Best OS Windows ever made too.
As a windows user it was easy, I kept my old PC, really old with XP on it so I can use my Minolta scanner with the board. It must be slow by current standards, resolution is not as high as using a DSLR with macro lens, but it keeps on trucking.
I remember trying Silverfast a long time ago, and it did indeed seem complicated (unnecessarily so?).I run Silverfast. It's expensive and complicated, but it does work well. That said - I do miss Nikon Scan!
Yes, me too. A cheap used laptop with XP installed and all the other non essential bits and pieces uninstalled will work fine It should have 8 gig of RAM or it can get a bit tedious. But no, it works just as well as it did with my old desktop and I transfer the images onto a memory stick to be processed with Photoshop.
The big advantage is the Nikon scanners ae they will scan in RAW, whilst primitive, compared to modern RAW images they can hold a lot more digital information than a Jpeg and easily recovered with PS (And cheaper than a new scanner too)
I remember trying Silverfast a long time ago, and it did indeed seem complicated (unnecessarily so?).
Since I last posted here, I've been dealing with a lot of computer problems.
I bought a used 2010 Mac Pro on ebay to replace mine which wasn't working, but I was unable to get OS 10.6.8 on it. It was exact same model as mine. I had both the installation OS 10.6 disk from my Mac Pro and also a retail OS 10.6 disk which I had found in my box of old software. Neither worked. From what was going on, I think there was something wrong with the computer's hard drive. Returned it.
As I had found the retail OS 10.6 disk and wasn't limited to the one matched to Mac Pro, I was able to try a 2010 Mac Mini.
I bought one on ebay which was supposed to be from 2010. But when it refused to take OS 10.6.8 installation, I looked up its serial number, and it turned out it was a 2011 (can't go down to OS 10.6 on a 2011).
I have just ordered another Mac Mini -- really a 2010, I checked serial number this time. Hope this will work.
Meanwhile, I bought a new Mac Studio for everything other than Nikon Scan. Dragged into 2023, kicking and screaming! I saw that the Adobe subscription for just Photoshop and Lightroom is $10 a month. I can live with that. I don't need InDesign, etc. anymore which would be something like $55 a month (I used to do design work).
I still don't like Adobe as a company, though. Greedy and fascistic. I tried installing my old Creative Suite 6 on the first Mac Mini on which I could put OS 10.7 (which works with CS6), and Adobe will not accept the serial number, despite all my efforts. It's a perfectly legal copy.
At one point, I got message saying my software has "expired". So now, in addition to only offering subscription plans, the software you bought previously expires? I think I paid about $1000 for that years ago.
Also, I would get message saying I'm not connected to internet when I was. Their solution of validating serial number manually on another computer didn't work either. Troubleshooting page had many hoops to jump through. I tried some of them. They say you can't call them.
I was only trying to get CS6 working so I would have InDesign available. Maybe I'll return to this later, but right now I just want to get Nikon Scan to work. Hope I can get 10.6.8 on the new Mac Mini and be back in business with Nikon Scan. Then do everything else on the Mac Studio.
Very unsettling to have my whole photo work flow totally messed up.
By the way, I tried Affinity Photo 2 on the Mac Studio to see if I could pry myself away from Adobe, but there were things I didn't like about it. I have been using their version 1 on my laptop which has come in handy there at times. But it's not Photoshop.
It's my desktop (Mac Pro 2010) which seems to have died. From the way it's acting, I suspect it can't be repaired. But the main reason I haven't taken to tech is that I had a lot of private info on the system drive which I don't want to hand over to stranger at repair place.
I still don't like Adobe as a company, though. Greedy and fascistic. I tried installing my old Creative Suite 6 on the first Mac Mini on which I could put OS 10.7 (which works with CS6), and Adobe will not accept the serial number, despite all my efforts. It's a perfectly legal copy.
At one point, I got message saying my software has "expired". So now, in addition to only offering subscription plans, the software you bought previously expires? I think I paid about $1000 for that years ago.
I understand Nikon has better resolution and dMax than flatbed scanners like my Epson V600 and V850. But Epson scans in 48-bit (16-bit per color channel) and you can save in tiff as well as jpeg. So what do you mean RAW is better with a Nikon?
By the way, I tried Affinity Photo 2 on the Mac Studio to see if I could pry myself away from Adobe, but there were things I didn't like about it. I have been using their version 1 on my laptop which has come in handy there at times. But it's not Photoshop.
Yes, that is my usual practice, too -- to keep personal things on external drives (and all drives, internal and external, are backed up). I happened to be rushing that week and accidentally left something on desktop of the internal drive.At the risk of de-railing this thread, this is exactly why I don't keep private info on the system disk. Anything that I'm not comfortable handing over to somebody else, gets stored on either an external drive (or NAS), or on a separate internal disk that I can just take out when I need to take anything in for service. The system disk doesn't have anything except what it needs to run the computer, that way if I need to take my Mac into apple or to a service tech, I can just drop it off and don't have to worry about anything. The cost of drives these days, if you have the bays to do it, it's super easy piece of mind.
Yea, Adobe's not greedy at all ;-) ..... I have CS6 running on an Intel Mac under OSX 10.10 (last version it worked under) in a Fusion VM. The VM was created from a working install of CS6 on 10.10, prior to upgrading the base OS of that Mac to something more current. Unfortunately, that can only work for Intel Macs, Fusion VMs can't run on Mac silicon. The only other thing I can think of to check is whether you still have licensed copies on other machines (older), which can be disabled, as you might have come up against a license limit (I think CS6 was 3 "seats"). Unfortunately, IIRC, you can only disable a license on a running machine (not from the web, I don't think)...but check! So, if you have a valid license on a dead machine, there may be no way of disabling it to get the "seat" back...
Was this recently? I used to call Adobe, too, but don't know if they take calls anymore. I will look into it.When I upgraded my Windows computer, I has trouble getting my Lightroom Classic installed. I couldn't get the download working from their site and it wouldn't let me see the purchase code. So I called Adobe and they helped me through the maze to get it loaded and working.
How is Vuescan better for b&w than Nikon Scan? I tried making just one b&w scan on Vuescan, so I don't have much experience with it. (I always scan b&w neg as positive then invert in Photoshop.)I am still using an old MacMini for my Nikon scanner but I am going to get the firewire/thunderbolt adapter dongles so I can just use my current Silicon Mac. I run Vuescan. It is better in some ways than Nikon Scan and vice versa. Black and white is better in Vuescan and batch scanning entire rolls is much faster with Vuescan. Color is better/easier with Nikon Scan. I keep an old Powerbook around for Nikon Scan but I only use it from time to time just for fun.
Was this recently? I used to call Adobe, too, but don't know if they take calls anymore. I will look into it.
You're right about calls. I forgot the circumstances. This happened in July 2022 when I got a new Dell Windows machine. I just checked.
The problem was my serial number code for Lightroom classic wasn't accessible in my Adobe account for some reason, probably because it was so old. So Adobe wouldn't let me download the old LR program. What happened was I posted my problem starting a new thread in the Adobe forums for Lightroom Classic. One of Adobe people posted a response telling me to forward a private email to her directly explaining the problem. I did that and she corrected their system and notified me by email that it was corrected. So I was then able to download the LR app.
Good luck with your problem.
How is Vuescan better for b&w than Nikon Scan? I tried making just one b&w scan on Vuescan, so I don't have much experience with it. (I always scan b&w neg as positive then invert in Photoshop.)
Also, why do you like Nikon Scan better for color?
Thanks, maybe I'll experiment with VueScan.Vuescan has more control for black and white and it delivers a scan with more tonality. I always thought the NS delivered a gritty scan. I don't scan to print for black and white though, I scan to proof and catalog. Honestly if I scanned for printing I might use NS because I dig the gritty scans.
For color NS is pretty accurate right out of the box. Vuescan takes some work to get good color.
Overall Vuescan has a lot more control but that also makes it more complex. You have to put some effort into learning the program.
I already downloaded Vuescan. That's how I was able to make the one b&w scan from Hassy neg I mentioned above.You can download and try Vuescan for free I believe. Under the color tab you can change film type to Kodak then under TMax 100 and TMax 400 you can change the gamma (CI they call it). Really useful.
So my old Mac Pro on which I had OS 10.6.8 so I could use Nikon Scan (for my LS9000) and Photoshop CS 6 died. Forced to get new computer.
I see Nikon Scan won't work on any recent operating systems.
However, VueScan will work with LS9000 on current operating systems. Is that what most people are using? I still have to look into Silverfast.
I remember trying VueScan and Silverfast a long time ago and decided I liked Nikon Scan better, so stuck with it.
What do people here use with their LS9000?
Thanks.
(BTW, I do have a laptop, too, which has recent OS on it.....so I haven't been stuck in 10.6.8 for everything.)
Another option may be to use a virtual machine.
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