[sane-devel] film scanner in linux?

[Nikolas Arend]

Johannes Berg wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 22:50 -0500, Ivan Fernandez wrote:
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>>Hello, and sorry if this is slightly off-topic.  I've been thinking
>>about buying a dedicated slide/negative scanner, but none of the models
>>I've seen in the market seem to be supported by SANE.  Could anyone give
>>me recommendations about which film scanners work well under Linux?
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>I'm in pretty much the same position and am contemplating getting a
>Nikon Coolscan 5 or 5000, I already have the technical docs from Nikon
>for it, just no time to work on adapting the driver.
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>>"Work well" is defined both as having functional drivers and getting a
>>good image quality.
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>I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I think there's no currently new
>model that is supported.
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>johannes
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The Canon Lide 80 can do this (I own one of those), but it's not yet 
supported. I may be in the near future by the genesys backend. See

http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/genesys-backend/

and watch the devel list.

Regards,   Nick