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I used to have a nice XY-15+ scanner that I got for cheap, but some act of God killed it... I still have a T5000+, but it is not an XY scanner (so limited to a smaller central area for higher res, which is interpolated in one direction anyway), has lower Drange/Dmax, is nowhere as fast as the XY-15. In a few words, I miss that big monster when I want to digitize a few negs or slides, and have a bunch questions about both of thoses. Thanks for any answer!
1. The XY-15 (+, and not +) scanners were, if I am not mistaken, designed by Celsis before Fuji bought Celsis. Afterwards, they became the Fuji Lanovia range. I have read articles saying that the XY-15+ was the same as the C-550; in this case, what does the XY-15 correspond to in the Fuji range (given that the C-550 was, I think, the first of that range)? Other ones say that is was the same as the C-550 Sprint (then I suppose the XY-15 is the C-550). Which is it?
2. Even though they seem to be more commonly found than the Fuji equivalent, neither the Agfa branded ones nor the Fujis are easy to find, and it seems like the Fuji driver requires a dongle (which the Agfa one does not), something that has larger chances of getting lost or incompatible with time. Is there any serious place in Europe (except for a seller located in Dortmund whose name/company starts with a B, and whom I hold for a crook) that is known to still have an XY-15+ around and may later want to sell it (a working one...) at a reasonable price?
3. The only advantage of the T5000 models is that they have the transparency drawer, similar to lower-end DuoScan models. If someone else has already worked with a T5000/T5000+: Were there any trays made that had glass-less slide or negative holders?
4. The driver (ColorExact) has had several iterations. I got a version 3 for Mac in beta version (runs on OS X up to 10.4). Was the final version 3 version ever released to the public? And was there a Windows version past 1.5? I would be very interested in any of those, especially if the Windows version can run on something more recent than NT4*, and if the final Mac v3 version is more stable than the beta.
5. What brand/model of tape would you recommend to tape negatives either to the transparency glass holder or to the scanner plastic templates, without damaging the negatives nor the glass that, I suppose, was properly coated to prevent Newton rings..
*For the curious ones: apart from using a PowerPC G4, the best way I found to run the scanner on a modern PC laptop that I can move after the scans are done, is to get a Thunderbolt 3 to PCIe extension (in my case a Sonnet EchoExpress III-D, where I can also have a Firewire card for old digital backs), itself connected to a PCIe to PCI extension box (a Startech PEX2PCIE4L) with a good old Adaptec SCSI card in it. NT4 running through VMWare Workstation on Linux (somehow the same combination running on Windows 10 does not work, the scanner is recognized but nothing works after that), with ColorExact 1.5, works fine.
1. The XY-15 (+, and not +) scanners were, if I am not mistaken, designed by Celsis before Fuji bought Celsis. Afterwards, they became the Fuji Lanovia range. I have read articles saying that the XY-15+ was the same as the C-550; in this case, what does the XY-15 correspond to in the Fuji range (given that the C-550 was, I think, the first of that range)? Other ones say that is was the same as the C-550 Sprint (then I suppose the XY-15 is the C-550). Which is it?
2. Even though they seem to be more commonly found than the Fuji equivalent, neither the Agfa branded ones nor the Fujis are easy to find, and it seems like the Fuji driver requires a dongle (which the Agfa one does not), something that has larger chances of getting lost or incompatible with time. Is there any serious place in Europe (except for a seller located in Dortmund whose name/company starts with a B, and whom I hold for a crook) that is known to still have an XY-15+ around and may later want to sell it (a working one...) at a reasonable price?
3. The only advantage of the T5000 models is that they have the transparency drawer, similar to lower-end DuoScan models. If someone else has already worked with a T5000/T5000+: Were there any trays made that had glass-less slide or negative holders?
4. The driver (ColorExact) has had several iterations. I got a version 3 for Mac in beta version (runs on OS X up to 10.4). Was the final version 3 version ever released to the public? And was there a Windows version past 1.5? I would be very interested in any of those, especially if the Windows version can run on something more recent than NT4*, and if the final Mac v3 version is more stable than the beta.
5. What brand/model of tape would you recommend to tape negatives either to the transparency glass holder or to the scanner plastic templates, without damaging the negatives nor the glass that, I suppose, was properly coated to prevent Newton rings..
*For the curious ones: apart from using a PowerPC G4, the best way I found to run the scanner on a modern PC laptop that I can move after the scans are done, is to get a Thunderbolt 3 to PCIe extension (in my case a Sonnet EchoExpress III-D, where I can also have a Firewire card for old digital backs), itself connected to a PCIe to PCI extension box (a Startech PEX2PCIE4L) with a good old Adaptec SCSI card in it. NT4 running through VMWare Workstation on Linux (somehow the same combination running on Windows 10 does not work, the scanner is recognized but nothing works after that), with ColorExact 1.5, works fine.
