Scanners > Canon Scanners > 4800 dpi x 9600 dpi > Microsoft Windows 2000

Advantages: Speed
Disadvantages: Quality (Only a small disadvantage)

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 ...
...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Simple to use, Relatively Cheap, Looks good.
Disadvantages: Takes a while to install, lid hinge is awkward.

Being a Graphic Art student, during my first year of university I found myself fighting the urge to buy a scanner. However, even mounting student debts and an overdraft extension could not put me off this bargain of a scanner! Other scanners on the market either seem to have too many needless features bumping the prices up, or they are painfully slow and bulky machines that would not sit comfortably next to a new Mac. I managed to get mine for around ...
...perfect for fast but accurate scans of images, without the fuss of useless applications that clog up your memory [it works best straight through Photoshop]. The added extras like the automatic white-balancing save time, and it crops whilst in preview mode. To add to the list of necessities, it is quite light, it easy to clean, and looks sleek in silver and black. It may take a while to install but it's not complicated and is worth the wait when you ... Read review

Advantages: fairly easy to use and great software
Disadvantages: yet to find one

...Specifications. Product Description Canon CanoScan LiDE 600F - flatbed scanner Device Type Flatbed scanner - desktop Max Supported Media Size 216 x 297 mm Dimensions (WxDxH) 28.6 cm x 40.9 cm x 4.3 cm Weight 2.6 kg Input Type Colour Resolution 16-bit (64K grey levels) / 48-bit colour External Resolution 8-bit (256 grey levels) / 48-bit colour Optical Resolution 4800 dpi x 9600 dpi Interpolated Resolution 19200 dpi x 19200 dpi Max Document Size 216 ...
...ive not had my new canon scanner long but certainly long enough to put it through its paces at various tasks and have found it more than capable of performing them all to the highest level, being as i am quite into my photography i have used my scanner to bring to life some old photos of familly no longer with me and to great effect i might add. with the software provided and the fact that this scanner makes such a perfect copy of old images i have ... Read review

Advantages: Nice and fast for reflective scanning, good result from film at larger sizes.
Disadvantages: Not good enough for large prints of scanned 35mm film.

The canon Canoscan 8600F are best suited for reflective scanning and film of greater size that 35mm. For large format and medium format film it is quite good actually and should allow you to make large print from your scan. Images are a tad soft straight from the scanner but respond well to USM sharpening. For regular 35mm film scans will be good for smaller prints and work just fine if your main goal is to use your images for web use and digital ...
...not up to the discontinued Canon 9950F or the new Epson V700 but it is also a great bit cheaper and Nice for its price! Anyhow if your plans are to produce high quality gallery prints, the I suggest that you shop for a dedicated film scanner instead. My full review with images here: http://www.stockholmviews.com/canon8600freview/index.html /Stefan ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent image scanner
Disadvantages: Price

We wanted to scan and save our large collection of 35mm slides. Some of these were old (40 years +) and deteriorating and the projector we used to view them was also on its last legs. A previous attempt to find a slide-friendly scanner was not wholly successful, so we did quite a bit of research to find this Canon. It has been a great success. It scans 12 slides at a time, more than most on the market, and its associated software automatically revives ...
...enhance colours, it also repairs scratches and removes dust and hairs. Some of the revived images have been truly amazing. It can take a while to scan - several minutes per slide - but you don't have to sit and watch it. Let it whirr quietly to itself while you go about your business. Set up and use is very easy. Even if you haven't used a scanner at all before, I would say you could have it working within 15 minutes of taking it out of its box. ... Read review