Hello to everyone, I am a semiprofessional photographer and consultant and would like to get a better understanding of the Sane/Xsane capabilities for my area of interest. This would mean to scan color negs and color slides ( 4x5" ) with Sane/Xsane. Fortunatelly, one of my scanners is on the list of supported hardware ( Epson 3200 Photo ), two are not ( Canon 9900 F and Sony UY-S90 ). I have a few questions and maybe one of you experts can help: 1. Scanning negatives - in the Windows world, during the scan and its preview, the neg is inverted properly to judge the exposure and to make initial color and exposure corrections. I did sofar not find this option with Kooka, and with Xsane only rather imperfect. 2. Once a preview scan of the whole scanable area was made, it would be fine to make a more detailed preview scan of the selected image area to properly determine the area to be scanned... 3. Scanning large format transparent items means that the size adjustments of the scan need to show lower % values than currently available - 35% is not small enough. I would need to reduce it to values down to 10% and even sometimes a bit less.
What could I offer you - I would be happy to evaluate new features and their performance....I am not a Linux expert but get along quite well - sometimes needing some guidance with installation of upgrades and updates. Thanks and kind regards Georg Nyman http://www.gnyman.com
