a 75mm Apo-Rodagon-D would be a good way, scanning time reduced to a fraction of a second. To digitize 35mm film I would think a D3X and e.g. One of the reasons for the unpopularity of high-resolution scanning is the time it takes (minutes per image). More work, I know, but it will allow you to keep using your existing scanner for now. Save the images to the hard drive, copy them to a 4GB (or larger) flash-drive (thumb-drive) and then transfer them to the main PC running the new OS.
That's the second piece.Ī work-around is to set up a 2nd pc as a dedicated scan-station, let it run the (good) old OS, install the old scanner and old software on it, and use it to scan the pics. Then you have to get a high level scanner app that is compatible with the new OS.
In order to run your old scanner on your new OS pc, you have to get a new set of scanner drivers from the mfgr, and those drivers have to be the right ones for that model scanner and written for that new OS. And the high-level software developers make decisions on whether or not to convert their progs to run on new OS's. The device mfgr makes a business decision whether or not to produce a new set of low-level drivers that will plug into the new OS, in this case, Win 7. When that scanner was marketed, Win 7 was still in the future. The situation is that when an accessory device is put on market, the device mfgr makes drivers and high level software for existing OS's, not for non-existant OS's (ie, future OS's). I don't understand how Nikon can sell scanners that won t work with the latest OS. Windows 7 is two more OS's past XP remember VISTA?
The new old stock Nikon 9000 came out about 8 years ago 7.5 years ago it supported Here I often just use old win2000 or XP and press on having spent many many man months with futzing. Since amateurs have gobs of time then can try to get a 1999 Nikon scanner running on Windows 8 or Apple Lion in 2012. The newer OS usually buys one nothing can be slower often has issues often requires all sorts of futzing. Here in professional scanning for the public I tend to use just an older OS that works with scanners. Some of my DOS scanners never would run under windows even with massive futzing PIF files. This is really nothing new it existed in the DOS era.
Driver support gets harder as time goes on to make it work in uncharted waters requires futzing by somebody. Here I had DOS scan wands in the mid 1980's a 35mm slide scanner in 1989. It really has always been this way with scanners. Windows 7 came out after Nikon and Canon stopped making film scanners thus having issues to make them work with the latest OS is quite normal. Peak buying of film scanners occurred a decade ago so did dialup modems and CRT's too. Both Nikon and Canon stopped making dedicated film scanners, The last Nikon scanner I got was this spring a Nikon 9000 built in 2009.