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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Anthony Mandic wrote:

> Craig Dewick wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking at buying a film scanner that can handle 35 mm negative strips
> > and APS cartridges. My top-of-the-list choice at the moment is Canon's
> > FS-2710 scanner, but in typical Mac- and Wintel-centric fashion there is no
> > mention made of whether there is any support provided by Canon (in the form
> > of device drivers, etc.) for people using machines which run *nix in
> > preference to Windoze or Mac/OS.
> > 
> > Given that the FS-2710 has a fast-SCSI interface, the physical interfacing
> > side of the coin is already taken care of, but the software side is not
> > covered at all.
> 
> 	I just recently bought a Nikon Coolscan 2000. Its got a 50 SCSI port
> 	(Honda interface). I asked around in the newsgroups re using it with
> 	Solaris but I never got a reply. Dunno about the specs but there is
> 	a program called VueScan that can handle most scanners (check in
> 	rec.photo.digital), so it can be done. Now all I need to do is find
> 	a copy of Gerard Holzmann's book "Beyond Photograpy: The Digital Darkroom".
> 
> -am

Ed Hamrick writes the software for VueScan. It currently supports the older Canon
CanoScan FS2700. *Very* recently he did manage to get his software to work on
Linux. I don't know if he'll work on a Solaris version but once you get it one
UNIX box, it's not that hard to port it to another flavour or UNIX.

I too was interested in the FS2710 but after talking to one of the Camera/Digital
Pro shops in Perth, they weren't too impressed and recommended the LS-30 over the
FS2710 despite it's "lower OD spec". Anyway, I shelled out and bought the Polaroid
SprintScan 4000 instead.

Sean
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