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rjerham ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 17 November 2020 Country: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 14 |
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Am I being stupid, where the heck do I go to find the ImageFit software. It is no where on the internet at all! |
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rjerham ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 17 November 2020 Country: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 14 |
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Also I have an old ME machine which I could use for this scanner.
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rjerham ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 17 November 2020 Country: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 14 |
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So I have contacted a few people. The sony drivers will not work - coming from someone who had the sony machine he says that they are firmware locked. THe drivers you provided are for the RX-1. I have found some drivers for the RX-2 which I am guessing may work, I specifically need the ImageFit software as this is what makes the scanner work apparently. I emailed VueScan's support and he said he "has never heard of it in 18 years and supporting it will not make enough money for him." So my only option I think is the Konica Software.
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robca ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 09 June 2019 Country: United States Status: Offline Posts: 13 |
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Only if you find recent drivers. The ones in the link I provided earlier are from 2002 and, as far as I can tell, those were old 16 bit drivers for XP, and will not work in newer Windows versions. There is also a TWAIN driver, but that too probably won't work in Windows 10 without some tweaks https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/twain-drivers/f45625ae-896b-431c-966e-574d27b9f9cf I still think that your best bet is Vuescan's built-in scanner support Also keep in mind that the scanner uses a halogen lamp as a light source, and almost surely the old lamp will not reproduce correct colors. And a quality replacement seems to cost many times the scanner price you paid. One of the reasons I chose the Dimage Elite 5400II is because it uses a LED as light source, much more durable than CFL or halogen lamps |
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rjerham ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 17 November 2020 Country: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 14 |
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Also, as you say this went under the Sony name as well, does that mean that I could theoretically install the Sony drivers and software and use it? These are easy to get hold of. Cheers Reiss |
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rjerham ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 17 November 2020 Country: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 14 |
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Does anyone have any link to ImageFit. Its the only program I need and I cannot find it anywhere on the internet.
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AudioDoc ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 26 January 2006 Country: United States Location: SLC Utah Status: Offline Posts: 2790 |
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Hi Robca,
Thanks. This is a very old thread and topic and as I recall the INF file we used way back when was posted by our friend and Dyxum member, Vitor! I used that successfully in my old Installation of Windows 8 or 10 a few years ago with the Dimagescan Utility but Silverfast would hang and crash. In the mean time I have a new drive and install of Win 10. Yes, I like the Dimagescan Utility, it is good software. But I personally prefer Silverfast and have been using the AI Studio version for quite a while and have a workflow that I like. This is even though I feel somewhat betrayed by Silverfast. When I purchased it years ago they promised 64 bit drivers for Wind 7, 8 and 10, and thus a free upgrade to SF version 8. Never happened. Of course I realize, there probably is not much profit these days in scanner software and scanning film in general. I still have mountains of slides and negatives to scan, and probably will continue to shoot some film in the future. Regards, Kelly |
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robca ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 09 June 2019 Country: United States Status: Offline Posts: 13 |
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That is because Vuescan has its own INF file (very similar to the one linked here), and once you install Vuescan, Windows has the generic USB scanner driver for the 5400 II. You would have achieved the same if you had used the modified Minolta.INF file in this thread Incidentally, the original Minolta software for the 5400II works just fine in Windows 10, once you have the driver. In my tests (using slides), the original minolta software actually worked much better than Vuescan. I think I tried also a trial version of Silverfast, but the original Minolta software was still better for my needs |
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robca ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 09 June 2019 Country: United States Status: Offline Posts: 13 |
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I do, but it works only with the Dimage Scan Elite 5400II. It's here https://www.konicaminoltasupport.com/index.php?id=3304&L=2%27 But it will not help you at all, unfortunately There seems to be something for the RX-1 here https://www.konicaminoltasupport.com/index.php?id=4384&L=356 But if you are already using Vuescan and happy with it, there is no need (probably) for the Minolta software Also, your scanner is known as Sony UY-S100, so you might have more luck using that search term https://www.softwaredriverdownload.com/sony_uy-s90_driver.html |
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robca ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 09 June 2019 Country: United States Status: Offline Posts: 13 |
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I started looking further into how old SCSI scanners work and I think I might have been wrong before when I said that there was no standard way to define scanners for SCSI in Windows. It looks as if scsiscan.sys can perform a similar function to the equivalent USB set of functions. I'm not running Windows 10 on this PC, but if you see a scsiscan.sys somewhere in your Windows directory, it might work So, assuming that there were no special aspects of the RX-3 that needed a driver, that inf file might work even for the RX-3. In any case, Vuescan installs its own version of a generic INF file, and at least when I tried for my Dimage Scan Elite 5400II, the Vuescan INF conflicted with the INF you just listed. So, unless you also have an original Minolta program, using the linked INF file won't help For my Dimage scanner (USB), actually the original Minolta scanning software worked much better than Vuescan on Windows 10, especially for ICE with slides. The Vuescan images were lifeless and lower quality overall than the original Minolta software. |
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AudioDoc ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 26 January 2006 Country: United States Location: SLC Utah Status: Offline Posts: 2790 |
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A little off topic, but perhaps of interest to some, I've been able to run my Minolta 5400 II on Windows 10 64 bit using Silverfast Ver. 6 by first installing the trial version of Viewscan. Previously I had been dual booting to Win XP to run my scanner with Silverfast.
Regards, Kelly |
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rjerham ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 17 November 2020 Country: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 14 |
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Ahhh amazing thank you. Do you have any Konica software that you could link me to please? |
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robca ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 09 June 2019 Country: United States Status: Offline Posts: 13 |
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Well, it might. My reasoning is that you already have a working Vuescan with a working SCSI card and SCSI drivers, and a working Nikon scanner. That means that Vuescan can communicate with the Nikon over SCSI. Since Vuescan uses its own version of drivers and since it supports a lot of scanners, it's possible that if a RX-3 is on the SCSI bus, Vuescan will manage to talk to it Please make sure you understand how a SCSI bus works and how it should be properly terminated for multiple devices before connecting a new scanner. In theory you should be able to use both scanners at the same time on a single SCSI bus, but I would recommend to connect only one or the other (in that case both terminated). Fewer chanvces of problems that way https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/scsi/3940/aha-3940uwd/hw_install/scsi_termination.htm |
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rjerham ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 17 November 2020 Country: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 14 |
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Also can someone link my to ImageFit software, or any Minolta imaging program from around 2002 please.
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