Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:07:29 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Recommended scanner for slide/negative scanning? Message-ID: <42DB6341.6040807@locolomo.org>
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Hi, I want to buy a scanner, as I see from the documentation, it's supported if it's supported by some SANE backend. However, I would appreciate some hands-on experience or recomendation. It will be used mainly for negative scanning, but a dedicated negative scanner is too expensive. I'd like to scan my 35mm in 2000x3000 resolution, and the dpi doesn't tell me much as how this converts to pixels. I've been looking at Epson 2480/2580 and Canon CanoScan 4200F/5200F. According to the SANE project homepage the latest stable is 1.0.13, but the ports version is 1.0.15. For the stable version, SANE reports basic/minimal support for the Epson scanners and unsupported for the Canon scanners. For the CVS version, SANE reports unsupported for the Canon scanners but good/basic for the Epson. Can anyone confirm me how well the Epson scanners are supported? When SANE reports unsupported, they add "probably unsupported", have anyone tried these scanners? Second, there has been a bug report on the debian site regarding a fried Epson 2480: http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=410366&aid=301692&group_id=30186 Can anyone confirm if this is indeed SANE and/or if the problem has been resolved? Finally, getting exotic :-) does any of these scanners handle medium format (6x6cm)? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2
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