Solved Old Agfa 35mm negative scanner Vue Scan anyone ?

Hi folks
I'm trying to digitise some old 35 MM kodachromes and B&W film negatives.

The Agfa film scanner I still have will work with the old software on an XP VM -- but I've read that VUESCAN will supporft on at least W10 loads of old but working scanners.

Does anybody know whether this product will work on the latest W11 builds. I don't want to pay for the software if it doesn't work -- quite happy to pay for it if it does -- I've roughly 5,000 to 6000 negatives that I want to process.

Sending to a lab is also time consuming and hideously expensive.

Any photographers round here who've gone through a similar process. Note the current crop of printers with scan facility aren't nearly of the quality that the agfa film scanner can deliver.It's just a pain having to use an XP VM to do it -- since max RAM of the OS itself is only 4GB max


Cheers
jimbo
and this type of scanning could do with a load of "Scratch area RAM" so having full access to RAM on a W11 decent dual physical processor with 64 GB RAM machine makes sense.

(Note the output from the scanner produces easily good phot quality for even A3 and A3+ size prints - A3 is double the size of the standard often used A4 size for most printing jobs).

cheers
jimbo

@jimbo45

It claims it does...

jimbo45 said:

Does anybody know whether this product will work on the latest W11 builds. I don't want to pay for the software if it doesn't work -- quite happy to pay for it if it does --

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You can try it for free for as long as you like. The only catch is that it will have a watermark.

Can I try VueScan before I purchase?
You can test the trial version of VueScan for as long as you'd like with flatbed scanning, Film/Slide scanning and ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) scanning. You can test most Professional Edition features with the trial version.

Scans from the trial version will have a watermark that can't be removed later.

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Vuescan working perfectly on the "Birdie" release --W11 Pro UK/GB edition.

the nearest "modern" product (hardware) giving the sort of resolution Iwant - min 7200 X 7200 dpi is :


Not paying 600 EUR for that device -- vuescan is a lot cheaper !!!!! and my old scanner works perfectly

Will buy the license. Pro version -- 100 EUR. The Std version (50 EUR) only deals with flatbed scanners -- not what I'm using.

Marking as solved
Thanks !! (@Bree ) !!!

Cheers
jimbo

FWIW I use Silverfast for 35mm film scanning

VueScan is working fine for me. I updated it to 9.7.97 when I got my Win 11 computer. That's a freebie if you have a paid license.

I have an old HP ScanJet 5370Cse scanner that comes with a module that I can place on top of the glass. It provides a light source when I want to scan 35mm slides or negatives. The scanner with this module look something like this:


The scanner came with drivers for Windows 98 and XP. It didn't work with Windows 7 or newer. I bought VueScan to use with a different scanner but it works great with the HP ScanJet 5370Cse scanner. A few months ago using my Windows 11 laptop I scanned some old 35mm slides with it.

I suggest you download a trial version to see if it serves your needs. If you decide to buy VueScan and want to scan slides or negatives then you need to buy the more expensive Professional Edition because it is the only edition that supports that.

You didn't give the specific model number for your Agfa scanner. Here is a screenshot from their website of the Agfa scanners they support.