[.uk] Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Film/Negative/Photo Scanner ...

• 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

Amazon.com 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. What's in the Box CanoScan 8800F color scanner, AC adapter, Adobe Photoshop Elements CD-ROM, cross sell sheet, quick start guide, setup software and user's guide CD-ROM, warranty card, film guides (35-millimeter negative/positive, 35-millimeter negative/positive mounted slides, 120 roll film strip), power cord, and USB cable.

Not too bad - software just a bit buggy:
Well worth it for $200. For the most part I'm loving it. MP Navigator software to capture images straightforwards. No real issues with OS X (10.4.11) Only complaints are that you can only scan 4 slides at a time and after scanning a few dozen images, there begins to appear black horizontal lines that run along the top and/or bottom of the images. Totally weird. Quitting the software and restarting the scanner helps only temporarily...gotta put them both to rest for awhile to get back to normal but then the black horizontal lines appear again.

Works well, as advertized:
I bought this printer after having used the 8600F for a long time. Both scanners work very well, and are quick and quiet. Excellent colors and detail. Great for negatives as well, although it takes a long time to scan them for some reason. The difference between this and the 8600F is not noticeable, though this one doesn't have to warm up, which is nice.

Never received it:
The company that was supposed to send this to me never did, and when I called to ask where it was, they only credited my card back without any phone call or explanation what so ever. Nice customer service huh?

Great scanner for slides:
I bought this scanner based on the amazon reviews and they were absolutley correct. this scanner performs very well. I have over 1000 slides that are pain to set up to view with a projector. i looked at having them done by a professional lab but the cost was a bit more than my budget. now that i have scanned over 150 slide i find the proces is just as much fun as the result. that is i get to review them before they are digitized and discard the bad ones. the qulaity of the image is truly great if the scan is done at the equivalent of a 6 Megapixal digital camera image - about 2MB minimum. the process is pretty straightforward, and clean. i do find i must touch up most images but the integrated Adobe Elements program dones a nice job. I am totally satified with this product.

Did the job:
This scanner even brought my ex-husband's childhood to life through ancient film... a fine choice! Scanning slides a bit more time-consuming.