Re: [sane-devel] Canon 9000f MKII -- or other comparable scanner?

2016-07-19 Thread Roger
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:29:01AM +0100, James Tappin wrote: > Thanks for the reports. I've ordered one -- the colour base mentioned by > one is actually not likely to be a major issue as most of my film > photography is monochrome. I do not think I've had any issues with color problems,

Re: [sane-devel] Canon 9000f MKII -- or other comparable scanner?

2016-07-19 Thread James Tappin
Thanks for the reports. I've ordered one -- the colour base mentioned by one is actually not likely to be a major issue as most of my film photography is monochrome. On Jul 18, 2016, at 03:32 PM, James Tappin wrote: > > Hi everyone. >I'm looking to upgrade my scanner from an Epson Perfection

Re: [sane-devel] Canon 9000f MKII -- or other comparable scanner?

2016-07-18 Thread Samuel Harmer
Hi James, I own a 9000f MkII and have had great success. I had a few hiccups getting it going on Raspbian but on Ubuntu on an Intel x86 CPU and ArchLinuxARM it's worked flawlessly, including with scanbd. I've had very good results at 600dpi with 16bit colour scans using the scanimage frontend

Re: [sane-devel] Canon 9000f MKII -- or other comparable scanner?

2016-07-18 Thread Roger
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 03:31:57PM +0100, James Tappin wrote: > Hi everyone. > I'm looking to upgrade my scanner from an Epson Perfection 1660, and > based on: listed support on the sane website, specs and price; the best > bet looks to be the Canon 9000f MkII. > > Does anybody her

[sane-devel] Canon 9000f MKII -- or other comparable scanner?

2016-07-18 Thread James Tappin
Hi everyone. I'm looking to upgrade my scanner from an Epson Perfection 1660, and based on: listed support on the sane website, specs and price; the best bet looks to be the Canon 9000f MkII. Does anybody here have any real hands-on experience with that scanner, in particular with film scanning