Scanning Slides and Negatives

[accessys at smart.net]

as you say a "tad expensive" but I had a lot of negatives and slides to 
scan (many many thousands) so I bit the bullet and bought a good slide 
scanner (Nikon Coolscan IV) and it has proven to be a wise investment in 
quality.  also is well supported in LINUX

not for everyone but if quanity and quality are needed then worth the 
effort to get a made for the job tool.

Bob


On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Graham Todd wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:48:24 +0000
> From: Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at googlemail.com>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Scanning Slides and Negatives
> 
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:55:12 -0800
> NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> uttered these words:
>
>> Per:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/200166
>> [HP PhotoSmart C8100: I cannot select film/slide scanning in XSane]
>> this is marked as "Won't Fix"
>> Not sure why, but the reporter 'Till Kamppeter' is very well known for
>> Ubuntu printer/printer-driver support. So, if he couldn't get it
>> changed, doesn't look good.
>
> I came across this problem, so in the end I had a 'negative scanner'
> bought for me one Christmas.  A similar item can be found on Buy.com,
> and here is the link:
>
> http://www.buy.com/prod/svp-fs-1000-digital-film-scanner-35mm-negative-films-slides-scanner/q/loc/101/212595483.html
>
> Similar ones made by SVP can be found on Amazon and eBay
>
> I was provided with a scanner with my laptop that ran WinXP, together
> with a negative tray, and it worked with older negatives I tested it
> with, but I could not get any Linux distribution to provide anything but
> grey-to-black-and-white scans, and then after going through a couple of
> (borrowed) scanners which were not HP, I gave up.  There does seem to
> be a software issue here - working with WinXP but not Linux.
>
> The 'negative scanner' might be an expensive alternative for you, but
> you can save the images in JPEG or TIFF formats, and it shows as an
> external usb device in Ubuntu.  Very easy and convenient to use.
>
> As the software developers are not going to fix this issue in Linux, it
> seems a digital/negative scanner is the only way to rescue old
> negatives and slides using Ubuntu, if a tad expensive.
>
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