It did scan photos well (at both 200 and 400 dpi), but it was tough to get the images to scan in perfectly vertical. At the higher resolution and higher color (24 bit), the scanning process took to long (about 12 seconds for a full page). When scanning at 200 dpi and 12-bit color it took about 8 seconds per page. Also, the scanner actually turns off after each scan, thus it takes 15-20 seconds and button pushing to reboot the device before scanning another page. Importing 7 images from the device to my laptop (while it was still working) took about 4 minutes.