Ah yes Misah. I'm familiar with the 8000. We used one at work for a while and it became so annoying that it accidentally got dropped on the pavement in the rear parking lot and run over several times by an unidentified forensic lab van. We eventually wrote it up as a suicide. I'm looking at an epson which will do up to 8x10 slides which is great since i work in 35, 120, 4x5 and 8x10. It has a pretty good track record and does great scans. The other is a canon slide/neg scanner but it will only do the 35mm. Decisions decisions.