The urgency to make a version 2 of Scanity has been waning for some time now. For myself, I'm quite happy with it as it stands and early reports show it continues to work on M1 machines, which is a tier I'm years away from using myself. My current MBP is a 2013 model and that suits me fine for now.

I know this is not the most elegant thing to do as a project "maintainer", but the reality is that other things tend to demand more attention most of the time. Luckily the few users that also enjoy scanity front-end are rather tech savvy and are perfectly able to botch the bastard when something goes awry.

So I would not hold my breath for a version 2 with added features such as.. configurability or any newfangled malarkey like that. What I am looking at though is a specialized version of scanity for film/negative scanners.

The demands and setting for such a scanner are wildly different compared to a normal flatbed scanner and while I (and a friend) own a nice old Plustek which is officially only supported up until XP and unofficially Windows 7, I do not have a lot of experience with this tool.

So if anybody has some must-have option for a specialized film scanner version of scanity, then please, let me know in the comments. Special B&W modes, colour settings, resolutions the works. Anything that is a prerequisite scan mode should be available at a mouse click over the network.