old film scanner - tamarack/jenoptik

Hello. I've got a cheap film scanner which I bought about 4 years ago.

Its a Tamarack FS 2400, aka JS Jenscan 21 (I think Jenoptik bought the
scanner from Tamarack, or the other way round. I've hardly used it as it's
always been highly temperamental and the quality has been poor.
Basically when I first got it it only worked on about 20% of occasions on a
Windows 98 system. Usually when I tried to acquire the scanner from an image
editing program or just open the program that came with it (Documan) the
program would usually hang and the the computer would crash with a Fatal
Exception when I tried to shut the non-responsive program down.
And when it did work the image quality was very poor, there was allot of
noise etc.
So it ended up not being used much then stored away. I got it because it
was the cheapest and film scanners are very pricey.

Anyway since then I've got a new computer running Windows XP and I thought I
might give the old scanner another go. But I have the same old problem has
occurred. Only now Tamarack have gone bust and they never produced a signed
XP driver for it. I've searched the web and downloaded some Win 2000 drivers
that claim they will work on XP. But again whenever I try and import the
scanner from photoshop etc it hangs. Only this time because I'm using XP is
doesn't bring down the operating system!
Is anyone familiar with this scanner and could they suggest how I might get
it to work? I have a set of negatives I'd like to scan but am put off buying
a proper film scanner by the steep price. It would be too expensive just for
a few photos.
Thanks.

Mike <carpets@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is anyone familiar with this scanner and could they suggest how I might get
> it to work? I have a set of negatives I'd like to scan but am put off buying
> a proper film scanner by the steep price.

The Jenoptic makes a great doorstop and there are plenty of decent Nikon
LS-30 available second-hand at very attractive prices.

Ralf

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Original Message -----
From: "Ralf R. Radermacher" <fotoralf@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scanners
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: old film scanner - tamarack/jenoptik


> Mike <carpets@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is anyone familiar with this scanner and could they suggest how I might
get
> > it to work? I have a set of negatives I'd like to scan but am put off
buying
> > a proper film scanner by the steep price.
>
> The Jenoptic makes a great doorstop and there are plenty of decent Nikon
> LS-30 available second-hand at very attractive prices.
>
> Ralf
>
> --
> Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany
> private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de
> manual cameras and photo galleries - updated March 30, 2004
> Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses

I looked at Tamarack's old website on the Internet Archive. Their last one
before the company folded and It doesn't mention a driver for NT/2000/XP.
There are drivers available on the internet, that claim to be for Windows
2000 but I can't get them to work.
http://www.scanner-drivers.com/drivers/77/77782.htm
The Tamarack site lists a single all prupose driver for 95/98/Me/2000/XP
but it also says it is for 95/98!!! It seems the scanner was only designed
and supported to work on Win 95/98 and Apple. Is this true.
Has anyone managed to get this scanner 'Tamarack FS 2400" "jenoptik JS 21"
to work on XP?
And if so could they please say how they did it. Where they got the drivers
etc.
Thanks.

>Hello. I've got a cheap film scanner which I bought about 4 years ago.
>
>Its a Tamarack FS 2400, aka JS Jenscan 21 (I think Jenoptik bought the
>scanner from Tamarack, or the other way round. I've hardly used it as it's
>always been highly temperamental and the quality has been poor.
>Basically when I first got it it only worked on about 20% of occasions on a
>Windows 98 system. Usually when I tried to acquire the scanner from an image
>editing program or just open the program that came with it (Documan) the
>program would usually hang and the the computer would crash with a Fatal
>Exception when I tried to shut the non-responsive program down.
>And when it did work the image quality was very poor, there was allot of
>noise etc.
>So it ended up not being used much then stored away. I got it because it
>was the cheapest and film scanners are very pricey.
>
>Anyway since then I've got a new computer running Windows XP and I thought I
>might give the old scanner another go. But I have the same old problem has
>occurred. Only now Tamarack have gone bust and they never produced a signed
>XP driver for it. I've searched the web and downloaded some Win 2000 drivers
>that claim they will work on XP. But again whenever I try and import the
>scanner from photoshop etc it hangs. Only this time because I'm using XP is
>doesn't bring down the operating system!
>Is anyone familiar with this scanner and could they suggest how I might get
>it to work? I have a set of negatives I'd like to scan but am put off buying
>a proper film scanner by the steep price. It would be too expensive just for
>a few photos.
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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No promises this will work, but you might try going to

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/su....jsp?sess=no&la
nguage=English+US&cat=%2FProduct%2FASPI-4.70&prodkey=ASPI-4.70

(start at adaptec dot com if you can't get the whole url to work)

You want to download and install the "WinXP ASPI layer" (or 2K if that's what
you're using) on your machine, then load the scanner driver. This should help
your image capture software find the scanner. You might find your CDROM/RW and
or DVDROM/RW burning software is affected by all this, especially if you're
still using the WinXP built-in burning software.
webpa