Re: Sanning 35mm negatives & slides

D.Duck wrote:
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D.Duck wrote:
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Don White wrote:
My buddy from the BVI and I were talking about all the old 35mm slides and negatives we have from the good 'ole days. We both decided we need a scanner so we can share old pictures with family & friends.
He lives on a 32' sailboat on Tortola so a smaller dedicated unit might suit him.
I have the room... and will have other uses, like copying documents (seem to do this a lot for moms affairs) so I ordered a Canon CanoScan CS8800F from FutureShop at a sale price of $199.99 CDN.
Anyone have any experience scanning their old film/slides over to digital?
Here's the unit.. http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0665000FS10094433&catid=10256&logon=&langid=EN
Note: the sale price expired yesterday.
Got a nice Brother MFC laser printer with fax for a little over $100. Got a Brother MFC laser printer for the bus for under $50. Both do an excellent job of scanning color photos. I have no idea whether or not they can "sann" film, slides, or negatives.

Let us know how your unit does on these items. The N/A, next to transparencies in the specs, tends to make me think that Cannon can't do what you bought it for.
On the Canon web site their spec *** shows backlight for slide scanning.

http://tinyurl.com/2b6um4


Maybe Donny could exchange the one he bought for one of those.

Isn't that the one he referenced?


Probably. I read the spec. *** where it said "transparencies N/A" At first,I didn't notice the fine print, where it contradicted the specs.
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