[PLUG] Film scanners

m0gely m0gely at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 06:01:26 UTC 2009


Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> 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 out of date.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?

Coolscan IV

Several on eBay.

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m0gely



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