The picture quality is good, only slightly too bright, a little loss of brilliance. But from tired images he creates (falsified) highlights, select only backlight correction. As Rests whether documents, photos, books, etc. very good and fast. The operating instructions (book) is short and includes only the most important. The "easy installation" installs everything. About the "custom installation" can be the "Solution Menu" (shows only applications that are on the desktop) and who already has a good image editing software "ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5.5" (for beginners, many automatic functions, restricted manually u. Cumbersome to use) omit saves garbage.
The operation is relatively simple and self-explanatory, otherwise helps the online manual (software) continues - unfortunately a bit confusing. Only for special tasks you need the scanner driver menu, with many more settings. OCR Software OmniPage missing earlier Canon standard, has only the CanoScan 8800F. All others must be content with the simple version, as Editor. Quickly and easily via scanner buttons, especially COPY (who has no copier) - Press, ready - printers, scanners, computer ON.
A real film scanner does not replace. To scan negatives / slides for further processing, it is enough. The film holder accepts up to 4 mm thick slide frames. The depth of the CCD sensors is limited and scanned negatives / slides are noticeably fuzzier. Only placed directly on the glass plate, they are sharp - but is difficult to handle (Dias skim, everything good position, etc.).
Digitize a negative / slide collection, same usability, without compromising quality? A film with photosensitivity 400/27 ° corresponds to a resolution of 2400 dpi. A film with 200/24 ° needs 2900 dpi and a film with 100/21 ° already 3200dpi (professional film 100/21 ° even up to 4000 dpi). A negative / slide with 3200 dpi and 24-bit color depth needed depending on the scene about 39 MB of disk space, with JPEG compression less. 1000 Negative / slide show then 38 GB of storage.
Against fingerprints help cotton or microfiber gloves from the photo area.
Saves all files with a tick, remove this later, otherwise everything there several times. Also runs under Windows XP Professional SP1 with user rights problems, a rarity these days.