Excellent. I don't have a SCSI scanner but I do have a SCSI ZIP drive and a lot of old ZIP discs with photo scans on them. I used to have a SCSI card in my Mac, but it seems to be incompatible with System 10.4. Paul On Mar 25, 2007, at 3:08 AM, Juan Buhler wrote:
> I have a Polaroid Sprintscan 4000. It's a great scanner, but the > problem is that it had a scsi interface. So for a few years now it > forced me to keep my old Windows PC around. > > I bought this: > > http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/FR1SX.html > > It's a SCSI->Firewire interface. I just tried it, and it works > beautifully. Vuescan sees the Polaroid from OSX in my Powerbook, and > the scans even look better than they did with Silverfast from the PC > (or maybe I'm just happy about not having to use Windows ever again.) > > Highly recommended if you have an older scsi scanner that you want to > use with a newer machine. > > I think I will be shooting more film now. > > Speaking of Vuescan--if all I want to do is save 16 bit scans, to be > processed in PS later, I don't really need to get the pro version, > right? > > j > > -- > Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com > photoblog: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com > a book: http://www.jbuhler.com/book.html > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
