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I used Vuescan from http://www.hamrick.com it works pretty well. Put your four pics on the scanner and it will detect four individual pictures and output to four separate files.
You should check to see if Vue Scan (not free) will allow you to use your scanner on the Mac directly. It supports many (2500+) older scanners. Some are too proprietary but many are not.
I'm scanning a lot of 35mm ektrachrome and kodachrome slides with the canon 9000f. (I'm sure there are others equal or better; flatbed scanners are remarkably good and remarkably cheap.) It has ample resolution to resolve the grain in ektachrome. I drive it with VueScan. Once you have your image in digital form you can do anything with it that you could do in a darkroom.
I recently used http://www.hamrick.com/ vuescan. It has an option to start a new scan in X seconds. I set this to 5. Choose all my preferences before hand, pilled up the original prints and away I went. It saves the files in sequence too. Once you get a rhythm going you can rattle through them....... scan, open lid, swap print, close lid, scan, repeat to fade. (sorry for short explanation but typing from my phone)
Vue Scan works with just about every scanner. It is a trial version but it is fully function with no watermark. The paid version gives more settings like dpi and color settings.
Have you tried using VueScan to run your scanner? It's helped me a bunch with an older Nikon scanner and it's got a ton of options, so using it with your Kodak might be a...
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WIA kinda sucks. It is very limited.
If you want a decent free scanning program with a lot of features, I recommend you have a look at VueScan.
It would allow you to customize a lot of settings, and do things like setting it to auto-repeat the scanning progress immediately (so you can just stand next to the scanner swapping out pages every few seconds without having to click anything).
I actually also have an Agfa SnapScan 1212u flatbed oldie still working. For getting it to work on Win7 take a look at VueScan, it supports a shitload of old devices that manufacturers ceased to support a decade ago. It's also cross-platform, x32/x64, but it's not free. I just use it as a trial for once every passing of comet Halley that I actually use the scanner.
HP has horrible support for Snow Leopard on their older scanners. Vue Scan is a good all round software for scanning. The user interface is a little 1990s, but once you get used to it it works very well.
You can check it out at http://www.hamrick.com/
Hey no problem, just trying to enlighten any interested parties. Scanners by default usually come with garbage software or just won't scan to RAW (or .CR2 like you said). All CR2 is a Canon written extension to TIFF, their own flavor of RAW.
Hamrick VueScan will allow you to scan to RAW or TIFF. Here is a list of supported scanners:
First, I would check out Vuescan instead of using the Epson software, as that program sucks. I used a v600 for a few years often. 35mm never really gave great results, but I got my best stuff by kind of rigging up my own film holder by taping the negative carefully to a piece of glass and sandwiching it against the scanner glass. With 120 film, it was great for scanning with the included film holders. It won't get close to v750 quality, but good enough for web use and small prints.
You know according to the Canon official page and the VueScan page this scanner was last supported with 32 bit Vista or with Rosetta on OSX Snow Leopard. You can't use it on any modern OS- perhaps it's time to invest in a new scanner?
oh boy, this is gonna be fun!
i did something similar to get an old dedicated film scanner running.
software side, easy, vuescan can do it.
hardware side is more interesting. you need to connect the scanner's old SCSI port to whatever you're intending to use as a scanner input on your computer. there are USB to SCSI adapters around, give it a look on amazon. most of these are 25 pin ports, so you might also have to get an 25/50 adaptor to make it work. and it will work, you just need to be prepared for some fiddling.
on my mac i needed to use firewire, so for the minolta multi ii that i was using it went
scanner -> 50pin to 25pin SCSI adaptor -> SCSI to Firewire 400 adaptor -> firewire 400 to 800 cable -> mac
what i also needed was a 9V power supply for the firewire adaptor but i kid you not it worked!
in any case, yes it's certainly possible, good luck!
Search "nikon coolscan" on ebay, I see the ls-5000 there for about $500. I have one that's several years old, scans 35mm at 4000dpi, you get a 12MP, 24-bit image from a slide. Has infrared dust removal and other features. Downsides: 1, it's a firewire interface, but you can get a dongle to connect it via thunderbolt or usb3; 2, not the fastest thing, but if you actually look at each scan in photoshop (and you should), it will typically be finished with slide B before you have saved the preceding scan A; 3, the Nikon software driver was crap and no longer works on current MacOS -- but VueScan supports it perfectly.
I don't know if it will be compatible out of the box (though it sounds like not). However, I use software called VueScan for my old scanner. It seems like it would work with this scanner too. It's a $30 application (You can download it for free; it just won't work) that lets you scan with older scanners. I have a Canon scanner and the setup for me was to install the latest driver from Canon's website (which was for 10.8 or 10.7 or something), then install VueScan.
Aside from the misleading advertising on their website that makes it look like you can use it for free, I'm actually fairly happy with the app.
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> You need to install an Epson driver to use this scanner on Windows and Mac OS X. On Mac OS X, this is normally already installed by Software Update, so VueScan should just work.
(from the VueScan website)
So it seems like this software would work out of the box for your scanner.
Scanning to me is an ordeal. I started with the epson software, then used vuescan with the colorperfect plugins, now I'm back with epson. It all depends on the negatives I reckon.
I have silverfast for 35mm and that's pretty decent, pricey though unless you get it bundled with your scanner
Understood. I've been there. I've got a 4870 that I haven't fired up in years myself.
If you want to keep fighting it, check out Better Scanning, and VueScan. But something like Scan Cafe will get it done faster, better, and cheaper.
I don't have experience with real batch processing, I've always done it one at a time, and worked on a previous image (or something else) while the scan ran. But I see in the VueScan manual that it will do this. The directions for how to set up the automatic filename and folder are here. It looks like you could save one batch (from a stack loader, say) into folder "carousel_20" with the starting filename "carousel_20_01+" to get a sequence of names.
There is probably other software for doing this than VueScan, look/ask around, it just happens to be what I know.
Better idea; use a scanner.
That will solve your distortion/angle/lighting/scale problems as it will scan it perfectly flat at the correct scale/size.
If you don't have a scanner, borrow one, or buy one. A basic A4 flatbed scanner (from e.g. Canon or Epson) will probably do a perfectly good job here - and they're dirt cheap.
Vuescan is great free scanner software (if you need it).
Yes! You definitely should!!
A flatbed scanner like the Epson V500 or V700 does a good job. I highly recommending using Vuescan over the provided software, though. A bit of learning curve to use, but it gives much better results.
If you're only doing 35mm, try to find a Minolta DiMage 3. They're discontinued now, but they turn up used occasionally. Excellent dedicated scanner!
I actually had a similar problem and unfortunately, I still haven't got it exactly down but these certainly get me in the right direction
-make sure you are just highlighting the frame you want.
In the preview mode, right click on what you think is your 'grey' or mid point between the lightest and darkest areas within the frame. This should adjust the colour balance
lock the film base colour...
I have the V750 Pro dedicated for scanning 4x5 & 8x10 and it works well. I use Vuescan and prefer it over everything else for its color profiling and pre-sets and support for Ektar 100, which I shoot. Silverfast just couldn't get it right. I also use the BetterScanning mount for large format, but its a much slower process. You have to tape your negative to the glass rather than just placing it inside a frame. If you aren't happy with the sharpness of your scanner, I recommend getting one and taking your time calibrating it to the perfect height.
I do not perform additional sharpening inside of the scanner software, and leave it to post like Lightroom or Photoshop. I've read many recommendations online to the same effect.
If your older negatives do have a bit of dust, the Infrared Clean option in Vuescan, and possibly other software programs, works well with the V750. Try it on the Light setting first.
Part of my work as an architectural photographer has been scanning older photo archives for architects, so I have lots of experience with all types of scanners and how to get favorable results. Happy to answer any other questions.
HP's Support site does not list Mac OS X drivers for that model. Apple's official list of supported scanners does not include that model either. However, given the ubiquity of HP products, I'd be blown away if Image Capture did not in fact support this scanner.
If Image Capture does not support this scanner, there's a 3rd-party scanner app called VueScan that definitely supports this model.
I can understand why people get into reverse-engineering, if you have addictive tendencies.
When in Uni and broke I really wanted Vuescan badly but didn't have the money. Found out something about removing nagscreens and I immediately figured the dialog in Vuescan was the key to unlocking the application.
One thing led to another and I found the IDA dissambler, found in hex where the nag-screen was appearing, put a strategic jmp in (I stepped through the program and guessed) and ran the changes. Nagscreen was gone! but the app was still locked down. 3days down the drain. I gave up right there.
It would be in context of Vuescan. But the biggest thing is to lock the exposure and adjust it yourself to the right without clipping based on the preview: http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc29.htm#inputlockexposure
It generally is faster then multi exposure or other tricks. Until I did that you could never be certain that the exposure was getting the most out of the negative.
It might be possible using the Multi Crop option, but I haven't tried it that way.
If you have Photoshop, it has a command that tries to identify, separate, and straighten separate photos in a single scan. It's File/Automate/Crop and Straighten Photos, already mentioned in this thread.
You would only need to do one of the above, not both. In case one works better than the other for your purposes.
I've seen some old HP All-in-ones that don't have x64 scan drivers, but never encountered one that didn't work on 32-bit Windows 7. OTOH, a client of mine had a Canon all-in-one that wasn't supported on 64-bit Windows, but the generic printer driver worked fine, and I even got the scanning to work by forcing a scan driver for similar all-in-one to install.
BTW, sometimes VueScan works with these old scanners - they have Windows, OS X and Linux versions.
You looking for the Photoshop plug-ins for that device? You'll probably need to hit up Adobe for that.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/twain-plug-photoshop-cs4-cs5.html
I ended up just going with VueScan for my epson 2450 in the end.
http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/fujitsu_scansnap_ix500.html
http://askubuntu.com/questions/280193/does-the-scansnap-ix500-work-with-ubuntu
the 1st link is for proprietary software, so you have to pay. the 2nd is more of a workaround. hope this helps
In Vuescan you can tick "Raw save film", then the settings on the "Color" tab are applied and the scan is saved inverted. But it is saved as a linear Gamma DNG. It’s something between normal and RAW.
The advantage is that you can edit straight away in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom. But you can also do that with the normal TIFF files from Vuescan. Just tell ACR to open all TIFF files, or right-click a normal TIFF and select "open in Camera Raw".
Lately I’ve shifted from DNG back to TIFF since I work on Linux sometimes (gimp doesn’t do DNG natively) and ACR or Lightroom handle TIFF just fine.
Working with ACR has several advantages. Mostly that the edits are stored non-destructively in the file. And the available corrections are more suitable for scans. I can run through a roll of film much faster in ACR.
I ended up scanning my own slides so I don't have anywhere specific to recommend. I used a Nikon Coolscan 4000 which can scan 35mm negatives too. I hesitate to recommend it because it's slow and expensive and connects with Firewire. It does do a really nice job though. A friend had one so I was able to borrow it for free, so that's what I used.
If you do scan your own with whichever scanner, buying VueScan is easily worth the $90 for the pro version.. It works with most scanners, it's easy to use, and has all sorts of presets and color balance options.
OS? Version?
Anyway, just reinstall Photoshop. Doesn't take long.
Ps: Twain sucks balls (you have very little control and options), so I recommend something better. A decent free scanner program would be Vuescan.
Have a go with Vuescan again, if you like, it should support it but of course it needs the Plustek's scanner driver.
The purple hue is most likely just a white balance issue. On Vuescan you could set the white balance by just clicking on any neutral thing you might have in the image with mouse's right button. You also could just adjust the white balance in post, I'm sure I could get the color right with just a few clicks in Lightroom.
I also find that sometimes the grain on some color films, like the 400h, looks much nicer when I do a bit of color noise removal. It leaves the grain, but removes the colorful mess that is visible in your scan too when viewed large enough.
Did the jamming and ADF issues happen before Windows 7?
Have you tried Vuescan (http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/hp_scanjet_8200c.html)?
I have an Epson 636U that the manufacturer suddenly turned it's back on, and Vuescan saved it from the trash. Even the stupid green convenience button that I hadn't used in six years (because Epson's stupid drivers decided to stop supporting it) actually started working...