Re: film/print scanner question

[Bob W8IMO <w8imo@xxxxxxxx>]

I recently went through this and was seriously looking at the 8800F.  When I went to buy it the sales person, (www.bpav.com is about 2 miles from my house) and I talked about it and decided that the 4400F would do just as well for about half the price.  I have scanned, text documents, photos, and slides.  The software that comes with it does a lot.  You can get pdf files when scanning documents.

Compare the specs.....
Bob

Rich Mason wrote:

An acquaintance on a non-photo forum is looking to scan a bunch of old family photos.  Here are the questions posed in their own words:

Anyone using a photo/negative scanner they would recommend? I'm looking at getting one specifically to scan old photos and negatives to turn in to digital images.

What works good? 

Was actually looking at this one: CanoScan 8800F 

The need is to digitize A LOT of pictures & slides.

Along the same lines, I'm trying to figure out how to archive them once they're scanned. 

Anyone have experience with the Canon model?  Any other suggestions?

How about the archiving?  Not sure what software they have as I'm typing this but will add that when I get the info.

Thanks,

Rich