10-23-2012, 03:31 AM
I fired up my Polaroid (Sprintscan 4000+) 35mm film scanner tonight to see if it would function in Snow Leopard using my preferred SIlverfast software. Lasersoft's app is scanner-specific, and for understandable reasons, the version of Silverfast Studio AI (v6.x) that works with this Polaroid scanner is no longer being developed. IIRC I got this scanner in 2002: at any rate, the earliest scans I can find date from May 2002.
I tried installing the software on my main drive, but couldn't get it to launch. I didn't tinker, but instead booted the system I last used to scan, which has been cloned from my MDD to my G5 and from my G5 to my Mac Pro, launched Photoshop CS2, imported using the Silverfast plug-in, and it's working like a charm.
Pretty good for software and a scanner that I was using with Tiger until recently. Actually, in May 2002, I was still using OS 9…not the same version of Silverfast or Photoshop, obviously.
Another reason I'm happy to have Snow Leopard and Rosetta available to me on this Mac.
I tried installing the software on my main drive, but couldn't get it to launch. I didn't tinker, but instead booted the system I last used to scan, which has been cloned from my MDD to my G5 and from my G5 to my Mac Pro, launched Photoshop CS2, imported using the Silverfast plug-in, and it's working like a charm.
Pretty good for software and a scanner that I was using with Tiger until recently. Actually, in May 2002, I was still using OS 9…not the same version of Silverfast or Photoshop, obviously.
Another reason I'm happy to have Snow Leopard and Rosetta available to me on this Mac.