Fern Canon Review

Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Film/Negative/Photo Scanner

November 26th, 2009

Seller: Amazon
Manufacturer: Canon Office Products
Customer Rating:
List Price: $199.99
Sale Price: $171.99
Availibility: Usually ships in 24 hours
Free Shipping Available
Buy Now

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.

Product Details

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

Video Reviews

No video reviews found for this product.

Customer Reviews

Solid and software is flexible

Review Date: September 5, 2010

Reviewer: T. Shields, Siloam Springs, AR USA

It is not perfect but the software management is complete, if not a little awkward. adding a photoshop program is an nice touch although I use Photoscape for quick mods and its a free program. Being able to scan old 2" x 2" negatives was a real plus. I can find tons of 35mm scanners, not many that handleds larger ones.

A Great Scanner for OCR

Review Date: August 20, 2010

Reviewer: N Hartsell,

I bought the CanoScan 8800F as an upgrade from my trusty CanoScan 4400F which I used for several years as part of a system that converts text to speech, as a reading aid for my low vision. I often scan a hundred or more pages at a time, and the procedure is highly repetitive; I hoped the 8800F would make the process go faster. As soon as I connected the scanner and made the first few scans, I knew I had made a good choice.

The 8800F has two advantages over the 4400F that I noticed immediately. First, there is no warm-up time for the light source in the 8800F. The 4400F has a cold fluorescent bulb that takes about 30 seconds to warm up when it is cold, and if it sits for a few minutes it does another short warm up before it will scan. The 8800F, on the other hand, has an LED light source that requires no warm up at all. The 4400F leaves its light source on for 12 minutes after a scan (this time is adjustable) to shorten the warm up time, whereas the 8800F shuts its light source off after each scan. Second, the 8800F scans faster than the 4400F. It seems to be about twice as fast, though I have not measured the scan times. These two advantages enable me to be about 50% more productive with the 8800F than with the 4400F, which makes the 8800F worth the higher price.

The two scanners have the same size platen (scanning surface) that takes document sizes up to A4. Most of my scanning is of books, and most of the time I can lay the book flat and scan two pages at once, though for larger books I am only able to scan a single page at a time. It would be nice to find a scanner that can accommodate larger formats, but I did not find one among the consumer scanners that I examined.

The 8800F has a power button, which the 4400F does not. Both scanners have the same buttons that you can use to initiate various scan operations. I never use these, as I always control scans through the software. On the 8800F the buttons are on the top rather than on the front, as for the 4400F, where I would often bump them with my arm, causing a flurry of dialogs to open on the screen.

The basic software user interface is the same for both scanners and consists of two applications that work together: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5.5 and Canon Scan Gear. PhotoStudio is a combination image editing and scanner control program. It calls Scan Gear to do each scan and accumulates scanned images which you can edit and save. The 8800F comes with several utilities which I haven't used, and also comes with Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and 5.0.

If you do a lot of OCRing, as I do, avoid the ScanSoft OmniPage SE application that comes with the scanner. It is old and extremely buggy. I used it after I bought the 4400F and was in OCR hell for a year until I wised up and bought the latest version of OmniPage Professional, which seemed like magic after that. OmniPage can integrate with Scan Gear, which improves scanning efficiency for OCR operations. I also tried ReadIris 11, but it had a peculiar bug that duplicated letters in OCR'd text. ReadIris technical support never responded to my query about that.

The 8800F has lots of other capabilities that I have not tried yet. I understand that it shines as a photo, slide and negative scanner. I don't know if there is a better scanner out there, but the 8800F suits me very well.

Canon Slide Scanning Tricks and Tips - 8800f

Review Date: August 17, 2010

Reviewer: Stephen Paul West, Austin Texas

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R10NDPTRFN83WR Stephen Paul West, Author and Artist in Austin Texas, shows how to use the Canon Scannner to maximum benefit for slides, negatives and other projects. See more at[...]

CanoScan8800F-Zipping Fast!

Review Date: August 16, 2010

Reviewer: HistoryScanner,

I was totally amazed at the improvements made with this CanoScan 8800F
My last Scanner was great at the time (CanoScan 8400F)
The New 8800F is so much Faster & Great Scans! Also works just simply on my Macintosh!
& of course found it on Amazon at a great price!

Awesome customer support from Canon

Review Date: August 10, 2010

Reviewer: Laney,

I purchased the CanoScan 8800F to digitize over 2000 slides and am very satisfied with my purchase. Being able to preview each slide and adjust the different setttings to improve the quality was great, but it was also easy to establish settings that seemed to work well for most slides. I am not a computer expert, so when I ran into difficulties with the software, I simply called Canon and received outstanding customer service. He walked me through the entire scanning process (including waiting while I went to the closet to find actual slides). He also explained that all the software provided in the box was not necessary (just offered for free from other companies). The Canon software works great, and thanks to customer service, was easy to understand and use. I would highly recommend this scanner along with the customer support from Canon.

Posted in Scanners |

Tags: Canon, Canon CanoScan 8800F, CanoScan, Color Film, Photo, Photo Scanner, Scanner

Comments are closed.

November 2009
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
				Dec »
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30