Ben Kleschinsky

Seeing I have run into another predicament, the absence of a copyright dongle. I would most likely want to run an old copy of Color Trio, although I heard it is only good up to 8 bits and this being a 12 bit scanner... I do have a 30 day free trial with Color Quartet, but first I need to determine if a rare FireWire adapter would even work as some have noted on reviews I read on amazon for their Nikon CoolScan's. If not, I most definitely need to find an old computer with a SCSI port.

I have a 2016 iMac and a 2011 MacBook Pro, not very useful in my case. I may end up having to find an older PC desktop with a SCSI, but not too old so I can run the programs necessary to control the scanner.

Funny I have a Macintosh 512K, not that one yet! I appreciate the warnings, a computer that old would be able to run say Color Trio?

Hope they don't laugh me off the stage, here goes nothing! :D

I noticed Color Quartet software that is currently available to download for OS X, with a thirty day free trial. Where do you end up getting a copyright dongle to run the software, what are the going rates if anyone knows?

Ratoc made a SCSI to Firewire adapter, very nice but now insanely expensive due to it's rarity. I know Belkin made one at one point too, worst case scenario I could try my hand on a USB adapter.

Thank you for the clarification, most desktop towers do not have SCSI ports in the back? I had assumed parallel looked the same so were the same, I will look out for a good adapter. A lot of them state, 'SCSI device must supply termination power for adapter to work'.

From what I can tell it will either run on Windows XP or OS9, I will try my hand on a parallel to USB adapter if they are anything reliable.

If that is the case, exciting news! :D Do the bulbs in these usually need replacing being so old?

Also not sure if you are supposed to hook up both of those to two parallel ports at the same time. Iff this scanner is capable of anything near good results I definitely want to keep it.

Yep! I had a few recommending I not bother due to it having only one PMT and no autofocus unlike the 3000, that modern Epson flatbeds should produce better results. I still want to give it a go and see what I get, I have a mounting station now I just need the mylar.

I recently picked up this 2C49 drum scanner out of a warehouse that was ready for the landfill, it does power on and have software to run it. Here are the specs I have found.. 2000dpi 3.0 D Max 12bit per channel via single PMT No auto focus I had a few who in their opinion thought it was junk, is this scanner capable of anything better than a modern flatbed? I would be using it to scan my 6x6 and 6x7 negatives.

Every time I fire a shot or two eventually the film insert pops out of place, forcing me to open the Bronica door to push the insert back into place (in a dark place). The back I am using is the one without the pinch locking mechanism, what could be going wrong?

Link that works: http://www.dirapon.be/images/collection/Bronica/volets_Bronica_S2.pdf

I am aware that on some Hassalblad bodies the focusing screen was simply kept in by two clips that would allow you to pop them in and out on the fly. I just managed to get my hands on an eye level Bronica prism viewfinder but it's extremely cloudy and difficult to use, I would love to take the cloudy screen out and replace it with a brighter clear one; is it simple to do yourself?