"laran" wrote in message
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Am looking to buy a film scanner to make contact prints mainly. Needs to
be inexpensive, run on linux and also do slides to a reasonable quality.
Ideas?????

Now why in the world would someone be using a film scanner in the darkroom?
hmmm...contact prints are created by keeping the negatives in contact, as it
were, with the photo sensitive paper. How does the film scanner come into
play during this process? Care to explain?