Nikon Coolscan on XP64 ?

[Guillaume Dargaud]

I haven't been able to install my Nikon Coolscan 4000 ED on WinXP 64.
Anybody knows if there's a different driver ?
I don't care much about NikonScan4 if VueScan works.

 

[Guillaume Dargaud]

I haven't been able to install my Nikon Coolscan 4000 ED on WinXP 64.

Anybody knows if there's a different driver ?
I don't care much about NikonScan4 if VueScan works.

Well, it's bad form replying to oneself, but I just got an answer from Nikon
USA saying that there's currently no x64 drivers for any of their scanners.
Be warned if you want to upgrade your graphic workstations... What a shame,
I'll have to scan with a lousy laptop screen.

 

[Raphael Bustin]

Well, it's bad form replying to oneself, but I just got an answer from Nikon
USA saying that there's currently no x64 drivers for any of their scanners.
Be warned if you want to upgrade your graphic workstations... What a shame,
I'll have to scan with a lousy laptop screen.

You could always set up a dual-boot system; leave your older
Windows version in a separate partition. Use it to host
drivers and applications that aren't 64-bit-ready.


rafe b
www.terrapinphoto.com

 

[Don]

Well, it's bad form replying to oneself

Not at all! It's actually very decent of you to share what you
learned!

On a personal note, indeed, some of my most intelligent conversations
were when talking to myself! ;o) Like now, for example! ;o)

But seriously, I don't know where that particular rumor started but I
for one consider it bad form when people selfishly pop in to ask a
question and never bother to give anything back, i.e. help others.

, but I just got an answer from Nikon
USA saying that there's currently no x64 drivers for any of their scanners.
Be warned if you want to upgrade your graphic workstations... What a shame,
I'll have to scan with a lousy laptop screen.

That shouldn't really be a problem. Indeed, it may actually be a
blessing in disguise! Namely, you can set up your laptop to scan and
use your desktop for image editing. That way you can do two things at
the same time. It will actually speed up your workflow.

Scanning itself is not very demanding on resources and a garden
variety (read, slightly older) laptop can handle it easily. It's the
image editing which is resource hungry especially when you get into
high resolutions and bit depth. All this with the assumption that you
scan "raw" and do your image editing in a dedicated program
afterwards.

But even if you just want a quick scan without careful post processing
(e.g. for web or print) most laptops can be connected to an external
monitor to better tweak scanner software settings. However, since
scanner software editing is quite limited that may not be worth the
trouble if the goal is only a quick scan where LCD is quite adequate.

Don.

 

[bmoag]

Besides a lack of drivers for Win64 there are other issues.
You should be very, very frightened by the lack of reliable antivirus
software for Win64: connection to the internet, installation of new programs
is a virtual (no pun intended) crapshoot on Win64.
Couple this with the lack of reliable CD/DVD burning software (there is no
packet writing software for Win64), the lack of reliable video editing
software, and add a pinch of known instability issues with motherboard
drivers and existing 32 bit Windows software (including Microsoft Office)
and you have a recipe that in a previous incarnation was called (drum roll
please): OS2.
Win64 is easier to install but actually less useful than Linux and far less
stable.
Win64 should be used only by tinkerers, masochists and the naive.

 

[Don]

Couple this with the lack of reliable CD/DVD burning software (there is no
packet writing software for Win64), the lack of reliable video editing
software, and add a pinch of known instability issues with motherboard
drivers and existing 32 bit Windows software (including Microsoft Office)
and you have a recipe that in a previous incarnation was called (drum roll
please): OS2.

I remember when OS/2 was first released and at a computer show (don't
remember which) the following button was very popular:

OS/2 = half of an operating system

;o)

Don.

 

[tomm42]

Plug a decent moniter into the laptop, should help. BTW Nikon is very
slow in the driver department.

Tom