Sleek and fast, this powerful scanner will impress you the very first time you push power. With high-luminance white LED lamps - it's ready to scan immediately, with no warm-up... more
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provides clear digital rendering of any image, from tarnished photos to film strips. It has even won a TIPA award for the quality of its performances.The CanoScan 8800F...
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Canon Canoscan 8800F
Sleek and fast, this powerful scanner will impress you the very first time you push power. ... more
With high-luminance white LED lamps - it's ready to scan immediately, with no warm-up time needed. You'll quickly produce spectacular results, with max. color dp...
A review by joe-survey on Canon CanoScan 8800F February 26th, 2008
Author's product rating:
Speed
Very fast
Colour sensitivity
Satisfactory
Resolution
Good
Ease of Installation
Good - quick to install
Value For Money
Good
Advantages:
Speed
Disadvantages:
Quality (Only a small disadvantage)
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
The Canon CanoScan 8800f
The canon CanoScan 8800f is a near perfect scanner. It is used in our school and after using it for recent Art coursework i was very impressed. It took around ten seconds to scan an A4 sheet, which is pretty quick in my opinion. The quality is also good. The colours come out well and although it was not perfect, it's hard to expect a perfect scan of a watercolour painting, as the colours were not bold. After asking my teacher about it, and getting a mumbled response about concentrating on my work, i decided i would have to check out what it comes with online. I was surprised to see that our school's Adobe photoshop Elements 5, a great program, had come with the scanner. Also included is ArcSoft photo studio 5, a not so great piece of software. Anyway, back to the scanner itself. As well as the scanner and software, it includes a trio of plastic adaptors. One is for 35mm filmstrips, one is for 35mm mounted slides and one is for medium-format film. Film takes longer to scan for obvious reasons, but my Media teacher told me that he was impressed with just how fast it could go compared to the old scanner. The white LED reaches peak really quick and is almost ready to use instantly.
Technical information
Maximum resolution: 4,800 X 9,600 Device type: flatbed scanner Media feeder type: manual load Interface type: Hi-Speed USB Max Supported media size: 216 x 297mm Input type: colour Resolution: 48-bit colour
Summary
If you want a scanner that is quick and easy to use this is for you. The speed is great and the only thing that let's it down is the not quite perfect quality although i'm sure that if it is good enough for GCSE and A-Level art work, then it's good enough for anything else. I would reccomend it, if you can afford the price.
You can buy it from amazon for £119.50. If you buy it from amazon you can also get a 3 year electrical appliance cover for only £27.99
Thank you for taking the time to read Joe Feb 2008
Sleek and fast, this powerful scanner will impress you the very first time you push power. With high-luminance white LED lamps - it's ready to scan immediately, with no warm-up time needed. You'll quickly produce spectacular results, with max. color dpi resolution of 4800 x 9600. Seven easy buttons automate the scanning process, so it's simple to scan, copy and create e-mails and multi-page PDFs. Built-in FARE 3.0 retouching technology helps to enhance your final images. And to save time, you can batch-scan up to twelve 35mm frames or up to four slides - either positives or negatives.
Software / system requirements
OS Required: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple MacOS X 10.2.8 - 10.4, Microsoft Windows Vista
Software Included: Drivers & Utilities, Adobe PhotoShop Elements, Presto! PageManager, ArcSoft PhotoStudio, SilverFast SE, ScanGear CS, ScanSoft OmniPage SE, MP Navigator EX
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