I researched the options and chose the Canon SC8800F based on three basic requirements. So, when I decided to start shooting and developing film again I knew that a scanner was the solution. Living in a New York City apartment limits one's options when it comes to little perks, such as home darkrooms. I just wiped them off with a pec-pad cloth and seemed to have very little trouble with lint, as few of my negitives were scratched up and I needed to touch them up in paint shop pro, but it did what i needed it for and I am satisfied. all in all I scanned 1500 of my negitives in a month o r so and am very happy with the scanner ( although I have not compared it to any other scanners) it took awhile to scan alot of them as I had alot of favorite pics that I wanted very good quality and set it at 4800 dpi and would go away for an hour or so before it scanned 10 - 12 negitives. I am not sure about the software that come with it cuz I used my own (paint shop pro). its not a fast process but it works ok! the quality is ok seemed a little dark but I use paint shop pro program to adjust the lightness and to rotate the pic ( so its not sideways ect) also I used the mirror adjustment ( in paint shop pro) when the negitive was upside down. If you put 110 film in there and manually line it up as strait as possible you can select each pic seperatley with a select tool and fit over 20 at a time. The scanner scans 12 35mm negitives at a time, you can set the dpi different for each one! 1200 dpi is about a min. There were no malfunctions of the scanner over the years that I owned it, so it seems to be a reliable unit. I also used photoshop to remove any color shift that was a result of film aging. I found it better to clean the film really well then use photoshop to remove imperfections. Software can automatically eliminate the specks, but be careful because some software will also reduce the resolution of the image because it removes EVERYTHING smaller than the speck size that you filter out. On any scanner, a speck of dust appears large when scanning something like a negative at 2000 DPI. I scanned photo prints at 600 DPI and the scanner seemed quick at this setting. Scanning at 4000 DPI was fairly slow, so that resolution was only used for photos that may be enlarged. I scanned slides at 2000 DPI and obtained adequate resolution from normal prints.
I used it to scan a couple of thousand slides, a few hundred photos, a few negatives and other documents. For anyone using a previous version of Windows, this is a pretty good scanner.
It appears that for Windows 10 users, Canon has abandoned those that own the 8800 and earlier scanners. When I last checked, I could not find a Windows 10 scanner driver from Canon. Good scanner, but Canon did not update the drivers for Windows 10
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