[sane-devel] Epson 2400 scanner and negatives

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

The following page has some information about how to manually remove 
the orange mask of negatives:
http://www.khk.net/sane/gimp_negative_scanning.html

Karl Heinz


On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 07:00 PM, Dennis Veatch wrote:

>
> Just bought the Epson 2400 Photo scanner and it works great with 
> xsane. Even
> the transparency/negative part works. However I am having a problem 
> with
> negatives. I have tried all the available modes such as , standard, 
> kodak and
> the rest but the results do not turn out right.
>
> I have fiddled with the gamma's, brightness, contrast etc but they 
> either
> (depending on the negative type) come out with a yellow tint, red tint 
> and
> some others that are not quite right and no amount of adjusting gets 
> them
> near to being correct.
>
> Is it me, the scanner or sane?
>
> This is on Mandrake 9.1 (latest updates), sane-backends-1.0.11-5mdk and
> sane-frontends-1.0.10-1mdk.
>
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>
> "Trying"? My contribution was much closer to a "feeble wave in the 
> general
> direction of something that might lead you one step closer to a 
> solution
> if you squint really hard and do all of the work."
>
>
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