Professional gives you access to all the controls including resolution, color depth, unsharp mask and so on. It has different modes: full auto, home, office, and professional. It's really intuitive and straightforward. I must say that I like the Epson Scan software very much. I pulled out a few old trannies from my drawer and started scanning. After I plugged the scanner it was immediately recognized by Windows and ready to go. On XP it was just a matter of click, next, click, done. I downloaded the latest version of the software that includes drivers and the Epson Scan utility. You have to install the software before you plug the scanner into the USB port. Time between unpacking and first scan: 5 minutes. The most flimsy part is as you guessed the film holder. It's certainly not a V700 but the build quality is similar to that of the V500 we have at the office. It's a nice little scanner made of black plastic that does not look cheap at all. I was expecting a cheaply built unit and to my surprise the first handling proved me wrong. You can read more about the specs here on the Epson website. What attracted me was that it features the famous ReadyScan, EarthFriendly LED with no warm up time. It can scan 4 slides at a time or a strip of 6 35mm frames. It does not scan medium format, only 35mm. This is a scanner in the El Cheapo range that scans positives and documents as well as transparencies and film strips. Please bare in mind that I am not a pro reviewer, I am not a pro photographer neither, my scanning abilities are limited and English is not even my native language so this is a micro review from an average Joe Photog. As I have not seen a review about it I wanted to share my first impressions with you guys. It had the ability to scan film as well and it was available for US$ 99.00 so I took the plunge and ordered it. A few days ago I was looking for a cheap scanner mainly to scan documents when I stumbled upon the new Epson V300.
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