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I do not have any computer left with a CD/DVD drive, nor an external one
This caught me out. I have a hundreds (maybe thousands?) of discs of scanned negs. No drive. My negs are relatively organised, the actual digital media is a mess. And my lightroom library export was a disaster because SSD drives are fucking tiny and useless.
I might start storing stuff on filed SD cards.
miro_o
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After a long hiatus I finally did take some pictures again - finished rolls that have been in cameras since before the pandemic, and got them developed his week.
To my surprise the cost for dev only didn't increase, alas the price for a roll of Portra 400 doubled 😅
Went to pick up the developed film today
went home and it took me a while to actually find the scanner as I had not used / seen it in quite a while..
..proceeded to dig out and dust off my trusty 10+ years old Sony laptop that I almost got rid of, but thought I might actually need it to scan film in the future as it has a working version of Silverfast AI Studio on it!
Booted up the thing and then it hit me like a brick:
I had installed Windows 10 on the machine about a year ago.
Took me a good while to find the fucking Silverfast installation CD, but evetually I did - and nicely wrapped, complete with the IT8 calbration slide, plus serial number in original packaging
Realised the CD-ROM drive in that laptop did break and I actually threw that in a bin, and actually I do not have any computer left with a CD/DVD drive, nor an external one anywhere in the house as I also did sell my old mac (which also had a working Silverfast AI Studio Version on it)
So now I'm like installing fucking Parallels on the new mac, installing Win 10 onto that, installing some Silverfast Version I found on that, but of course it's not the one tailored to my scanner, and doesn't even "see" the scanner..
..also tried VueScan again for 2 minutes and remembered why this never was an option.