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

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida <moitinho at civil.ist.utl.pt> said:
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> Please note that I have mostly scaned colour slides but, if memory serves 
me 
> right, the driver that is bundled with my Dual Scan II does not allow to 
> select the type/brand of the colour negative. I think that they just use an 
> average mask that may be corrected by the user.

.. or the software just looks for the lightest area in the negative
and use this as the mask color.