OT: Scanner recommendations

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Originally Posted by John V

I started researching scanners today. Based on some of these posts, I focused on the Canon 8800F. Calvindog's scans are amazing.
Have any of the board members using the 8800F had problems with it running on Windows Vista?

I realize this thread was originally and still is a bit off-topic.
Happy New Year from SC...
John

Hi John,

I really liked the scans some (including Calvindog) were getting, so I purchased a Canon 8800F in 2009. I have only run it on a computer that has Vista o/s. I am using the software that came with the scanner, called PhotoStudio 5.5 to operate the scanner and edit the images. I'm very happy with the results.

Problems? Well, a few times the software froze when other programs were running - they seemed to interfere with each other. I think iTunes was one of the offenders. But for the most part it runs very effectively. All the scans on my Photobucket page were done with this scanner.