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This left the other shoe to drop. ice is great but takes too long. Digital ICE (Digital ICE cubed), Digital ICE, Digital ROC and Digital GEM are trademarks of Applied Science Fiction Inc. Easy to install and use; the Nikon software is easy to learn. Works great! Youre Utah shot would have shown this perfectly in the sky if the sky were a bit lighter. This site has been translated from German into English and serves for a better understanding for the English speaking visitors of our website. I have seen scanners with low DMax specs perform better than ones with high manufacturers claims. NB:This evaluation is based on a brief hands-on opportunity to test the 8000 at Vistek (for which I thank them). I scan almost exclusively Widelux and 6x7 negs. The banding problem appears to be due to Nikon using the same 10000 element calibration data for each pixel position in the CCD. Might need calibration after purchase. If you are scanning low contrast items, do yourself a favor and test a scan a one pass, and another at 8 or 16 passes. it has taken me a whole day to figure out how to get it to scan my 35mm film. This report is of a brief hands-on test of the newNikon Super Coolscan 8000 EDscanner. It took, from sticking the film in the scanner to saving it, roughly an hour-and-a-half to scan a 6x7 at 4000dpi, single pass, 8-bit color depth, with Digital ICE, ROC, and GEM turned on (just wish these things worked with black and whitethey''re supposed to, but trust me, they don''t). Serious film photographers who want the best scans for the money, want to do it themselves, but for whom the 9000 is now out of range. I dont know at this time what Nikons plans are for Europe, Australia and elsewhere. I also think I detected some softness at the edges - There could also be some truth in that the edges are also a touch soft. I have just been informed that Imacon is currently offering a limited-time US$1,500 mail-in rebate which effectively reduces the net cost to the end-user to $4,995. If you need detail in the dark areas, use 14 bit and 16x passover and you will get good detail. To refer to what essentially is a professional format film size as Brownie says something very curious indeed about Nikon, a company with pretensions of being international in their marketing. | Concrete Contractor. Mais attention : aucun (bon) vendeur amricain ne s'autorise baisser le prix de vente pour la douane ou dclarer l'article vendu comme un "gift". If you are running a PC that does not have a Firewire card, you will have to install one. I don't want to rehash what everybody else says about the scanner. I was disappointed to see that the maximum scan length for medium format is 9cm. Only the reduced film handling capability would deter me. I sent it back, they fixed it, recalibrated the lamp, and now it scans sharper than it did when I bought it. The Imacon isslightlysharper and hasslightlymore shadow detail.Slightly! I didnt spend much time with the manual. Bottom line? So, its possible that Nikon can update the software to handle larger film formats. This is the first time that Ive seen a scanner ship with this wider gamut profile. Nikon 8000 Imacon Flextight Photo. Overall, I am beyond impressed with it. At today's used price, the Coolscan LS-8000ED is more than hard to beat. I run a photography business, I don't have time to play with features. You just can't get the larger films flat for accurate focus, it's a very stupid disappointing device. :), I''ve had my hand on a fair few models and brands of desktop film scanners, and, I have to say, this is by far the best one I''ve used yet. You can download VueScan 7.1.11 from:http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html. My first impression was that this is quite a large box, over 19 inches in depth. Common guys. It took 1 minute and 20 seconds to do a preview while the Imacon took 10 seconds! Warranty repair went well. The film window for Medium Format is 200 mm long, but the scannerhardware is only capable of mechanically scanning a 90 mm long piece, starting at any point in the 200 m window. Nice product so far! I wont detail the units specifications here. My store in melbourne were great at first, no contact with Nikon. J'ai achet cet excellent scanner Nikon aux States un vendeur que je classe en premier parmi tous les vendeurs que j'ai frquents sur eBay. This $12 gains you access to a wealth of information including all our past and future video tutorials on such topics as Lightroom, Capture One, Printing, These two frames are crops at 100%; Actual Pixels. Not super fast, esp. On the Canon, Anything that was white was just pure white with no details. What would the Nikon 8000 be like? View cart for details. The 9000's price is now skyrocketing out of sight. This seemed to work quite well as no soft-focus areas were detected on several scans. I recently ''risked''supplying a ''hi res'' (70mg) file for a front cover of a magazine and the (talent shot) image came up really well. not that quick, fiddly med.format holder,Black and white film seems to be grainier . 2) I had an LS-8000 and was probably one of the first people in the US to take delivery of one (#2 on the waiting list at cameraworld.com). Something went wrong. made the fatal mistake of touching the film tray and it jammed up and wont reset. I am using a Gigabyte X399 Designaire EX computer with 32gb of ram running Windows 10 Pro.. My previous scanner is a Minolta Scan Dual III. ICE works to remove scratches from film. The 8000 makes excellent 35mm scans, but not visibly better than the V. 35mm is noticeably better than the Epson flatbed, as expected. Ian has reported that the Polaroid 120 competes quite nicely with the Imacon but that the Imacon pulls ahead in ultimate quality. What a difference! These gates snap into place with protruding pieces of plastic fitting into matching holes in the base. Haven't tried the GEM yet, I should - some of my Widelux negs are grainy (possibly because I took them to poor out-of-town film labs on my photo trips). The result is that the scan takes 3 times longer, but the banding disappears. I will keep checking that, and will try to keep my room cool. In regards to the banding that was mentioned in the readers comment, I have very seldom encountered this problem. One thing you will notice is that there is lot less noise in the blue channel. The Nikon is capable of producing truly excellent scans. It ships with three film holders; mounted 35mm, 35mm film strip and 120 roll film. the most useful info i can tell you is that i have had $15 drum scans done for me of medium format and 3 out of 4 look great and are about 100mb. I do caution people to download the lastest scanner driver if they run Windows XP. Incidentally I scan 24x65 at 4000 dpi and the 6x7's at 2000 dpi because the Epson printer doesn't go higher than that realistically. This is a very handy tool (just wish they''d implement a multi-channel curves tool for adjustment of each individual color channel, but Photoshop''s works fine too, so this isn''t a big deal). Overall, it's a great scanner, and a great investment. I had no opportunity to explore this software in depth, but it looks competent. And the glass holder comes with lots of masks. I''ve yet to do a 6x7 with ICE and multi-sampling -- I think it will take an evening. No sharpening or colour correction have been applied either in the scanning software or in Photoshop afterward. The scanner worked first time, and issues have been few. The variety of formats that can be used with it (pretty much anything you can mount to a holder and shove into the hole in the front of the scanner). The software could use some revamping, but I''ve seen worse. At this point, there is nothing left to replace the Nikon scanners. Access to our community Buy and Sell pages; for members only. Very straightforward. One thing that helps is Nikon's website www.nikoncoolscan.com. I like the digital ICE, it saves me hours in editing, trust me on that and don't believe the other reviews. This is because the scanner has two motors one to roughly position the filmholder before the scan starts, and the other to do 4000 dpi stepping. It has some flaws, as discussed above, but what product doesnt? Sometimes you have to work at it, just like getting a good neg in the first place, so dont slam something just because you dont know how to use it. Le prix US tait bien meilleur que celui que l'on trouve en Europe (le scanner n'est plus fabriqu par Nikon) et il fonctionne comme le (nouveau) Coolscan 9000ED avec son software 4 version Vista. Scans are normally very accurate, colorwise. Frankly, if I were selecting a scanner today Id be tempted to choose the Nikon because of its significant price advantage. I did not test any of the extra features such as their ICE technology for removing dust or GEM for reducing film grain. The one weakness of using Nikon scanners in general (besides the possibility of no repair service) is the lack of reasonably-priced full-feature software. jaw dropping detail, then next scan was off by half a frame. 1) Currently the LS-8000 only scans up to 69. I read your interesting review of the Nikon LS-8000, and thoughtyoud like to know that I just released VueScan 7.1.11 with support for the LS-8000. Don't expect fast scans. He also explains below why the scanner is limited to a maximum of 6X9cm scans and also the reason for some banding problems that have been reported. Heard it was very good. roadbikereview.com | Even as I write this review in January, 2011, the Nikon Coolscan 8000 ED is still the best (probably the only) value for high-quality scans outside of expensive drum scans. It took about 2.5 minutes for this particular scan while the Imacon took exactly 10 minutes. Otherwise, stitching software could be used instead to combine two seperate scans. So, given its abilities, I''d have to say I do recommend this scanner to anyone who''s serious about being able to control every aspect of reproduction of their valuable slides and negs. ThePolaroid Printscan 120and theNikon 8000have been eagerly awaited during the spring of 2001 as they both potentially represent the first high-quality yetaffordablemedium format film scanners to be made available to photographers. Its run into some financial difficulties and the companys future consequently remains a bit uncertain. I have compared my images scanned from the Canon FS4000 and the Nikon 8000 scanners; I find that while the canon was just a tad sharper ( with less shimmering around edges) it was also very contrasty at the highlights compared to the Nikon. SLOW. The Imacon Photo can handle film up to 6X17cm in length, has superior film handling capabilities and comes with one of the industrys top-rated scanning software packages. ill come well within reach with the 8000ED. These appear to be cropped ever so slightly differently, but that should make no difference in the evaluation.

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