Stylianos, thanks for the link. Tony's reviews are very useful and,
for some reason, they didn't show up in my Google search.
Cheers!/ScottGee1
On 12/26/05, Stylianos Georgakis <stelge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
> A useful site for asking questions about specific scanners is at this
> link
> http://www.halftone.co.uk/tech/filmscan/menu.htm#index
>
> There is also a mailing list which has always been helpful. Hope that it
> helps.
>
> Regards and Happy New Year,
> Stylianos
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Tim Hughes
> Sent: Δευτέρα, 26 Δεκεμβρίου 2005 10:32 μμ
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT: Nikon LS2000 scanner questions
>
> Scott,
> there are some slightly weird things about these scanners to
> do with insering the film to the right position etc. which cause them to
> appear not to be working properly. I can't quite remember the issues but
> I know it always takes me a while to get mine "working". Sometimes the
> driver seems to not initialise properly. Fiddle around with how deep
> the film is inserted maybe. I think the stack loader always works
> correctly? They do have a stepper motor failure mechanism, but I
> beleive if they did not have an early failure with this problem, they
> are likely ok in the long term. This would seem to apply to your unit!.
> Vuescan works so much better than Nikonscan to drive these and may be
> more XP compatible if using windows. Also seem to remember it is quite
> important to get the right Scsi driver off the adaptec website. I got a
> very generic cheap Adaptec card that worked well with mine. The
> compatibility of the latest scsi cards does not allways seem so good
> with older
> low
> bandwidth generic devices. Focus issues may be due to damage in
> transport , I have not had any trouble with that, despite transporting
> mine unlocked. I downloaded a variety of useful tips off of the web
> after a lot of searching, when I first got mine, Nikon is not at all
> helpful
>
> Tim Hughes
>
> ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If there's better forum for these questions, please point me there.
>
> I recently sold a Nikon LS2000 scanner. Bought it a while back from a
> respected repair tech, tried it once and realized I needed more
> computer horsepower to do it right and packed it away 'til I sold it.
>
> Buyer is having lock-up and focus problems. Anyone familiar with how
> to fix 'em? I aghast that I sent problems to someone else.
>
> Side note . . . he initially operated it with the bottom transport
> screw in place. Could that have caused the problems?
>
> TIA!/ScottGee1
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