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Ai Studio Archive Suite. None Fuji. The Super Coolscan is a award-winning medium format scanner which accepts virtually any format up to 6x9cm. The scanner provides an extremely good image quality at dpi resolution. As you can see on our film scanner ranking list the Nikon LS ED is the top model among all film scanners ever built. It is exceeded only from the Hasselblad drum scanners. Additionally, it is the only scanner which provides very good results when scanning Kodachrome films, see our site about Kodachrome-Films for more details.

No manufacturer has ever brought a device on the market which was nearly equal to the Nikon LS As an alternative we recommend you our Scan-Service.

As you can read in our detailed test report about the Nikon LSED, there are numerous film holders available for this device. Especially with the help of the glass holders almost any film up to a size of 6x9 cm can be scanned in best quality. For those who put much importance to best image quality, there is no alternative to the Nikon Super Coolscan ED, except even more expensive drum scsanners. And even drum scanners don't have the automatic dust and scratch correction so that one can confidently designate the Nikon Super Coolscan ED as the best film scanner ever built.

Also, please, choose above your desired targets Kodak, Fuji, Kodachrome for the IT-8 colour calibration. Detailed information about SilverFast and the available targets can be found on our SilverFast website. Information about scanner calibration can be found on our page Scanner IT-8 calibration. The Super Coolscan ED comes up with a set of image enhancement and correction techniques.

The Scan Image Enhancer optimises colours and contrast of an image. Considering all these keywords for image correction you can easily lose sight of the most important process: with the Coolscan ED you can make multiple scans 2-, 4-, 8-, fold , i.

With multiple scans you can decrease image noise and glitches while scanning. Who operates his Nikon with the SilverFast Studio version 6. With this tool the image is not only scanned repeatedly but also with different exposure settings. Out of these different images the scan software generates one optimum image with an expanded dynamic range.

One has to commend a feature like this. However this special feature is charged extra as well. The film scanner is connected to the computer via the USB 2.

This ensures a fast data transfer. And this you'll need, because the amount of data generated by the scanner is extensive up to Megabytes from a 35mm slide. The fast data transfer is not only needed because of the extensive amount of data but also because the scanner works very quickly, i. I think it's a pitty that Nikon abandoned the Firewire port - all my computers have this port which worked well with former scanner types.

With tidyly mounted slides and plain film strips the autofocus does a very good job. It's getting more delicate when scanning curled film strips, curved slides or - to some extent - glass mounted slides, because the depth of field of the Coolscan is less than 1mm. With this kind of originals the possibility of manual focusing helps.

In my opinion a very reasonable feature - but scanning then takes a lot of time. Let's deal with the second decisive reason for buying a Nikon Coolscan ED - the expandability. If you buy a Coolscan you will get good value for your money indeed, but you'll have limited possibilities: single slides can be processed with the serial slide mount adaptor MA Film strips with frames can be scanned with the serial strip film adaptor SA So much for the standard equipment, now we'll gaze all the expensive extras.

There is the optional strip film holder FH-3 for strongly curled or curved film strips positive or negative as well as for single, loose frames. Those who want to scan large batches of mounted slides will be pleased with the shockingly expensive slide feeder SF The roll film adaptor SA is made for people who want to scan whole rolls of film. And there is even a special adaptor for users who want to digitise medical or other preparates - the FH-G1.

Every one of those additional film adaptors is shockingly and sometimes even deterringly expensive. But the possibility to process virtually anything in the field of 35mm film with the Super Coolscan ED makes this device one-of-a-kind, precious, expensive and in my opinion unbeatable at present.

But quickly most of it turned out to be good for learning foreign languages only. The whole user guide is available in six languages. You get a manual with 70 pages per language which explain installation and operation of the scanner and the software detailed and understandable. The separate quick start guide was much more useful to me though. After all you want to kick off immediately, when you've unpacked your first or your new film scanner.

With the aid of the user guide or the quick start guide the installation is no problem even for beginners. But it was a problem for me, that I was able to install the new scan software NikonScan 4 not until the old version 3. Why doesn't the software perform an automatic update or doesn't automatically uninstall the old components? Not every user knows how to uninstall software via the control panel and what to do if he is asked repeatedly if components which may still be used by other programs should really be deleted.

Those who buy a Nikon film scanner for the first time naturally don't have this problem and the installation is easygoing. I found it very pleasant that the software installed the drivers for all current Nikon scanners at once. The normal user actually has got exactly one film scanner on his desktop, but there is people like me too, who got five different Nikon film scanners standing side by side.

At the end of the software installation process the computer reboots automatically. I would have preferred a callback. After this the scanner is ready for use, can be connected to the USB port of the computer and is automatically detected when turned on.

So let the scanning begin! But my first two scans with single mounted slides failed. This effect appears every now and then - I couldn't find the reason yet. Someone who is buying a new SLR camera takes it for granted that he can still use his old lenses.

It should also be a matter of course that old film adaptors can still be used when buying a new film scanner. As owner of the complete line of accessories by Nikon first of all I wanted to know if I will be able to use these expensive accessories any longer, or if investing in new pricy equipment is necessary.

First time customers of a film scanner naturally don't have got this problem, but accessories are also available second hand - hence this chapter. The first test with the slide feeder SF S succeeded, i. So who still owns an old slide feeder or can buy one for good terms does not have to be concerned. By the way I've also tested the new feeder SF with the old LS - there was no problem as well.

My old roll film adaptor SA S could also be attached to the new Super Coolscan ED without difficulty and there was no problems when scanning whole film rolls. This is the successor to the MA S. I can hardly find any difference between these two models. The new adaptor got a little darker in colour - an outstanding trend with Nikon: the once light grey of the adaptors is getting always darker.

In about ten years I dare say they'll be all black The new slide mount adaptor MA has got an integrated cover protecting the scanner's interior against dust. This function is very important with the new Nikon LS because this scanner hasn't got a front cover anymore, which could be used to simply close the scanner when not in use.

So the MA not only acts as a film adaptor but as well as a cover for the front insertion. You can insert a single mounted slide into the slide mount adaptor MA Nikon specifies a slide thickness between 1mm 0,04in. In my opinion there is nothing to be said against inserting a super thin slide mount with the thickness of only 0,5mm. There is no problem with thicker glass mounts neither, but attention while inserting the slide is advisable. If you push the button on the right hand side of the film adaptor the inserted slide is pushed out mechanically, so that it can be easily removed.

The slide mount adaptor MA and his predecessor respectivley proved themselves during the years. Using those you can digitise single slides very quickly: simply insert the slide, make a prescan, adjust the settings and scan - fast and simple. Of course you have to scan every slide individually. The slide scanner Nikon Super Coolscan can operate either in horizontal or vertical position.

For scanning single mounted slides with the MA the upright position is advisable, because the slide is inserted horizontally into the adaptor. By doing so, you can avoid shifting of the film in the mount - a big advantage when processing old wobbly mounts that don't fix the transparency firmly anymore.

Thus portrait format slides have to be inserted at right angle into the slide mount adaptor and rotated afterwards with the scan software or any image processing software.

While the serial slide mount adaptor MA is inserted into the scanner virtually just as a holder to carry slides, the also serial strip film holder SA is inserted deeper and connected to the scanner by an interface with 35 pins. The adaptor is provided with data and power via this interface. After all the strip film holder not only has to carry the film material but also transport and correctly align it.

With the SA it is possible to scan 35mm film strips with up to six frames automatically. To insert the strip film holder the scanner needn't be turned off. You gently insert the film strip positive or negative into the strip film holder. The scanner then automatically retracts the film to the right position. The film is transported by rubber rolls. In the beginning I was sceptical of this design - but in the meantime I've inserted hundrets of film strips into the scanner with the strip film holder, and there never was a problem.

So this design works flawlessly. Of course it is very important that no dirt gets on the rubber rolls. You can imagine how a tiny dust paricle can wreak havoc on a rubber roll over which moves a whole film strip. So you should clean the rolls from time to time! The function of automatically finding the beginning of the film and the division of the film strip into single frames respectively don't work flawlessly. On a negative film strip with night shots the software can't distinguish the bridge between the frames and dark areas of the image.

That of course applies for positive film strips too. In such cases, after the index scan which tried to split up the single frames of a film strip automatically, it's hand time: you can set up the image position with the Nikon software using the menu item "Scanner Extras". After several trials whereas the index image is reloadaed consistently, you can find the right division of the images.

The possibility of setting the image position manually is very useful and indispensible, but it costs a lot of time. That's the reason why I do not scan film strips with the Nikon Coolscan V or Super Coolscan anymore, but only with the big Nikon Super Coolscan , where I can put the film strips into special film holders and fix them.

With the strip film adaptor SA you'll know the true promise of batch scans the first time. Using the scan software you can choose which one of the up to six images you want to scan. And there is nothing to be said against scanning all six of them in one go. If you run NikonScan indirectly via an image editing software you'll get up to six windows with the image s for editing. You can not automatically take over the settings you made for instance for the first image to the remaining images.

Instead you have to save the settings and apply them to the other images. This works fast and comfortable though. Furthermore you can automatically apply these settings when scanning the next film strip, so that you don't have to make any settings again at all. I would yet like to point at an unpleasing feature of using the strip film adaptor SA the SA can not be removed from the scanner when a film strip is inside the feeder.

A sophisticated mechanism locks the adaptor in the scanner. If you forcibly pull on the adaptor you can damage the scanner. I don't like this construction at all. The 35mm strip film holder SA comes to its limits when scanning greatly curled or curved film strips. The automatic feeder possibly doesn't draw these strips in or incorrectly transports them.

For scanning such film material you can only use the strip film holder FH-3, which was supplied in shipment with the predecessors, but has to be purchased separately now. You can insert single mounted transparencies into the slide mount adaptor MA and whole film strips into the strip film adaptor SA What to do if you have single loose negatives or positives as they often remain when developing the film in photographic labs?

You can get the optional FH-3 strip film holder. Although the FH-3 is an indispensible accessory for Nikon film scanners. You can place up to 6 single loose negatives or positives in the FH-3 and poition them exactly between the bridges. The inserted film meterial is fixed in the film holder with a spring lock so that it can not slip. The FH-3 is plugged into the slide mount adaptor MA So an image in the FH-3 is handled like a single mounted frame and you can only scan one image at once.

The image to be scanned is moved into a little window by an adjustable guide rail. You could put single loose transparencies into slide mounts as well, if you want to spare the optional FH The strip film holder FH-3 becomes really usefull not until you have greatly curled or curved negative or positive strips which the automatic strip film adaptor SA processes incorrectly or doesn't draw in at all.

Due to the spring lock such problematic film strips can be firmly fixed in the strip film holder and scanned frame by frame. I'd recommend that everybody who buys a Nikon Coolscan V or Super Coolscan should order the strip film holder FH-3 as well, because in my eyes this is an indispensible accessory.

Those who want to scan whole 35mm film rolls need the roll film adaptor SA as optional accessory for the Nikon Super Coolscan For dear money you'll get a film adaptor which is plugged into the front of the scanner just as any other adaptor. Additionally you'll get a film drum which is attached to the backside of the scanner. The drum is that big that one could believe that it can contain hundrets of images. Effectively the Nikon LS only handles film rolls with up to 40 images, which is the lenghth of a common 35mm film roll.

The 35mm roll film adaptor consists of two parts: the film roll feeder resembles the supplied strip film holder from Nikon. You simply plug it into the front side of the scanner and it's beeing detected automatically. Attaching the film drum to the backside of the film scanner is more difficult: first of all you have to attach a connecting piece with three screws to the backside of the Coolscan After that the film drum can be fixed to that connecting piece with its integrated assembling screws.

The required space for the film scanner then increases considerably. Scanning the film roll: you gently insert the film roll into the scanner via the roll film feeder on the front side.

The film then gets drawn in automatically. It is very important that the film roll is correctly trimmed, because otherwise the scanner doesn't automatically find the beginning of the first image on the roll. After that everything goes on as already known: you can perform index scans, prescans and fine scans. It's amazing how fast an index scan is performed: in one minute the index images of a whole 36 frames film roll appear on your screen.

This index scan is very important, because you can see if the film scanner drew the film correctly in and if the film roll is trimmed correctly. By means of the index images you can make significant adjustments for every single frame by setting the image position.

You can indeed define the scan area as usual with a frame, but if the scanner can't correctly distinguish the single frames on the film roll for example with several night shots you can find the correct images by setting the image position manually.

This procedure is very time-consuming of course, because the settings have to be made for every single image. Often the software automatically detects the single frames though, so that there is no need to set up the image position at all.

A few words to Nikon's sales policy: one could easily do without the film drum on the backside. It's nice indeed, if the film is neatly spooled onto a large drum, but scanning film rolls works well without a film drum on the back side of the scanner, too. The film adaptor which you insert into the scanner slot is practically identical to the serial SA So those who scan film rolls only occasionally, could actually cope with the supplied accessory of a Nikon scanner.

But those users as well have to buy the expensive roll film adaptor SA Considering this I can only compliment Reflecta's sales policy, because virtually all of their scanners can not only handle film strips but film rolls as well. How many people have thousands or even ten thousands of mounted 35mm slides in magazines, boxes and other containers, whitch they'd like to digitise?

Often a whole family life is documented in a wardrobe full of slide magazines. With such stocks of films you won't get far with single scans or with film holders carrying slides at once. For this kind of application there is Nikon's slide feeder SF available as optional and expensive accessory for the Super Coolscan ED. The slide feeder SF is attached to the scanner in the same way as the serial film adaptors until it snaps in.

The scanner needn't be turned off for doing that and the slide feeder is being detected automatically. For using the SF the film scanner has to be in horizontal position though. The slide feeder has got two drawers: into the outer one you put the slides which are to scan, while the finished slides get into the inner one. Two holders strained by springs fix the two batches of slides in their particular position. The two drawers are each 78mm long, so that slides, depending on the thickness of the mounts, can be inserted.

The whole device can be covered by a hatch, so that the slides and the mechanisms of the feeder are protected against dust and dirt. The slides all have to be inserted in the landscape format, i. The slides are automatically transported from the lower drawer into the scanner and after the scan is complete back out into the other drawer. A sophisticated mechanical turnout prevents the scanned slides getting back into the input magazine.

Nikon specifies the possible mount thickness between 1,0 and 3,2 mm 0,4 - 1,3 in. Inserting thinner slides theoretically is no problem, but there is often problems with the transport of those slides, so that you'd better scan them individually. Nikon supplies a small plate which can be attached to the transport slider when scanning thick slides. Thicker slides than 3,2 mm often get jammed when transported.

You can be sure that such a transport mechanism is afflicted with all perfidies you can imagine. Just like copiers the slide feeder too has known problems like jams, feeding twice, feeding nothing, etc. Versatility that ignites creativity Near, far and everything in between. Focus as close as 1 ft. Form and function in harmony Advanced design features for advanced usability.

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