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#Negative reader for mac upgrade
#Negative reader for mac series

2016 27″ iMac (USB-A and Thunderbolt 2 ports).

#Negative reader for mac series

2016 Dell Optiplex 3000 series desktop (USB-A, Mini DisplayPort ports).

2012 13″ MacBook Air (USB-A and Thunderbolt 2 ports).

I should say that none of these natively provide the FireWire 400 connection I need: To further complicate issues, I wanted the flexibility of being able to use the scanner with anywhere up to five computers with connectors introduced some 20 years apart (ranging from 1996’s USB A to 2015’s Thunderbolt 3). New laptop on the left with Thunderbolt 3 and 18 year old Nikon 4000 ED scanner on the right with FireWire 400…

Like any reasonably sane person, I had done my research, however, the question if the daisy chain of up to four cables and adapters would actually work remained.

#Negative reader for mac upgrade

All this adds up to headaches for users who are not locked into yearly/bi-yearly upgrade cycles and when connectors go from simply being superseded to eventually being labelled “legacy”, well…God help you.įor some context, I recently decided to take the leap and get a dedicated scanner for 35mm film: a Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 4000 ED to be exact. There’s a new “gold standard” connector to contend with every few years or so, from SCSI to FireWire to USB, DisplayPort and Thunderbolt…and there are no signs of it stopping. Still and motion picture film formats are positively glacial in their rate of change when compared to the innumerable options that have come and gone for connecting scanners, printers and other devices to computers over the past four decades.

4.4 Nikon LS-4000 (FireWire 400 to Thunderbolt 3).

4.3 Nikon LS-4000 (FireWire 400 to Thunderbolt 2).

4.2 Nikon LS-4000 (FireWire 400 to Mini DisplayPort).

3.3.1 Thunderbolt 1 or Thunderbolt 2 device to Thunderbolt 3 port.

3.2.1 Parallel device to USB Type-A port.

3.1.7 FireWire 800 device to Thunderbolt 3 port.

3.1.6 FireWire 800 device to Thunderbolt 1 or Thunderbolt 2 port.

3.1.5 FireWire 400 device to USB-C port.

3.1.4 FireWire 400 device to USB Type-A port.

3.1.3 FireWire 400 device to Thunderbolt 3 port.

3.1.2 FireWire 400 device to Thunderbolt 1 or Thunderbolt 2 port.

3.1.1 FireWire 400 device to FireWire 800 port.

2.4 Thunderbolt 1 and 2, Mini DisplayPort.

While the results might not be quite the quality of a dedicated scanner, it’s a much cheaper option using materials you can easily and cheaply get, and a piece of hardware there’s a pretty good chance you already have lying around the house.Registration for EMULSIVE Santa 2021, the the world's largest annual film/traditional photography gift exchange is open! Click here by October 31st to sign up. Even if you have a dedicated flatbed film scanner, it can still be difficult to scan anything bigger than a standard roll of 120 medium format film.

The best part? You can tweak the design to fit whatever size film you have lying around. Once the slide or negative is scanned at an appropriate resolution, you can invert the colors, and then perform other corrections in order to remove dust or color errors. You position it above the slide you want to save, and during the scanning process, the light from the flatbed bounces up into the wedge, and reflects back down behind the slide, giving you a basic backlight. The technique requires thick silver card stock, over which you print this pattern, before cutting and taping it into the shape you see in the photo above. However if you hack up a bit of silver cardboard and place it strategically over the film strip you want to scan, you can get your film negatives onto your computer.

You need a bright light source that comes from behind the negative and the multi-function printer/scanner you use to print coupons is seriously lacking in that department. If you have old negatives or slides that you want to preserve digitally, you probably already know that just throwing them on your flatbed scanner won’t work.