BILLJACOBS1  In my opinion, these comments and reviews should be cleared out after a certain time frame. Don't you think that if the last post is from 2005, that the problem has been resolved? Please clean out your database of comments so that newer more relavent comments can be seen.  
(Version 2.0)

BILLJACOBS1  I bought a Nikon Coolscan 3 back in 1999 which is SCSI. After a while Nikon refused to support this scanner which cost me about 800.00. This is one of the many scanners that Vue Scan supports. If there was a SCSI card that my intel mac could use, I would still be using this scanner.

The Vue scan software offers more options and control than most proprietary scanner software, and it allows one to create a scan that is output into a camera raw (Adobe DNG) format. From what I've experienced, camera raw format isn't available with scanner driver software.

I bought Mr. Hamrick's pro version and the small cost was well worth it considering what it would cost to purchase a new more up to date Nikon film strip scanner. As for support for the software, he is constantly tweeking and upgrading its capabilities.

There are many other reasons for making this purchase. One of them being that the native driver and plug in for photoshop for my HP G4010 keeps crashing Photoshop. I did update the HP drivers, but still the plug in causes Photoshop CS3 to crash, something HP says isn't possible, but it is happening. Go figure

Vue Scan rocks and is a bargain. If you have a favorite scanner now, in 5 or 6 years after its manufacturer has either folded or declared it unsupported, you will find vue scan will let you keep it running and save you the money of purchasing a new scanner.  
(Version 8.5.25)

BILLJACOBS1  I thought about downloading this app, but I saw that all downloads were bit torrent. I've been told by a friend who is an IT manager that downloaed bit Torrent files are seeds, and by downloading these seeds, you are allowing others to download these same seed files from your computer. My son had downloaded a number of files via Bit Torrent on his windows computer, and it caused hell with our high speed modem causing all others on our in home network to have problems opening web pages because the modem was overloaded. I will never download anything that I know is Bit torrent because of these past difficulties.  
(Version 1.9.8)