Major A wrote: >>However, there seems to be few in the affordable range (around and >>below) ~<400$ that are supported by SANE. Without knowing about support, >>I had considered the Minolta Dual Scan III. It seems to not be working >>very well, if at all. >>Epson doesn't seem to work very well either. Anyhow, they seem to >>abandon their products (no matter if they provide specifications, right?). > > > It's long since EPSON abandoned their FS200, but I think there is a > working backend for it, but not within the main SANE source. AFAIK, > Minolta is totally unsupported due to the lack of documentation, so > are all those Jenoptik/Reflecta, Acer/Benq, etc. low-end scanners you > find in every shop today. I'm not sure about Canon. No support for > Polaroid and high-end scanners either (Leaf, Imacon, etc.) There is > support for some old film scanners made by Microtek, but I don't know > the details. > > The only current scanner line that has full SANE support is the Nikon > Coolscan range. Get any Coolscan scanner, and it will work (or tell me > if it doesn't and we'll fix it). ICE is still work-in-progress, but it > shouldn't be too hard to work out the algorithms for anyone who has a > weekend free and a fast computer. > > Andras > > =========================================================================== > Major Andras > e-mail: and...@users.sourceforge.net > www: http://andras.webhop.org/ > ===========================================================================
Hello. Thanks for the response, it is greatly appreciated. Then it would seem there are no options for me. The cheapeast Nikon film scanner is around ~800 US $. I will have to drop the idea of buying a filmer scanner and continue getting it on CD from the store :/ Sigh.
