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Sean Chan <sean@tsm.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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 could probably port VueScan to Solaris pretty easily, but VueScan
isn't (and will never be) open source, so I'd need a loaner of a
Solaris box to do this.  I can't justify buying one for the small
number of people who will use film scanners on it.

I already had an old PC sitting around, so Linux/86 wasn't hard
to do.  Buying a Mac will be expensive, but I've gotten feedback that
50% of all film scanner sold are used on Macs, so it's probably
worthwhile.

> 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".

I agree - the LS-30 is a much better scanner.

> Anyway, I shelled out and bought the Polaroid
> SprintScan 4000 instead.

Also a nice scanner.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick

http://www.hamrick.com/

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

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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IT Consultant        http://www.tsm.com.au/~sean
DSM Group Pty. Ltd.       +61 (0)500-888-117 (W)
PO Box 1493, West Perth, 6872, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

>> 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 could probably port VueScan to Solaris pretty easily, but VueScan
> isn't (and will never be) open source, so I'd need a loaner of a
> Solaris box to do this.  I can't justify buying one for the small
> number of people who will use film scanners on it.

Pity you're not in Perth Ed, otherwise I'd may have a solution for you
:-).

>> 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".
> 
> I agree - the LS-30 is a much better scanner.
> 
>> Anyway, I shelled out and bought the Polaroid
>> SprintScan 4000 instead.
> 
> Also a nice scanner.

Actually, I'm *really* beginning to see the value of Nikon's
DigitalICE. With my recent scans on the Polaroid SprintScan 4000, I'm
beginning to detest the dust problems, no matter how well I try to blow
them off prior scanning. I've also tried the Clean Image in VueScan but
doesn't seem to get rid of them too well. I'm afraid Scrub/Scour Image
would cause too much detrioration esp when I my underpowered system can
scan at 1333 or 2000 dpi max.

Sean
--
Sean H.Y. Chan   ICQ# 28162308   sean@tsm.com.au
IT Consultant        http://www.tsm.com.au/~sean
DSM Group Pty. Ltd.       +61 (0)500-888-117 (W)
PO Box 1493, West Perth, 6872, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:

> 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.
> 

Take a look at the beta version of the SANE backend for the Nikon Coolscan III
at http://andreas.rick.free.fr/.

Also look at http://www.mostang.com/sane/ for more genral information. It 
mentions the CanoScan 2700F - I don't know if this is compatible.

SANE and GIMP are a great combination.

I have Nikon Coolscan III waiting for me at the shipping compaines depot.
Unfortunately installing the generic SCSI driver (scg) on my Solaris 7 x86
system makes the system unbootable. I have had no problems with the scg driver
on a SPARC station 5 with Solaris 2.5.1 though.

Nick

Ed Hamrick wrote:

> I could probably port VueScan to Solaris pretty easily, but VueScan
> isn't (and will never be) open source, so I'd need a loaner of a
> Solaris box to do this.  I can't justify buying one for the small
> number of people who will use film scanners on it.
> 
> I already had an old PC sitting around, so Linux/86 wasn't hard
> to do.  Buying a Mac will be expensive, but I've gotten feedback that
> 50% of all film scanner sold are used on Macs, so it's probably
> worthwhile.

	Since you have a PC, you could try for the free Solaris x86
	offer from Sun. Just check that your hardware is on the
	Hardware Compatibility List. Once ported, its a fairly
	simple matter of just recompiling for Solaris Sparc. The
	Port from Linux to Solaris shoudln't be difficult.

-am

Anthony Mandic <am@_agd.nsw.gov.au> wrote:
>
> Since you have a PC, you could try for the free Solaris x86
> offer from Sun. Just check that your hardware is on the
> Hardware Compatibility List. Once ported, its a fairly
> simple matter of just recompiling for Solaris Sparc. The
> Port from Linux to Solaris shoudln't be difficult.

The Solaris port will already be mostly a recompilation.
Most of the work is checking the big-endian (Sparc) vs.
little-endian (x86) problems, so using Solaris x86
wouldn't help.

Doing support is more work than the initial port, so
I'd need a small Sparc box to do this.  I don't think
I'd make enough money from selling VueScan for Solaris
to make it economical to buy one though.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick