[sane-devel] offtopic 35-mm scanner question

[breacher]

i'm afraid the epson perfection 2400 is out of the loop at 2400 dpi. see you 
can scan films or slides at 1200 dpi without problem, as you zoom you will 
get squares at the resolution's limit. but at 2400 dpi, that scanner suffers 
a signal on noise rate loss and the picture is very noisy. it's almost as 
there was a herse in the way and that you could see it on the picture.

however for non-professional applications 600 or 1200 dpi will suffice. if you 
scan a film at 600 dpi you usually get a picture 700 or 800 pixels wide.

also with xsane there is a very harsh setup procedure to get the scanner to 
work, i've got the bookmark somewhere, drop me an email if you need it i'll 
send it to you. you gotta extract the ware file off the cd with a cryptic 
archive command line and set up you the config file using it. it won't work 
out of the box with xsane.


On Wednesday 19 October 2005 19:38, dn at offspringnet.net wrote:
> I know this is off topic but please don't stop reading. I was hoping to get
> some advice
> on what scanner to purchase which is supported fully in linux that will do
> 35-mm negatives.
>
> Looking at the supported list the most decent pricewise which is completely
> supported seems to be the epson perfection 2400 which has a builtin adapter
> for 35mm/slides. This seems to sell
> for a little under 200$ and it's 2400dpi.
>
> This is for the wife for christmas so she can do her family's large library
> of negatives, but of course I don't want to have to deal with windows for
> this. Does anyone else use linux for 35mm with a scanner that is around
> 200$ tops which is fully supported? (Also hoping to stick with usb)
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Don