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  1. The colour images
    Images were made on film with Rollei(flex) cameras. Digital images were mainly made with a Fuji X camera of the first generation.
  2. The monochrome images
    Images were made on film with Rollei(flex) cameras.

The films were scanned on my 20 years old Nikon Cool-Scan 9000 ED (aka Nikon LS-9000). Some early scans were made with the original Nikon Scan software. Nikon Scan is not supported anymore and old versions are difficult to use1 on modern Macs. Most scans were made with Vuescan software made by Ed Hamrick. The 4×5 inch slides are too large for the Nikon scanner. I still own an Epson Photo 3200 flatbed scanner from the early days of this site and that one was large enough to take sheet film.

Notes

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The Nikon Cool-Scan 9000 ED (aka Nikon LS-9000) works fine on all Apple Macs with OSX and MacOS. It works not so fine on Windows machines. Quit a lot of users of Windows have trouble making the scanner work. The scanner has only a Firewire 400 port. No USB! Firewire was an Apple thing. Nikon provided a Firewire card with the scanner to make it properly work. The troubles started with some other Firewire cards in Windows computers. I have never used that specific card in Apples. The scanner works flawlessly from my PowerPC Mac up to the present MacBooks. I only need a series of adaptors to connect it. From the scanner runs the original Firewire 400 cable. That one is connected to an adaptor cable from Firewire 400 to Thunderbolt 1. Then another adaptor cable from Thunderbolt 1 to the present Thunderbolt 3 or 4 (USB-C). Short story: If you are considering to purchase a old Nikon 8000 or 9000 use a(n old) Mac.

I have used Vuescan for many years now but some people still prefer Nikon Scan. I also liked it very much but I could no longer make it work on my Macs. Recently I was mailed that Nikon Scan 4.0.3 still works (but only with Windows Vista). It is possible to use Nikon Scan 4 on a Mac after making a Windows partition on the hard disk of your Mac and using Boot-Camp to run Nikon Scan. I have no experience at all, so it will be pointless to ask me further advice. Sorry. Back