lauvernier_dominique

<p>I reply late to all posts, I did not get a message to my mailbox telling that replies have been post.<br>

Yes I have tried all you say, and I am used to install computers.<br>

The cable is new and working; the firewire device in Pc Asus card works and is ok in the config pannel; the card provided by nikon cant be recognized in pc 3; the driver for this card OHCI NEC firewarden is not yet in the microsoft site and is not provided by Nikon SAV.<br>

And last ... the scanner works fine on my netbook Asus ( a 2005 model), with the integrated firewire port. But difficut to scan large color negs and use a color controlled Nec spectraview with a netbook.<br>

So its not the scanner, its a problem with Nikon software which is not standard.<br>

Nikon SAV sent me a "fix" exe, which does nothing to solve the problem.<br>

WHERE I can find this damned Nec firewarden driver? It is not in the Nikon CD, Nikon France does not have the file, neither miccrosoft. And there is no alternative firewire driver in the Cd for other common firewire ports.<br>

I think that NIKON has the legal obligation to give the specific software to make the device sold work ?<br>

thanks again DL</p>

<p>Help please !<br>

I have just bought a new LS9000 ... but I can't appreciate its extraordinary quality since ... I cant use it. Explanation:<br>

1) I have installed the PCI firewire card, WXP2 detects the device, gives it a ? sign, and is unable to find the driver, either in Nikon disc or in XP disc. I have tried to get it on the net, all drivers sites point to microsoft update page, which does not deliver this driver. Its an old driver, 1999, NEC firewarden.<br>

So 2) I have tried to install the LS on another PC, with XPSP2 running, an ASusPE3 card, Core 6600, quadro card, and all the stuff. A PC I use for video, 3D modelizing, ... It has its integrated Firewire complient port. A very stable station.<br>

Scan 4.02 says "Nikon scan has not detected an active peripheric".<br>

I have tried everything, install, uninstall, regsweep, hot and unhot plugging, ... Same message.<br>

Nikon SAV is unaware of the problem, has never seen it (?) - and does not know how to deal with it.<br>

Needless to say, the scan is out of stock everywhere in Europe, and as I need it for a 3D work, I had to order it in Germany, where two were in stock at a reselller's shop.</p>

<p>Any ideas ???</p>

<p>All of them will work well, as soon as your negs are not in the highest rang of contrast; but beware of the newton rings, I am unable to scan my 6x6 or 6x7 colour negs with my flat Epson Perfection scanner ... !</p>

<p>IR filters simulate the infra red BW effect, in a range from light (as Ilford SFX) to deep (as discontinued High Speed Kodak with dark red filter. Yet, it's a fake: I have just seen digital photos in my club with these effects appliedd: sky is dark, trees are white - but the soft analyses the colours in the digital photo used as a source: green is translated to light grey or white, and so on; forgets that water is darkened in real IR shots, and vegetation is not always whitened; depends on the tree ! So the pinetree was whitened, as the winegrap, in real shots, the plant and the pine tree will differ, and so on ...<br>

It's a funny digital filter, but nothing in digital photo can be a subsitute for real BW shot, with the range of filters yellow, green, red and IR. That's why we often yet shoot in argentic for artistic BW renderings ... Let the colour photography to digital technologies.<br>

Unless you use special scientifc cameras, with a specific sensibility to a wavelength (as Halpha filters for astronomic exposures).</p>