All those stained negative films, lying in some trunk in your house, can be brought back to their original form with Canon?s CanoScan 9000F film scanner. Basically a flatbed scanner like its predecessor CanoScan 8800F, it boasts of Canon?s trademark FARE level3 technology which can rid the scanned image from dust and moisture, which accumulates on old films over time.
Embracing the attributes of both flatbed and film scanner into one without jeopardising the compact size and portability factor, CanoScan 9000F is a slim device weighing merely 4.6 kg. Its volume is lesser than CanoScan 8800F and has a silver body with a black screen lid. Under the scanner lid is a removable protective white sheet for photo and document scanning. On the top of the lid are seven EZ buttons allied with MP Navigator application for initiating basic functions straight from the scanner itself.
The scanner comes with Scan Gear driver, MP Navigator application, Adobe Photo Studio and Arc Soft Photo Studio software. With Canon MP Navigator, all JPEG files can be scanned into PDF and the scanned images can be edited as preferred. It auto detects multiple paper size like 4×6, A5, A4 or letter in colour, grayscale and black & white. The scanned document is brilliantly reproduced in PDF and doesn?t look blurry.
Scanning a colour document into PDF took 16 seconds, while a black & white took only 10 seconds. Scanning an A4 colour photo took a mere 32 seconds. These timings are very impressive from a scanner and not to mention that the scans were brilliant in quality. CanoScan 9000F supports JPEG, TIFF and BMP image formats at 600 dpi.
We also scanned a thick book, and it fitted easily under the lid thanks to the design of the scanner. A major highlight of CanoScan 9000F is Scan Gear driver, which has three modes: basic, advanced and auto scan mode.
Advanced mode allows choices like adjusting colour mode, image brightness, colour tone, etc.
The device has the option to scan two strips of 35 mm film, four 35 mm film slides and a 120 mm photo film, in their respective holder on a maximum resolution of 9600 x 9600 dpi. Scanning four film slides took 1 minute and 20 seconds and two 35 mm film strips took 4 minutes and 40 seconds to scan and save the file. The scanned quality is striking and restores the old negative films into vibrant photos.
In case films have accumulated dust and moisture, it shows on the scanned image. CanoScan?s trademark FARE (Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement) technology removes them by running an infrared scan on the films.
The scanner consumes 15 watt during scan and 0.9 watt on standby and is a great device for home and professional use. We were impressed by the scan speeds and the performance of the scanner.
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