Clients can bring about upgrades. I have a small restoration job and that means using a scanner.   I had an old Microtek and old HP scanner but they are no longer supported under Vista 64 nor Win7.  They sit in boxes marked donate to Goodwill.   I gave up restoration jobs a few years ago when some company started an off-shore India photo restoration business and charged customers about 1/200th of my rate.  I think they went out of business as I can’t find a current reference to them – ah…the Internet business world.

Looking for scanner reviews is tough.  Scanners don’t come out often and there are not a lot of current review sites.  CNET’s most recent scanner review was dated 2007.

I bought a Canon Canoscan 9000F.  This may finally replace my very old Polaroid film scanner (which has been sitting in a box with it’s SCSI card for 3 years).  Haha.

Here are the reviews that swayed me:

http://blog.shutterbug.com/davidbrooks/preview_new_canoscan_9000f_silverfast/

http://www.imaging-resource.com/SCAN/CS9000/9000F.HTM#con

I bought it at Buy.com.  it was $221.87 with free shipping.   I’m sure it will be cheaper by Christmas.