Johannes Berg wrote: >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 > >
The Canon Lide 80 can do this (I own one of those), but it's not yet supported. I may be in the near future by the genesys backend. See http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/genesys-backend/ and watch the devel list. Regards, Nick
