[sane-devel] [long] Want someone help me about Canon FS4000US USB/SCSI driver ?

[Jonathan Buzzard]

andras at users.sourceforge.net said:
> Jonathan, you never fail to discourage people trying to use SANE. A
> film scanning frontend doesn't have to be FS4000-specific, so there
> are plenty of other programmers who are interested in film scanning
> and could help with the frontend, and also with the SANE2 standard. 

I will always be realistic in what I say. It is fine to use SANE, and
it would be absolutely fantastic if someone where to write a SANE front
end for scanning negatives and film, and sorted out the SANE2 standard
so SANE properly supports such scanners.

However also I believe that everyone has the right to be fully informed
as to the task ahead.

> BTW, what does the new frontend have to do with the IR channel? A
> frontend should never get IR data in the first place. 

Oh that really does take the biscuit. It is not the job of the backend
to do the IR dust removal in the slightest. This is very very much
a front end task. Apart from anything else if it was a backend task
it would have to be replicated in every backend that supports a
scanner with a IR channel.

> > Note to be really useful you are going to need to write a front end as
>
> Are you suggesting that Coolscan2 and various other backends
> supporting film scanners are currently totally useless? 

No I am not, but I am very much suggesting that they are not of full
production quality as well.

JAB.

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