Help on Scanners

cruisinbeatz · 28 Aug 2008 at 21:46

Hi everyone, I want to get my father a scanner as hes using an epson dx6000 multifunction to scan on pictures and they seem to be taking him ages. I want to get him a standalone scanner as hes doing quite a lot.

what Im really looking for is a scanner that is fast, good quality and the posibility of also scanning negitives. Im not really on a budgest but then again nothing over £140 anyhow.

Can anyone help and sudgest anything here on overclockers?

Thanks in advance.

mk17 · 28 Aug 2008 at 23:39

This is pretty good.

There's also a more expensive 8800F version, but I haven't used it.

cruisinbeatz · 30 Aug 2008 at 13:22

I was looking at the 8800F, do you think it would be a good choice?

Werewolf · 30 Aug 2008 at 13:46

I picked up an 8800F about 6 months ago for film scanning, and overall I'd say I'm extremely happy with it - on auto photo mode (300dpi iirc) it does an A4 scan in about 15 seconds or so.

From what i've heard slide/negative wise there are some better ones out there, but they tend to be more specialised and much more expensive, my one complaint about the 8800F's slide scanning is that at max resolution you're looking at roughly 2 minutes a slide (it takes 4 at a time, or 8 negatives from memory using the different adaptors).

I did have a Lide 35 which was ok, but the colour reproduction wasn't as good as the 8800, and it was very picky about what usb ports it worked on - it basically didn't like sharing a usb hub on the PC if anything was in the other port*, and I could only reliably power it through my monitors USB ports

*I think it draws very nearly the maximum allowed by the usb spec, and at least on my P4P800 didn't like it if it was plugged into a motherboard header when the other header of the pair had anything in it (mouse/keyboard).

cruisinbeatz · 8 Sep 2008 at 01:01

I ended up buying the 8800F as I read more reviews on it and it looked the part, although I do find however that when its on auto its 300 dpi seems abit on the low side, any way to boost the auto up abit? oh and what does "iirc" mean?