[sane-devel] film scanner in linux?

[Johannes Berg]

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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

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