What's going on, rich tamiro here rich on tech and today I'm taking a look at the EPSIN Fast Photo FF six point scanner. This is a scanner that is dedicated to getting your old pictures that are printed digitized. That way you can upload them to places like Google Photos or Dropbox or Facebook or wherever you want to put them. But basically, we all have those pictures in the garage just collecting dust. This's gets some out of those boxes and into our computers and save forever. So
let's talk about the Fast Photo. EPSIN says it's the world's fastest photo scanner. You can scan photos as fast as one photo per second. Now that's at three hundred dpi. You'll probably want to use the six hundred setting, which you can do as well. I found that it scanned really fast, but the processing part took a little bit longer. This is where it really depends on the speed of your computer. So if you have a fast computer. I had mine hooked up to a MacBook. It worked pretty fast.
You can do thirty photos at a time. I didn't think it was slow at all. I mean I really thought that this was a very fast way to get your pictures digitized. Let's see. So once your pictures are in, the software does some neat stuff. Epsom has customs software that not only helps you group your pictures by like date, so before you scan them in, it'll say, hey, when did you take these? Just give us a guess, you know,
the year, the decade was it Christmas? Give us some keywords, and that way, when you organize them later throw them into any software you have, it'll kind of put them in better order and also give some keywords to sort of work off of. Now I understand that Google Photos will obviously look inside these pictures for faces and clues like Christmas, so that makes life even easier as well. Another cool feature of this device is that it scans both the front and the back of your pictures at
the same time. This is really handy because remember the days when people actually used to write on the back of their photos. Yes, it will capture all of that stuff. The only downside to that I found is that since the two files aren't necessarily linked together, they are by file name, but when you drop them into something like Google Photos, the back and the front are just sort of next to each other and not necessarily I found so you do have it, but sometimes you got to
match up which picture it went with. The one other thing I noticed is that you have to be really careful with dust or it can really ruin your scans. So we scanned in a bunch of pictures. I asked my mom to help me out because she had all the pictures hiding in her garage. But when we scan them, we notice that there are some lines in the picture. So you really have to be careful because just one speck of dust on these scan heads will cause those lines.
And you don't want that to happen on your pictures because then you have to do it all over again. So make sure that you clean your pictures first before you throw them in. Here EPSOM does include a kind of a lint cloth so you can wipe off these scan heads. Every so often the machine does open up, let's see. So once you have them all scanned in again, it's pretty simple. You get the files, you can throw them into dropbox, Google photos, Facebook, make some tvts on Instagram.
It is a amazing And so here's the deal. This thing is expensive. It's six hundred and fifty dollars and that's going to keep a lot of people away from it. It's much more expensive than sending your photos out to a service like scan my photos dot com, which I did in the past, but you have to mail those through the mail, so you may not be comfortable parting with your photos. This is more for the DIY person,
where you can do it yourself. You know you're doing the job properly, and also your photos do not leave your side at any time. So what about the high cost, Well, you can split the cost among family members, share it with your family members, and when you're done with this device, you can either use it as a dedicated document scanner, which you know you might need, but you can probably use your phone for that. Otherwise, I'd say maybe flip it on eBay and you can recoup even more of
the cost of the Fast Photos. So my mom loved it. We scanned a bunch of her pictures in not all of them, but we got through about six hundred of them in an hour, so that's pretty good. Again, it's called the EPSOM Fast Photo FF six. The biggest downside is really just the price. But you have to understand this is a serious scanner for some serious job, so get those pictures scanned no matter what, because you don't want to lose those. So I'm rich Demiro. Thanks so
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