Lookie What I Scanned! By Bosoxy on - Updated Oct 15, 2011
The photographs that you are viewing were taken from the 1920's to 1990 - all long before digital cameras were available.
The color “baby with rose“ picture was taken in 1969. The color that was captured by the scanner is exactly as it is in the original image.
Some of the older images have wrinkles, scratches and creases. The scanner was still able to capture the pictures wonderfully.
I thought that using my image space for what I scanned in would be more helpful than to show you the scanner itself, which is very thin, so thin that it fits into my laptop case in the pocket in front of my laptop. This was a big plus for me. The scanner is long and wide enough, however to scan an image up to 8.5” x 11” so most photos, letters and magazines or books can be scanned easily without cutting anything off.
The biggest selling point for me (or why it was on the top of my Christmas list) is that there is no need for a power cord with this scanner. It pulls all the power that it requires from the USB cable! It runs seamlessly off of my laptop while plugged in or on battery.
Since it is made for travel, there is a locking switch on the bottom of the scanner to lock the scan bar into place. This ensures that the scan bar will not rattle around in your laptop bag, potentially causing damage to your scanner. Just remember to unlock it when you pull it out to use it and lock it back up before you put it away and you will be all set.
The scanner itself takes a few moments to warm up, but I do not see that it is slower than other scanners that I have used. Once it has warmed up the first time it does go a bit faster.
The features are pretty much the same as other scanners. You can choose to preview the image or not, send it directly to mail, to your printer or save it to your computer. If you choose the preview, you can also actually crop the image before you scan it into your computer so that it will only save the portion of the image that you select… this has come in handy on a few occasions.
The CanoScan also has the options of how good you want the image quality to be from 75 to 1200 dpi. I can also choose from black and white, grayscale or several color options.
I cannot stress enough that the smaller, thinner size of this scanner is an asset, not a hindrance and that the smaller size does not mean less or a smaller performance.
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Sounds like this is an excellent scanner. I would have never guessed the baby picture was from 1969. The colors are so beautiful and vibrant. I am in the process of taking old photos out of old magnetic albums and many have faded and cracked and need to be reprinted. This scanner looks like it might be exactly what I need to save them to the computer to fix and reprint. Thanks for the info.
This is great information. I need a good scanner. Thanks for sharing this detailed information about this great scanner.
This scans great. I wasn't sure how Canon was on scanning I have always used HP. Just for your info, my son does the advertising for Kodak and they are coming out with a new scanner this year that will take the creases out of old pictures and also be able to give you the year the picture was taken in by the paper it was printed on. Of course this little machine will be way to expensive for the average person so they are putting them in stores. He says it will be very reasonable and will be able to do about 35 pictures in 5 minutes. I haven't seen them yet, but have tons of old pictures from my mom that I would love to do. Just thought I would pass this along.
Those pictures are amazing. I can not beleive that the baby with the rose is from 1969. This product works and works well I want to run out and get one right now.
The photos are just too cool! I have a photo from 1908, that's damaged and tiny and crinkled, and I'm afraid to even try to scan it.... This does a great job!
I have so many old old family photos from Europe and here that I want preserved. Between this scanner and the one Debbie mentioned I feel more confident that this may actually get done!
Look at the quality of those pictures-that's pretty amazing!!! You must have been a very good girl for this Christmas present!