It's sad that Nikon no longer supports their early breed of film scanners, such as Coolscan LS-20. However, that seems good for me as I got a LS-20 off ebay for less than 30 bucks. Amazing, they used to cost more than 500 bucks sometime ago.
Installation was not straightforward for these old dog. I have to install SCSI adaptor card and ASPI layer from Adaptec. Shut down the computer, connected my LS-20 and powered on. Windows started up smoothly with the initial hang of SCSI card's booting messages. Now, XP SP2 can see the scanner but Nikon (oh moron!) did not provide a driver to go with XP for LS-20. So I have to resort to VueScan, the standalone masterpiece programe that access the scanner from some native level.
Here is a copy of my 3 pass scan from LS-20. Original was taken on a Elitechrome. I had to cut down exposure from the original scan, to minimize teh appearence of grain/noise and adjusted the level/curve in PS.
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