One step up in Canon's line from the CanoScan 8800F ($199.99 direct, ) that I reviewed two years ago, the CanoScan 9000F Film and Negative Scanner ($249.99 direct) is Canon's latest high-end consumer-level flatbed scanner.

Fast, high-quality scans for prints and 35mm slides; LED light source largely eliminates warm-up time

Has trouble handling strips of film correctly

The Bottom Line It's big, and the buttons are a bit cryptic, but the CanoScan 9000F does a fine job scanning documents, photos, and magazine images. Optical character recognition was spotty at lower resolutions, but seemed to improve at higher resolution; however, the end product of OCR scans comes...

Scans up to 11.7-inch documents; On-board button choices for easy conversion to PDF or send to e-mail; Comes with good suite of software; including Adobe Photoshop Elements

Large footprint; So-so OCR at low resolutions

With the introduction of the CanoScan 9000F in June 2010, Canon brought the successor of the very popular Canon CanoScan 8800F into the market. Except the higher resolution of 9600x9600 ppi (instead of 4800x9600 ppi in case of the 8800F), not many things have changed: the warm-up period of the...

A new CanoScan flat-bed photo scanner, the 9000F, has an exceptionally high 9600x9600 optical resolution. It's priced right, with a list of $249, but how well does it work and what quality of scans does it reproduce from 35mm film?

Canon's new Canoscan 9000F is a replacement for the excellent 8800F scanner, which has been in our Best Buys list since we reviewed it back in 2008.

And it does that for a reasonable price and at a reasonable speed. Up to 4800 DPI, but the photos mostly work really well at 2400. It scans four at a time and at 2400 DPI, I just about have time to label the last batch before the next is ready.

For the money, this is a great scanner for digitizing your old film negatives with decent results. Overall, I am pretty happy, but the software could be a lot better. I could not justify paying 10x more for a dedicated film scanner for slightly sharper results.

Reflective (platen) scanning is very high quality and very quick at 300dpi - Film holders work well - Batch scanning of film

- 35mm scans come out looking a bit soft even with Unsharp Mask turned on; Fine details does not show up that well compared to a dedicated film scanner - Image quality for film scanning actually gets worse beyond 5000dpi.

great scanner for the price ... of course, you can spend a lot more money and get a better scanner but they would not be worth the money. I had a minor problem and the support staff responded quickly and went overboard in helping me! It scans slides, negatives, photos & documents well ...

I have good experience with Canon products. I own two Canonscan LIDe 25 scanners and I used them heavily. One of them I take with me when I travel. They proved to be workhorses. The Canonscan 9000f works great and I have been scanning my black and white films.

Accurate Color; Easy Setup; Excellent Software; Good Bit Depth; Good Resolution; Widely Compatible

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I have used the scanner several times since it arrived and the quality of the pictures scanned were remarkable. The ease of use is a snap, I can scan several pictures at one time and they will separate the pictures that are on the screen.

print quality; design; size & weight; Easy Installation/Good Instructions; compatibility; build quality; speed; value for money; easy to use