That takes about a minute per slide, but that is certainly not too much for the quality you get. You first make a preview (it only takes a few seconds) and only then you decide which slides you really want to scan. Even the automatic mode delivers very good scans, but with the ScanGear you can adjust every aspect of your scan yourself: input and output modalities, resolution (tss 3 dpi) color mode, image adjustments and corrections and much more. I am particularly happy with the included software, the Canon IJ Scan Utility. In addition, it is also a full-fledged flatbed scanner for documents, photos, drawings. Larger film formats are also possible, although I don't need them myself, so I haven't tried them yet. The machine runs full time and processes framed slides (4 at a time), strips of up to 6 slides (2 strips at a time), loose, unframed slides (up to 12 at a time, although insertion requires a little more care) and also all my black-and-white white negatives with incredible quality. This Canon Canoscan 9000F has been making me rediscover old slides every day for a few weeks now.

Especially the maximum resolution was much too low.

I used to have a so-called slide scanner, but I was absolutely not satisfied with the result. I haven't seen them since my Kodak Carroussel broke down ten years ago. It wins our Ultimate award.Ten thousand (or more) slides have been gathering dust in cupboards and boxes for fifty years. The Canoscan 9000F Mark II is clearly over-specified for regular office or creative work, but it’s ideal if you have lots of film to scan and you need the best possible quality. It roughly doubled the time taken to scan film, but it was quite successful at removing blemishes without softening or otherwise compromising the result. Canon’s proprietary FARE system is a tool designed to scan film but not the surface imperfections of the negative, and it uses infrared light to scan the image as well as light from the visible spectrum. Document scans were in perfect focus, while we were delighted with the degree to which subtle detail was preserved from our test negatives in one photo, faint, wispy clouds were preserved in a bright blue sky, while blades of grass could still be picked out in heavy shade. We expected good results from this scanner, but we were surprised by just how good they were. You can configure the default behaviour for six of the scanner’s seven function buttons

Canon canoscan 9000f review