Sleek, Not Meek: Epson Perfection
The New Millennium means it's time to digitize your analog artifacts forevermore, lest fire, flood, earthquake or divine intervention rob one of one's memories, record albums or home movies. The Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner is the perfect tool for converting both film and photos, as well as mere text documents, with stunning clarity and ease of operation. Luddites, rejoice! One needn't wear a pocket protector and speak Geek in order to reduce a file cabinet worth of flotsam into one DVD's worth of data storage. Our incredible shrinking world....
Even better, what used to be the pricey province of digital imaging service centers can now be part of your home arsenal for a mere couple of hundred samoleans. For that modest sum, you still get 6,400 pixel-per-inch optical resolution and an LED light source that won't have you thumb-twiddling while waiting for the contraption to warm up. At which point, finger-on-button is all you have to do to achieve high-quality, suitable for framing scans.
Mind you, there are also some high end image manipulation features for the power user. Digital ICE (image correction and enhancement) is your virtual scratch and dust remover for those Ektachromes you shot at the 1964 World's Fair, and the Professional mode allows you to control color balance and saturation in addition to a cool backlight correction feature. And the software bundle includes Adobe Photoshop Elements as well as Epson's own Easy Photo Fix that restores faded colors to their original glory. For price, performance and versatility, the V500 is a great choice for a broad range of consumers. P.S., its plug and play Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface makes the scanning process all the less painful! The Age of Restoration is upon us again!!
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A Detroit native, David Weiss fled Motown for Los Angeles in 1978 and began to write for Daily Variety and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, primarily as a music critic with a focus on jazz. His own music career started soon thereafter, with the surrealistic funk band Was (Not Was), then various gigs as a composer and producer, working with Bob Dylan and Rickie Lee Jones among others. In a parallel universe, Weiss has been filing golf and travel stories for T&L Golf, Golfweek and The New York Times and is a regular contributor to NPR's "Day to Day" program, doing stories on music and all things cultural.
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