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Nikon CoolScan V ED Film Scanner | List Price: $654.99
Discount Price: $549.95
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Brand: Nikon
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: Parts warranty 1yr, Labor warranty 1yr
Features: - 4,000 dpi optical resolution, 4.2 density
- 14-bit A/D conversion, 8 or 16-bit output
- Scan speeds as fast as 38 seconds
- Digital ICE4 Advanced suite of image correction technologies
- USB interface, PC and Mac compatible
Great Product...Really Sloowww...But Worth It [Posted on 2008-06-29]
I bought this scanner really quite simply to scan all 600 of our wedding negatives as we have no digital version of our wedding pics. After you play with the settings a little, and get a bit of a system and momentum we have been able to scan a 5 pic negative in about 30-35 mins. This includes the initial scan to preview, changing the settings on each individual picture to where we want them, re-drawing, then scanning to file. We are scanning our stuff at 14 bits (higher resolution), Digital Ice Enabled (on Fine), Post Processing (Digital ROC, Digital GEM and Digital DEE) enabled and Post Processing enabled. With these settings, at this rate...it will take us 70 hours to do all 600 pics. The software really does an amazing job on the original pictures. Our wedding was shot in black and white, and the initial/preview scans look really grainy. After we get done modifying them, the grainy-ness is gone and the pictures are sooo clear. Much more detail is revealed than we had previously thought.
Since most of our pics over the last 7 years have been digital, we shouldn't have a need for the scanner after we're done with the wedding pics, and maybe a handful of other misc. rolls of film...so we think the time invested will provide us with a digital record of all our pictures and be well worth it.
If you have the time, this less expensive option is well worth it.
a bit noisy but i am very happy [Posted on 2008-07-01]
When i first tried this scanner i was dismayed by the noises it made, but now after almost a years use and hundreds of negatives later, i am quite used to it. the quality of the scans and software is better than i had hoped for given that many of my negatives are inless than top condition given years of careless storage. it takes a while to do the scans especially if you use the software to its full capability to repair the damages and learning to do batch scanning with autosaving lets me do other things while it works. In the end the quality it produces is worth the wait, and now that i have grown used to its noises i can walk away and hear when its almost done and its time to change to a new set of negatives.
Great with color, Good with Black and White [Posted on 2008-07-02]
It's not fast, but the quality and ease of scanning color slides and negatives is very good and the results are just spectacular. It's very good at getting a good quality scan from less than great slides and negatives. There are a few negatives, though not enough to make me regret my purchase.
1) Inadequate documentation (John Shaw's scanning article online was very helpful)
2) Most of the special scanning features (DEE, ICE, GEM) don't work with Black and white and you have to figure out how to create your own black and white settings so that you can just specify them once when scanning a negative strip or else you go crazy setting all the buttons and you get posterized black and white.
3)Without ICE in black and white (which doesn't work with the infrared tech they use) you have to have really clean negatives or spend a lot of time spotting. And even when you get good scans, it scans in color so you have to futz with color balance on every negative.
4) You have to cut the sprocket holes on the sides of the first negative so that there aren't any open sprocket holes or else it causes the scanner to error out and you have to open it up to get your negatives.
5) The software crashes occasionally (about 1-2 times per evening) on a modern Core 2 Duo iMac.
So though black and white is a problem, it's not negative enough to detract from a truly great piece of hardware.
A good way to change slides to digital [Posted on 2008-07-03]
I am pleased with the Nikon Coolscan. It is a good way to turn my slides to digital and it also gives me the opportunity to adjust any colors that have been lost over the years. Good job.
I'll never use a flat-bed scanner again [Posted on 2008-07-05]
Until now I've been scanning with a flat-bed. I cannot believe how much better the images look coming out of the Coolscan. Someday I may upgrade to a Coolscan 9000, but I will never bother with a flatbed again. And Digital GEM is excellent at removing grain.
My only real gripe is that there is no way to scan an entire roll at a time.
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