Epson FastFoto FF-640 Review: FastFoto Offers Quick Pic Scans No Experience Necessary

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Anyone born before digital photography became popular -- oh, let's round it to the year 2000 -- or who has parents or grandparents who became adults during the 20th century knows the pain of trying to do something, anything, with the surfeit of physical photos accumulated over time. If they're anything like my family, they've been added to and removed from albums, secreted in tons of locations around the house, and scattered across multiple family members. The more organized actually wrote notes on the back of each one. Scanning them with a flatbed scanner is insanely tedious, and most feeders can't handle stacks of photos in varying sizes.

So Epson's taken its decades of scanner know-how and created a scanner designed specifically for the -- shall we say, "technologically uninterested" -- to digitize the reams of photos they have. The $650 FastFoto (about £495, AU$870, buy pohtoss directly converted) can scan a stack of up to 30 photos, in different sizes ranging from tiny 2x2-inch (51x51mm) up through 8.5x120-inch (22x 305cm) panoramas. (That expansive dimension applies only to Windows users. Mac

folks will have to make do with 8.5x14.5 inches.) It also has a second scanner inside to scan the backs of the photos to capture notes, identification and processing-date stamps, which can be very useful.