Nikon Scan 4 & Snow Leopard

[Project 2501]

I am just curious if anyone out there has Nikon Scan 4.02 working on Snow Leopard?

Before I decided to build my rig, I did some research and found that most people could not get NS 4 to work on Snow Leopard. This is critical for me since I still do film photography and use the scanner to do the post processing digitally. I resigned myself to save up for Silverfast (expensive!). Too bad Vuescan's version of ICE isn't as good... ICE is important if you're scanning damaged color film.

On a whim, I tried putting it on my base installation of SL that I use for testing, and to my surprise it works! Just wondering if anybody out there had similar results. Almost all the photography forums I visited say it shouldn't work, so I'm wondering if I am overlooking something.

 

[tofuconfetti]

I use a Nikon ED9000 scanner for a bunch of old Hasselblad negatives. I just didn't scan for a year or two and when I finally got back to the project, I was very irritated to find that Nikon no longer provides drivers for Snow Leopard. I tried all kinds of stuff and never got them to work. So I sprang for the Silverfast software. I know it's pricey, but you'll be very glad you did. You'll find your scans will look better!

I wouldn't go through the frustration of trying to get the Nikon drivers to work with full funcitonality. Nikon is pretty clear they don't support SL at all.

 

[Project 2501]

Thanks for letting me know how it worked with you. I guess I was a little to optimistic when I was able to do a couple of basic scans. I better save up for Silverfast... argh. I hope their upgrades are reasonably priced...

However, it will be for a while since I want to get an iPod Touch to replace my ancient Palm m515. Haven't been able to synch it since I got SL.

I got 4 rolls of film in the freezer waiting to be developed!