Canoscan 8800F Review
The Canoscan 8800F features a simple, streamlined design, including seven simple buttons you use to scan, copy, create emails and multi-page PDFs, and automatically scan with an incredible color resolution–up to 4800 by 9600 dpi. The USB 2.0 interface makes scanning and image transfers faster than ever.
The CanoScan 8800F is able to simultaneously scan up to four slides or twelve 35-millimeter frames, using either positives or negatives. This flatbed, color, and monochrome scanner is compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Mac OSX 10.2.8 through 10.4.x
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Being able to preview each slide and adjust the different setttings to improve the quality is one way to go, but it is also easy to establish default settings that work well for most slides.
Some of the great features of this scanner are:
- 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
The Canon 8800F has a detachable shield in the lid that houses a secondary lighting unit for scanning transparent materials. Canon also includes 3 different “film guide mounts” to ensure accurate scanning for these less conventional formats. While it can take up to 2 minutes to fully scan 4 slides, the resolution of the resulting images is extremely good.
Here is what one owner had to say about the Canoscan 8800F-
It’s sleek and light and – as far as photos go – it’s fairly easy to figure out. One snowy day in January, I sat down with the scanner and did my 100 slides (high resolution) and was very pleased with the quality of the finished product, and above all – the TIME. Even high resolution photos scan amazingly fast and – praise be to the heavens above – there is NO LAMP to warm up.” (Rosemary Thornton, “Author, Montgomery Ward’s Mail Order Homes”) Excepted for size- Click Here to read original review