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I've already called the Super Coolscan 9000 ED an all-rounder and omnivore respectively. Let's deal with the scan software Nikon Scan. The Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED displaces the Super Coolscan 8000 ED at the top of the 35mm and medium format film scanners. 16Bit per colour channel means that the scanner can differentiate 65.536 hues of each of the three primary colours red, green and blue. NEF is Nikon's own raw format which can be selected as output file format when scanning with NikonScan. Huge amounts of 35mm slides always have to be devided into portions of 5. Of course Silverfast offers a good deal more settings than Nikonscan but image quality does not extensively increase when using Silverfast instead of Nikonscan normally. The original scan suggests a mountain range without any particularities. Scanning 16mm films and handling the according film holder happens exactly the same way as with 35mm film strips. I already mentioned that the ICE dust and scratches correction works flawlessly. From this it follows that it's not that important what the scanned image effectively looks like, but rather which information it contains. A good image is first of all made by a good film scanner, second by the scan software and third by the following image editing. The LS-9000 ED automatically detects the inserted film format, so that you don't have to make any further settings within the scan software. Afterwards the entire glass holder can be rotated for fine adjustment 5 in both directions and locked. Just like the little Nikons LS-50 and LS-5000 considerably increased speed compared to their predecessors, the new LS-9000 clearly outguns its predecessor LS-8000 concerning scanning times. Every fragment of a film, every cropping of a larger film, every exotic format up to 6x9 cm can be processed with this rotatable film holder. You'll notice the effect best by comparing scans of the same slide both with and without IT-8 profile and afterwards editing them with Photoshop: auto levels slightly improves the scan without IT-8 while the scan with IT-8 does virtually not change anymore. Corrections as they are done by the ROC technique can be done manually, too, but you'll need a lot of time to adjust the individual colour channels in a way that the restoration effect is visible. An extra charge of 100Euro is bearable though. This is an advancement of the ICE system to the effect that it works well with Kodachrome slides, too. This rotating holder combines two special features: the film is not inserted directly but between two glass plates. After the preview you can define the exact scan area as well as the resolution and you can adjust colour settings. Nikonscan indeed is a very good scan software, but Silverfast has got the advantage that it's embedded in a professional colour management workflow with its possibility of IT-8 calibration. The special setting for Kodachrome slides proved to be very advantageous and virtually unique: with this special setting (in the line of positive, negative, b/w, Kodachrome) it's possible to scan Kodachromes with very high quality. It is as well possible to place smaller slide mounts in the right large slot, but then the slides are only fixed by the clamps yet, not by the bearings. It may sound a bit negative, but actually it's a big advantage for the Nikon 9000 ED that there is an accordant film holder for virtually every kind of film, so that you can digitise exotic film material, too like 16mm films or fractions of film with this scanner. But you definitely can't. As workaround you can only perform an extra fine scan (best 4 times) with only one row of CCDs activated. You'll get real colours which virtually don't need to be corrected anymore. As aforementioned a little gap between two frames can cause wrong partitioning of the images and you'd have to adjust the thumbnails by means of the image positioning feature. The Scan Image Enhancer optimizes colours and contrast of an image. The mounted MF slides can be removed accordingly easy, too. The LS-9000 impresses with its excellent image quality, its effective resolution of 3900dpi and with its wide effective density range. So there's nothing else for it but to exactly adjust the scan area for every single image. Nikon recommends to send in the scanner in this case. There still is a drawback concerning image quality of the Super Coolscan 9000 just like with its predecessor: when scanning 35mm panorama images or medium formats it sometimes happens that lines appear on the image. The spec sheet of the predecessor LS-8000 ED was top-class already, the spec sheet of the LS-9000 ED barely differs from its predecessor's. Everything that seems to be black in the left image in effect is numerous dark colours which the scanner has indeed detected but which are not visible on the screen. Of course the interesting thing about that is that Nikonscan can operate two scanners at the same time. So we still have to talk about the Scan Image Enhancer as a new feature: this technique performs an automatic adjustment of brightness and contrast, so it complies with Photoshop's "auto levels". Included in delivery of the FH-869GR are several maskers which isolate special areas of the large glass plate (medium formats 4.5x6, 6x6, 6x7, 6x8, 6x9, electron microscope film 59x82mm, 35mm panorama up to 24x65mm). This lower price basically came off because the scan software Silverfast isn't supplied anymore. This time needs to be added to the scanning times. You can digitise virtually any film material with sizes up to 6x9cm with the strip film holder FH-869GR. There is neither a left nor a right bedstop, i.e. Placing medium format positives or negatives in the FH-869S is not easy especially for unpractised hands. It's clear that you can't fix too much with the image editing software if already the first link of this chain is weak. Speaking of banding: the predecessor Nikon Super Coolscan 8000 ED had banding problems mainly with medium formats, i.e. Can the software be recommended? no matter how thick the mounts are, is securely fixed in the slide holder. It's a pitty that Nikon removed the professional software Silverfast because of rationalisation. But adjusting the neutrals and blacks make things appear that make you wonder: suddenly a green meadow appears out of the darkness and a mixed forrest shows itself in front of a range of mountains. The left picture shows a failed shot, which irritated the camera's automatic exposure because of the bright sky. after execution of our test will not be maintained automatically. Only uniform film holders can be inserted into the LS-9000 and there is nothing for APS cartridges in this format. For scanning slightly curled film strips though an automatic strip film adaptor as it is included in delivery of the smaller Nikon film scanners would be better. Positioning would be a bit more difficult then, but you can perform up to 12 batch scans at once. The serial numbering happens Nikon style at the user's option, i.e. The LS-9000 is well protected against crushes inside its big box. With the aid of the user guide the installation is no problem even for beginners. Of course this is particularly pleasing a Firewire fan like me. And I'd like to mention a very pleasant one right at the beginning: you can choose for which scanners you want to use the program for already at the installation. The scan area as well as settings in terms of colour and image size don't have to be done for every slide individually. I can only confirm rumors which accuse a certain blur to the ICE process insofar that in areas where big dust particles have to be corrected away with the surrounding pixels a certain impression of blur inevitably occurs. If the automatic frame detection fails there is the very useful image positioning tool of the Nikon scan software. These can be placed on the glass plates and coupled so that you have an exact masker for the desired image format. How does this automatic detection of the maskers work? You can place up to three 16mm film strips with 20 frames each in this holder. In this case it would be advantageous to purchase two FH-869M, so that you can prepare one while the other is in the scanner. I'd not say that the corrected image resembles a perfect shot now - the image is brightened exaggeratedly just to show which information dark shadows contain. But as aforementioned this kind of function does not enhance image quality but only allows comfortable adjustment of image editing tools directly within the scan software. It needs at least 20% more time than the LS-5000. By this means two mounted slides up to 6x6 can be batch scanned. After closing the masker frame the film is fixed between the two glass plates. prefix, suffix and number. There is always only one device scanning at a time - when you initiate a scan with the second scanner it waits until the first one has finished. This for example applies to strongly curled film strips which the holder actually is due to flatten. If you purchase the according optional film holder it can handle very special originals, too, like 16mm films, 35mm panorama images (for example 24x65 mm), electron microscope films or medical preparates. This number even doubles if you save it with 16Bit inistead of 8Bit per colour channel. Negative or positive film strips with up to 6 frames can be scanned with the serial 35mm strip film holder FH-835S. Inserting trimmed single frames without gap requires some laborious use of tweezers. This matter gets extremely difficult if the film strip is strongly curled or curved. Futhermore removeable adhesive strips which can be used to fix an image on the glass are included in delivery. Hence my review won't turn out to be much different compared to the predecessor. With a night shot or an image of the sea or of a ski trail you will get such disguised images, that it's rather manipulation than restoration we're talking about. An according connection cable as well as a Firewire plug-in card is supplied. It's clear that you'll need a fast computer with a lot of RAM for these data volumes. Then there is an individual preview window for each device. This also confirms my statement that it doesn't depend on what the image looks like after scanning but on which information the file contains, i.e. These numerical values promise detailed images of very good quality. Changes on the original German site after the translation will not be maintained automatically on the English site. The maskers have the advantage that they isolate the exact area for the desired film material, everything else stays dark. Who orders a Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED will receive a packet which blasts all known dimensions. Changes in configuration, specification, hardware, software etc. I was somewhat shocked by the scanning time for 35mm negatives. The LS9000ED is really a omnivorous film scanner. The ICE Professional system is an improved ICE system regarding that it works well with Kodachrome films, too, see my page about Scanning Kodachrome films. When scanning medium formats you could actually do without the prescan because you'd normally select the biggest possible scan area: the actual image with a small black border around it. Hence it's clear how the price reduction compared to the predecessor mainly comes about. Every filmscanner can scan 35mm film strips or mounted 35mm slides. Placing the slides in the holder happens quickly and comfortable, without taking a risk of touching the surface of the film. That's great! This strip film holder accomodates up to 12 35mm negatives/positives. To achieve a higher sharpness you can use the function "unsharp mask" with a live preview in the preview window. You can make all settings adjusted with the scan software with the image editing software, too, except for one: the dust and scratches correction ICE. If you scan an image with 48 Bit colour depth and save the outcome in the TIF format, you'll have all image information in a large file, so that you can make a virtually perfect digital image by editing it afterwards. properly fixed by a bearing at the top and at the bottom. The Super Coolscan 9000 ED generates the index scan very quickly. Thus there is nothing to be said against placing a medium format film strip with 4 frames sized 4.5x6 in one piece on the glass plate. You can indeed scan two 6x9 images in batch mode but unfortunately larger formats are not possible. Furthermore the holder is rotatable so that angle failures can be corrected.

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