repair is there any way I can scan them or photograph them in the albums.
hi Can you show me how to scan and save to an existing folder? thanks
How would one scan the photos to an external hard drive? I feel certain that I wouldn't have space on my MAC to store the scanned images.
That's very possible. You can specify the hard drive in the Epson software
on average about how large were the files sizes at 600dpi? also did using the scanner bend the photos? thanks!
The scanner did not bend the photos. File sizes were around 5 or 6 MB for a 3"x5"
@@TonyFlorida great, thanks for the info!
Great video. Very clear. I've got the FF-680W and all set up and running fine. The problem lies with the Auto upload to Google.. You indicate a seamless routing thru to Google Photos. The clickable icon in the Epson UI is to Google Drive and when I click it, it will initiate the Google Drive account selection, with Permission to Allow FastFoto to the Account followed by "Uploading these images may create duplicates in your Google Drive account. Continue anyway? > Continue at which point it tries to upload, but then prompts an error "Google Drive reports an error. Please try again."
Any clues or suggestions? I'm running WiFi to an iMac and stacks of space on GoogleDrive and can't see the way to resolve or auto-direct to GooglePhoto as you seem to have mastered..
what’s the smallest size photo this scanner can handle?
Thank you.
Sure thing Jenny
Fantastic video, Tony! I wonder how often the scanner gets “jammed” or messes up the scan of a few consecutive photos in a large batch because-for example-multiple photos accidentally get fed through the fast scanning system at the same time. I’ve had issues like this with similar scanners like this one, and I’m wondering if it’s also the case with this Epson scanner?
I didn't have this issue when I went through and scanned my photos
I had this issue when I chose higher quality scans such as 600 DPI in TIFF. But, if I set it to 300DPI and JPEG, it had no issues.
Same with paper, the first photo has enough friction/static to grab the next photo in the tray when being pulled in for scanning.
Simply separate the photos and put it back in the stack.
@@TonyFlorida what about scanning photos from1930’s through 1950
Mind seemed to do great on older photos, but newer (especially the waxy) ones end up blurry with what looks like many tiny white dots when zoomed in, especially in areas that are supposed to be dark. Any advice to fix this.
hi, I am looking to buy a scanner for the photos. have you seen the Canon RS-40. it is a bit cheaper and I am deciding between that or this epson. can you review the RS-40 also?
Hi thanks for the suggestion. I have no experience with that one
Hello, I also have this machine and started my family photo project about a week ago. I very much like the machine! When you were complete with 6,000+ images and 44G of data what was your next step? Did you move the photos to a thumb drive and place in a fire safe box, did you purchase an external drive or only place them on Google photo. Did you make a separate email address to send them to? Thank you for your thoughts.
We scan slides, negatives and photos. We recommend an external drive, or two, for safety. You can also be store in a cloud. Most do charge by month, though. Warning: Some free cloud storage sites shrink your files so they don't take up a lot of space and you lose the actual scan quality.
What size photos will it scan? I have 8x10, 5x7 and other sizes along with larger kid's art masterpieces from elementary school
Thank you! I was just looking at the cost of using a service and realized it would be so much more than buying a scanner. Will it scan polaroid pictures?
Yes it will 1:12
I think you answered my question: I want to upload my photos to Google Photos (GP). I'm concerned about the storage capacity for future. Can you address that please. Also finding the photos later I assume will be accomplished with the facial recognition of GP. Do you have to set that up or does it automatically attach names based on the names already saved in my GP?
When you upload all your photos Google will automatically group faces and you will need to name them manually. Every so often Google will then show you two similar faces and ask for your confirmation on whether or not its the same person, its actually a fun little exercise. Regarding cost - You'll need to pay $30-50 a year for a decent chunk of photos and upwards of $100 for an enormous collection. This cost is somewhat negible considering the features you have access to - Auto face grouping, lifetime backup of your photos etc.
Did you do any old old photos, like from 100 years ago?
Hi Tony, thanks for the video. If I want to also scan documents, legal, real estate, etc. do you think this Epson can handle paper 8.5"x11" size too? thx.
Yes it will
@@TonyFlorida Thanks Tony!
Great question, Dominic! Can these 8.5”x11” scans be output as PDF files, or does the scanner only create JPG and TIFF file types?
How does it do with old Polaroid pictures?
Is there a good program for identifying duplicate photos?
Not that I'm familiar with
Can you load a stack of photos that is a mixture of both 4x6 and 5x7 pics? Or do the sizes have to be done separately?
Great question, Elizabeth! I’d love to know the answer to this too. Also I wonder how often the scanner gets “jammed” or messes up the scan of a few consecutive photos in a large batch because-for example-multiple photos accidentally get fed through the fast scanning system at the same time. I’ve had issues like this with similar scanners like this one, and I’m wondering if it’s also the case for this Epson scanner?
You can probably mix sizes in the stacks, but the smaller ones might rotate a bit when going into the feeder. I always scanned different sizes separately
But will they be able to scan the older cabinet cards and cev’S?
Not familiar with that sorry
do you put the photos upside down in the scanner?
Hi, I use an older model epson DS-510 to scan postcards to sell online. Do you know if this scanner has the edge fill option which allows the scan to show say 1/4 of an inch all the way around. Essentially I need the potential customer to see the edges without it being blocked. I tried the epson es-400 II but it didn't have the edge feature available. thanks!
I not familiar with the edge feature, but I don't think it's present on this model
Does this Epson DS-510 scan both sides of the photos on one file? Or will be 2 files with back and frontside? Can it simply count the filename up as 10001, 10002, etc
@@Gabber1981 yes you can select either one side or both. You can have it stitch together as one image or separate. And yes you can set the naming convention.
I have a Chromebook. Is there scanning option for Chromebook?
I don't think so
tony, my computer's operating system is "Chrome OS". is the Epson FastFoto FF-680w compatible with chrome?
I don't think so
Can i scan the photos to my ipad?
Not with this scanner
How big was it, when uploading into Google Photos ( when uploaded with "reduced quality" I assume...?)
I uploaded as full quality ~44GB 4:20
@@TonyFlorida wow--you must have extra storage, then on google..
@@TonyFlorida Thanks for the answer..🙂
im looking for a scanner that does small 7 x 5 plus the size of certificates etc 12 x 10 any recomdations
Does it also have capability to store to a usb?
I don't know
Can i plug this up to a macbook pro?
Hi. What can't you do on the Android app, that requires a computer? I want to bulk-scan photos and documents. For documents, I want to create searchable, mult-page PDFs.
Thanks
doesn't the scanner damage the surfaces of the photos?
Not that I've noticed
How would I scan my slides?
can it scan negative one.
No it cannot
You can also do it the really slow way using the Google photo scanner on your phone one by one
My photos have too much red colour,. Can they be set to normal colour?
I have about 1500 photos, this thing really worth $550 if I can get the photos scanned at a local shop for same price?
If you can get cheaper than $0.36/photo locally, then do that. Otherwise, the scanner is worth it. You could always sell it as used after you're done with it
Does it scan large photos? 8 X 11, 5 X 7?
What if the photos are not all the same size?
You can adjust the holder on the feeder to the size of the photos