The Firewire port works with my old DV without problem. I also tried to
connect the 4000ED to another notebook computer, also can't detect the
scanner :-(
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "piers@xxxxxxxx" <piers.hemy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Film scanning
> Did you check the Firewire card?
>
> Piers
>
> On 6/22/12, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Two days ago when we were discussing about film scanning, I tried to wake
>> up
>>
>> my 4000ED to run some testes, I haven't use the scanner since Oct 2010.
>> To
>> my suprise my computer didn't see the scanner attached, it served me
>> faultlessly for many years with over 30K scans and now it seems decided
>> to
>> retire. I open the case, disassembled the mother board, reconnect the
>> cables
>>
>> then power it up again, at first it was ok but after a few scans it
>> failed
>> again. I went through the above cycles a few times and finally gave up...
>> :-(
>>
>> I wasn't very worry as I was expecting I can easily get another 4000ED at
>> very low price as most peoples have switched to DSLR. Unfortunately the
>> ebay
>>
>> prices were suprisingly high and repair (if available) cost won't be
>> cheap
>> either.
>>
>> I started to digitize my personal films some years ago, over 95% of the
>> negatives were done but the project was stopped for some reasons. Now
>> leaving a thousand or two slides to be completed.
>>
>> I'm not so happy with the scanning quality of my Epson 4870. I tried
>> using
>> 5D II for copying negative two years ago (at that time we got an order of
>> scanning 10K negatives) but the post adjustment and dusting was very time
>> consuming so we finally just stick with scanning. I think it is time to
>> consider the 5D II workflow again, this time the target is slide so it
>> could
>>
>> be easier.
>>
>> Here is my setup and the preliminary results looked promising.
>>
>> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/P6226848.jpg
>>
>> Lens is OM 80/4 with 5D II on Olympus focusing rail and copy stand. It
>> was
>> also my first time using the EOS Utility to control the camera, it was
>> fun!
>>
>> Liveview can be seen on monitor so focusing can be done comfortably!
>>
>> C.H.Ling
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