Nikon LS-30 and LS-2000 film scanners DO work with Vista.

The installation is a bit of a bitch, but once you get it installed .....

You need a SCSI card that is compatible with Vista and that has Vista
drivers. Install this first. For desktops, the 2940 is probably the
preferred card (but any card that has Vista drivers will work). For
laptops, if they have a PC Card (PCMCAI Card) slot, the 1480 will work.

You need to install Adaptec ASPI version 4.71a2 (which is getting hard
to find)(not sure if this is the same as "just plain" 4.71 or not).
When you expand the download, right click on ASPIINST.EXE and
ASPICHK.EXE and set both of them to "compatibility mode" using the
Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode.

Similarly, set the setup.exe program for Nikon Scan version 3.1.2 to to
"compatibility mode" using the Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode prior
to installation, and also set the installed version of Nikon Scan itself
to "compatibility mode" using the Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode
after installation.

If you do it right, it will work.

While on that issue, a related subject:

Both the LS-30 and LS-2000 can be used with computers that don't have
SCSI at all by using a RATOC Firewire to SCSI converter and Hamrick
VueScan software. This works under XP and Vista. It is a somewhat
expensive approach, but it does work. This works under both XP and
Vista, and also on a Mac, even with later versions of Mac OS that are
not supported by Nikon Scan. Ratoc also makes a very similar USB to
SCSI converter that supposedly also works (but I have not personally
tested it).

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