[sane-devel] offtopic 35-mm scanner question

[Oliver Schwartz]

Hi,

> I have an Epson 2480 and I'm quite satisfied with it. I haven't
> used it for negatives, only slides; for many purposes the results
> are quite good. Some random thoughts:
>
> * Sane support is very good, but native support (in windows) is
> still better. In particular:
>     The windows driver detects and crops the slide area; under
> sane, you have to manually crop the slide mount.
>     The windows driver supports 16 bit per channel, and this really
> makes a difference
>     for high-quality scans.

16 bit support for the 2480 has just been added in CVS, thanks to the 
effort of Simon Munton. It's going to be included in the next release 
of sane-backends. For the impatient there's also the CVS snapshot :-)

/Oliver