Electronics Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Film/Negative/Photo Scanner (2168B002)
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Rating: - great for a novice
I know nothing about how to scan my slides and pictures. This scanner was so easy, I was up and running within a half hour. I don't have much to compare it with but I really liked it.

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Rating: - Great Scanner
Recently purchased a CanonScan 8800f to replace an aging canon scanner - and I was not disappointed. It works great, and fast. Now to get all those slides out of the box and onto a disk!

Delivery was fast too.

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Rating: - Excellent scanner, software takes some manipulating
I purchased this scanner to convert my Dad's old (over 30 years old) slides into digital pictures so I could make him a DVD. The installation of both the scanner and the software was a breeze. I am using the default software (ArcSoft's PhotoStudio). In the actual scanning application, the "simple mode" did not capture the colors and definition well enough so I used the "advanced mode". Negative - This took some manipulation to get the images to look right. I also had to do some balance editing on a lot of the slides to get rid of a "washed out" look. Positive - because there are so many options I was able to get almost every slide to look great. I am not sure if newer photos / slides would take as much manipulation. For the most part, I was able to continue to use my computer while it was scanning. However - NOTE - be sure the ScanGear window is the active window BEFORE scanning completes. I am running Vista and if the ScanGear window was in the background when it finished scanning, it hung the application and I had to close it with Task Manager thereby losing the scanned images and having to scan again. I had no other issues at all as long as I played by its rules. Scanning was fairly quick - 4 slides at 4800 dpi took about 5 minutes. I really love this scanner and it does a great job. I haven't used the other editing applications that it came with (Adobe Photoshop Elements) but I plan to.

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Rating: - Canon canoScan
After receiving the Canon CanoScan 8800f I have put
Approx. 9,000 photographs into my computer without
a single problem. This machine and its operation
are simple and effective. I love the Canon 8800f and
would highly recommrnd it to everyone.