Canon Canoscan 8600 F

Scans slides and strips of film. Comes with optical character recognition (OCR) and document-management software

Scans only four slides at a time. Tends to lose detail in bright areas

The Canon CanoScan 8600F delivers reasonable-quality scans for photographic prints and film—both slides and negatives. Its film-scanning features are limited, but appropriate for the price.

Built-in transparency adapter ; speedy scans ; very good scan quality

Slow to warm up ; photo scans a bit dark

There are seven handy task buttons on top of this silver and black flatbed scanner; these automate a number of tasks, such as scanning a document into PDF format, importing photos or slides into the image editor of your choosing, or scanning a document...

The reciever of the gift is very happy with this product. He wanted for scanning negatives but this one does way more than that, and at very good speed.

I have a number of older pictures that I have tried to scan with various scanners and they never seemed to come out right. This scanner produced excellent quality scans and the software that came with it was very easy to use and helpful. I showed my...

Recently I found a shoebox full of old negatives that belonged to my mother who passed a way a few years back. I needed a way of bringing these pictures back to life. Most of the pictures on these negatives are of relatives who have never seen pictures...

the quality of the scans is excellent. we purchased it because Consumers Reports rated it very well, and it's a good as they say.

Scans quickly and reliably. I've scanned hundreds of pictures with no degradation in scanner function. I especially appreciate the scan to pdf function. Great for converting documents to digital.

This is a nice scanner. It's a little slow, but that hasn't been a big concern. I've had it over a year, and have had no problems with it.

I bought it to scan negatives. It is a bit slow when it does this, I guess it's to be expected. Performs wonderfully on normal scans. Only reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 is the drivers load in memory every time operating system boots. There's no need...

I bought this scanner last summer to convert my photo albums and slides to digital images. It's fast, accurate, and so easy to use. I really was impressed with the ability to scan multiple photos each time, and the software would separate them into...