Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: [snip]
> > >> but not a scanning application either, > > Come on. In the context of scanning negatives and films using high end scanners xsane is not scanning application but a toy. > >> its results are useless. Take this as a fact which we can debate >> elsewhere some other time. I am talking expensive film scanners here, >> not some 0 8 15 flatbed. > > > I'm not sure if it's really xsane's fault or if backend support for > film scanners in sane(-backends) is just week. I think I outlined this a couple of years ago. Basically the sane api simply does not have provision to communicate everything required to talk to even a prosumer film scanner let alone a professional one. For starters there is no provision for IR channel data, multisample scanning, focusing, and batch scanning i.e. I have just inserted a holder with six negatives scan 2 through 4. Or I have just inserted an APS film please scan negatives 1 through 6 and 12 through 30 while I have a cup of coffee. Then we require a front end to deal with all these issues, and all the other bits and pieces like comprehensive negative colour correction. However as far as I am aware zero progress has been made on any of these fronts, even though IR channel provision has made it's way into sub 100GBP flatbed scanners in the meantime. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1661-832195