Il giorno mar, 07-06-2005 alle 18:59 +0200, Spiro Angeli ha scritto: > Hi, >=20 > I need an advice - if possible, please. >=20 > I have to scann 15000 35mm frames and 350 slides. > I wish to purchase a NIKON scanner which will be connected via USB and wi= ll=20 > work on Linux "hopefully" >=20 > Here couple of models available:=20 > - Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED series > - Nikon Coolscan V ED
On Linux you may use SANE, that is free software and is packaged for almost every GNU/Linux distribution. The list of supported scanner is http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html I have a nikon Coolscan LS 50ED. It is actually not supported by SANE and I use it, with Nikon software, on Mac OSX. I heard about a non free software, running on GNU/Linux, that support this scanner. It is called VueScan, if I remeber right; but I never tried it. I permitted to use my scanner to Andr=E1s Major, the SANE coolscan2 driver author, but he said that this scanner is enough different from Coolscan LS 40, so probably a new SANE backend will not be available very shortly. Archives of this list includes some recent messages about peoples actually working on it. I think the 5000 is similar to the 50 I have. I like it very much for color film, but ICE4 isn't working on b/w because it uses an infrared light to remove noise. The infrared light will not pass the b/w film and ICE4 will not 'clean' your film. The only problem I see is that this scanner, while really good, isn't fast. I do not have other scanners to compare it, but I wait 3.5 minutes for each 35mm image, at 4000dpi 24bit. This is on a powerbook that only have USB1.1. It may be different with USB2.0, but I don't think so since powerbook CPU goes to 100% during the whole scan. Bye, Giuseppe
