I am very pleased with my use of the Epson V600 scanner for my old slides, color negatives of a lifetime and color or B & W pictures of my albums. The device is highly efficient, well above others I had used before. With the addition of a picture correction software, I was able to retrieve digital slides very old, ill and aged in very poor condition. Operation is intuitive and requires no special skills. The process is still rather slow, even if the result is convincing. The handling is delicate slides (setting up the cache and remove) easily leave fingerprints on the glass (as always with flatbed scanners); Because of the 5th unallocated star. A purchase I would do if my need imagined!