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Nikon Coolscan LS50 35mm Film Scanner ( 4000 dpi ) | |
Brand: Nikon EAN: 0182089008624 Label: Nikon Manufacturer: Nikon Model: LS50 Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Mac OS X Publisher: Nikon Release Date: March 05, 2004 Sales Rank: 43581 Studio: Nikon Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Send pictures, create web pages and handle digital archives: If you would like to do those jobs faster and more easily, get the film scanner COOLSCAN V ED. Nikon See more information on Nikon Coolscan LS50 35mm Film Scanner ( 4000 dpi ) at Amazon UK or at Amazon.com Average Rating:  Rating: - Renew your faith in filmCompared to the very best flatbed scanner this is a quantum leap. It produces results that are making me loose faith in digital cameras. I have dug out my old leica and have gone back to B&W. What an awesome bit of equipment. Be aware that this is the budget version of the 5000 series which have multi pass scanning for even better quality. This does not have it, but it is good enough for me. Fabulous!! Rating: - FantasticI got this scanner because I wanted to start using B&W 35mm film again, after a ten year break. It's really the only film dedicated scanner on the market within an affordable price range for an amateur/semi professional. Some people reported that it was very slow, and yes, it's not the fastest, but the wait is worth it. I don't feel that speed is an issue at all - let's face it, if you're using film, you've accepted that things won't be instant. I also compare the process with the amount of time it took to print a photograph in the darkroom - this is lightening fast! The ICE technology works brilliantly on colour slides/negatives - however, it does not work with B&W (this has been noted elsewhere). You just need to make sure your negatives are clean. Regarding, set up and ease of use - no problem. I really recommend this scanner - I've been very impressed with the results. Rating: - Everything I wanted from a scanner... and moreI have a large collection of (mostly) 35mm transparencies. Now, having gone digital, I wanted to scan the slides. I'm a perfectionist... and worried that the scans wouldn't look as good as the originals. Well, they don't... they look better! It's great to be able to make minor crops, rotations, colour tweaks, etc (and restore colour from some slightly faded slides). The Nikon scanner is very simple: there's just an on/off switch. Everything else is controlled from the computer. Everything just works, and I'm gobsmacked at the way the ICE technology gets rid of dust and scratches. My worries were unfounded; it's a terrific piece of kit... Rating: - The best 35mm film scanner I have usedI have tried a number of scanners and in each case been disappointed with the results. My cheap Epson flatbed had lots of detail but the images were fuzzy, not sharp. My Epson V700 was a wonderful scanner for my Xpan and Medium format slides but again wasn't all that sharp and I'm sure had a bit of noise reduction going on to aid sharpness. This bothered me because had I wanted noise reduction and sharpening artifacts I would have bought a digital camera! The Nikon Coolscan V ED is in a different league. It drags every last bit of sharpness out of my slides and negatives at 4000dpi. I reduce the resultant scans to 7x5 print size at 300DPI for printing and the resultant images are very very good. So good in fact that my second hand £10 Olympus MJU 35mm makes better pictures than my 10 megapixel Sony R1. People say that scanning is a solution to a dead technology (i.e. film) but it isn't. If you want a small camera then the digital offerings all have small sensors and lots of sharpening and noise reduction. I'm sure technology will catch up but for me today in 2007 there isn't a pocketable digital camera around which can do shallow depth of field and produce images as good as from a cheap film compact. Rating:  - Beware: scanner does not work well with PhotoshopHi - I have a Mac (OSX) and Photoshop CS and the plug-in which comes with the Nikon scanner keeps causing the Nikon Scan plug-in software to crash and you lose scans. It also causes Photoshop to crash occasionally. Apparently the latest version of Nikon Scan (4.0.2) fixes problems but the plug-in for photoshop is not yet at the latest level and there's no date for any update. Beware! Run the Nikon Scan software standalone if you buy this. Otherwise excellent scanner. Nikon_Coolscan_LS50_35mmNikon Coolscan LS50 35mm Film Scanner ( 4000 dpi ) | |
