Telephasic Workshop
I’m getting more images back from this silly half format camera by the day. I thought that I broke the usb port on my scanner, so I took the whole thing apart. Have you ever taken a film scanner apart before? It’s a complex machine, full of whirly’s and wizzy’s lots or wire and ribbons, circuits the like, it takes a lot of taking apart to get to the board with the usb port soldered to it. Anyhow I inspected the board and it looked fine. All the solder was intact. Now comes the hard part putting everything back together. Luckily when I was done there were no screws left. But the problem didn’t lay in the scanner at all but the stupid nikon software. Anyhow if anyone needs instructions for disassembling a nikon cool scan V let me know, I can walk you through it, right to the the part at the end when you realize you’ve risked destroying your precious scanner for nothing.
In other news Katherine and I just bought a 14 year old BMW wagon. It’s like driving a German tank I’m hoping to get many good ski road trips in this winter.
Oh right here is the nonsense gallery!
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Tags: , bmw, film, film scanner, half frame, Katherine, nikon, nikon cool scan, nonsense, scanner, trix
woah, disassembling a coolscan V is pretty brave.
do you use nikon scan software? you should give vuescan a try for black and white, nikon scan appears to do some clipping in the shadows (no idea why). also, vuescan actually works (nikon scan doesn’t support my version of Win Vista, ridiculous).
Yeah I use the Nikon software. I use OS X and have vue scan although I don’t like its work flow compared with the Nikon software. Although you are right it does do a better job, but it slows me down a lot.
Hahaha, your description of taking the scanner apart reminds me of the good old days when I was younger and would take out machines like calculators apart just for fun. I’m feeling the urge again now!!
This frame is so fun: http://atheistponcho.com/telephasic/Img212.html Like a drunk impression of a party!