I can't believe Canon have made what does turn out to be a great little scanner (my CanoScan 8400F) and bundled it with horrible software that's not merely a bad interface, but actually makes the scanner perform well below its capabilities. Hopefully this will sort itself out with the proper version. However in the demo version it didn't seem to offer useful batch scanning, indeed it seemed to require that I know which frame (of the 12 in the film holder) I want to scan, without giving a full preview of the whole lot.
Also bearing in mind Alan's comments re: SilverFast issues on his Mac, I will prob go with VueScan. It seems that Silverfast is more expensive too, though i have not delved into great detail re: SilverFast version pricing (looks like there's just 2 rates for VueScan - $50 or $80). I have tried out the SilverFast demo and the interface seems rather less user-friendly than VueScan (with VueScan I had a really nice scan within a few minutes of downloading with SilverFast, well I am still a little puzzled, though the scan quality is indeed excellent too).
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