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Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Film/Negative/Photo Scanner (2168B002) | List Price: $199.99
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Brand: Canon
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Color film/negative/photo scanner featuring high-luminance white LED lamps
- Batch-scan up to 4 slides or 12 35mm frames
- Digitally remove dust, scratches, and other imperfections from old/precious photos
- Scan, copy, create emails and multi-paged PDFs
- 1-year limited warranty
Works better than expected [Posted on 2008-04-30]
OK its been awhile since I bought a new scanner Last one was a Microtek 3700 but it worked fine.. until I decide to go "into production". The speed and capability of this Canon is a great step up.
Primarily I have been wanting to digitize pictures and slides from years past. I started scanning in slides. Using the 4 slide caddy made the job move fast with great quality. Using a higher DPI than the default slowed things down a bit but patience is rewarded with a great looking scan even corrected for fading. Being able to walk away while it did 4 slides at once was cool.
For prints, it was really fast using 300DPI and it was able to detect multiple prints on the platen and tscan. The software was fairly intuitive and capable with both simple and advanced interfaces.
Scanning medium format mounted positives [Posted on 2008-05-01]
I own a Nikon Coolscan V ED that I use for 35mm mouted slide scans. I needed something for medium format (2 1/4 x 2 1/4) mounted slides - slides that were in cardboard mounts for projection. I could find nothing that included carriers for this format, but saw that the 8800F would handle 120 film. I figured I would take a chance and see if I could make this scanner work for me.
It arrived this afternoon. After unpacking, installation and trying a couple of test scans using the included scangear software, I set about trying to scan my medium format slides. I first treid using the 120 film holder, but with so-so results. The film was held too far away from the scanner glass and the side pressure form the locator pins warped the film slightly. I then took a closer look at the 35mm slide holder and decided that I could make one along the same lines for my larger slides. I used a piece of illustration board the same size as the scanner glass and cut two rectangular holes in it using the 120 film holder as a guide for the placement of the calibration window and the actual slide scanning window. I made the slide windw large enough to take the slides in their plastic holders so that I could remove them form the projection magazines and scan them in the holders without removing them from the support frames.
It worked like a charm! The backlight in the cover is wide enough to illuminate the entire slide and the Scangear software allows you to save color correction settings speeding up the process of scanning these very old slides, most of which have very faded cyan dyes making the slides extremely "red". I figure it will take a couple of days to scan the 600 or so slides and create DVDs for delivery to my customer - a job that would have been torturous in the extreme using single slide scanners.
I'm very happy with this scanner.
Canon Scanner....not sure about this product [Posted on 2008-05-02]
I received this scanner from Amazon in just a few days after my order was placed. The price was decent and it was shipped free. I purchased this scanner so I could convert slides into a file on my computer. The scanner would NOT work on my laptop computer. I kept receiving an error message. There was nothing in the troubleshooting section that addressed this error message. I was able to get the scanner to work on the desktop computer. I've scanned a few pictures and it works well but seems a bit slow. I haven't tried the slides yet. If I have a problem, I'll report back.
Scanner is worth the money [Posted on 2008-05-02]
This scanner has been a good buy for me since my Epson all-in-one printer decided to stop scanning one evening. The new LED lights take scanning efficiency to a new level. The scanner is ready to go to work in approx. 30 sec. It is much faster at scanning than any other scanner I have owned (HP, Epson). I wish I had this when I was scanning in some of my relatives photos from the late 1800's. I would had them completed in half the time.
This scanner is fairly heavy for its size, which, prevents it from moving during the scanning process. The lid has a closing mechanism that prevents it from slamming shut if your fingers slip but still manages to keep the scanning process efficient.
The Arc Soft software is much better than the version I had with my Epson RX500. It is efficient and doesn't seem to create alot of extra headaches by opening up another program to edit the scanned image. There are other software programs included that are of no use for me that I have eventually removed from the computer.
I have had this scanner for about two months now without any problems. Set up was quick and easy. The only con is the extra software programs. I wish companies would put on one CD the bare minimum one needs to use the hardware and put the extras on another or [something that bluntly tells you what you actually need to download to run the hardware]. This only due to the fact that I do not like the extra space these programs take up and I am not an expert programmer (only a do it yourselfer) at computers.
Great for scanning old photos! [Posted on 2008-05-05]
Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Film/Negative/Photo Scanner (2168B002)
I bought this scanner to get my old photos into the digital age - so annoying to have all your childhood photos in albums and worry that if they get destroyed they're gone forever!
I scanned about 300 photos. It is a very fast scanner and the multi-image detect is awesome. It automatically separates out the photos so that you don't have to do it afterward in photoshop or whatever. I love that function. The highest res you can select is 600dpi for the image scans, but it turns out beautifully. I did also try negatives, but if you have the actual picture then I think for most cases the two scans looked about the same and the negatives took FOREVER to scan. (Although I've never ever scanned negatives before and from what I've read this scanner is actually fast - sad huh?) But the negative scans looked great too.
I would highly recommend this scanner. I did my homework before I bought it and am extremely happy that I did.
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