I just received this scanner & cant seem to find the menu, where I can select either negatives or slides. It comes on fine & I can set time etc.
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I can't remember now since I have not used mine in a year. Let me get it out tonihgt and check.
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Power on and wait for the screen with the icons to appear. I believe CAPTURE is default. Within 5 seconds press the Flip or Mirror button. Flip will bring you directly to the clock. You will have to use those 2 buttons and the Enter button to navigate through the menus. It takes a trial and error, but you'll figure it out.
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I think you press the on button and then scroll through options. There is a single negative holder as opposed to the strip holder -- perhaps one slide at a time would fit into that, or could simply be slid into the slot from above, scanned like a negative, then pulled out. A typical slide is the same size as the negative holder. I have been working on negatives so far and have not yet tried slides myself, but that is what I will try when I get around to it. There is an instruction booklet that comes with the scanner, pretty basic but check it out again. Hope this helps a bit.
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Yea I'm wondering the same. I' d really like to get this and I need a scanner now. Maybe someone can check with fujitsu and let us all know about an update?? Then again it appears so good why change it??
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Have you looked at the User's manual. It's on the CD and there should be an icon on your screen. You probably have inadvertently changed one of your scan options.
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First you save image to the memory card than you take out card and insert it into your computer and save the file to whatever directory you want, the scanner saved the image of a slide as a negative than I had to covert it to a positive image in paint shop pro and save it, hope this helps
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I haven't tried to scan any negatives yet - still working on slides. I'm sure that it will scan any negative though since it scans what it sees whether it is color or black & white.
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The holes are open. The holder opens up and you place the slide/negative in the slots and snap shut; then pull it through the scanner.
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I haven't tried that yet but it is supposed to scan any 35 mm color or black and white negatives. The only 35 mm slides it would not scan are the dark ones that could only see spots of light like distant street lights and such.
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The scanner does not have an automatic advance for slides or film, rather you put the content into the carriage, then insert it to the scanner and each advance is manual. Once you get your settings for scanning set, save them and reload the settings each session. You can simply advance the carriage to each image then click the 'scan' button. It's pretty quick. Your sessions can be for whatever film or negative you have. For thousands of slides, you're going to want to be patient. Scanning takes 30 seconds or so per frame, depending on the dpi you choose, but this is nowhere close to a 'thousand slides in an evening' proposition... The scanner does not have an automatic advance for slides or film, rather you put the content into the carriage, then insert it to the scanner and each advance is manual. Once you get your settings for scanning set, save them and reload the settings each session. You can simply advance the carriage to each image then click the 'scan' button. It's pretty quick. Your sessions can be for whatever film or negative you have. For thousands of slides, you're going to want to be patient. Scanning takes 30 seconds or so per frame, depending on the dpi you choose, but this is nowhere close to a... » Read More The scanner does not have an automatic advance for slides or film, rather you put the content into the carriage, then insert it to the scanner and each advance is manual. Once you get your settings for scanning set, save them and reload the settings each session. You can simply advance the carriage to each image then click the 'scan' button. It's pretty quick. Your sessions can be for whatever film or negative you have. For thousands of slides, you're going to want to be patient. Scanning takes 30 seconds or so per frame, depending on the dpi you choose, but this is nowhere close to a 'thousand slides in an evening' proposition... « Show Less
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Find "devices and printers" on your computer. You should see an icon that is not usually there. Click on that. When I did that, a message said there was a problem with it, and it could be fixed. I okayed that, and then the scanner worked fine.
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We bought our CanonScan 8600F scanner 2 days ago,and I am at my wit's end trying to find out how to scan 35 mm film slides. I went to the Canon web site and downloaded the scanner driver for Vista (32 bit) and installed it on my computer. The instruction manual said to open Photo Studio 5.5, file, select source and select your scanner model name without the WIA in it. When I opened the select source box, only one scanner model name was listed and it had WIA in it. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem? I am thinking about returning the scanner if we can't scan slides.
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Sorry, Patricia, no it doesn't scan slides. I have also wished the same thing, although I only have a small amount of slides - it would still be nice
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I had the same problem. They said go into REG EDIT and delete anything in the registry to do with Neat. That worked as far as installing the program so I could open it on my screen. But the scanner itself hasn't worked yet. It's telling me no drivers loaded. That's where I am right now. I've been messing with this for almost a week now! I really wanted this...was all excited to ditch tons of paper. Now I'm pretty much ready to give up and return it.
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If it is still scanning correctly, you should not have to re-install anything. You may have to check your settings if the original is light. Try setting to grey scale or darker setting.
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Yes. There are other formats to which your can select your scanned image to as weell The set up of the scanning drivers and scanner management program did not load correctly from the disk , thus requiring technical call and assistance. Tech Assist was great, responsive, on point and quick. I was up and scanning in minutes after opening the box. The scanner is blazing fast and accurate. We are quite please thus far.
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I know the mp980 has film guide for scanning negatives and slides. I believe it backlights them also (but I don't have it to know for sure).
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Diana,I don't remember how it was when I was installing things, but everything works fine and the scans are excellent. On the Photostudio 5.5 screen, the File/Select Source item shows both my scanners. Clicking on Acquire recognizes the four slides in the slide holder. I also find the Auto Enhance feature useful since many of my slides are underexposed.
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A slight correction to the statement that the software doesn't allow for the 110 format. You are correct that the automatic slide/negative detection only works for certain sizes, but if you turn off the preview mode, button top left when in the advanced scanning tab, you will get the raw strip from the scanner. Using the dashed line box, you have to manually draw the box around the slide/negative you want to capture. It will capture as many as you draw boxes for. Painful, yes, but it does work.The likelihood of an SDK would seem remote, as this is a driver you would be hacking, but an expanded set of formats would certainly be more attractive than the current hand drawing method. A slight correction to the statement that the software doesn't allow for the 110 format. You are correct that the automatic slide/negative detection only works for certain sizes, but if you turn off the preview mode, button top left when in the advanced scanning tab, you will get the raw strip from the scanner. Using the dashed line box, you have to manually draw the box around the slide/negative you want to capture. It will capture as many as you draw boxes for. Painful, yes, but it does work.The likelihood of an SDK would seem remote, as this is a driver you would be hacking,... » Read More A slight correction to the statement that the software doesn't allow for the 110 format. You are correct that the automatic slide/negative detection only works for certain sizes, but if you turn off the preview mode, button top left when in the advanced scanning tab, you will get the raw strip from the scanner. Using the dashed line box, you have to manually draw the box around the slide/negative you want to capture. It will capture as many as you draw boxes for. Painful, yes, but it does work.The likelihood of an SDK would seem remote, as this is a driver you would be hacking, but an expanded set of formats would certainly be more attractive than the current hand drawing method. « Show Less