How good is it for scanning photos? Anyone care to comment purely on photo scanning?
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That same review has me concerned with MX850 scan quality. I have an MP830 and do a lot of scanning with it. Does anyone know if the different sensor in the MX850 scans as well as the MP830's.
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I have used my scanner to scan photographs for online posting, and it worked fine. The clarity was great. I have had my scanner for over 5 years, and it still works with no problems.
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Robert, I have scanned pictures from magazines but not photographs. These pics from the magazines are pixalated slightly but adequate. Poor quality pic to start with when scanning a magaizine pic. I use the scanner constantly and am more than happy with it since I'm always on the road. It travels nice and scans without any issues. If you're looking for top of the line scanned pics I think you'll be slightly disappointed. More than adequate for my needs though. Your question sparked my interest. I changed my settings to JPG @ 600dpi, just adequate not superb!
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Canon has a pretty neat tool for scanning. This model also has a feature to email directly from the unit. So to answer your concern, you will not be disappointed with this machines ability to scan.
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Yes, I recommend it. I've had four different scanners. This is by far the best, light, multiple resolution settings, color or b/w. I love this one.
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Just for kicks and grins I scanned negatives and slides at the maximum resolution and I estimate the process took about 10-15 per. I also found out that scanning at the highest resolution created files so large (some as big as 600MB) that even though I have a fairly high performance PC, (Core i7, 12GB of RAM), the files were so big I couldn't open them. I dropped down to around 2400-4800 DPI and found the files created about 1.2MB or so. I also scanned files on my MBP with 4GB of RAM and it also created files too large to open and in a few cases it even crashed. I decided the 4800 DPI range was more than sufficient for scanning for my purposes which is to burn all these treasured slides and negatives to disk and give them to family so they can enjoy them too. If you are a professional photographer or designer and you need the max resolution you will need a box with the highest performing hardware you can buy and that will be commensurate with the price. Bottom line: Test various resolutions and see what works for your purposes. I read MANY of the reviews of this scanner before I bought it and decided it would work perform the job I needed it to do and it has performed admirably.
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I have used it to scan in some photos and they turned out well. I think it would depend upon the type whether you wanted to run them through or not, such as old family photos, etc.
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Still working on it, haven't got to scanning my negatives yet, but can let you know when I do. So far, scanning is going smoothly. Occasionally, the machine resets itself, but considering I have tons of pics, I am not surprised.
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It won't scan negatives but some users, including me, have had good luck with photos and others have not. It depends on the quality one wants.
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Are you kidding? Who do you know that has purchased BOTH??? All I can say is that the 9000F2 does a great job on picture scanning - I've scanned lots. The trick is to position 4-6 photos on the platen, then set the Scan & Preview resolutions the same. Then you can choose each photo and save it without having to rescan between each save.
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Good Morning Frank. I have not tried to scan slides yet, still working on scanning a zillion old photos. On the photo scanning side, the Wolverine works great, very straight forward, a quick scan to a memory card, good quality. With a half page scanning window, extra large photos, like class picture/wide angle photos cannot be scanned - don't have many of those. Reading instructions, Wolverine scans one slide at a time.Hope this helps. Tom
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Yes. That has been my experience. Quality is not superior but decent. This is an affordable scanner for the masses. I recommend this highly IF you intend to use this for scanning large documents and books. I use my older Fujitsu ScanSnap 1500M if I want to scan regular size documents, receipts, business cards since the quality is superior. Hope this helps.
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Only one page can be scanned at a time, and yes a photo i.d. should go through it just fine. I have scanned credit cards with it. I own this and I love it for running my business. It is easy to use and helps keep track of everything by allowing me to put it into a computer.
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That's what I've used it for. I think it does a great job with them. I've compared them to the photos I got scanned from photo bin and they were about the same but without all the hassle of mailing them off and in the end is much better cost wise. Its hard to get them all to be perfectly straight when fed through if you do it in a hurry but theres a tool in their software that before you save them into your computer, you can crop them a little to make them straight. I'm actually not going to use my remaining groupons for photo bin and use the doxie cause its just as good. One caveat, I'm copying older photos so I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Maybe newer ones won't be as sharp, don't know. That's what I've used it for. I think it does a great job with them. I've compared them to the photos I got scanned from photo bin and they were about the same but without all the hassle of mailing them off and in the end is much better cost wise. Its hard to get them all to be perfectly straight when fed through if you do it in a hurry but theres a tool in their software that before you save them into your computer, you can crop them a little to make them straight. I'm actually not going to use my remaining groupons for photo bin and use the doxie cause its just as good. One caveat, I'm... » Read More That's what I've used it for. I think it does a great job with them. I've compared them to the photos I got scanned from photo bin and they were about the same but without all the hassle of mailing them off and in the end is much better cost wise. Its hard to get them all to be perfectly straight when fed through if you do it in a hurry but theres a tool in their software that before you save them into your computer, you can crop them a little to make them straight. I'm actually not going to use my remaining groupons for photo bin and use the doxie cause its just as good. One caveat, I'm copying older photos so I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Maybe newer ones won't be as sharp, don't know. « Show Less
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I've used it for photo's and haven't had any problems. I scan everything in at 300 dpi, and it's pretty speedy. I have not tried doing 150 dpi though. It does auto crop and fix any skewing or rotation that may have happened too.
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Yes, it can scan pictures, but it offers little control on the output, and saves the file in jpg. In other words, it is OK for the occasional picture but will not be sufficient for someone who wants to be able to control the quality of the scan or wants photography-level images.
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Yes, you can feed photos for scanning up to 600dpi. Quality's in the eyes of the beholder. Perfectly satisfactory for my purposes, which are principally archival. Not a scanner for high-quality professional image capture.