Linux and film scanners anyone have any experience ?

[BADGER.BRAD]

Hello all,

I intend to purchase a film/slide scanner one to digitize a large number of slides from my family history (a winter project) and two to scan film I have processed myself in the future. Has anyone any experience of using these in Linux ? I'm questing my best bet will be to use a self contained one which saves file to it's own memory.

Any ideas ?

Cheers.

 

[locutus]

Film scanners on Linux is a bit of a problem, you VueScan supports Linux but not all scanner hardware works on Linux.

The popular Reflecta and Plustek models dont work (and they speak a custom protocol) but the old Nikon and new Epson V800's seem to do.

Beware of those cheap scanners which write out to a SD card, essentially its a very cheap macro lens with a webcam sensor behind it. The quality of them is just crap.

Take a look through the VueScan supported HW section -> https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/supported-scanners.html