Nikon Coolscan 5000 Review
The Super Coolscan 5000 ED is a high end film scanner that 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). It is one of the only high-end dedicated film scanners for 35mm still available. Although it was recently discontinued, it is in stock in some outlets, but quantities are limited.
Scan times are as fast as 20 seconds including image transfer to display, and as fast as 11 seconds in preview mode. Nikon’s own LED illumination technology ensures accurate color separation with no warm-up time or risk of heat damage. PC and Mac compatible with USB interface.
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If you are skeptical that a scanner can ever reproduce what you shot on high quality slide film, try the Super CoolScan 5000. With the proper settings, your scans will actually digitally represent what you recorded on your slides phot-chemically.
Just some of the features of this high end scanner:
- 4,000 dpi optical resolution, 4.8 density
- 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
- USB interface, PC and Mac compatible
Scans are smooth and gorgeous, color accuracy, provided your monitor is correctly calibrated, is unrivalled, and the updated ICE4 including DEE is a dream come true.
Here is what one owner has to say about their Nikon Coolscan 5000-
“My mother passed away recently and I wanted to go through my father’s 20,000 slides and scan the best ones before they, as many before them, disappeared into the hands of one of my 7 other siblings never to be found again. 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.” (JanSobieski) Excerpted for size- Click Here to read the Original Review and Others