Some may remember my scanning project, which I've just resurrected.

I thought it may be of interest to some that the hack that allows installation of the unsupported Nikon drivers on 64 bit Windows Vista and 7, also works very well on Windows 8.1.

I can't find his original post, but I have a folder on my PC under Nikon, called SteveEveritt's Method, which contains a .inf file, and a readme.txt file.

It's without a doubt the easiest* of several ways I've come across of setting up a Nikon Coolscan 5000 on a 64 bit Windows machine, so credit and thanks to him for that. I have the files should anyone need them.

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* Setting Windows 8.1 to allow the installation of unsigned drivers was harder.

I've used linear polarisers exclusively for years and years - K10D and K-5.

The AF works fine with them, and the exposure is only affected a little bit on some occasions.

Personally I'd stick with the LPL and save your money.

Edit, here's one some here will have seen before. Linear polariser did just fine.

[IMG]http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t244/chris5gd/Public/IMGP6441_sh1crdk.jpg[/IMG]

Sorry to go off-topic, but a Wimbledon 5th set tie-break?

Which year was that??

Yes, the IT millennium projects were largely very successful.

Boring work for the guys doing it (I managed to avoid the Y2K projects), but two digit dates really would have screwed up a lot of systems.

It was maintenance effort well spent, and the relatively trouble-free turn of the millennium was a result of that effort, not an indication that it wasn't actually a problem in the first place.

In reality, systems had been going wrong because of the two digit date problem (ie 00 being interpreted as 1900 rather than 2000) for some time, because of course lots of systems had to handle dates after 2000, before 2000. And some organisations could put manual processes into place to deal with that sort of error. Certainly the scare stories about planes dropping out of the sky at midnight on 1.1.00 were all ridiculous, but nevertheless it was a serious, worldwide problem that needed solving.

Good point!

When we only had prints and negs, backup wasn't even possible (well, not without enormous duplication effort), so we just had to assume that there'd never be a fire/flood/burglary etc.

Now it's different - backing up is relatively easy. But there's always the question of whether stuff is important enough to backup at all. If you wouldn't mind losing it, backing it up is pointless.

I have 10,000 negs from 1984 when I got a Super A, to 2007 when I got the K10D, and I'm gradually scanning the lot (I don't have the prints).

Most of them, and indeed most of my digital photos, have no artistic merit whatsoever, but I'd still be sad if I lost the lot, since they're a photographic record of almost my whole adult life.

I agree. I think it boils down to discipline and organisation, and the somewhat unproved notion that Flickr or Photobucket or any of that lot is a reliable long term storage location.

The thing is, one external hard drive is no good - you need two, so that you can alternate with the one that's offsite. And you need discipline, since unless you actually take the backups, and switch the drive every week or two with the other one, it's pointless.

Whereas with one of cloud storage companies, at least you can more or less set it up and forget it. I wouldn't do it myself, but I can see why people do.

All that aside, currently I have a little over 600 GB of images. Every time I scan one of my old negs that's another 70MB TIFF.

How is it practical to keep that lot backed up in the cloud?

FWIW, I went from the K10D (same body shape as the K20D) to the K-5. For about a day, I didn't like the K-5 feel as much.

After that, it was fine, and I soon much preferred it to the K10D. I haven't handled the K-3 yet, but I wouldn't be surprised, based on the reviews, if it feels much the same, albeit a little heavier.

Definitely don't want to pour over a 75 year old newspaper, that would really annoy the curator.

Brave to show your bad ones, I never do (you probably thought I did, but I really don't )

Interesting exercise though, and instructive to see - thanks.

As well as the metering, the Auto-WB is pretty good too. It's so nice when people can be bothered to retain the EXIF in the images they post.

Top man. Have a good one