On 09/21/2017 02:49 PM, Ken Hart wrote:
On 09/21/2017 11:50 AM, philo wrote:
On 09/20/2017 12:56 PM, croy wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations as to what to do with a Nikon
CS-III (LS-30) that doesn't
seem to work anymore?Â* I used it 10 years ago to scan thousands of
transparencies and
negatives, and then moth-balled it.Â* When I recently set it up again,
I was able to scan a
couple of negatives, but couldn't get it to do slides.Â* I'm not going
to spend any money to try
to get it fixed, but I'm wondering if there's likely to be anyone who
would want to get it
fixed and use it.



If it will do negatives, it should do slides as well

I use an Epson Perfection 4490 scanner. The holder for neg strips and
the holder for slides have holes in certain places that the Epson
software looks for. The holes tell the software if you are scanning
mounted slides, 35mm neg strips, or 2 1/4 neg strips. If it doesn't find
these holes, it doesn't work.

The Linux software doesn't seem to care about these marker holes, and
just shows the entire scan window as a preview, and allows selection of
slides or negs, and cropping to the image frame.




Had the same scanner . Someone gave it to me well used.
When I died I replaced it with a similar V600

Though I'm mainly a Linux user, the Windows software that came with the
scanner worked better than that avail. free on Linux.

I think if I bought ViewScan for Linux it would have done a better job