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Nikon Film Scanner CS III
Does anyone have any recommendations as to what to do with a Nikon CS-III (LS-30) that doesn't
seem to work anymore? I used it 10 years ago to scan thousands of transparencies and negatives, and then moth-balled it. When I recently set it up again, I was able to scan a couple of negatives, but couldn't get it to do slides. I'm not going to spend any money to try to get it fixed, but I'm wondering if there's likely to be anyone who would want to get it fixed and use it. -- croy |
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wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations as to what to do with a Nikon CS-III (LS-30) that doesn't seem to work anymore? I used it 10 years ago to scan thousands of transparencies and negatives, and then moth-balled it. When I recently set it up again, I was able to scan a couple of negatives, but couldn't get it to do slides. I'm not going to spend any money to try to get it fixed, but I'm wondering if there's likely to be anyone who would want to get it fixed and use it. ebay. just be sure to accurately describe its condition. |
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Nikon Film Scanner CS III
On 09/20/2017 12:56 PM, croy wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations as to what to do with a Nikon CS-III (LS-30) that doesn't seem to work anymore? I used it 10 years ago to scan thousands of transparencies and negatives, and then moth-balled it. When I recently set it up again, I was able to scan a couple of negatives, but couldn't get it to do slides. I'm not going to spend any money to try to get it fixed, but I'm wondering if there's likely to be anyone who would want to get it fixed and use it. If it will do negatives, it should do slides as well |
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Nikon Film Scanner CS III
On 09/21/2017 11:50 AM, philo wrote:
On 09/20/2017 12:56 PM, croy wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations as to what to do with a Nikon CS-III (LS-30) that doesn't seem to work anymore?Â* I used it 10 years ago to scan thousands of transparencies and negatives, and then moth-balled it.Â* When I recently set it up again, I was able to scan a couple of negatives, but couldn't get it to do slides.Â* I'm not going to spend any money to try to get it fixed, but I'm wondering if there's likely to be anyone who would want to get it fixed and use it. If it will do negatives, it should do slides as well I use an Epson Perfection 4490 scanner. The holder for neg strips and the holder for slides have holes in certain places that the Epson software looks for. The holes tell the software if you are scanning mounted slides, 35mm neg strips, or 2 1/4 neg strips. If it doesn't find these holes, it doesn't work. The Linux software doesn't seem to care about these marker holes, and just shows the entire scan window as a preview, and allows selection of slides or negs, and cropping to the image frame. -- Ken Hart |
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Nikon Film Scanner CS III
On 09/21/2017 02:49 PM, Ken Hart wrote:
On 09/21/2017 11:50 AM, philo wrote: On 09/20/2017 12:56 PM, croy wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations as to what to do with a Nikon CS-III (LS-30) that doesn't seem to work anymore?Â* I used it 10 years ago to scan thousands of transparencies and negatives, and then moth-balled it.Â* When I recently set it up again, I was able to scan a couple of negatives, but couldn't get it to do slides.Â* I'm not going to spend any money to try to get it fixed, but I'm wondering if there's likely to be anyone who would want to get it fixed and use it. If it will do negatives, it should do slides as well I use an Epson Perfection 4490 scanner. The holder for neg strips and the holder for slides have holes in certain places that the Epson software looks for. The holes tell the software if you are scanning mounted slides, 35mm neg strips, or 2 1/4 neg strips. If it doesn't find these holes, it doesn't work. The Linux software doesn't seem to care about these marker holes, and just shows the entire scan window as a preview, and allows selection of slides or negs, and cropping to the image frame. Had the same scanner . Someone gave it to me well used. When I died I replaced it with a similar V600 Though I'm mainly a Linux user, the Windows software that came with the scanner worked better than that avail. free on Linux. I think if I bought ViewScan for Linux it would have done a better job |
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Nikon Film Scanner CS III
On 2017-09-21 23:13, philo wrote:
On 09/21/2017 02:49 PM, Ken Hart wrote: On 09/21/2017 11:50 AM, philo wrote: On 09/20/2017 12:56 PM, croy wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations as to what to do with a Nikon CS-III (LS-30) that doesn't seem to work anymore?Â* I used it 10 years ago to scan thousands of transparencies and negatives, and then moth-balled it.Â* When I recently set it up again, I was able to scan a couple of negatives, but couldn't get it to do slides.Â* I'm not going to spend any money to try to get it fixed, but I'm wondering if there's likely to be anyone who would want to get it fixed and use it. If it will do negatives, it should do slides as well I use an Epson Perfection 4490 scanner. The holder for neg strips and the holder for slides have holes in certain places that the Epson software looks for. The holes tell the software if you are scanning mounted slides, 35mm neg strips, or 2 1/4 neg strips. If it doesn't find these holes, it doesn't work. The Linux software doesn't seem to care about these marker holes, and just shows the entire scan window as a preview, and allows selection of slides or negs, and cropping to the image frame. Had the same scanner . Someone gave it to me well used. When I died I replaced it with a similar V600 You died? Tell me how is it on the other side :-) -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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Nikon Film Scanner CS III
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croy wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations as to what to do with a Nikon CS-III (LS-30) that doesn't seem to work anymore? I used it 10 years ago to scan thousands of transparencies and negatives, and then moth-balled it. When I recently set it up again, I was able to scan a couple of negatives, but couldn't get it to do slides. I'm not going to spend any money to try to get it fixed, but I'm wondering if there's likely to be anyone who would want to get it fixed and use it. Old Nikon scanners are obsolete since they are worn and/or fragile of ageimpossible to get parts for. I use a Opticfilm 8200se dedicated filmscanner with the Vuescan software and get good results. You do need the pro version... I would definitely skip the AI version with its extended Silverfast software and go for Vuescan. I tried the throw in the box version of Silverfast and was not amused! The totals are about the same: OpticFilm 8200SE: https://www.scandinavianphoto.se/pro...skanner-opticf ilm-8200i-se https://www.adorama.com/icdp8200ise.html Vuescan: http://www.hamrick.com/ -- teleportation kills |
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