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NO ME. NO other electronic product comes close to maintaining their price.In fact, their price stability reminds of of the price stability in the Lenses made by Nikon and Canon. Its market introduction date was Novemeber 2003 - 6 years ago. Hence their firewire port.USB 3.0 is nearly out.2) Customer Support = *Forget about it, its not supported very wellThe support for these film scanners is arguably the worst ever recorded for tech support in generalReviews abound in the internet, if you're lucky you will not need customer service3) Price Stability = *****Like I said its amazing that these Nikon Film Scanners can maintain their pricing over the years.These electronic products are nearly 6 years old. I want ability to scan more film at the same time as well.So I want speed and capacity.If you have tens of thousands of film strips to scan like I do, and you want high quality scans, IT WILL TAKE FOREVER TO SCAN THESE.THE TECHNOLOGY IN THESE BOXES IS OLD - VERY OLD. We are talking 6 years people.If you go buy a laptop, a television, or a printer, or even a camera, Im sure you want something that is using new technology. Or about 3.5-4 released generations of other electronic products ago, including cameras.The Super Cool Scan 9000 ED came out in the Spring of 2004. At that time firewire still meant something and USB 2.0 was just started.
But most of those Lenses can hardly be called an electronic product - they're lenses.Summary:I hate these scanners, because Nikon does not feel there is a need for them. Anyone want to go out and buy a 6 year old printer. Its amazing to me that this model, the 5000ED and the 9000ED can maintain their outrageously high price for so long.I created two attributes and gave them both 1 star:1) Valued Technology = *If the film scanning technology was so valuable, Nikon would be replacing and upgading the electronics every 2 or 3 yrs at the most.This is a extremely OLD electronic product. more than 5.5 yrs agoThe 9000ED uses firewire, which is stupid since USB 2.0 is slightly faster than firewire.But as I said they built these products a very very very very long time ago. I want a faster scanner, this is OLD technology.
Keep up the good work. All I can say is the product works great, and that I could not ask for a better out come on the end product. NIKON
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.
Place a C size battery in the slide feed tray so that it wants to roll and push the slides into the feeder. Remove the pusher and its spring. Slide the feed side slide pusher all the way to the right and pull it towards you. Load the slides in the feeder with the 2" by 2" cardboard in the stack as the last slide.7. 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.
Don't use Scan Image Enhancer. This locks it in this position.4. 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. This fixes 99.9% of the jamming problem.1. Keep the default settings of 5,3 and 50. Reassemble the feeder. If you want to scan more than 40 slides, it is easy to remove the slide pusher.
Cut a 2" by 2" square out of light cardboard.3. Put the flat side of the battery towards you.8. Count the number of slides. If the image is very over or under exposed, use the Analog Gain Master control to fix this problem. In the Tool Palette 1 window: under Digital Ice Advanced, check all three boxes. Put a 1.5" thick block of wood under the right side of the scanner.2. You will be able to scan up to about 40 slides. Start scanning.
The scanner produces beautiful images. Otherwise leave the gain settings at 0.Hope this helps. Here is how to fix the jamming problem with the 210 slide feeder. Enter this number in the Scanner Extras window.5. 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.
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. This is a piece of hardware aimed at computer savvy people, the software should reflect this. 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). 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. 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. This software is both. Repeat as necessary for subsequent images prepared.Periodically after a strip of 4 negatives is inserted, the software doesn't acknowledge it's existence.
How about a maximum of two windows. Now scan your first image. You left an image open from a previous scan you just did (after opening the program of course). There is the ability to disable "Digital ICE" from the preview in the Preferences window but not for the other Post Processing tools. "Tool Palette 1" seems like an after thought.
Oh and don't forget the x64 bit thing. 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. You may notice you are up to four windows open after the "Progress Window" pops up. 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. All "Post Processing" options must be unchecked for each negative (group selection only grays out the selection boxes). Your scanner finishes all scans; or, 2.
Don't block my preview. Now restart this paragraph for each and every subsequent negative you wish to scan from this strip. 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. Even with dual monitors there is way to many clicks to get an image saved. It makes the typical noises that scanners make and produces nice results--the problem is the software. 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. 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).
Give me the ability to disable all image processing to see a preview. As these changes will not drastically change the appearance as much as make it more fluid. Let's put it with the other pre-scan options-- as part of the Super Coolscan window itself. 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. 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.
Now you can initiate the Preview by clicking the said marked button. 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. Four windows per scan is absurd. Adjust your crop area. As everyone says, the scanner is fairly small, nice.
Next close the small unmarked negative selector box as it is blocking the preview area. 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.
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