[sane-devel] film scanner in linux?

[Nikolas Arend]

Nikolas Arend wrote:

> Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 22:50 -0500, Ivan Fernandez wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> 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?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> "Work well" is defined both as having functional drivers and getting a
>>> good image quality.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I think there's no currently new
>> model that is supported.
>>
>> johannes
>>  
>>
>
> 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
>
>
>
I forgot: I have no clue whether the Lide 80's slide scanning capability 
will be supported soon or at all. The devs working on the backend should 
know?!

Nick.