Canon CanoScan LiDE 80 Color Scanner by Canon
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Digital camera reviews of Canon CanoScan LiDE 80 Color Scanner
Digital camera Review: Not worth the frustration for a mac user!
Summary: 1 Stars
I spent 5 hours on the phone with tech support. They finally admitted without classic there is no real way to get this to work. This is not acceptable!!! The scanner scans great for my PC, but is dead on my mac.Digital camera Review: Not worth the money
Summary: 2 Stars
Pros: Small and compact. Powered through USB. Does great with 35mm negatives.
Cons: Poor scan quality.
I bought this scanner along with the Epson 2480 to test. Although tedious with scanning 35mm film, the color and scan quality is great. But for scanning pictures and other items, the scan and weak, and the color washed out (greens come out too yellow, blues much lighter in comparison with the 2480 which I would give 5 stars for scan quality). There is also a horizontal banding in the scans which is very noticable when the image is printed.
I would recommend this only if you wanted to scan film and didn't really care to have a high quality scan of anything else.
Digital camera Review: Pretty good film scanner
Summary: 4 Stars
When I bought it I didn't even know (or care) that the scanner could scan film but the other day I found some negatives at the back of a drawer and decided to try scanning them. I have to say I was quite impressed. Scanned at 2400 dpi, digital prints up to 5"x7" are almost indistiguishable from the photographic prints. I find that the images from scanned colour negatives have an overall bluish cast but this is easily corrected.
I have found the scanner's small size and lack of a power cord to be a real advantage; it is handy to be able to tip the scanner on its side and store it out of the way when it is not in use.
Digital camera Review: Re:- Using 4-hub USB adaptor
Summary: 4 Stars
I plugged my LiDE 80 into a cheap 4-hub USB adaptor and it is producing excellent quality scans. My only reservation is that scanning via the single-touch button produces a reddish tinge, whereas scans to the computer seldom needs adjustment, but if they do, the desired result is easily obtained via Adobe 2.0 (supplied with the scanner).
Hope this helps!
Digital camera Review: Terrible Negative Scanning
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this thing to convert some of my negatives to digital. First off you have to use a clumsy Fare 2.0 module which plugs into the scanner and fits on top of the negative into the 35mm film adapter. This is not a good idea becuase you can only do one negative frame at a time. Also it doesnt seem to push down on the negative to make it flat. Negative scans are horrible, its comparable to a 1-2 mega pixel digital image.
Regular photo scans are not to shabby. The image detail seems good enough but the color accuracy is off. Only thing saving the color is Photoshop Elements.