Olympus ES-10 Slide scanner

50Twuncle

Is this compatible with either Win 7 or Win 10 ?
I believe that it runs under XP...
Is there any way to run it in "compatible mode" ?

Le_Kirk

A quick chat with Uncle Google tells me that this was out at around the time of Windows 95/98 SE so XP if you are lucky, W7. W10 probably not but someone might be along to tell me differently.

datostar

Check out VueScan by Hamrick at https://www.hamrick.com. It replaces the scanner software and works on all Operating Systems. I use it for an older Minolta Scan Dual 2 with no problems at all.

50Twuncle

datostar wrote: »

Check out VueScan by Hamrick at www.hamrick.com. It replaces the scanner software and works on all Operating Systems. I use it for an older Minolta Scan Dual 2 with no problems at all.

Thanks but no Olympus scanners are shown in the list of supported scanners at all - and the cost ($79.95) is a little off-putting as well !!

wongataa

50Twuncle wrote: »

Is this compatible with either Win 7 or Win 10 ?
I believe that it runs under XP...
Is there any way to run it in "compatible mode" ?

Why don't you try it. It may work or it may not. Either way you will find out.

50Twuncle

wongataa wrote: »

Why don't you try it. It may work or it may not. Either way you will find out.

It won't run under Win 7 - I don't know about Win 10 - unlikely I would say !!

datostar

50Twuncle wrote: »

Thanks but no Olympus scanners are shown in the list of supported scanners at all - and the cost ($79.95) is a little off-putting as well !!

Does VueScan offer a free trial? Might be worth giving it a try if it does then decide whether it's worth splashing out on. It might well be able to cope with unlisted scanners as I think it uses both TWAIN and WIA drivers.

50Twuncle

This is a SCSI scanner
Which will require specific drivers !!

droopsnoot

I was going to suggest setting it up with virtual PC and running a Win98 or XP emulation, but I'm not sure it would allow you access to the SCSI interface.

I also did a quick Google (as I'm sure you have) and most of the questions were asking whether it was compatible with XP, not 7 or later, and while some of them suggested virtual PC I suspect that might be the old version that used to support a parallel port, and for the parallel version of the scanner.

I take it this is a very good quality scanner, and that replacing it would be more expensive than just getting a £30 Maplin slide scanner? If that's the case, then the inconvenience of having a separate machine that you can keep on the older OS may well be worthwhile.

HappySeagull

datostar wrote: »

Check out VueScan by Hamrick at www.hamrick.com. It replaces the scanner software and works on all Operating Systems. I use it for an older Minolta Scan Dual 2 with no problems at all.

Another vote for VueScan, though you need to know what you're doing to get the best out of it. I wouldn't use anything else, especially the Minolta software!

VueScan doesn't take over your PC, so it's easy to try and then get rid of if it doesn't work.