<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On September 17, 2009 08:43:35 am Dan Mueller wrote:<br>
> Do any of you know of a slide/negative converter that will take a slide and<br>
> convert it to digital that works in Linux??<br>
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> Or might any of you have one that works in Linux that you would like to<br>
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> dan<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I have a Konica Minolta DiMage Dual Scan IV that I have used with a software product called VueScan. I have done several thousand slides with it and it worked well. I couldn't get it to work with any sane related products as it does group scanning and some correction on the fly.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>It scans a sleeve of four slides in a single load. Vuescan worked very well. Just be careful of dirty slides. They are difficult to clean without damaging them.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>It is a bit costly at about $430 and the software costs a bit as well (around $40) - shareware type, not freeware. I bought the hardware at Black's back in 05 and the software on-line. I'm still using it so it's not available, sorry.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>The rest of my workflow was GIMP, to crop, clean, and brighten, then into Digikam to store in albums.<br />-- <br /><br>
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