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Designed for use by imaging professionals, the SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED offers 135/IX240 film scanning at an amazing 20 seconds per image (including image transfer to display) - at 4, 000 dpi true optical resolution. Highly accurate color reproduction and representation of detail are made possible by the 16-bit A/D converter and 16-bit output channel.The SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED targets primarily business users such as professional photographers and photo finishers, who require superb image quality and high-speed scanning capability. Private users of 135/IX240 format cameras - advanced amateur SLR photographers, for example - will welcome the scanner's speed and image quality. Users who deal with numerous slide mounts and uncut film rolls will appreciate the increased ease of use and productivity afforded by optional accessories like the SLIDE FEEDER SF-210 and ROLL FILM ADAPTER SA-30. The SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED offers the performance and efficiency to make it the ideal digital archiving solution.With fast, easy image transfer thanks to the USB 2.0 interface, the SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED is an extremely powerful, extremely fast, extremely efficient desktop film scanner that will augment your productivity and give you scanned images that will take your breath away.
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- 4,000 dpi optical resolution, 4.8 density- 16-bit A/D conversion, 8 or 16-bit output
- Preview scans in 11 seconds, full scans as fast as 20 seconds
- Digital ICE4 Advanced suite of image correction technologies
- USB interface, PC and Mac compatible
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By Harry R. West
All I can say is the product works great, and that I could not ask for a better out come on the end product. Keep up the good work. NIKON
By Robert Cormack
There are not many options film scanners in this range and I balked at the $1200 price tag but this is an excellent tool.
The software gives you all the control you need to produce excellent scans of all kinds of slides and negatives.
By Mountain Man
Here is how to fix the jamming problem with the 210 slide feeder. This fixes 99.9% of the jamming problem.
1. Put a 1.5" thick block of wood under the right side of the scanner.
2. Cut a 2" by 2" square out of light cardboard.
3. Slide the feed side slide pusher all the way to the right and pull it towards you. This locks it in this position.
4. You will be able to scan up to about 40 slides. Count the number of slides. Enter this number in the Scanner Extras window.
5. Load the slides in the feeder with the 2" by 2" cardboard in the stack as the last slide.
7. Place a C size battery in the slide feed tray so that it wants to roll and push the slides into the feeder. Put the flat side of the battery towards you.
8. Start scanning. If you want to scan more than 40 slides, it is easy to remove the slide pusher. Remove the 3 screws on the right side of the feed tray area. Flip the feeder over and remove the two screws on th bottom. Remove the pusher and its spring. Reassemble the feeder. With the pusher out of the way, you can now completely fill the feed tray with slides plus the battery.
I've scanned about 2000 slides. Here are the settings in Nikon Scan 4 that have worked best for me.
1. First, go to Scanner drop down menu, select Settings and Reset to Factory Defalults.
2. In the Tool Palette 1 window: under Digital Ice Advanced, check all three boxes. Keep the default settings of 5,3 and 50. Don't use Scan Image Enhancer. If the image is very over or under exposed, use the Analog Gain Master control to fix this problem. Otherwise leave the gain settings at 0.
Hope this helps. The scanner produces beautiful images.
By Timothy S. Lairby (Phoenix, AZ USA)
As everyone says, the scanner is fairly small, nice. It makes the typical noises that scanners make and produces nice results--the problem is the software. It's horribly unorganized, crashes and lacks support for systems made after 2003.
Windows XP x64 bit's Beta release was September 2003, and if my research is correct this Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED was put on the market nine months later (June 2004) yet as old as that is-- I'm forced to run it on a 32bit XP box as there is no support for ANY x64 bit Microsoft Operating system! In October 2008, Microsoft reported of all the hits to Microsoft Update, 20% of those were x64 bit platform.
The only PC I'm running with 32bit software is my Dell E1705 w/2Gig Ram. It has a clean install only a few months old with updates in place.
Nikon Scan uses Nikon Super Coolscan in a separate 'always on top' window to do the actual scanning. To select what negative to scan, you must click a unmarked vertical bar to open a small box showing numbers (from 1 to 6 by default). If any "Post Processing" options were previously used, the "Tool Palette 1" window must be open in order to avoid time consuming calculations (faster if ran on a x64 machine breaking the 2G barrier). All "Post Processing" options must be unchecked for each negative (group selection only grays out the selection boxes). There is the ability to disable "Digital ICE" from the preview in the Preferences window but not for the other Post Processing tools. Now you can initiate the Preview by clicking the said marked button. You may notice you are up to four windows open after the "Progress Window" pops up. Next close the small unmarked negative selector box as it is blocking the preview area. Adjust your crop area. Now restart this paragraph for each and every subsequent negative you wish to scan from this strip. Now re-check any "Post Processing" options you desire and re-select "Enable Digital ICE" as it seems to disable itself if you dis select Post Processing items. Now scan your first image
Periodically after a strip of 4 negatives is inserted, the software doesn't acknowledge it's existence. The only way to get the film out is to cycle the scanners power switch-- but don't do that if you have unsaved images or they will be lost. After cycling the power on the scanner the PC responds with an error saying it cannot find the scanner with the only option being "OK", when you click it, all Nikon software closes dumping your work into lost bit land. This is in addition to the multiple crashes daily, at random-- sometimes after a set of scans, causing me to have to do the work over again.
Saving can be tricky too: Saving images is conditional on one of two things: 1. Your scanner finishes all scans; or, 2. You left an image open from a previous scan you just did (after opening the program of course). Why does the save option gray out if you close all your previous scans?
The Preferences window is accessed by pressing the "Perfs" bullet but you save them by clicking "Settings" drop down menu. Why are they split?
The Digital ROC ability works but at the lowest setting is way too strong.
Some people complain of bubblegum software that is too pretty to be efficient, while others complain of an overly complicated control screen. This software is both. When you spend over eleven hundred dollars on a piece of equipment that is so specialized, one would expect more professional, structured software.
This is not to say it's all bad, after the unorthodox controls are mastered the scans are quite nice. This is a piece of hardware aimed at computer savvy people, the software should reflect this. Four windows per scan is absurd. Even with dual monitors there is way to many clicks to get an image saved. Give me the ability to disable all image processing to see a preview. Don't block my preview. How about a maximum of two windows. Look at Sound Forge for an example: Integrate the Progress window-- anywhere. Consolidate the ability to set preferences and save them in the same applet. "Tool Palette 1" seems like an after thought. Let's put it with the other pre-scan options-- as part of the Super Coolscan window itself. As these changes will not drastically change the appearance as much as make it more fluid. Oh and don't forget the x64 bit thing.
By Mark Alsip (Kentucky, USA)
My review deals with all Nikon scanners based on my experiences with the Nikon LS-4000 ED scanner and Nikon's lack of commitment in the very area that once made them the first choice for professional and serious amateur photographers. We spent several thousand dollars on a scanner that, although being a recent product, will not work on Mac OS X Leopard or Windows Vista, even though Nikon claims to support both. The Nikon Scan app that supposedly works with our systems will not recognize the scanner and the 4.0.2 updater for that software falsely reports a successful installation when in fact it leaves the former version untouched. We've practically begged Nikon for help and have been told that, in effect, they can't continue to support "older" products and they're sorry they can't help us. They're not the only ones who are sorry -- I deeply regret the huge amount of money I've invested in Nikon gear. If you are considering the purchase of any Nikon scanner, I suggest taking a very careful look at competitors and their reputation for supporting what they sell. If this was a 20 year old product I could be more understanding.
To all the 5000 ED owners who have written favorable reviews I would only say that I once felt the same way about the 4000 ED and I sincerely hope you don't run into this same support nightmare in the future.
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