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Canon 8800F review Introduction

UPDATE!
Before you buy this scanner, please be aware that there is a new and probably better
rated scanner from Canon on the shelves today.
The CanoScan 9000F is available now!

My Canon CanoScan 9000F review can be found here!

However if you are one of those Linux users the 8800 is still the one to get if you
like to be sure to be able to use it.
The linux drivers have now been released and fully suports the Canon Canoscan 8800F
This also will let you use Gimp under Linux and the scanner frontend that comes whit
this great opensource image editor.

Model Interface USB id Status Info

CanoScan 8800F USB 0x04a9/0x1901 Complete Flatbed scan. TPU for negatives and slides. All resolutions supported (up to 4800DPI).

Read more about it here.

/Stefan

I will not spend my time on tech specs or "what's in the box" related info.
You can get that from Canon directly [ Here ]
But in short, Canon 8800F is a flat bed scanner with film scanning facility's.
And this scanner uses a new LED light source for the film scan facility.

I will not dig in to reflective (Paper) scanning as any scanner would
be able to output high quality in this area, so I would once again waist
your and my time by review reflective scanning quality.

I have 3 other canon scanners on hand for comparison.

  The Canon Canoscan 8600F flatbed/film scanner.
  The Canon Canoscan FS4000 film scanner.
  The Canon Canoscan 9950F flatbed/film scanner.

  I also have Vuescan 8.4.47 software and will use it along with
  Canon Scangear CS V.13.0.0
to reveal the maximum quality/resolution to get from this scanner.
  full resolution scans of the building above is available for download.
  You find download links further down on this page for you to analyze
  and make your own judgments.

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Scanning slide film (what I rely care about)

  The test slide, house erection in Beirut with cranes and everything :0)
  Velvia 100F 35mm slide (abused but this does not care in this review)
  Red squares are crop positions for compared/analyzed areas.

  I use

to share my high resolution canon 8800 test scans!

First scan, performed with Canon scangear software and this settings.

Scan gear review settings

Resulting Scangear scan saved as JPG quality 10 in PS can be downloaded
[ Here ] Full scan image download, (Click "download photo" in Picasa window)
WARNING 3.5Mb large file!
No sharpening or other change of the original scan has been performed
except for saving as jpg Quality 10 (High) calibration performed before scan!

2nd Scan using Vuescan 8.4.47 and settings as follows

Settings Vuescan
Color tab settings
Input settings Vuescan
Input tab settings used.

Settings 2 Vuescan

Output tab settings scan saved as tiff
and than in PS saved as jpg quality 10.
(More about that Raw DNG setting later)

Resulting Vuescan scan saved as JPG quality 10 in PS can be downloaded
Here: Full scan image download,(Click "download photo" in Picasa window)
WARNING 3.5Mb large file!
No sharpening or other change of the original scan has been performed
except for saving as jpg Quality 10 (High) calibration performed before scan!

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