[Leica] Leafscan

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Dave:

I have a pair of the second model Leafscan 45.

The most used is connected via SCSI to an Apple 9500 running System 9, 
which when not used for scanning serves as my television in my home office.

The second is also connected via SCSI, to a very old Quadra 610 running 
System 7. It's in my "camera" room and I only use it when I have to get 
twice as much output.

It doesn't matter how old the machine, because the Leafscan (1992) is 
slower than either of them.

I tried years ago to use the second scanner on a PC with a GPIB board, 
but that version of the Leafscan driver won't do 16 bit scans and it has 
its own imaging program which doesn't work with Photoshop as does the 
Mac plugin.... so no drivers are needed.

I like having dedicated computers because then my G4 isn't overloaded 
and it's very easy to move the scanned image files to the G4 via the 
built in Mac networking capabilities.

Silverfast now licenses a version for the Leaf scan, it works with the 
latest MacOS versions with SCSI or Firewire with adapters.
http://www.silverfast.com/show/scanners-leaf-compatibility/en.html

I've heard a lot of good things about Silverfast on the Leafscan Forum 
on Yahoo Groups. It's been so long since I joined that I can't remember 
how I did it. Sometime I can't remember what I had for breakfast.

Their email address is Leafscan at yahoogroups.com. Perhaps you can use it 
somehow to join.

I love the Leafscan results and scan all of my 35mm to 4x5 film with it.

35mm at 5000 plus is nice.

My National Instruments GPIB board, cable and instruction book are 
available.  I've never tried it on anything newer than Windows 2000.

Jim, "What did I come in here for?" Hemenway


David Rodgers wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> If I may ask, which model Leafscan do you have, what CPU are you using,
> and how are you connecting? I ask because I'm about ready to dump my
> Leafscan 35. It has SCSI and GPIB ports. I don't have a GPIB card and I
> only have drivers for Mac. 
> 
> I use an old Mac with SCSI for scanning only. But it's too much trouble
> to keep an old computer just for scanning. I do like the Leafscan,
> though. It's slow but is a fantastic scanner, especially for BW and KR. 
> 
> Dave R  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+drodgers=casefarms.com at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+drodgers=casefarms.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Jim Hemenway
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:17 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The last of my Kodachrome
> 
> Thanks Lluis:
> 
> I owe it to my "antique" Leafscan.
> 
> Jim
>