Did you check the Firewire card?
Piers
On 6/22/12, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Two days ago when we were discussing about film scanning, I tried to wake up
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> my 4000ED to run some testes, I haven't use the scanner since Oct 2010. To
> my suprise my computer didn't see the scanner attached, it served me
> faultlessly for many years with over 30K scans and now it seems decided to
> retire. I open the case, disassembled the mother board, reconnect the cables
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> then power it up again, at first it was ok but after a few scans it failed
> again. I went through the above cycles a few times and finally gave up...
> :-(
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> I wasn't very worry as I was expecting I can easily get another 4000ED at
> very low price as most peoples have switched to DSLR. Unfortunately the ebay
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> prices were suprisingly high and repair (if available) cost won't be cheap
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> I started to digitize my personal films some years ago, over 95% of the
> negatives were done but the project was stopped for some reasons. Now
> leaving a thousand or two slides to be completed.
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> I'm not so happy with the scanning quality of my Epson 4870. I tried using
> 5D II for copying negative two years ago (at that time we got an order of
> scanning 10K negatives) but the post adjustment and dusting was very time
> consuming so we finally just stick with scanning. I think it is time to
> consider the 5D II workflow again, this time the target is slide so it could
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> Here is my setup and the preliminary results looked promising.
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> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/P6226848.jpg
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> Lens is OM 80/4 with 5D II on Olympus focusing rail and copy stand. It was
> also my first time using the EOS Utility to control the camera, it was fun!
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> Liveview can be seen on monitor so focusing can be done comfortably!
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> C.H.Ling
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