Quote Originally Posted by drg View Post
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Finally if you shoot film or are sitting on a pile of unscanned stuff, it is already a problem that most film scanners have not made the transition to Windows 7. There are some, but even compatibility modes hinder and reduce the functionality of many high end products that are no longer made.

Tried to buy a high quality new technology film scanner lately that wasn't manufactured several years ago?? Particularly a drum scanner???

A word to the wise. Get your archives in order and plan your transition.
Hollow laughter... I discovered a few weeks ago that both my film scanners didn't work under Windows 7 64 bits, including my Nikon Coolscan IV. Quite a blow as I was thinking of rescanning some of my best film images for a picture library.

So I built a VMWARE Windows XP virtual machine to run inside my Windows 7 64 bits system. I plug in the scanners, boot up the virtual machine, log into XP - and it's back to scanning like in the good old days of film..

This is an IT Pro solution. You need a little bit of knowledge plus the software licenses and all the installation media.

Oh and by the way - I much prefer Windows 7 to Windows XP and Vista. It starts up much faster and it's ability to repair itself is reassuring.