Manufacturer | Nikon |
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Brand | Nikon |
Item Weight | 10.5 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 12.4 x 3.8 x 6.8 inches |
Item model number | 9238 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Manufacturer Part Number | 9238 |
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Nikon Super CoolScan 5000 ED Film Scanner
Media Type | Slide |
Scanner Type | Film |
Brand | Nikon |
Connectivity Technology | USB |
Resolution | 4000 |
Item Weight | 10.5 Pounds |
Color Depth | 48-bit color |
Optical Sensor Technology | CCD |
Minimum System Requirements | Windows 7 |
About this item
- It has 4,000 dpi optical resolution, 4.8 density
- It has 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
- Its USB interface, PC and Mac compatible
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Easy to use | — | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.5 |
Value for money | — | 4.2 | — | 4.3 | 4.0 | 3.3 |
Picture quality | — | 4.1 | — | 4.2 | 4.3 | — |
Tech Support | — | 4.0 | 4.1 | — | 3.7 | — |
Sold By | — | Plustek Estore | Amazon.com | DBROTH | Amazon.com | Adorama |
scanner type | Film | Film | Document, Receipt | Film | Photo, Document | Document |
sheet capacity | — | — | 50 | 1 | 10 | — |
paper size | — | — | 2 x 2, 5 x 7, 8.5 x 11, 8.5 x 14.17, 11 x 17 | Legal | Letter | — |
connectivity tech | USB | USB | USB, Wi-Fi | USB, HDMI | Wi-Fi | USB |
optical sensor tech | CCD | CCD | CIS | CMOS | — | CCD |
media type | Slide | Slide | Paper, Business Card, Photo, Receipt, Post Card | Negatives, Slide | Photo, Post Card | Slide, Negatives |
resolution | 4000 | 7200 | 600 | 22 Megapixels | 1200 | 7200 |
Product Description
Product Description
A high-performance dedicated film scanner designed for imaging professionals, the Super Coolscan 5000 ED offers high-quality scanning of 35mm slides, 35mm film strips, APS film (with optional IX240 film adapter), and prepared slides (with optional medical slide holder). The Scanner-Nikkor ED glass lens offers a 4,000 dpi optical resolution, while the 3,964-pixel, two-line linear CCD image sensor and 16-bit per color A/D input (8-/16-bit output) provide true-to-life, brilliant results.
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Amazon.com Product Description A high-performance dedicated film scanner designed for imaging professionals, the Super Coolscan 5000 ED offers high-quality scanning of 35mm slides, 35mm film strips, APS film (with optional IX240 film adapter), and prepared slides (with optional medical slide holder). The Scanner-Nikkor ED glass lens offers a 4,000 dpi optical resolution, while the 3,964-pixel, two-line linear CCD image sensor and 16-bit per color A/D input (8-/16-bit output) provide true-to-life, brilliant results.
Nikon's own LED illumination technology ensures accurate color separation with no warm-up time or risk of heat damage. Scan times are as fast as 20 seconds including image transfer to display, and as fast as 11 seconds in preview mode. Automatic color/contrast compensation helps you achieve accurate results, while the ICE4 advanced digital image correction suite of technologies--including digital ICE, digital ROC, digital GEM, and digital DEE--helps to restore old slides to their original glory. Additionally, the included Nikon Scan 4 software provides a comprehensive and easy-to-use interface for managing your scans.
The Super Coolscan 5000 ED has a convenient, plug-and-play USB interface, while one-touch scan and preview buttons will have you scanning film in no time. PC and Mac compatible, the Super Coolscan 5000 ED also comes backed with a one-year limited warranty.
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Scan Image Enhancer Nikkor ED glass lens Scan Image Enhancer provides one-touch image correction. Automatic brightness and color saturation adjustments with no complicated control settings make it easy to produce images with optimal contrast. Scanner Nikkor ED glass lens greatly reduces chromatic aberration and image distortion, and delivers sharp images.
What's in the Box
Scanner, power cord, USB cable, MA-21 slide mount adapter, SA-21 strip film adapter, software CD-ROM (Nikonview, Nikon Scan 4), Nikon User's Guide, one-year Nikon U.S.A. limited warranty information
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ASIN | B0001DYTOY |
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3.0 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #403,553 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products) #896 in Computer Scanners |
Date First Available | June 6, 2006 |
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Customers like the scanning quality and performance of the scanner. They say it works pretty well and produces good results. However, some customers have reported issues with the software and speed. They mention that the scanner is slow and the results are not as good as professional drum scans. Customers also dislike the ease of use and disagree on quality.
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Customers are satisfied with the scanning quality of the product. They mention that the controls are mastered, the scans are quite nice, and the quality of scan is clearly there. The machine is outstanding and a pleasure to use, it delivers good quality, high resolution scans, and handles individual scans and bulk scans with ease.
"...The scanner is fast and does produce wonderful wonderful detailed scans, easily demonstrating the grain in the transparancies at 3000 and 4000 dpi...." Read more
"...This is all sad as the quality of scan is clearly there, just the ergonomics of using this unit and the ridiculously produced software are a..." Read more
"...it's all bad, after the unorthodox controls are mastered the scans are quite nice...." Read more
"...For my fine art 35mm b+w negatives it delivers good quality, high resolution scans...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the performance of the scanner. They mention that it works well, produces good results, and has a consistent work flow. Some say that the included Nikon software works fantastic.
"...The included Nikon software worked fantastic for me...." Read more
"...It makes the typical noises that scanners make and produces nice results--the problem is the software...." Read more
"...It seems crazy but it works pretty well. Sure it's inconvenient but after all the crashing in OSX I just gave up...." Read more
"...Machine scans good and sometimes perfect and before i bought it i thought it was my only need...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the scanner. Some mention it's built very solid, and is built like a tank. They're happy with the quality and quantity of scans they've gotten out of it. Others say that it'll crash after about the second or third scan of a negative. The scanned images are okay but not great, and the software does cause their computer to crash occasionally.
"...For my fine art 35mm b+w negatives it delivers good quality, high resolution scans...." Read more
"...work on Kodachrome slides as well, but I found that the results were unpredictable and that I could achieve better results myself in Photoshop far..." Read more
"...However, I have to say I've been really happy with the quality of the scans I've gotten out of the CoolScan 5000...." Read more
"...This machine is heavy and is built like a tank. Quality of the scans is also unbeatable...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the value of the scanner. Some mention that it's well worth the effort, and the best value for the money. Others say that it is disappointing and not worth the money
"...A daunting project! But honestly well worth the effort.Most of my father's slides are Kodachrome...." Read more
"...For such an expensive machine it is barely worth it. Certainly not if you don't have much time to fiddle...." Read more
"...bit of research when I purchased it and felt that it was the best value for the money at the time...." Read more
"...with poor software and therefore only amounts to a mediocre product not worth the money...." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the software that comes with the scanner. They mention that it's poorly structured, unorganized, and buggy. Some customers also report that the software doesn't acknowledge its existence.
"...there, just the ergonomics of using this unit and the ridiculously produced software are a typical Japanese pain in the neck...." Read more
"...after a strip of 4 negatives is inserted, the software doesn't acknowledge it's existence...." Read more
"...disappointed to discover that this grand heavy hardware comes with poor software and therefore only amounts to a mediocre product not worth the money..." Read more
"...But the scanning machine has to have a suitable software. The software they gave with the machine is really old and not user friendly...." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the speed of the scanner. They mention that it's slow as can be, and the results are not worth the additional scanning time.
"...The results, for me, were not worth the additional scanning time. So I never used these features...." Read more
"...The scanner is slow as can be and making pre-scan adjustments with the software tedious and time consuming. Much faster with Photoshop!..." Read more
"...The results are good with all of them. The scans are not as good as professional drum scans, but from a cost-per-scan standpoint this is the way..." Read more
"...Yep, the Nikon Coolscan was made during the last millennium - It's slow, but it's still the absolute best 35 mm slide scanner ever made...." Read more
Customers find the scanner difficult to use. They mention that it's slow, tedious, and not user-friendly. They also say that the software is time consuming and the GEM ROC and DEE features take too long. Overall, customers are disappointed with the ease of use and recommend looking for a different scanner.
"...The GEM ROC and DEE features simply took too long and slowed down the scanning unacceptably...." Read more
"...be and making pre-scan adjustments with the software tedious and time consuming. Much faster with Photoshop!..." Read more
"...It seems crazy but it works pretty well. Sure it's inconvenient but after all the crashing in OSX I just gave up...." Read more
"...The software they gave with the machine is really old and not user friendly...." Read more
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After culling my father's slides I ended up with about 1000 I wanted to scan. After culling my own slides I ended up with another 250 slides. Additionally, I had about 250 slides from my grandfather slides And after that I decided to go through my color negative collection and scan the best of those as well. A daunting project! But honestly well worth the effort.
Most of my father's slides are Kodachrome. Much has been written about the inability of this scanner to scan Kodachrome slides and said about ICE4 not working with Kodachrome. Well, I have some good news The ICE4 does work extremely well for the most part. However, with Kodachrome slides it does produce minor artifacts in about 5 percent of the slides. I scanned with ICE (not ICE4) always on and then rescanned if I encountered unacceptable artifacts. I did notice that the scanner ICE feature was more likely to be stumped by old Kodachrome slides where subjects were wearing shirts with stripes.
The GEM ROC and DEE (the other stalwarts of the ICE4 other than ICE itself) work on Kodachrome slides as well, but I found that the results were unpredictable and that I could achieve better results myself in Photoshop far more quickly. The GEM ROC and DEE features simply took too long and slowed down the scanning unacceptably. The results, for me, were not worth the additional scanning time. So I never used these features. But the "enhance" feature on the scanner I used nearly 100% of the time with great results - much better than the GEM ROC and DEE features.
The scanner is fast and does produce wonderful wonderful detailed scans, easily demonstrating the grain in the transparancies at 3000 and 4000 dpi. The Kodachrome slides were a challenge to the Dynamic Range of the scanner, but I believe that most of the detail in the shadows that is there was extracted. With dark slides I used the VERY useful gain feature turning it all the way up to 2 in the really dark slides. Unfortunately, Kodachrome, with all of its many attributes, does have substantial downsides including a very narrow exposure latitude and shadow detail is simply lacking. I think the scanner accurately reproduced the information including the colors on the Kodachrome slides, with perhaps a slight bluish cast noticed in some cases.
It wasn't until I was finished scanning all of the culled slides that I undertook to scan my select color negatives. And this scanner really came into its own scanning color negatives. Don't even TRY to scan color negatives without ICE because the results are unbelievably bad. Even pristine negatives have scratches and dust that magically are erased by the ICE feature. What a godsend. The scanned color negatives were just beautiful with very accurate color rendition. But immediately I noticed much more grain in the color negatives (Royal Gold and Fuji Superia Gold) than in the scanned slides.
One note unrelated to the scanner itself. Until you've used a digital scanner to scan your color negatives you can't begin to realize how far superior Kodachrome, Provia, and Ektachrome slides are to color negatives insofar as capturing detail. Even the best color negatives have much more grain that Kodachrome. And the difference in color negatives is substantial too.
The included Nikon software worked fantastic for me. I downloaded a copy of VueScan which according to many reviews is superior to the Nikon software and found that for me the Nikon software was easier to work with and produced superior results.
The software did cause my computer to crash occasionally which was an aggravation, but a minor one when considered against its many attributes.
Setup Summary: I scanned at a 8 bit color depth (to reduce file size to 55MB and because I could not see a difference between 8 and 16 bit depth in the old slides) and 4000 pixels per inch with the scan enhancer turned on and the Digital ICE turned on. I did not use GEM ROC and DEE because of inconsistent results. I turned up the gain as necessary for dark slides and turned it down for light slides. Gain adjustments were only necessary on about 15 - 20% of the slides. The only two variables that I used once I was set up and running were gain adjustment and type of film or slide. All other adjustments were made in PS IF necessary. The scan at these settings took 90 seconds.
Setting up the Nikon Scan window was a little tricky too. I placed the tool palette in the far upper right corner of the window with the scan window placed under it to the right. The image window occupied the largest portion space to the left.
I can recommend this scanner without reservation. It is a phenomenal piece of equipment.
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 <grin>. Repeat as necessary for subsequent images prepared.
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.