[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner

[Rene Rebe]

Hi.

The Minolta Scan Dual II and Elite II have exposure control.

The Dual II is supported by SANE/Avision - the other would need
testing ...

On: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:34:06 +0100 (MET),
    Ulrich Deiters <ukd at xenon.pc.Uni-Koeln.DE> wrote:
> Some recent film scanners appear not to have exposure controls.
> As far as I know, the Canon FS2710S is such a case. But it scans
> 3x12 bits, and so it is OK to do the gamma correction in the backend
> and then truncate to 3x8 bit.
> 
> I think this is just the modern trend in computer pheripherals: Build
> them as simple as dumb as possible, and provide a fancy driver to 
> compensate the faults.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ulrich Deiters

- René

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