The film holders for the Canon Canoscan 9000 F Mark II are made of very cheap and flimsy plastic and don’t feel very strong at all. The scanner can scan both colour and black & white film, but I mostly have used it for black and white film. Once you have the scanner setup and the Canon U Scan Utility installed, then you’re ready to use the scanner. They are not well made but they get the job done. The 135 and 120 film holders feel very cheap and fragile. I will only review the portion of the scanner with regards to scanning film. It is incredibly simple and I am not reviewing the whole scanner. I will skip the installation process for the scanner. The scanner came with the film holders for both 35mm and 120 film. The scanner did not look so large in the pictures, but it is fairly large if you have a small office. The scanner arrived and it was much larger than I had expected. The Canon Canoscan 9000 F Mark II was the cheapest flatbed scanner I could find online in China and I was hoping for good results. I wasn’t sure what was the best option with the scanners so I just ordered the cheapest one. I spent weeks reading all of this online and at the end, I was completely confused as there was no consensus of what was the best or even the most practical way of digitizing your frames.Īt the end of all my dreadfully boring research, I decided to buy a flatbed scanner, mostly because I was shooting both 35 and 120 film. Some netizens swear that they only way to get a good scan is with a DSLR and a macro lens while some others say that scanning is a waste of time and you should just print in a darkroom. Some people tell you to buy a flatbed scanner, while others tell you to buy a dedicated scanner. Everyone has an opinion, and it clashes with everyone else.
When I had my film developed at the only lab that I found in China, the scans were good, but it would take over 6 weeks for me to get my developed film back with the scans, which was just too long so I dove headfirst into the internet looking for a good alternative to scanning my film at home and all I can say is OMG. Turns out that developing black and white film is incredibly easy but the scanning thing seemed to be a little bit like black magic. It was very very difficult to get my film developed so I had to learn how to develop the film at home and scan them myself. Buying film cameras in China is easy, getting film is no problem but most development labs and darkrooms are gone now.
Years late, I am a full-time music photographer, working in a strange land called China and my desire to shoot black and white film returned with a vengeance. I moved to digital and left film behind as I was so focused and driven to make it as a music photographer. But I only shot film, I never developed it, or worked in a darkroom. Like so many photographers, I learned photography shooting with film, on an old Pentax K1000.
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