[PLUG] Film scanners

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 00:24:46 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
..
>   Candidly, you'd be much better off (and spend less time and money) by
> replacing that with a scanner known to work with Xsane. Check
> http://www.sane-project.org/ for supported scanners; there are dozens of
> them.
>
> Rich

I am getting frustrated by this effort.  The SANE site lists 248
scanners with a "complete" rating.  Of those I count 97 as USB.  Of
those, I started searching for Epson, which had 20 meeting the
criterion.  NONE of those are film scanners on the Epson site.

I tried HP; got similar results. Fujitsu, Genius, Avision the same.
What am I missing?  Either the model numbers have changed or SANE is
out of date. (I did find a site that said "Since Microtek, Polaroid,
Minolta and now Nikon discontinued their film scanners, there is not a
lot of choice left in affordable, good quality 35mm scanners."

Can anybody recommend a film scanner using USB with a "complete" SANE rating?

-Denis



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