Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, the workaround works great. I have been using it for a year. I generally still use Vuescan though. The multiple exposure thing really makes a difference in making clean shadow tones. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>wrote: > I decided to use up my film stocks from my freezer. If you ever priced pro > Fuji slide film in Australia you would understand why! > I started with all of my BW film and even got to mix some five year > old XTOL, stop bath and fixer and have it all work without fault. > > I borrowed a Nikon 8000 scanner from my Leica dealer for the 120 film and I > have the Coolscan V for 35mm > Nikon stopped supporting these scanners at Vista 32 bit. > > I thought this might be useful to others. > A little searching found this very helpful post in a Windows 7 forum. > > http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/44994-getting-your-nikon-coolscan-work-w7-x64.html > I followed the instructions and the Nikon Scan software works correctly for > me with no further workarounds despite Nikon Support saying that it will > not work. > > Vuescan works independently from the workaround, Nikon drivers and scan > program. > I just find the quirky Nikon scan program easier to use for batch scanning > (aka I haven't worked out the equivalent in Vuescan Pro as yet since I > haven't shot film to scan for five years or so to scan. > At the end of my film stocks I can retire the film scanners.... except for > the thousands of frames I never got around to sorting and digitising once I > got my M8! > > Cheers, > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>