Shetland wrote:
Nice images but these wonderful dedicated scanners are short-lived; something will blow and there's no replacing parts. A nice Minolta 5000 that I bought on eBay a year ago failed to operate properly using VueScan because, I believe, the USB port on my computer was too fast for the ancient Minolta and I just didn't want to go to the expense of a computer running Windows XP just for this. The lack of capable, rapid scanning options are more likely to kill film than anything else. Here in NY, developing and scanning at medium resolution at a lab will run in excess of $20. Way too costly for a hobbyist.
I can see what you mean, however I bought mine new in the box, and it still has warranty. if it breaks I get my money back. Also the USB speed can be changed on windows based computers to a lower speed by loading a old driver.
I've tried to explain how to use this old Nikon scanner as good as possible, but it's also fully compatible with Windows 7 and 8 which I will post a link to my workaround when available, it really is only 2 minutes work since I created a driver that you can just install.
Kind regards,
Jip