The CanoScan 9000F is the new flagship of Canon flatbed scanner. Technical details on the product, I will not comment before the outside, they can be found on a sufficient number of other sites. I bought the scanner to digitize my old analog photos. That reminds me pure film scanner itself than 5 years old used equipment are still too expensive (700-1000 euros for a reasonable model), I have decided for the 9000F, as I this even after the digitization of old photographs as a "normal" A4 scanner can be used. So far I have 4 old (photo) digitized films and am more than satisfied with the quality, for "normal" photos from holidays / celebrations etc. is the power of the scanner more than good. Whether the scanner is sufficient in the field of "artistic photography", I can not judge, probably are scans from 35mm negative not really more than A4 to increase (but can also be the footage, then it has also a corresponding grain size). The scanner has over pure film scanner also has the advantage that the photos themselves can be scanned (when you have the footage is no longer), this also works very well. All in all, you should already buy for digitizing its analog photographic collection a good scanner, this task fulfilled the 9000F very good. The only drawback is the division of the film holder, this sums up 2 negative strip a 6 pictures, unfortunately cut most photo labs the strip to 4 images from. This division creates one (without cutting his film strip) usually max. 8 images at a time (instead of the specified 12), but because the scan time is far greater, the time change is not as strong impact on the entire time. The specified speed for film scans is as always pure utopia (who already negative scans with 1200 dpi without scraper / dust removal, which is not practical). My computer has a quad-core with 4x3,2 Ghz and 4 GB of RAM, a film scan of a negative image with 4800 dpi and medium scraper / dust removal takes around 4 minutes (at 8 frames thus around 32 minutes for a passage). This value, however, is for the underlying result in my opinion, not bad (especially since you then also what can make another in half an hour). A short sentence or to the software, with Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and SilverFast is the scanner very high-quality software at that can bring out every last ounce of performance out of the scanner, as well as the original driver is doing his job very well (which I have always have used the normal scanner driver instead SilverFast, working with the SilverFast settings I'm only on special photos).
Addendum: Meanwhile, I have also some old childhood photos (of which the negatives of course no longer exist) scanned and leave of imaging on 10x15 cm. The new photos are fully exposed! Better! as the scanned originals (which I have 30 seconds per image is required for revision with Photoshop Elements max.). Like on the negative scans the quality of photo-scans is very good (subjective, of course, not measured in the laboratory).
