Dedicated Film Scanner/MacIntosh (Follow-Up to First Scanner Thread Below)

[don_boyd3]

Thanks to all who responded to the thread below, 'First Scanner'. I leaning to

buying a new Nikon Coolscan V in the near future. You can't argue with the

logic that a solution to fiddly film holders is to do away with film holders.

I know there's lots of Coolscan V users here so here's another key

consideration for my use. How's the Nikon Coolscan hardware/software work with

a MacIntosh system? I putting together a Mac system now and would really

appreciate a sanity check before making the commitment to the Nikon. If Nikon

and Mac don't get along well together is there a Mac-friendly alternate

suggestion?

 

Thanks in advance for your help,

 

Don Boyd

[Ed_Ingold]

Get a PC/Windows XP before you are too far into the dark side.

[eugene_scherba]

Where did you get the idea that Nikon Coolscans may not work with

MacOS?

[pmind]

Don, I'm using the latest Mac OS (PowerPC) with my Nikon 9000 (firewire) and have no problems using Nikon Scan. I also use VueScan with no difficulties. I do not know about the Intel based machines, I would check with Nikon's website or call customer service to see if a universal version of the software is available. If I had to guess, I'd say there should be no problem. Paul

[matt_gerhardt]

Even if it doesn't work natively on the new Intel machines, I doubt that running it through

Rosetta will have that much of an effect on the speed (which is mostly an in-scanner issue

anyway)

[PatrickMP]

<P>How old is the Mac system you are piecing together? Is it state-of-the-art, or being

pieced together from older components?

<P>For the record, I use a G4 QuickSilver (733 MHz) with 1.12 GB RAM and a host of HDs

(run from Sonnet ATA controllers). I've got the Coolscan V and an aging Microtek Scanmaker

4 hooked up via SCSI, Vuescan drives both fine.