Nikon film scanners orphaned for 64 bit
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From: David on 1 Apr 2010 16:40 Nikon has basically said on their web site that there will not be any Windows 64 bit drivers for their film scanners and to buy Vuescan instead from Hamrick software. I find this somewhat arrogant on their part. David
From: Toni Nikkanen on 1 Apr 2010 19:03 "David" <someone(a)somewhere.com> writes: > Nikon has basically said on their web site that there will not be any > Windows 64 bit drivers for their film scanners and to buy Vuescan > instead from Hamrick software. I find this somewhat arrogant on their > part. I wish they had said it earlier if they knew they were not going to write any drivers. Even though the driver writing would probably have been trivial for them to do..
From: Barry Watzman on 2 Apr 2010 12:57 I believe that they have discontinued ALL of their film scanners, including the LS-5000, but possibly (not sure of this) excluding the LS-9000. They are simply out of that entire business. And the cost of used Nikon scanners has gone through the roof, roughly doubling, in many cases, in the last 12 months or so. David wrote: > Nikon has basically said on their web site that there will not be any > Windows 64 bit drivers for their film scanners and to buy Vuescan > instead from Hamrick software. I find this somewhat arrogant on their part. > > David > >
From: Toni Nikkanen on 2 Apr 2010 13:07 Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com> writes: > I believe that they have discontinued ALL of their film scanners, > including the LS-5000, but possibly (not sure of this) excluding the > LS-9000. > > They are simply out of that entire business. That is such a damn shame. I daydream that Kodak or Fuji would do something about this, they still would like to sell film for still photography after all :) > And the cost of used Nikon scanners has gone through the roof, roughly > doubling, in many cases, in the last 12 months or so. This, to my mind, proves that they should just produce one more batch and bundle the devices with Vuescan or whatever.. 50% more than previously and it's still a much better deal than buying an used one for 200% the price.
From: 1Scan on 3 Apr 2010 05:12
We run film and photo print scanners as a business so our position is different to most photographers. My Nikons are attached to dedicated PCs running Vista which I believe I'll be able to run for many more years. I have tried Vuescan and it isn't to my taste. I'm sure its a brilliant piece of software, just wouldn't want to predicate our slide scanning on it. We do use SilverFast for the Epson flatbeds and maybe they would deliver a suitable driver for Nikon scanners. In contrast to Hamrick SilverFast is massively expensive - I would hate to be paying a premium now for a Nikon Scanner (say £1000+ s/h) then paying £400 for the software that drives it. Oh, with SilverFast you're supposed to buy one copy per scanner - at least Vuescan has the decency to allow one program to drive multiple scanners. I was speaking to a Kodak executive about our s1220 Kodak print scanner and dropped into the conversation that a Kodak 35mm or medium format scanner would have a pretty clear run at the "serious" scanner market. I don't think Kodak will be wanting to jump back into that market, even though a big selling point for Nikon scanners is Digital ICE which is now Kodak technology. Of course up until recently Kodak did sell 35mm scanners, mainly aimed at photo labs, but the units were detachable and could be connected to a normal PC. Such units are still around but only today bundled with their mini-labs (at least here in the UK). We have recently installed an Epson V750 and I'm very impressed with it, if it were the only option in the negative / slide, 35mm / mf arena I wouldn't be disappointed in terms of single image quality. I'd need four of them to get the productivity we get with the Nikon scanner and slide hopper combo. Nikon isn't the only player to have left the scanning market, Sony dropped out too. It seems that only Epson are delivering both a quality unit and a range of options. Jeff Underwood 1Scan.co.uk freephotscanning.com |