[KLUG Hardware] Re: Negative scanners

[Mike Williams]

>From: "Robert G. Brown" <bob at whizdomsoft.com>
>Subject: [KLUG Hardware] Negative scanners
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>Please share your experience regarding film scanners, for 35 MM
>negatives and slides, and perhaps any other formats as well. These
>devices are coming down in prices, and a few excellent deals are
>available. For those of us wanting to "go digital" with image 
>storage and archive, this appears to be a good choice.
>
>						Regards,
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I have an old USB one that worked pretty well in Windows.  It is "only" 
1800 dpi, which isn't much for a 35mm image, but color reproduction was 
quite good.  I've never tried it in Linux, though.