![]() By the 90s, there was no longer a need to have dedicated equipment to transmit photographs, and you could rely on consumer PCs instead to scan and send photos. The legacy of the NT-1000 (and the improved NT-2000 and NT-3000) helped Nikon develop the Coolscan line of scanners for PC and Mac. Now they could use a 35mm scanner and send only the negative, saving time and money. Previously, someone would need to set up a dark room, operate the enlarger to print the photo, and operate the difficult to use machinery to transmitted the low-quality printed photo back to their newsroom. One of the advantages to this new approach was that a Japanese newspaper no longer needed to send both a photographer and a transmitter operator. This development revolutionized the news industry. ![]() Nikon went on to partner with Kyodo News to create a device that could scan 35mm film and transmit it via the phone network back home to Japan. In 1981, Sony unveiled its MAVICA digital camera with a CCD sensor capable of capturing 570x490 pixels, but this also wasn’t sufficient for Japanese newspapers of the day. There were products to transmit printed photographs, but their quality was limited. Text could be transmitted by fax machine or teletype, but color photographs were difficult to transmit. The problem it was trying to solve was, in an age before digital cameras, how can News organizations transmit photographs taken in far-flung locales back to their newsrooms. Prior to the development of dedicated consumer film scanners, Nikon produced a product called the NT-1000. Many of those scanners are still in use today because of their high build quality, low number of degradable parts, and the discovery by many customers that they still will work with 3rd party software today. They sold both flatbed and film/slide scanners but their Coolscan film and slide scanners were where they really stood out from the pack. At least it's not subscription pricing.Between 19, Nikon released some of the best consumer scanners on the market. Here in New Zealand a full version of VuScan costs $149.99, I happened to get it when they had it on a discount price of $139.99. The only real con I've found so far with VuScan is the help system, if you want to find out anything it can only be described as basic, and IMO seriously needs a lot more work to match the software it's supporting. Setting up and using the UI is far easier than Silverfast, workflows can be setup up easily, and saved for future use with their own unique name. With VuScan, the download process was easy, the install was easy and fast, and it autodetected both scanners on my network (the Canoscan 9000F Mark II plugged in to a USB port, and the Epson Workforce 633 scanner on my network) In the end I gave up on it, it's just too difficult to learn, and uninstalled it. It's a complete mess, and is almost impossible to set up/work out any workflow when scanning negatives. Once it was loaded, I was confronted with the UI. It took several minutes to start up, again it appeared to be trying to find and load driver support for scanners I didn't have. Once downloaded, when I installed it, it took nearly 15 minutes to install, with numerous failures and error messages all about it failing to install drivers for numerous brands and models of various scanners.Īs I had already provided my scanner manufacturer and scanner model, why does it try and fail to install all the other scanner drivers? I still haven't been able to find out how to cancel the account I had to create. You have to set up your account with them and provide personal information to do that, just to give it a trial run. It only 'detects' your default language and operating system once you've provided the manufacturer and of your scanner. ![]() The problems started with downloading the trial version. IMO VuScan wins hands down, as it's far easier and much more intuitive to use. ![]() I've tried both Silverfast (trial version) and VuScan (trial version) in the last 2+ weeks to decide which one to pay for. IMHO VuScan beats Silverfast hands down as it far easier to set up and use compared to the convoluted unintuitive mess that Silverfast is.
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