Canon 9000F

The Canon 9000F : Canon has quietly trumped them both with its highest resolution film flatbed ever. While Canon’s CanoScan 8800F and Epson’s V600 battle it out in the sub flatbed film scanner sweepstakes.

With 9600×9600 dpi optical resolution, you can just about paint your house with a 35mm slide. And more than the CanoScan 8800F, the upgrade won’t make you wince.

We’ve been using a review unit for a few weeks now. Retail units had not started shipping when we wrapped up this review. But only the white box gave away the pre-production nature of this unit.

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Canon 9000F : ONE CAVEAT

While all three of Canon 9000F scanners are impressive little boxes delivering more value per dollar than we’ve ever seen in a flatbed, the process of scanning your film and print archives is no less arduous than it’s ever been.

So we always feel obliged to warn readers that, in practice, a flatbed scanner is most likely to be used to squeeze every bit you can out of an important image. It is least likely to be digitizing your entire lifetime of memories. The scanning process is just too slow for that.

Our V600 review, being the first for this class of device, includes a Short Course on Scanning. It also includes our recommendation for reasonably digitizing your photo collection. We even name names.

We’ve been skeptical that this class of device can handle the demands of faded originals and difficult emulsions (like Kodachrome). And we’ve been suspicious of the dynamic range they can capture, particularly an issue with slides. We’ve been disappointed that none of them provide a way, out of the box, to build a scanner profile, although SilverFast and VueScan can do that if you don’t mind an additional purchase (plus the IT8 targets).

But in a sense, we’ve missed the boat. The LED lamps in these things are pretty consistent so the default profiles supplied by the manufacturer’s work pretty well. Where the software is most likely to fail is with color negatives (which, unfortunately, is likely to be the most common storage medium). They just aren’t as sophisticated as SilverFast or VueScan when it comes to color negative scanning.

But, frankly, you can get pretty close. We’ve peppered this review with quite a few images to show just how close.

Canon 9000F : FEATURES

With no lamp warm-up time required, the USB 2.0 High Speed Canon 9000F Scanner gets to work when you do. Scan speeds themselves are brisk but because any scan involves a preview and adjustments before the final scan, that’s only a small part of the time it takes. And it does depend on the scan sampling rate or resolution, as well.

The CanoScan 9000F offers a full 9600×9600 dpi optical scanning resolution, exceeding the 7200×7200 of the dedicated 35mm Plustek OpticFilm 7600i film scanner. If you crop 35mm film for enlargement beyond 8×10, this may matter to you, but for routine prints of 35mm frames, it doesn’t matter at all.

IT8 Targets. Canon 9000F (top) CanoScan 8800F, Epson V600 and Microtek M1

It also includes seven EZ buttons on the lid dedicated to common tasks. The attraction of simply pressing a button is undeniable but it’s only really helpful when you really need a document feeder. When, that is, you have to repeatedly feed material to the scanner and run back and forth to the keyboard. For routine image scanning they really don’t come into play.

More importantly, the CanoScan 9000F scans 48-bit color and 16-bit grayscale with an option to save those raw scans. Canon doesn’t divulge the density range of its scanners.

Three film holders are included with the unit for scanning two strips of 35mm negatives, four mounted slides and four 120mm frames.

The hardware feature you’ll most appreciate is the compact size of the CanoScan 9000F. It goes the CanoScan 8800F, which is nearly identical, by hiding the bulking data cable in the lid.

Another nice feature you don’t see by looking at the CanoScan 9000F is ScanGear, Canon’s TWAIN driver, which is what you use when scanning from your image editing software. Canon also provides MP Navigator EX, a scanning application that is linked to the seven EZ buttons, to control the CanoScan 9000F. Both products can restore faded colors and optimize an image.

Finally, the CanoScan 9000F includes Canon’s FARE technology to repair physical defects like dust and scratches using an infrared scan. Visit CanoScan 9000F Best Price to find the best deals on this product.