"Jim" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
My buddy from the BVI and I were talking about all the old 35mm slides
and negatives we have from the good 'ole days. We both decided we need
a scanner so we can share old pictures with family & friends.
He lives on a 32' sailboat on Tortola so a smaller dedicated unit might
suit him.
I have the room... and will have other uses, like copying documents (seem
to do this a lot for moms affairs) so I ordered a Canon CanoScan CS8800F
from FutureShop at a sale price of $199.99 CDN.
Anyone have any experience scanning their old film/slides over to
digital?
Here's the unit..
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...gon=&langid=EN
Note: the sale price expired yesterday.
Got a nice Brother MFC laser printer with fax for a little over $100. Got
a Brother MFC laser printer for the bus for under $50. Both do an
excellent job of scanning color photos. I have no idea whether or not they
can "sann" film, slides, or negatives.

Let us know how your unit does on these items. The N/A, next to
transparencies in the specs, tends to make me think that Cannon can't do
what you bought it for.

On the Canon web site their spec sheet shows backlight for slide scanning.

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