I got a loaner FS4000US film scanner from Canon today, and I also got the SDK I need from Apple to add support for FireWire scanners on Mac OS X. When it rains, it pours <smile>. I've done a preliminary assessment of what it will take to add support for the FS4000US to VueScan, and it doesn't look like it will be very difficult. It uses the same scsi-over-usb procotol that the Canon FB1210 uses, and I'm able to dump out these commands and reverse-engineer them. The scsi commands are quite similar to those used by the Canon FS2710, so I should be able to re-use a lot of this code. I also received an SDK from Apple that will let me add support for FireWire scanners on Mac OS X. This doesn't look like it will be very hard to add. I think I'll be able to get the FireWire support added by next week some time, and hopefully will be able to get FS4000 support in the following week. I'm going to have to temporarily unsubscribe from this list, since I'm going to Germany for a while. I'll have my laptop, but I'd appreciate it if people could defer e-mailed questions until mid-week next week. Regards, Ed Hamrick