8000F here. Quite effective. You get 4 settings - none, soft, normal and hard. The "best" setting depends on the size of the dust/scratches. "Soft" will remove only the smallest dust particles, while "hard" will take care of everything including heavy scratches.Hello, has anybody used Canon D2400F or newer scanners (5000F, 8000F, 9900F)? I am especially interested in how effective is FARE in this models and how are they useable in 35 mm slides scanning??? I would appreciate any samples :-) Thanks!
There is one review on the net that says that it will also soften the whole image. In my experience, this is false. It just affects the areas along the scratches.
I found that for reasonable clean film (i.e. that did not suffer some bad treatment or accident), it completely removes the need to manually fix the image in photoshop.
I have samples available, but no web site to post them to. If you want, I can send them as e-mail attachments.
The only problems I found are that scanning at 2400 dpi is slow, and the film holder is rather flimsy, so you may easily get the film curved and touching the scanner glass, producing newton rings. If you have framed slides, you don't have this problem, but with film strips it is rather annoying.
cheers, caveman
