Stand-alone photo scanners like Epson’s just released Perfection V200 are great for folks who used film cameras during the stone age to take pictures. Whereas those of us who reached full statue during the digital camera boom have less use for them, others could do far worse than this Epson offering. Its 4800 dpi resolution should hold up just fine even when scanning images at the maximum 14×21-inch size, to say nothing of its ability to scan 3D objects. Yup, its lid lifts up a might 180 degrees in order to scan real life 3D objects. The prank possibilities are unlimited. Perhaps, then, kids should look at the V200 a little more closely.
That the scanner is only $99 not only means that a lowly blogger like me can afford it, but that you can buy two or even three and hand them out like smarties on Halloween.
A few problems here– The Epson site you link to doesn’t have the V200 in its Scanners section yet. That model appears on some Epson international sites, though, and some online retailers in the US also list it.
Second, your readers should understand that the 3D scanning capability is very limited– it looks like depth of field is limited to just one inch, so you can’t really use this to take pictures of large objects.
Third, the term “3D scanning” is generally used to refer to digitizing the contours of an object– for example, the shape of a human face for use in a 3D-rendering program.
Fourth, this scanner is NOT capable of scanning a 14″x21″ object. Epson uses that figure to define the size of a photo print from a scan of a film negative… which is to say it’s basically a useless figure. The scanner itself has a size limit of 8.5″x11.7″, which is very different.
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Damn it… Peter beat me to it… anyways, what he said :-)
Jon
The Epson Perfection V200 Photo Scanner indeed works great. I have used it to scan some of my old photos. While gathering information about this product, I suddenly came to know about ScanPhotosToDigital. I found that their bigger packages get down to about $0.15 per photo.