Product Description

The Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Film/Negative/Photo Scanner features high-luminance white LED lamps, which means it can scan immediately without warming up. Its simple, streamlined design includes 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. With the CanoScan's sophisticated retouching technology, you can improve old and precious photos by digitally removing dust and scratches from antique, faded, or otherwise aging prints. The CanoScan 8800F is able to simultaneously scan up to four slides or twelve 35-millimeter frames, using either positives or negatives. In addition, a USB 2.0 interface makes scanning and image transfers faster than ever.

The CanoScan 8800F includes a compact 10.7-by-18.9-by-4-inch design and weighs 9.2 pounds. 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. It includes a CD-ROM with printer driver, setup software, and user's guide, Adobe Photoshop Elements, ArcSoft PhotoStudio, MP Navigator EX, NewSoft Presto! PageManager (Windows only), and ScanSoft OmniPage SE. In addition, the manufacturer offers a 1-year limited warranty.

Customer Reviews

By T. Henn "Over the Hill" (Lebanon, Ohio)
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?

By biblio files
I have taken on a large project to digitize several thousand family slides. This scanner has been easy to use and works well with the slides I have scanned. It takes about five minutes of scan time to process a batch of four slides at 2400dpi. Add a little time to catalog and save and I can scan and store about thirty to forty slides an hour. Higher resolution scans can take much longer. The quality at 2400dpi has been satisfactory for any 4x6. I have also used the scanner for prints and have had good results. I believe this machine represents a bargain. I have not yet used the machine to scan film strips.

Added Comment: When scanning slides, if the slide is marked "This Side Towards Screen", place this side down on the scanning bed. I have had chromatic aberrations (things that look like rainbows) appear on my scanned images. If I turn the slide over and scan again, this aberration always disappears. Also, when placing this side down, the scanned image is often reversed. Things that you know are on the left appear on the right side of the scanned image. The provided software (called PhotoStudio) allows you to change orientation by mirroring the image. At this point I transfer the JPEG for storage to my regular photo software. This is because if you mirror the image it will be upside-down. Rotating the image with the provided software sometimes cuts off the edges of the picture. It isn't difficult, but it does add an extra step.

By ratyoke (San Diego, CA USA)I have had this scanner about 1 month now and I like it so far. I got this model because I needed a flatbed scanner, and I also wanted to scan some slides and 35mm film. I have read dedicated film scanners are much better than flatbeds that can scan film, but I didn't have so much film and slides to justify buying one. It scans film better than I expected, but I haven't scanned that much yet.

So far my only complaint is the amount of software that the CD wants to install. There's a lot of stuff. I installed all of it cause I am not sure which software is needed and which isn't, with the intention of removing the stuff I don't need later. I'll get around to doing that someday. Till then I have about 6 new programs on my computer.

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