Canon CanoScan 9950F Flatbed Scanner Review

When it comes to photo scanners, the Canon CanoScan 9950F is up there with the best of them. It’s very easy to use, and produces excellent quality scans with crips detail and deep color. It also comes with free photo editing software, so you can heal any scratches, dust or other imperfections to your photos. This scanner is ideal for any professional photographers who have lots of old negatives or slides that they want to turn into digital photos. It would also suit anyone who is keen to preserve their old photo films forever in a digital format.

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This scanner is for:

• Professional photographers who need to scan lots of photo negatives or slides
• Anyone who wants to digitally preserve their old photo films forever

Main Features of the CanoScan 9950F:

• Maximum 4,800 x 9,600 dpi resolution
• Batch scan 30 35mm negative frames
• FARE (Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement) Level 3 technology
• Supports professional films up to 4 by 5 inches for both transparencies and negatives
• 48-bit for over 281 trillion possible colors
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Customer Reviews of the CanoScan 9950F:

Great scanner for slides  

The CanoScan 9950F works like a dream–it was out of the box, software installed, scanning immediately. Scanning slides took a little longer for me to figure out, partly because the very brief documentation follows procedures for 35mm film strips rather than slides as its main example. But the results are great–very high resolution (1200 dpi, can go up to 4800), clear, crisp, bright scans (the only downside is that it shows how dusty some of my slides are, but the software even has some fixes for that). And the scans are pretty quick–average of about 30 seconds per slide at 1200 dpi. Scanning paper documents is a snap, and you can do all the usual things like scan to a printer like a copy machine or to a PDF file. The USB 2.0 connection gives fast transfer rates and, unlike some of my other USB devices, putting the computer to sleep is no problem for this scanner–OS 10.4 will recognize it right after awakening. Plus, it looks very cool; scanner design was the least of my concerns here, but it’s hard not to admire the sleek black and dark gray case, and it seems pretty sturdy as well…
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Better than expected film scans  

I bought this scanner mainly for scanning old photos. The very first scan I made with it was of a >4×5 glass plate image from about the 1860′s. It was processed to be viewed as a positive image although it could have been printed in an enlarger. The surface of the plate was painted with colors of gold for jewelry and rouge cheeks and painted lips. I scanned it as a print and was amazed at the quality of the digital file. It picked up every defect on the emulsion coating the glass, all of which were easily “restored” in Photoshop. The colors that were applied by the photographer show up in the scan as he intended the image to look. That couldn’t have been done with a traditional enlarger print from the glass plate. The software that came with the scanner allows for considerable control over the image before the scan is made. With the glass plate image, I was able to bring out tones that were difficult to see when looking at the original. With that first scan, I was convinced that I made the right decision when I chose the Canon 9950F…
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