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I also have an old Mustek scanner with outdated drivers, with no hardware issues. Luckily, my scanner is USB, and VMware Workstation allows to forward complete USB devices to a guest OS. When I need to scan something, I fire up a virtual machine with 32-bits Windows XP inside, with OG drivers, and scanning software.
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Bouncing on that last bit: do you find digital to match/exceed your experience of film+hasselblad?
I have a Nikon Coolscan 4000 from days of old. I was able to scan a 35mm at about 20 megapixels of data... and it fixed scratches and identified dust (my father has used it for the past several years to scan all of the old family photos - including those from his parents) and it works very well. The big difference was in the amount of data in the blacks of a good slide film that you could pull out with a scanner. You…
I also have an old Mustek scanner with outdated drivers, with no hardware issues. Luckily, my scanner is USB, and VMware Workstation allows to forward complete USB devices to a guest OS. When I need to scan something, I fire up a virtual machine with 32-bits Windows XP inside, with OG drivers, and scanning software.
Does Vuescan support it?
Thanks for the tip!
Will give it a try next time I need to scan something.
people have an extremely limited view of patents to suggest this.
so you're working a 9-5, spent all of your savings on getting a patent because you did perceive something everyone else neglected, and people on the internet are like "go form a startup and raise capital, or else"! that's not what they say, but they don't think about what they say. they imagine a person with a toolkit in a garage or writing software and that's it, and then imagine creating and monetizing that one thing is the best use of their time, otherwise the idea shouldn't have been contributed to society at all. funny, who living in an economic center and has a garage anyway?
until we can have a real discussion on patenting and patent holders, as well as the incentives in making the patent claims broader and more generic than the inventor really had in mind, this conversation will go nowhere.
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I used to own the scan he is talking about and various epson scanner, you cannot imagine the difference, Epson is fine and you are happy with it, then you see what an Hasselblad scanner can do for the same negative and for the rest of yout life you will think that Epsons are garbage. I "used" to own it because it had some small hardware problems and i was unable to fix it or find someone who could repair it. I bought…
Bouncing on that last bit: do you find digital to match/exceed your experience of film+hasselblad?
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I mean, I agree that such a kit would be hugely popular and useful. You just don't understand how hard the problem is. There's a reason that people pay thousands of dollars for twenty year old hardware. > I would be somewhat surprised if at least an attempt at such a kit didn't already exist. Oh there are lots of attempts!
Do you expect that an existing mid-tier consumer 3D printer company could make such a kit (with sufficient quality to be useful) as a byproduct of their 3D-printer production line — the same way that iRobot makes "robotics platforms" that are just Roomba vacuums, minus the vacuum mechanism, plus an SDK? If so, would it be a good idea to go bug one of the 3D printer companies — most likely, one of the ones that freque…
The problem is that you have a... thick 160μm plane (the 'target') that you need to orient exactly along another plane some distance away. You are going to need to mount things on the target and move them through with good speed and precision. Every link in the chain has the potential to throw off the alignment. Traditionally this is solved through a centralized manufacturing process where one group of people get really good at building (and maintaining) the devices such that they generally line things up reliably (i.e. a company making a scanner).
It's kind of like P=NP for manufacturing I guess? If you can really figure out how to instruct a random person to get an above-average scan out of their DSLR, you can instruct them to make almost anything.
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I used to own the scan he is talking about and various epson scanner, you cannot imagine the difference, Epson is fine and you are happy with it, then you see what an Hasselblad scanner can do for the same negative and for the rest of yout life you will think that Epsons are garbage. I "used" to own it because it had some small hardware problems and i was unable to fix it or find someone who could repair it. I bought…
What is a "digital back"? Edit: Wow! Thanks for all your replies! This sounds intriguing, but only tangentially related to scanning. Now if you could turn a film camera into a high-quality scanner.. wouldn't that be something :) I'm in the ignorant camp where I've been satisfied with Epson consumer grade scanners because I had no idea what I was missing. Cheers.
This presupposes that the patented invention is trivial to reproduce by mere knowledge of its existence - in which case, is that really the best use of a patent system?
Most worthwhile inventions can't be easily duplicated like that; the knowledge of how to manufacture it, continue iterating/improving on it, etc. is almost certainly concentrated in and around the inventor - giving the inventor a considerable first-mover's advantage. A better system, in that case, would be to ensure the inventor can capitalize on that advantage - in particular, that even individual inventors have access to capital such that they can start producing their inventions.
(A better system than that would be for everyone to have a safety net sufficiently strong such that they can collaborate on inventions solely motivated by intellectual curiosity rather than needing to worry about monetary gain, but I digress...)
Naive question incoming: Does a good modern camera with a macro lens, shooting from a few inches away, have a higher effective DPI than this scanner? If so, is the only problem trying to get a predictable, smooth grid of pictures from such a camera to stitch together? And if so, couldn't you just stick the camera to... a CNC machine, say? Is that not a thing?