VueScan for more Canon scanners

[Ed Hamrick]

I've been working on adding support to VueScan for
the following Canon scanners:

LiDE 35
LiDE 50
LiDE 80
D640U
D1230U
D1250U
D2400U
3000F
3200F
4200F
5000F
8000F
8400F
9900F
9950F

I have a test version that works with the LiDE 50
and the 9900F (the only two of these that I have right
now), and it would be useful if people could test this
on the other scanners and let me know if it does a
flatbed scan.

You can download this test version from:

http://www.hamrick.com/files/testcano.exe

If it works (or doesn't work) with one of the other scanners above,
could you let me know by e-mail? (e-mail address removed)

A test version for Mac OS X is almost working, but not
quite. I'll try to get it working this weekend or early
next week.

This test version has the following limitations:

1) Only works with the flatbed lamp
2) Doesn't have special logic for warming up the lamp
3) Doesn't acquire the infrared channel on the 9900F and 9950F (yet)
4) Doesn't handle the buttons on the front panel

Regards,
Ed Hamrick

 

[Brian Colwell]

I've been working on adding support to VueScan for
the following Canon scanners:

LiDE 35
LiDE 50
LiDE 80
D640U
D1230U
D1250U
D2400U
3000F
3200F
4200F
5000F
8000F
8400F
9900F
9950F

I have a test version that works with the LiDE 50
and the 9900F (the only two of these that I have right
now), and it would be useful if people could test this
on the other scanners and let me know if it does a
flatbed scan.

You can download this test version from:

http://www.hamrick.com/files/testcano.exe

If it works (or doesn't work) with one of the other scanners above,
could you let me know by e-mail? (e-mail address removed)

A test version for Mac OS X is almost working, but not
quite. I'll try to get it working this weekend or early
next week.

This test version has the following limitations:

1) Only works with the flatbed lamp
2) Doesn't have special logic for warming up the lamp
3) Doesn't acquire the infrared channel on the 9900F and 9950F (yet)
4) Doesn't handle the buttons on the front panel

Regards,
Ed Hamrick

Does not appear to work on a canon 5200f'.. Unless I am doing something
wrong ! Keeping my fingers crossed )

Regards,
BMC

 

[Ed Hamrick]

Does not appear to work on a canon 5200f'.. Unless I am doing something
wrong ! Keeping my fingers crossed )

I've added support to the test version for the Canon CanoScan 5200F.
You can download it from:

http://www.hamrick.com/files/testcano.exe

Could you let me know if this works?

Thanks,
Ed Hamrick

 

[Brian Colwell]

I've added support to the test version for the Canon CanoScan 5200F.
You can download it from:

http://www.hamrick.com/files/testcano.exe

Could you let me know if this works?

Thanks,
Ed Hamrick

I have e mailed you today, it works fine !

Many thanks,
BMC

 

[Wilfred van der Vegte]

I've been working on adding support to VueScan for
the following Canon scanners:

Thanks, Ed. Sounds interesting, since I'm considering the 9900F or 9950F
for medium format.
However ...

This test version has the following limitations:

1) Only works with the flatbed lamp

Does this mean that VueScan won't be able to scan transparencies? If so,
are you planning to include this?

2) Doesn't have special logic for warming up the lamp

Does that mean you just have to give the lamp some time to warm up, or
could this affect the scanner's performance?

 

[Ed Hamrick]

Does this mean that VueScan won't be able to scan transparencies? If so,
are you planning to include this?

Yes, this is working in the test version now. It just wasn't
working yesterday.

Does that mean you just have to give the lamp some time to warm up, or
could this affect the scanner's performance?

This is working in the test version now.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick

 

[Ed Hamrick]

I now have an updated test version for Mac OS X and Windows.
You can download it from:

http://www.hamrick.com/files/testcano.exe (Windows)
http://www.hamrick.com/files/testcano.dmg (Mac OS X)

If it works (or doesn't work) with one of the other scanners above,
could you let me know by e-mail? (e-mail address removed)


It supports the following Canon scanners:

LiDE 35
LiDE 50
LiDE 80
D640U
D1230U
D1250U
D2400U
3000F
3200F
4200F
5000F
5200F
8000F
8400F
9900F
9950F

This test version has the following limitations:

1) Doesn't acquire the infrared channel on the 9900F and 9950F (yet)
2) Doesn't handle the buttons on the front panel (yet)

Regards,
Ed Hamrick

 

[Wilfred van der Vegte]

Yes, this is working in the test version now. It just wasn't
working yesterday.




This is working in the test version now.

Thanks - I guess I'll wait till the 9950 hits the stores in Europe, then ...

 

[Brian Colwell]

I now have an updated test version for Mac OS X and Windows.
You can download it from:

http://www.hamrick.com/files/testcano.exe (Windows)
http://www.hamrick.com/files/testcano.dmg (Mac OS X)

If it works (or doesn't work) with one of the other scanners above,
could you let me know by e-mail? (e-mail address removed)


It supports the following Canon scanners:

LiDE 35
LiDE 50
LiDE 80
D640U
D1230U
D1250U
D2400U
3000F
3200F
4200F
5000F
5200F
8000F
8400F
9900F
9950F

This test version has the following limitations:

1) Doesn't acquire the infrared channel on the 9900F and 9950F (yet)
2) Doesn't handle the buttons on the front panel (yet)

Regards,
Ed Hamrick

All the added features work fine on my Canon 5200f.

Regards, Brian M Colwell

 

[Kaarel]

If it works (or doesn't work) with one of the other scanners above,

could you let me know by e-mail? (e-mail address removed) [snip]
9900F

Infrared cleaning does not seem to work right with vuescan 8.1.5
release, which is supposed to support it. Following is a mail i sent
to Hamrick, but I'd be interested if someone else has had the same
problem.

----

I was trying out new 8.1.5 with support for canon 9900f and found a
strange problem: infrared repair is misaligned when scanning
negatives.
Tried it on 2 pc's (Win XP SP2), with both old and newest canon
drivers, same
problem. IR cleaning in canon scangear worked ok in both cases, so it
is not a hardware problem.

Misalignement seems not to be uniform across all platen, it seems that
it is accurate in center of scan area and gets progressively worse
when
approaching edge, up to 0.4 mm, in opposite directions on opposite
edges.

I have attached three images to illustrate: scan result from vuescan
and
scangear (medium ir clean for both) and a screenshot from vuescan
showing the misalignement. I have intentionally laid 2 hairs on the
negative for easy view of problem, additionally to few natural
impurities there. Images are from slot 22 on 35mm film adapter.

http://www.hot.ee/ilm/vue_mediumfix.jpg
http://www.hot.ee/ilm/canon_mediumfix.jpg
http://www.hot.ee/ilm/vue_scanview.jpg

I guess it is the problem with working thru canon drivers, contrary to
traditional direct connection. Any hope of reverse engineering the
protocol yet? I was really hoping to purchase it for working in
linux,
but I really appreciate that you have made it work at all, canon
software is completely braindead

with best regards, Kaarel

 

[Simon and Helen Gulliver]

Infra red cleaning doesn't work properly on the Minolta DSM pro either so I
think it is a fundamental Vuescan issue. I have reported this but have had
no acknowledgement. I think this may have been a problem for sometime but
for some reason older vuescan releases don't seem quite as bad as the
latest.

If more people report it perhaps Ed will come up with a solution.

Simon

If it works (or doesn't work) with one of the other scanners above,
could you let me know by e-mail? (e-mail address removed) [snip]
9900F

Infrared cleaning does not seem to work right with vuescan 8.1.5
release, which is supposed to support it. Following is a mail i sent
to Hamrick, but I'd be interested if someone else has had the same
problem.

----

I was trying out new 8.1.5 with support for canon 9900f and found a
strange problem: infrared repair is misaligned when scanning
negatives.
Tried it on 2 pc's (Win XP SP2), with both old and newest canon
drivers, same
problem. IR cleaning in canon scangear worked ok in both cases, so it
is not a hardware problem.

Misalignement seems not to be uniform across all platen, it seems that
it is accurate in center of scan area and gets progressively worse
when
approaching edge, up to 0.4 mm, in opposite directions on opposite
edges.

I have attached three images to illustrate: scan result from vuescan
and
scangear (medium ir clean for both) and a screenshot from vuescan
showing the misalignement. I have intentionally laid 2 hairs on the
negative for easy view of problem, additionally to few natural
impurities there. Images are from slot 22 on 35mm film adapter.

http://www.hot.ee/ilm/vue_mediumfix.jpg
http://www.hot.ee/ilm/canon_mediumfix.jpg
http://www.hot.ee/ilm/vue_scanview.jpg

I guess it is the problem with working thru canon drivers, contrary to
traditional direct connection. Any hope of reverse engineering the
protocol yet? I was really hoping to purchase it for working in
linux,
but I really appreciate that you have made it work at all, canon
software is completely braindead

with best regards, Kaarel

 

[Bruce Graham]

Infra red cleaning doesn't work properly on the Minolta DSM pro either so I
think it is a fundamental Vuescan issue. I have reported this but have had
no acknowledgement. I think this may have been a problem for sometime but
for some reason older vuescan releases don't seem quite as bad as the
latest.

If more people report it perhaps Ed will come up with a solution.

I suspect Ed has to fine tune the IR cleaning for each supported scanner.
I remember a year or so back, it took a while for the IR cleaning to work
well on the Canon FS4000 film scanner. He made a number of improvements
over many months and the performance eventually exceeded the cleaning
performance of the Canon software (which often scribbles out parts of
lines). So reporting problems is desirable.

 

[seraphsf]

I suspect Ed has to fine tune the IR cleaning for each supported scanner.
I remember a year or so back, it took a while for the IR cleaning to work
well on the Canon FS4000 film scanner. He made a number of improvements
over many months and the performance eventually exceeded the cleaning
performance of the Canon software (which often scribbles out parts of
lines). So reporting problems is desirable.

anyone have any success with the canoscan 8400F and the infrared
cleaning option in vuescan? I'm using the latest version of vuescan
and the infrared cleaning options do not seem to work for me.

i know it's not the hardware since i've been able to remove dust and
scratches from my negatives using the canoscan tools.

any suggestions? thanks.

 

[seraphsf]

I suspect Ed has to fine tune the IR cleaning for each supported scanner.
I remember a year or so back, it took a while for the IR cleaning to work
well on the Canon FS4000 film scanner. He made a number of improvements
over many months and the performance eventually exceeded the cleaning
performance of the Canon software (which often scribbles out parts of
lines). So reporting problems is desirable.

anyone have any luck getting the IR cleaning to work with Canoscan
8400F when working with color negatives? I cannot seem to get the IR
cleaning to do any amount of cleaning on the scanned film.

I was able to use the dust and scratches option in the canoscan tool.
the dust and scratches option works well with the canoscan tool but
the overall scans were inferior to what i am getting with vuescan
8.1.9.

someone suggested scanning with 64bit RGBI which i did without much
success. i have infrared option set to heavy just to see if i can see
any differences but none could be detected. is this just a case of
having to wait for improvements and fine tuning in future releases?

i've already sent in a problem report to Ed but was wondering if
others were having similar issues.