I have to say, film and slide scanning with Sane is pretty much useless. And, I don't know of any Linux app that will actually do it. Anyone else???
I have used the 1260 for slide scanning in Windows, and it does a very passable job. Wednesday 30 July 2003 12:23 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > At some point in the near future I'll be buying a scanner. I have > browsed the last thread on this subject, including > http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html, the TWiKi and the > SANE site. From these it looks like the Epson 1260 photo is a good > choice. The thing is a good part of the work I'm buying this thing for > is proofing B&W 35mm film. The only comment I found about film > scanning, for any scanner, was one of the comments on the 1260, (I > think on the SANE site or link therefrom,) that the Linux support for > film gives poor quality. Is this an obsolete comment? Does anyone on > the list have experience of this scanner with film? Does anyone have > any alternative suggestions or comments? > > (I know a higher res scanner would be better, or even a dedicated film > scanner, but I don't want the price to be much over £100, and I can't > justify two devices.) > > Thanks,
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