Product Description

Canon 4400F Scanner Z-lid USB2.0 FAU 6x35mm Film Strip and 4x35mm Slides 4800x9600dpi Ref 1306B008AB

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18308 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 1306B008AB
• Released on: 2006-09-01
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Dimensions: 6.17 pounds

Features

• Canon 4400F Scanner Z-lid USB2.0 FAU 6x35mm Film Strip and 4x35mm Slides 4800x9600dpi Ref 1306B008AB

Manufacturer's Description
Ready to produce high-resolution scans of photos, documents, even 35mm film and slides? It's easy. Seven buttons automate the entire scanning process, so it's simple to scan, copy and create e-mails and multi-page PDFs. This smart scanner delivers a spectacular color dpi resolution of 4800 x 9600 (max.) and built-in retouching technology can further enhance your final images. Plus, the Advanced Z-Lid expansion top lifts approximately 1-inch vertically and lets you produce clear, complete scans even of thick originals such as notebooks.

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Customer Reviews

Excellent Featured Scanner at a Reasonable Cost
I was looking for a replacement for my old Canon A4 flatbed scanner and then possibly a separate slides/negative holder to enable me to digitise some film photos.

Good price, good make and very happy to find it had an integral slide/negative scanning function. Windows and Mac compatible, which I wanted.

Set-up out the box was very simple (linked to OSX) and the scan of some photographic prints was speedy and the quality good. Scanning colour negatives was also quick and simple, although the negatives holder needs some practice as you can get some odd results if you position the film strip incorrectly. The lid has a double joint in that it can be raised to enable deeper items (books and the like) to be scanned with the lid closed and without straining the joint.

There are several 'quick access' buttons on the front and the bundled software is excellent - easy to use and there are advanced settings, including less common 'source' settings and a range of quality configurations. It even includes some photo editing options.

Scanning some black and white negatives wasn't initially very successful - they all had a strong purple cast - until I realised that there were loads more options (including higher quality and mono negative source) under the Advanced menu. Re-scanned, the mono negatives came out fine.

Higher quality scans means longer to scan, not unnaturally. A scan of 4 negatives at the near-highest quality level takes about 12 minutes. The useful (and quick) preview scan lets you select the frame/s you want from the strip and then scans them in individually. The output is 'print' standard images but not up to the standard of a photo lab.

The scanner is also quite 'good' at picking up dirt, dust and scratches - leading to a bit of post-scanning cleaning. Ensuring the source media is as clean as possible beforehand would save time.

If you want something to enable you to digitise your prints, negatives or slides at an affordable price, this is a good option. If photo lab quality is important, you probably need to be looking at the 'professional' level. As a consumer piece of equipment, I think this does the job for me and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.

Brilliant results!
Bought this to scan 35mm & 126 slides from the 1960's & 70's. Easy to set up, easy to use and very good results when printed. Software removes scratches and enhances colours well (not surprisingly, the newer slides produced better colours than the older ones, but even these are better than I expected).

Great scanner, great value
Buying on-line I rely on specifications and reviews to help decide on what to purchase. I wasn't looking to buy a Canon being an Epson man but I read the specs on the 4400F and found it of interest. There were two reviews for this product when I looked and was put off by one of them being a poor review.
I did a search for the Epson scanner, I was interested in, and found a web site that did a very detailed technical review of it and was surprised to find their summary, though good, identified the Canoscan range as being better. It took some more digging but I found the review they did of the Canoscan and was impressed enough to make my purchase of the scanner on this review.
I don't know why a previous reviewer was so negative with the Canon scanner as I've been using it for around six weeks now and found it to be a fantastic unit, especially for the price. Amazon delivered the unit within a week and it worked straight out of the box. Within an hour of opening the box I had produced my first scan.
I haven't got round to scanning any negatives but so far everything else has worked beautifully. I've scanned a stamp and blow it up to around A4 size; scanned old magazine articles straight to PDF; OCR'ed some recipes into Word format. The software supplied is very powerful and I've changed now I work to use PageManager to control my scans rather than create folders and sub-folders to help identify my scans. I had a problem doing the most basic of tasks, scanning an article or area of a document, enlarge it and save it as a PDF. This isn't a fault of the scanner or the software but with me being too lazy to do some reading and find out how to use the software fully. By the way I can now do this. I suspect that if I make a bit more effort and read the documentation I will be rewarded with greater functionality.