Being an ex pro photographer and having an enormous collection of slides and negatives and medium format I needed a solution to digitize my images. I did a lot of research and compared the various models and styles and decided to go with either an Epson or the Canon 9950F. I chose the Canon and it may have been a toss up. Still, very glad I did choose the Canon.

The 9950F is a very pretty AND well built machine. It comes with a 35mm slide carrier and a 35mm film carrier. Also a 4X5 and medium format carriers. It also has USB and FW outs. The software included is pretty good. It includes a great scanning interface which allows you to set up various attributes including dust and scratch removal- which work very well. Also fading, color correction, and a slew of controllable features. Also it can scan VERY LARGE file size/quality if you want. You can go up to 48 bit color and up to 4800 DPI very nice. But it will consume resources and also take a while to scan.

So far I have digitized a few hundred slides and negs. I am very impressed. I typically do archival images at about 3000DPI in either 48bit color. The scanner goes to work and i come back in about an hour or less and have 15 slides scanned and ready to edit. i use Adobe Photoshop elements 3 (review to come). I save my files and later return and edit them.

The Canon 9950F met and exceeded my expectations of a quality tool to protect and digitize my important images. Very necessary scanner for any serious photographer.

Recommended: Yes

Amount Paid (US$): 390
Interface: USB