[sane-devel] Film scanners (was Re: Nikon Coolscan SCSI commands)

mh crapsite@gmx.net
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:51:32 +0200


Oliver Schwartz, Die, 24 Jul 2001:
> Hi,
> 
> > Does someone know a webpage, where one can find test-images for different
> > scanners/film types (before they are processed by vuescan, of course).
> > Or could someone supply those images?
> 
> Don't know of any such page. But I just found a file named filmtype.ini, 
> delivered with my Acer W2K drivers, available from 
> http://www.acercm.com.tw/global/service/scan/drivers/MiraScan%20v3.43U.zip 
> (Be warned - it's 10MB to download. The ini file itself is only a few kB.)
> 
> The file contains driver settings for 21 types of negatives. The only 
> settings which are easy to identify are the RGB gamma settings - the others 
> are open to guessing. It's also interesting to note that they use different 
> settings depending on the scanner model.

Thank you; fortunately Google found some filmtype.ini's, no need to download the
10MB file :)

Michael