High quality dedicated 35mm scanner for Linux?

[richgj700]

i don't want to go into deep now, because the threadstarter is looking for something else anyway. just for all the others, who read that thread looking for informations...

Linux + VirtualBox + some kind of Windows and GuestAdditions installed can handle everything nowadays. to be more specific: as furbs was mentioning the Plustek Opticfilm 8200i. i use the Plustek Opticfilm 7400 (which is quite the same) with linux and xp in vbox without any problem.

Like Peter, I'm also running a Plustek 7400 using Linux host and running Windows as a guest along with the guest additions (crucial for usb) and it was all very straightforward and works very well. When I need to scan I fire up the VM scan away save the file to a shared directory and carry on using my usual Linux photography workflow, works seemlessly. The slight caveat is that I have to use Silverfast as I'm having a few issue with Vuescan in the VM, which I'm trying to figure out. I'm not so keen on Silverfast, but I'm less keen on having to dual boot into Windows to make a scan. Do you run Vuescan Peter?

 

[bwcolor]

The downside of the 35mm Plusteks are the manual advance. The advantage is the quality/price ratio. Scanning takes almost no resources and even a very old computer can handle the load. I would either go dual boot Windows, or run a second windows machine with the Plustek. I've had some bad experiences running virtual windows on a Mac. There was always something that just didn't work right.