Epson FilmScan 200

Review Date
January 14, 2010

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Reviewed by
Steve , Intermediate

Price Paid
$0.00 at Rescued from Bin

Photography Experience
6-10 years , Outdoor

Summary
Just to let you know I'm running this fine on My Bradn New Vista Machine (32bit.. not sure about 64 or windows 7)
I'm using a program called hamrick vuescan which seems to sort out all the driver stuff for you.. there's a demo so you can check to make sure it works.
so I can now scan a load of slides I took and developed over 20 years ago.

Review Date
July 23, 2009

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
3.00 of 5, 2 votes

Reviewed by
Don , Expert

Price Paid
$425.00 at PD World

Photography Experience
21+ years , People

Summary
Outstanding scanner for 35 mm film and slides. If you can find one grab it along with an older PC running windows 98 and it's a brilliant piece of kit. Calling it obselete is short-sighted. I kept my Compac presario from 1998 for this reason. Yes it's old and has rubbish spec by todays standards but it cuts the mustard as far as scanning goes and i wouldn't be without it. The old lady sits next to it's brother a Fujitsu Pentium 4 with my loaded iMac 24 as my mainstay. My recently bought blu-ray laptop is on ebay as i decided a macbook would better suit my newfound love for macs.

Strengths
Outstanding scanner for 35 mm film and slides. If you can find one grab it along with an older PC running windows 98 and it's a brilliant piece of kit. Calling it obselete is short-sighted. I kept my Compac presario from 1998 for this reason. Yes it's old and has rubbish spec by todays standards but it cuts the mustard as far as scanning goes and i wouldn't be without it. The old lady sits next to it's brother a Fujitsu Pentium 4 with my loaded iMac 24 as my mainstay. My recently bought blu-ray laptop is on ebay as i decided a macbook would better suit my newfound love for macs.

Weaknesses
Outstanding scanner for 35 mm film and slides. If you can find one grab it along with an older PC running windows 98 and it's a brilliant piece of kit. Calling it obselete is short-sighted. I kept my Compac presario from 1998 for this reason. Yes it's old and has rubbish spec by todays standards but it cuts the mustard as far as scanning goes and i wouldn't be without it. The old lady sits next to it's brother a Fujitsu Pentium 4 with my loaded iMac 24 as my mainstay. My recently bought blu-ray laptop is on ebay as i decided a macbook would better suit my newfound love for macs.

Similar Products Used
Outstanding scanner for 35 mm film and slides. If you can find one grab it along with an older PC running windows 98 and it's a brilliant piece of kit. Calling it obselete is short-sighted. I kept my Compac presario from 1998 for this reason. Yes it's old and has rubbish spec by todays standards but it cuts the mustard as far as scanning goes and i wouldn't be without it. The old lady sits next to it's brother a Fujitsu Pentium 4 with my loaded iMac 24 as my mainstay. My recently bought blu-ray laptop is on ebay as i decided a macbook would better suit my newfound love for macs.

Customer Service
Outstanding scanner for 35 mm film and slides. If you can find one grab it along with an older PC running windows 98 and it's a brilliant piece of kit. Calling it obselete is short-sighted. I kept my Compac presario from 1998 for this reason. Yes it's old and has rubbish spec by todays standards but it cuts the mustard as far as scanning goes and i wouldn't be without it. The old lady sits next to it's brother a Fujitsu Pentium 4 with my loaded iMac 24 as my mainstay. My recently bought blu-ray laptop is on ebay as i decided a macbook would better suit my newfound love for macs.

Review Date
January 5, 2004

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
3.00 of 5, 20 votes

Reviewed by
Lorne , Expert

Price Paid
$0.00

Photography Experience
21+ years , Other

Summary
I upgraded my computer to XP and Epson will not support the product for any system after Windows 98. No drivers or anything so it can't be used.

I recommend never buying anything from Epson ever again if this is the way they treat their customers.

Strengths
NONE - it does not work on the worlds most popular operating system (Windows XP)

Weaknesses
No drivers for XP

Review Date
February 14, 2003

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
3.67 of 5, 3 votes

Reviewed by
Nick Sheehan , Expert , from England

Price Paid
$199.00 at PC World I think

Photography Experience
6-10 years , People

Summary
This machine has served me well for the three years that I have been using it. Although I meant to I never got round to actually getting the APS attachment but for scanning 35mm it was great. Integrating well into other packages this machine has been the foundation of many of the images that I have since commited to my own and other web sites.

However. Over the years my computing requirements increase. So I replaced my old machine to a whizzy new Windows XP machine. Oh dear. This scanner is not supported on anything newer than Windows '98! No drivers .. nothing.

To make matters worse Epson do not have a replacement product and do not have an XP driver in the pipeline. So as far as Epson is concerned I'm going to buy another manufacturers scanner .. and being the brand loyal consumer that I am .. I'll probably chuck away my Epson printers as well for something new.

Bad idea Epson

Strengths
It's a very simple machine to use on SCSI or parallel. It integrates well with other packages and provides very good quality output.

Weaknesses
No support for anything newer than 1999. That makes it a dead machine.

Similar Products Used
Microtek, Kodak and the such like

Customer Service
The on-line 'chat' to a help desk technician is good, but takes a a short while to get connected. Better than being on hold at 50p a minute though!

Review Date
August 6, 2002

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Reviewed by
Richard Katris , Professional , from Riverside, CA. USA

Price Paid
$200.00 at ebay

Photography Experience
21+ years , Other

Summary
Amazing good quality out of the scanner for such a low priced machine. Reliable, average speed, low res only to 1200 dpi native.

Strengths
Good color quality (negs) most of the time. Simple operation for novice user. Supported by Vuescan software.

Weaknesses
much lower than most scanners now out there. 2400-2900 typical, and up to 4000-4800 (high end) available at present.

Similar Products Used
Minolta Q35, Q35s, and early Dimage. Nikon Ls2000, and Kodak RFS 3600, and Epson 2450 flatbed....

Customer Service
Haven't ever had to use it with this scanner. Epson isn't bad though.....