* Application:
Exclusively KB scans and Dia
* The scanner
is good in itself. Mir does not open up though, why you have to build units with black glossy surface, because dust can be seen nowhere better - and the coupon for the cleaning lady or the janitor is not included in the box. But otherwise makes the scanner does a good and quick impression. One must, however, by scanning slides and miniature films be aware that the scanner can rausholen only a maximum of 17% of the image information of a negative or positive. The 9600 dpi are a fictional resolution, the image files that you create with it are in a slide over 300MB large (as TIFF) and contain many pixels doublets, which is significantly less pure image information. I can live with, because I anyway no longer look at my slides and really wants to preserve only the important memories in reasonably acceptable quality. The Kratherentferung thing applies surprisingly well, but makes a separate Infradead scan throughput required. So it takes longer.
* Features
In fact, everything on board. If it were not for this super frikelige and shaky, little thoughtful and to use real agony performing filmstrip holder would. Who came up with the, should be sentenced to a week in the "holder" insert film strips and try to place them exactly. This could have been done much more easily with very little effort, so must. When slide holder must know that only the holder mounted on the scanner glass - there are gaps - and then you can load up to 4 slides. Right on the glass in the recesses. This means always: to cover, slides take out, just do not tatschen on the glass, load another round and then carefully place exactly with the fingers, because my 2mm Gepe-frames are somewhat smaller than the recess. Cover again. Next race. Etc. Well ...
* Software
Here I find the price is misleading, because in relation to the hardware side exactly identical "predecessor" model Canon 9000F just not SilverFast SE from LaserSoft more is the Mark II with, but a Canon own solution that SCAN GEAR called and Photos prefer in MY IMAGE GARDEN invites - probably an original creation that is removed remember Lightroom. Madness ... SCAN GEAR is so illogical created that one interlaces his fingers. The automatic settings are hard to use or simply missing. Multiple scan for contrast enhancement does not exist. The documentary is a disgrace and hard to use. Another writer has already pointed out that without the unscheibaren, the results are "High quality" hook that is grayed out normally in the setting catastrophic. There are still an ugly and impractical Quick Menu, which implants itself in the lower right edge of the screen. And an "IMAGE DISPLAY" called "picture frame" window. Who needs that, please? MY IMAGE SCAN proposes GARDEN GEAR still by far. The settings are illogical, lacking partially or entirely are sometimes grayed out nonsensically. And with more than 20 images in the folder starting from MY IMAGE GARDEN takes ever to be 15 seconds because until all the images are re-read the directory. Totally useless.
Here Canon has opened in my opinion a simple calculation. SilverFast SE costs for wholesalers X Euro - and the hastily zusammengestöpselten out of mothballs software offerings when MARK II simply cost less than X euros. In this respect, the margin is larger.
* Results:
With ScanGear a horror. I can not understand the previous reviewers, the report of the lightning-speed scanning performance. Yes, the Canon is fast - basically. But if I should take 2 minutes I have to add expected for each slide to move to SCAN GEAR on the curves, then brakes the defective software in the scanner. Then also a fine se scanner helps nothing.
* Conclusion:
Good scanner, if you can live with the limited quality, speed-Hurra messages should not be overrated. Who wants to work with multiple scans and correcting for scratches and dust, which is just to wait. Whether 290 seconds for 4 photos or 500 seconds. But the software offerings and the documentation is a horror. The scanner would get from me 3-4 points. So he gets a 2 because the additional investment of more than 100 euros for a SilverFast SE 8 PLUS license is almost mandatory when you get fairly reasonable scans and do not want to play around with each Figure 2 minutes curves.
