Jonathan, > The only way to get good negatives scans under Linux that I know is > to use VueScan. This is however shareware. You also need a proper > negative scanner but that is a separate matter.
This is a SANE email list. People do not usually come here to ask questions about other pieces of software, and certainly not to be recommended a piece of _commercial_ software. Your statement that good negative scans can only be produced with VueScan under Linux is simply false, as I have proven to myself (using the Nikon LS-30). The way of getting there might be different, but the result is the same (actually, with the Coolscan2 backend, it's usually better). In any case, we are here to develop a cross-platform scanning package that is at least as good as anything else out there. If you fell that SANE is really that far behind VueScan, please feel free to help by creating a negative-oriented frontend. But please don't in any case direct users to a piece of commercial software that has nothing to do with SANE. Andras =========================================================================== Major Andras e-mail: and...@users.sourceforge.net www: http://andras.webhop.org/ ===========================================================================