In article <>, David Dyer-Bennet
<dd-> wrote:
> >> >> > Anyone here know of a current good film scanner (i.e. not flatbed
> >> >> > scanner) for medium format negatives? It should be fully compatible
> >> >> > with Mac OS X lion of course.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Anyone have a good suggestion?
> >> >>
> >> >> I think all the scanners have fallen behind the current generation of
> >> >> Mac OS.
> >> >
> >> > you think wrong. you don't have a mac, so how would you even know what
> >> > exists or not??
> >>
> >> Lots of the other photographers I'm in newsgroups and on mailing lists
> >> with use Macs, and they talk about their driver woes.
> >
> > there are people who have windows and talk about their driver woes too.
>
> Do I have to repeat everything in every paragraph? We're talking
> specifically about scanner drivers.
and if you read what i wrote, i said that windows users have similar
problems. see where i wrote 'their driver woes too' ?
no matter what product or platform you pick, there is going to be a
small percentage who have problems. nothing is perfect.
seriously, do you think the *only* platform to have scanner driver
problems is a mac?
> > the reality is that scanners work just fine on macs. maybe not every
> > single scanner ever made, but neither does every scanner work on
> > windows either.
>
> So you say, but that's not what the pros using these things
> professionally that I've heard say.
then they're unaware of how to get it to work. that's why they asked.
the millions of people who don't have problems don't post questions
because it works.
> >> > scanner software works just fine in the latest mac os x.
> >>
> >> This is incorrect according to for example
> >> <http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/13759/nikon-scan>
> >
> > that's just *one* particular app, and it doesn't work with windows
> > either.
>
> Now, what you're skipping over is that it can be hacked to work on
> Windows (it's an install problem, no actual problem with working),
> whereas nobody that I know of has managed to do that for the mac
> version.
there may be a way to get it to work, but who cares?
there are much better alternatives that work without any hacking
whatsoever and are fully supported on recent mac os x versions.
> > <http://support.nikonusa.com/app/answ.../sort/4,2/r_id
> > /116678>
> >
> > The use of Nikon Scan software with Windows 7 (any version),*or Mac
> > OS 10.5.x or later, *or*any 64- bit operating system (including
> > 64-bit, 32-bit or Compatibility mode) is not supported.
>
> Yes, not supported. But works.
with hacking, which not everyone will do.
> > that does not mean *all* other scanner software for the mac will not
> > work. not only that, but nikon scan wasn't all that good anyway.
>
> I hear the Mac version wasn't nearly as good.
>
> > there is other scanner software that works just fine on the mac,
> > including on the latest 10.7/lion, such as vuescan and silverfast.
>
> Sure, if you want to get a different set of capabilities and hit a new
> learning curve.
for those who have been using vuescan all along, there is no new set of
capabilities or learning curve.
the fact remains that there *is* mac scanner software for current
versions of mac os x and it works just fine.
you were wrong.
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