I bought this scanner and used it for approximately 18 months when it stopped working. I was told it would cost as much to repair as to buy a new one. I contacted Canon and they were not interested as they thought it was too far out of warranty.

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.

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

Good build quality, works out of the box. Price is higher than I would have preferred to pay but it works well under Windows 10.

We purchased the scanner, at the recommendation of a camera shop, to scan old 35 mm slides (from my parents wedding 50 years ago). It takes a little time because you can only scan 4 slides at a time, but we are very happy with the finished results.

Replacing the popular 8800F, Canon's CanoScan 9000F has been on the market for several years. In fact, a Mark II version was recently announced (although not yet in Australia), but the only difference is in the bundled software. Other specifications are identical in both scanners.

Although this model may have a bit of a focus on film and negative scanning, it works great on a wide range of documents. It's designed to work especially well on negatives and film slides, so if you know you'll need to scan a lot of those, then give this one a close a look.

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.

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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