{"id":376,"date":"2009-06-01T15:15:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2012-09-10T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T08:10:57","slug":"using-a-primefilm-scanner-with-vuescan-on-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/using-a-primefilm-scanner-with-vuescan-on-mac-os-x","title":{"rendered":"Using a PrimeFilm Scanner with VueScan on Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently received some photos from a family event that were – gasp – made using analog film. You should have seen the look on the face of the dozen or so children when they crowded around the SLR expecting to see a preview on the LCD only to discover that there was no LCD on the back of this camera. Talk about culture shock. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Anyways, the quality of the prints was appaling, as where the scanned images on the CD that came from the processing lab. The negative, however, looked fine to my no-longer-used-to-look-at-negatives eyes. I decided to revitalize an old film scanner I still have in a box. It is a rebadged Pacific Imaging PrimeFilm 1800u<\/a> scanner, which will turn a negative into a 4 Mpxl file with 16 bits per color channel.<\/p>\n

I like using VueScan<\/a> with flatbed scanners. It is a low-cost, high-power solution and Ed Hamrick does a fantastic job of supporting almost every scanner under the sun. My experience so far has been that you plug in the scanner, start VueScan, and start scanning.<\/p>\n

With the PF1800u it turns out to be a little bit more complicated than that:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Download the latest driver from Pacific Imaging, an application called CyberViewX_SF<\/a>. Localized non-english variants are available.<\/li>\n
  2. Install the driver at the default location<\/em> (\/Applications).<\/li>\n
  3. Find VueScan on your hard drive and Get Info<\/em> in the Finder. You can do this by using the context menu (right-click or control-click), hitting CMD-I, or File > Get Info in the menu.<\/li>\n
  4. Make sure “Open using Rosetta” is ticked (see below).<\/li>\n
  5. Connect the scanner to your computer and power it on.<\/li>\n
  6. Start VueScan.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \""Open

    “Open using Rosetta” in the Finder “Get Info” panel.<\/p><\/div>\n

    You can skip steps 3 & 4 if you are using a PowerPC Mac. CyberViewX_SF is a PowerPC application, so Intel Macs need to be told to run PowerPC code because though VueScan is a native Intel application. I wish Pacific Imaging would update their driver!<\/p>\n

    I had some difficulties because CyberViewX_SF is not in the default install location on my system. In this case, VueScan can not find the driver it needs and complains.<\/p>\n

    If you – like I – want to put your applications in a non-default place, you can create a soft (or hard) link to it to make VueScan happy:
    \n
    \n$ sudo ln -s \/Applications\/Graphics\/CyberViewX_SF \/Applications\/CyberViewX_SF
    \n<\/code>
    \nwhere “\/Applications\/Graphics\/<\/tt>” is the location of the CyberViewX_SF folder. That’s it!<\/p>\n

    Thanks to Ed Hamrick for the great support!<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Update:<\/strong> Since Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Apple has dropped support for PowerPC code. You can no longer install Rosetta, so your scanner is just a paperweight if you switch to 10.7 or later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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