On Wednesday 10 November 2004 08:13, Scott Ryan wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:44 -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > > I have a great number of slides slowly decaying in their storage > > area. I guess I could put'em on a flat-bed and take my chances, but > > since I don't have a scanner now, maybe I should look into buying a > > slide-scanner. > > > > Are these things generally like a regular scanner in terms of > > installation, or do they use funky USB mechanisms? Anyone have > > experience with something like this? > > I have a slide scanner. It uses the twain driver for capture and > controling the slide positioning mechanism. I have never got it to work > under linux... I have never known anyone to get such a device to work > under linux either. My Nikon CoolScan works just fine under Linux (SANE). In fact, I prefer using it under SANE (as opposed to the Win/Mac software that Nikon shipped with it). I get lots better control over things such as exposure and scan resolution. It uses a SCSI interface. Results can be viewed at http://www.peak.org/~mountainman/Photography.html Ken
