Nikolas Arend wrote: > 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 > > > I forgot: I have no clue whether the Lide 80's slide scanning capability will be supported soon or at all. The devs working on the backend should know?!
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