[PLUG] Film scanners

Dan Young danielmyoung at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 20:27:08 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:01 PM, m0gely <m0gely at gmail.com> wrote:
> Denis Heidtmann wrote:
>> Can anybody recommend a film scanner using USB with a "complete" SANE rating?
>
> Coolscan IV
>
> Several on eBay.

I got a Coolscan III (SCSI) off eBay about ten years ago and loved it.
The dust removal stuff worked like magic. That was all using the
proprietary Nikon software on Windows though; looks like SANE doesn't
support that though:

http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-coolscan.5.html

Bummer, dude.

Hamrick's VueScan supports that on Linux, if you don't mind the non-free thing.

-- 
Dan Young



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