Driver download in the description. Part 1: kzitem.info/news/bejne/yW6Vzp2Mf2ien4Y
@markmondol7052
3 жыл бұрын
Max, most excellent work. I love seeing the tech of yore rebooted.
@cageycretins
3 жыл бұрын
Great work Max! - and happy scanning! 👍😎
@goosey1067
Жыл бұрын
Awesome video! I found an old FD300 while moving. No idea if it works. I don’t have an old PC but I do have an old Mac on OSX. Is there a driver for macOSX? If not, is my only option to get something on windows 98? Thanks!
@maxpiantoni
Жыл бұрын
Windows 95 and 98 are the only option for this particular scanner. It was never supported on Mac unfortunately.
@evieantonetti7942
6 ай бұрын
I know your video was posted three years ago, but I'm wondering if you've heard of any different ways to scan APS film. For instance, can you open the cartridge, take out the film, and scan it with one of the basic 35mm film scanners? I have 50+ APS cartridges from 1999-2000, when my kids were small. I was excited to see the machine you used to scan APS film, but I'm guessing I could never use it with a fairly new MacBook Pro. If you've heard anything that might help, I would be quite grateful!
@cageycretins
2 ай бұрын
Yes, that's possible, but it's rather tiresome, the negatives will be hard to unroll by hand, and you will have to cut them or use a scanner which you can feed them in one by one, not ideal as the negs have to be laid perfectly flat on the scanners bed... the end result might be better, depending on the scanner - than with the rather low end Kodak scanner, but more hard work! 😉 A modern MAC will not work, I used IBM laptop from the early 90s which have a parallel printer port, which are required for this scanner, adapters will not work and you need Windows 98 for it to work anyway...😆
@evieantonetti7942
2 ай бұрын
@@cageycretins Thanks for your reply! A few months ago, I ordered the "Wolverine Titan 8-in-1 High Resolution 35mm, 127, 126, 110 and APS Film to Digital Converter with 4.3" Screen and HDMI Output" from Amazon. It has a film converter for APS film. I watched a couple of videos which demonstrated how to use a small screwdriver to open the APS film canister "gate" and advance the film. With the scanner mentioned, I was able to feed the roll of film through and scan each negative. I was able to re-feed the film back into the APS canister after scanning. The quality of the scans is decent. The process wasn't super-fast, but it worked! I looked all over the internet, and this was the best solution I was able to find. And, it didn't break the bank! Thanks again for your reply.
@cageycretins
2 ай бұрын
@@evieantonetti7942 Thanks, sounds like a good easy way and if you're happy too .... that's great!
@michaelsieger7311
3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Having seen your other Kodak video I waited for a FD-300 auction. 2 weeks ago I could purchase one. Interestingly, like your device my one creates a very annoying stripe in the upper area aswell (if not seen, see picture at 6:30 or 7:00, midtones to the right). What might cause this color banding? I have cleaned the mirror and lens twice without change. So I don't think it is caused by dust in the visible path. Also, the banding changes position/appearance a little, if the same picture is scanned mutiple times. I tried to cool down the LED unit and the stepper motor with fans. It doesen't affect the banding but the scanner doesent't stop scanning due to overheating. The power supply is a ITE Model SC222TA0000F02 Type TA-00-00-F02 REV B. Is it the original one? If so, which revision are you using? I have found a newer REV C in the WWW. It becomes very hot. The previous owner had opened it, capacitors without bulge. Maybe beeing aged it causes dark current effects?
@maxpiantoni
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Michael, thank you! And thanks for such a detailed comment, this is great. I will definitely give the fan suggestion a go for my next scanning session. I had noticed the banding but haven't tried to do anything about it because the photos I'm scanning with this scanner are mostly happy snaps from when I was a kid. It would bother me greatly though if the photos were more deliberately taken so I'm glad you're on the case. Please keep us updated on how you go with the issue, if you do end up finding a solution to it. I haven't opened my power supply up yet. I'm not sure how hot it gets and will let you know after my next session. There is something rattling around inside when you shake it. Which is concerning. So I will open it up before I use the scanner again, to make sure it's not a bit of a cracked capacitor or something that could cause a short! Mine came with a REV C. Specifically ITE Model SC222TA0000F02 TA-00-00-F-02 REV C. If it's at all helpful I can provide some photos of the internals of my unit?
@maxpiantoni
3 жыл бұрын
I had a look inside mine, the capacitors look fine. The rattling sound was some broken plastic from around the screw...
@kabaottoemulsion1869
Жыл бұрын
Are u the one selling it now on ebay???? I wonder if this was supported by vuescan...?
@jezhollinshead2839
3 жыл бұрын
Great videos, thanks. Am guessing the FD300 does not read the magnetic data that's part of the APS frame, which holds info like the date & time the photo was taken, the aperture & exposure and I expect the APS 'crop' mode that was selected when taking the photo?
@maxpiantoni
3 жыл бұрын
I would need to check on the date and time details but it definitely does read the crop data, the 1.0 software that I showed in the first video respects the crop setting from the film. You have to tell it to scan the full frame manually for each frame. Which is a real pain because actually scanning at the APS crop setting is just throwing data away.
@paulhand8937
3 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for this ... found it after finally managing to order an FD300 from eBay, which arrives tomorrow. Will be looking to see if I can run it inside a virtual machine as I don't have anything running Win98 native (or with a parallel port!). What type of parallel cable does it use? Will report any success/issues. Cheers.
@cageycretins
3 жыл бұрын
99% sure it will not work with a VM... it's a bi-directional LPT cable which was common in the 90's, how did it go? @paul hand
@paulhand8937
3 жыл бұрын
Yep ... you’re right, the VM will only communicate one way... it’s wakes the scanner up but can’t receive any data back. Ended up getting a very cheap 1990s Dell laptop on eBay and everything is now playing nice ... cheers
@cageycretins
3 жыл бұрын
@@paulhand8937 I was running an IBM TP380 for my APS scan project with WIN98. Worked great, I used a CF card FAT16 formatted in a PCMCIA adapter to shuffle files to a WIN 10 computer. ;)
@paulhand8937
3 жыл бұрын
I’m using the win98 virtual machine running inside the Win10 pc. This happily connects to the win98 laptop via a Workgroup and then I can just drag the files across.
@cageycretins
3 жыл бұрын
@@paulhand8937 That's smart, my TP380 didn't have a network card, and I didn't want to install one either for this APS project. ;)
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