Since 12:03 09 proud owner of the CanoScan 5600F. Mainly bought to scan old negatives and sometimes documents (school notebooks, invoices). Considerable space, connected via USB port of the screen. Installation and start-up on Vista smoothly and quickly. The CanoScan has a 12 year old Vobis scanner replaced, the still functioning perfectly, but there are no drivers for Vista. Ready for immediate operation, the scan speed appears very high to me, also depends on the resolution and whether you carry out various corrective actions can (color correction, scratch removal, exposure correction), relatively quiet. Software easy to use, either leave everything to run automatically or choose all settings themselves. Until now, multiple negatives scanned and tried different settings. I noticed particularly the spoke space at different resolutions. When set in 1200 about 5MB / Negative When set in 2400 about 21MB / Negative I know that this can also work out, but it stunned then something. With 21MB I do without but then on some quality for the benefit of the storage space. As the only negative I would like to mention the filigree bracket for slides / negatives. Does not very stable and is somewhat tricky to open and equip. To scan a series of negatives, you should buy a second frame. Overall, the price / performance ratio convinced.
