Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Image Scanner (2168B002)
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Customer Review: Canon 8800F scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
Upgrading my system to VISTA®, I found out that Hp was NOT going to supply device drivers for my scanner. I'm sure you're like me. You research your products and spend you hard earned money on products that you take care of and expect to last. So, I was disappointed to learn that Hp's solution to Device Drivers for Vista® was to "upgrade your scanner", a perfectly good scanner. Well I did! I purchased a Canon scanner. I will NEVER purchase another Hp product.
First, I removed all previous drivers and applications for my previous scanner. The setup disk is straight forward and as a beginner you don't have to do anything except approve the license on each application and you're done. Me, I already have Adobe CS3® and OmniPage OCR software; so, I didn't want to install any of their free stuff. The installation screen doesn't allow you to select the software you want or don't want. So I had to cancel out of each application so that it wouldn't install.
First test! All cables are the correct length. The top is waited and heavy-great. Opened CS3® and began some test scans (Advance Mode). Boy is it fast and No warmup time! I changed the resolution from its nominal setting to low and then to high. What a wonderful scanner. I use adobe RBG(1998) color profile. What vibrant colors and detailed images it produces. Cleaning the glass and blow-air dry is critical. Small microns of Lent& dust, which can't be seen by eye, can be seen when magnified. The top is made of highly polished plastic. Don't attempt to wipe it with a towel or high abrasive cloth, you may permanently leave scars. The Canon 8800F scanner is Excellent Scanner! Canon is an excellent company. They support their product and care about their customers.
Customer Review: Impressed
Summary: 5 Stars
My CanoScan 8800F arrived from Amazon earlier than anticipated which is usual for Amazon and great for me. Setup was very easy. This scanner and its software is definitely made for VISTA. It comes with Adobe Photoshop Elements ver 5. (Yesterday I saw a copy of ver 6 on the store shelf). The included software is easy to install and performs well. However, there are no printed manuals other than the Quick Start Guide. In addition to Photoshop Elements, it comes with ArcSoft PhotoStudio ver 5.5 and ScanGear which must be installed and used if you want to scan 35mm film, slides or 126/620 film.
I was impressed by the fact that it would automatically crop different size images being scanned. However, I soon discovered that it did not always do the autocrop and when I manually cropped, it did not save the cropped image. Hopefully the help screen will tell me what I did wrong.
I scanned some 35mm negatives and it will do up to 12 images in one session and take about 8 minutes. I also tested the scanning of some 35mm color slides and it will do 4 in one session and take about 2 minutes. The slides just drop into the holder. I figure that if I sat at the computer and paid attention, I could scan about 60 color slides an hour, giving time for placing them in the holder and then saving the images. This does not include time for the auto retouch software to work. My saved unretouched color slides are about 1.5 MB in size when saved as a JPEG.
Overall I am very pleased with my 8800F purchase. One note of displeasrue was the fact that the Canon website would not allow me to register my purchase as part of the setup/install process. It took all of the information, but then rejected it.
Customer Review: Excellent for the price
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been using this scanner to digitalize 35mm slides - mostly Kodachrome with a few Anscochrome and Ektachrome. I have done about 400 so far and am very pleased with the results. These slides are 40 to 50+ years old and were shot with an inexpensive, manual-adjust camera. Needless to say there have been plenty of focus and exposure problems present in most.
With a decent quality slide, The results were very good. The dust and scratch removal in Scangear (Canon's Twain progran) worked fine on most slides. Occasionally a few specks remained at reduced level, but these were easily removed in Photoshop E-5 included with the scanner. The Kodachrome slides sometimes exhibited slightly elevated blues in the dark areas after digitalizing. I was able to correct most of this in Photoshop. The Ansco slides all seemed to be poor quality - very grainy and with poor resolution.
Slides with slightly poor focus and exposure were corrected in Scangear and/or Photoshop (with a Focusmagic plug-in). Here again I was very pleased with the final results. For most slides, I prefer Focusmagic instead of USM to improve sharpness. To my eye the fine detail looks slightly more natural with it. I leave Scangear's USM off. Since I am only concerned with future 4 X 6 prints, an occasional 8 X 10, or video display viewing; I adjust the scan for 4 X 6 at 300 dpi (1800 X 1200 ppi).
I have had no experience with high quality Nikon scanners or with the Epson series, so I can't compare this Canon with them. It is not fast, but I have no problem with this. I am very happy with the video quality of my scanned slides and for the money, highly recommend it.
Customer Review: Love this scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
I've worn out two flatbed scanners and one parallel port slide scanner over the years. My sister had purchased the Canon CanoScan 8800F recently and loved it so I took her word and ordered one. It's is the BEST I could have hoped for. The 150 dpi setting is FAST! The 300 dpi setting is very fast compared to my scanners in the past. The 600 dpi does bog down but I really don't need my routine family photos scanned in this high of a resolution. So I stick to the 300 dpi pretty much and the scans are excellent quality and color. The software is amazing. In the past when I've laid like 4-6 photos on the glass then I've had to separate each of them by cropping and then save. This software separates the photos for me and I can just zip through saving each one using Ctl-S, putting them all into one folder and then renaming them all using Windows Explore. The slides are slower to scan but much faster than my previous scanner and the software also separates each slide for me. Also, if a photo is washed out or fading, the software has some awesome fixes for all sorts of problems. One B&W that was almost faded out totally was repaired like it had just been developed! All details could be seen. So I just can't praise this scanner enough or the software. I went ahead and purchased the 2-year replacement warranty since I use a scanner a lot but have a feeling this scanner will prove to be hearty! I also found Amazon.com had the best price on the scanner. So I'm happy with my purchase and I'm plowing through the family photos and slides so much faster than in years gone by!Customer Review: A GREAT Scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
I've owned many scanners. I recently purchased this item to replace a Canon 8400F that I wore out ( scanned 15,000 photos)over a period of 15 months.
I've used the 8800 for a week now ( about 300 scanned items), and I am
so impressed with the quality of the scans, that I am planning to RESCAN
most of the photos again. Yes, the sharpness and color fidelity imparted with this scanner are so good I consider it worthwhile to REDO about a years work of archiving.
I started by rescanning some of the photos to see how the new scans compared with those from the 8400 I had used for my archives. Most comparisons showed the raw scan of the 8800 to be superior, and never less than equal to the 8400. I really liked the 8400. I LOVE the 8800.
The scanner is very fast. The final scan of a 4x6" photo takes about 3-4 seconds.I do about 100 pictures in an hour, even with the need to tweak some using the Canon Navigator software. You can do multiple pictures in one pass, but I like to look at each picture individually and crop it as I scan.
One useful tip is to use the Advanced mode and set the "Paper Size" to fit
the most common size of your photos. My typical photos are 4x6 or smaller so I use the "2 L Landscape" that creates a 7"x5" scan template (i.e. the scanner only travels about 1/2 way down the platen each scan both saving
time and potential wear , and also eliminates the need to "zoom" to get
a good size picture displayed for tweaking and cropping.
Did I mention that I LOVE THIS SCANNER?