For half a year I was looking for a negative scanner. The reviews for the Canon were here well, but with a scanner experts have stated that Canon CanoScan 9000F Mark II can not replace a "real" negative scanner. So I was pondering on again, if I believe the reviews here on Amazon, or the experts. Ultimately, it was the price that was decisive. The recommended Reflecta ProScan 7200 cost at least 350,00 Euro. And he should only be good for something, if you use the SilverFast Ai software. The costs a whopping 280.00 Euro lot again !! And then one is at about 600 euros - that was just too expensive! If my son is 18, he is to receive a photo book with "cut-outs of his life". That is, negatives of 1997 - 2004 to be scanned. I do not know how high the bar of the experts had been, but I'm excited about this scanner. It's exactly how some describe here, to get relatively quickly cope with the software and the scans are very good. Mir rich scans with 2400 dpi - have no significant improvements in the quality found at 4800 dpi, but the scan time was much longer. Super, I find that it can scan 12 negatives at once equal. That takes at 2400dpi about 20 minutes. "Summing" makes everything automatically, so you can let him do, do something else, and when you come back, he passed the photos in the folder previously specified. At 2400 dpi, the individual photo files about 5 - 6 MB. This ranges definitely me. I'm glad the whole recessions "belongs" to have, and thank you 'at all times, who cast their vote here and really helped me by. The years 2004 - 2001 I have already been scanned and it was better / faster than I thought. I would recommend the Canon CanoScan 9000F Mark II to 100%. I am very satisfied!