Speaker 1: What's going on, rich tamiro here rich on tech and
Speaker 1: today I'm taking a look at the EPSIN Fast Photo
Speaker 1: FF six point scanner. This is a scanner that is
Speaker 1: dedicated to getting your old pictures that are printed digitized.
Speaker 1: That way you can upload them to places like Google
Speaker 1: Photos or Dropbox or Facebook or wherever you want to
Speaker 1: put them. But basically, we all have those pictures in
Speaker 1: the garage just collecting dust. This's gets some out of
Speaker 1: those boxes and into our computers and save forever. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Fast Photo. EPSIN says it's the
Speaker 1: world's fastest photo scanner. You can scan photos as fast
Speaker 1: as one photo per second. Now that's at three hundred dpi.
Speaker 1: You'll probably want to use the six hundred setting, which
Speaker 1: you can do as well. I found that it scanned
Speaker 1: really fast, but the processing part took a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: This is where it really depends on the speed of
Speaker 1: your computer. So if you have a fast computer. I
Speaker 1: had mine hooked up to a MacBook. It worked pretty fast.
Speaker 1: You can do thirty photos at a time. I didn't
Speaker 1: think it was slow at all. I mean I really
Speaker 1: thought that this was a very fast way to get
Speaker 1: your pictures digitized. Let's see. So once your pictures are in,
Speaker 1: the software does some neat stuff. Epsom has customs software
Speaker 1: that not only helps you group your pictures by like date,
Speaker 1: so before you scan them in, it'll say, hey, when
Speaker 1: did you take these? Just give us a guess, you know,
Speaker 1: the year, the decade was it Christmas? Give us some keywords,
Speaker 1: and that way, when you organize them later throw them
Speaker 1: into any software you have, it'll kind of put them
Speaker 1: in better order and also give some keywords to sort
Speaker 1: of work off of. Now I understand that Google Photos
Speaker 1: will obviously look inside these pictures for faces and clues
Speaker 1: like Christmas, so that makes life even easier as well.
Speaker 1: Another cool feature of this device is that it scans
Speaker 1: both the front and the back of your pictures at
Speaker 1: the same time. This is really handy because remember the
Speaker 1: days when people actually used to write on the back
Speaker 1: of their photos. Yes, it will capture all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: The only downside to that I found is that since
Speaker 1: the two files aren't necessarily linked together, they are by
Speaker 1: file name, but when you drop them into something like
Speaker 1: Google Photos, the back and the front are just sort
Speaker 1: of next to each other and not necessarily I found
Speaker 1: so you do have it, but sometimes you got to
Speaker 1: match up which picture it went with. The one other
Speaker 1: thing I noticed is that you have to be really
Speaker 1: careful with dust or it can really ruin your scans.
Speaker 1: So we scanned in a bunch of pictures. I asked
Speaker 1: my mom to help me out because she had all
Speaker 1: the pictures hiding in her garage. But when we scan them,
Speaker 1: we notice that there are some lines in the picture.
Speaker 1: So you really have to be careful because just one
Speaker 1: speck of dust on these scan heads will cause those lines.
Speaker 1: And you don't want that to happen on your pictures
Speaker 1: because then you have to do it all over again.
Speaker 1: So make sure that you clean your pictures first before
Speaker 1: you throw them in. Here EPSOM does include a kind
Speaker 1: of a lint cloth so you can wipe off these
Speaker 1: scan heads. Every so often the machine does open up,
Speaker 1: let's see. So once you have them all scanned in again,
Speaker 1: it's pretty simple. You get the files, you can throw
Speaker 1: them into dropbox, Google photos, Facebook, make some tvts on Instagram.
Speaker 1: It is a amazing And so here's the deal. This
Speaker 1: thing is expensive. It's six hundred and fifty dollars and
Speaker 1: that's going to keep a lot of people away from it.
Speaker 1: It's much more expensive than sending your photos out to
Speaker 1: a service like scan my photos dot com, which I
Speaker 1: did in the past, but you have to mail those
Speaker 1: through the mail, so you may not be comfortable parting
Speaker 1: with your photos. This is more for the DIY person,
Speaker 1: where you can do it yourself. You know you're doing
Speaker 1: the job properly, and also your photos do not leave
Speaker 1: your side at any time. So what about the high cost, Well,
Speaker 1: you can split the cost among family members, share it
Speaker 1: with your family members, and when you're done with this device,
Speaker 1: you can either use it as a dedicated document scanner,
Speaker 1: which you know you might need, but you can probably
Speaker 1: use your phone for that. Otherwise, I'd say maybe flip
Speaker 1: it on eBay and you can recoup even more of
Speaker 1: the cost of the Fast Photos. So my mom loved it.
Speaker 1: We scanned a bunch of her pictures in not all
Speaker 1: of them, but we got through about six hundred of
Speaker 1: them in an hour, so that's pretty good. Again, it's
Speaker 1: called the EPSOM Fast Photo FF six. The biggest downside
Speaker 1: is really just the price. But you have to understand
Speaker 1: this is a serious scanner for some serious job, so
Speaker 1: get those pictures scanned no matter what, because you don't
Speaker 1: want to lose those. So I'm rich Demiro. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for listening. Rich on tech dot tv for more details.
Speaker 1: See you next time.