Nikon?Super?CoolScan?5000?ED?Film?Scanner
by Nikon
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Customer Review: nikon cool 5000 ED flim scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
user friendly plus
amazon shipped it right away
it would have taken longer to secure it locally
Customer Review: third party software
Summary: 3 Stars
Just purchased this product. Although some reviews say that this scanner works with Adobe Photoshop Elements, it does not and Nikon doesn't provide any help. To use this scanner you must scan images in Nikon's software them import them into Photoshop Elements which is cumbersome. The scanned images are OK but not great.Customer Review: Worth the money
Summary: 5 Stars
For years I shot slides - now need to digitize so I can let Photoshop do it's job. Yes, it's expensive. Yes, it's worth it. If I scan a 35mm slide at it's highest resolution I get a file around 90 MB. That's a lot of data!
Other reviewers have gone over the various features, so I feel no need to repeat all that, but I would like to add my voice to those who are quite happy with this scanner.
Customer Review: Beware of Nikon Scan software on Mac OS X
Summary: 2 Stars
The scanner is very good but the software on OS X is a joke, crashes every 5 slides, only 31 character file names, can't handle sleep. Total junk.Customer Review: Film4life
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok, if you've been thinking about this scanner or just doing a bit of research stop right now and buy this scanner. I am a die hard film fan for a number of reasons a few of those I'll go into in a minute. Whether you are still shooting film and want the convenience of printing your own photos or you have 6,000 slides and negs that have been sitting in your attic waiting for you to scan them in, this is the scanner for you.
I have most of my images scanned into my computer already. I got into scanning my film in and printing my own stuff in 2002. I bought the Canon FS2720U film scanner but since I bought the Nikon 5000ED I have a new found obsession with scanning in my photos and I am re-scanning all my old photos with this scanner.
This scanner picks up details in the shadows like I've never seen. The colors are spot on and the sharpness is brilliant. I use Provia 100F which is arguably the best film ever made and this is the only scanner that can capture Provia's amazing grain and true to life tones.
If you are thinking about going digital but are still undecided this scanner should make that decision a lot easier. Why go digital when there is a scanner like this out there? You can buy the best film camera ever made the Canon EOS 1V, a great L lens and use a film like Provia 100F with this scanner and get resutls that only the best digital camera's can match. The only camera digital camera on earth that can equal that combination is the Canon EOS 1DS Mark II and for $7,500 wouldn't you rather wait a few years and shoot with the above combo until then? Well that's what I was struggling with for months until I found this scanner.
I haven't used the slide adaptor to batch scan so I can't comment on that. The speed of the Nikon 5000ED is just fine. I have it at the highest settings for everything, highest for resolution, highest for ICE (brilliant by the way) and highest for multi pass and I get an image in about 3 minutes or less. Who cares! You get a 130 megabyte file that looks just like the slide you put into it and you only have to do that once.
Buy this scanner, you won't be sorry.