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My brand new digitizing workflow using a 25 year old film scanner

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116 points williamsmj | 3 comments | 03 Dec 24 16:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.648s | source
1. BuildTheRobots ◴[03 Dec 24 21:34 UTC] No.42311777[source]▶
Got to shout out to VueScan for making obsolete scanners usable on modern operating systems. It's not free, but is reasonably priced. If you can physically connect your scanner (scsi2usb is an exercise left to the reader), then it's likely to let you use it.
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2. geephroh ◴[03 Dec 24 21:38 UTC] No.42311822[source]▶
+1000 for VueScan. And they have perpetual licensing -- take that, Adobe.
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3. msisk6 ◴[03 Dec 24 23:34 UTC] No.42312911[source]▶
My current Vuescan license is from 1999. And I think that one was just to replace an older serial due to some upgrade on their end. It's probably the most bang for the buck of any software I've actually purchased.

I don't do much scanning anymore, but I do have an ancient Nikon CoolScan 35mm scanner that's probably at least 20 years old now. I get it out every few years to scan something I found and, with Vuescan, it still works remarkably well.

Although the last time I fetched it out from a storage container by our barn (I really should store it in the house) I found the negative strip scanner wasn't working anymore, but the slide adapter did and that was good enough for the task at hand.