Buy Used/3rdParty More product information	Nikon CoolScan V ED Film Scanner List Price: $599.99    Our Price: You Save: 100% Manufacturer: Nikon MPN: 9239 Availability: This item is currently not available. Number of Media: 1 Features: Digital ICE4 Advanced suite of image correction technologies USB interface, PC and Mac compatible 4,000 dpi optical resolution, 4.2 density 14-bit A/D conversion, 8 or 16-bit output Scan speeds as fast as 38 seconds
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Product Description A high-performance dedicated film scanner from Nikon, the CoolScan V ED 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). The Scanner-Nikkor ED glass lens offers a 4,000 dpi optical resolution, while the 3,964-pixel linear CCD image sensor and 14-bit A/D input (8-/16-bit output) provide true-to-life, brilliant results. Customer Reviews Not Worth the Aggravation I wanted a straightforward slide scanner to scan my 6000 slide collection, and from the reviews, this appeared to be a slam dunk. Perhaps I was pre-disposed to this being a great product. But after several hours of trying to get the software set up and multiple crashes of my standard Windows XP system, I'm giving up. This is going back to the dealer. The software is not at all intuitive, and is very clunky. My one last effort of scanning a slide resulted in a "post-processing error" and terminated the slide scan. Maybe if you're a professional and/or have all day to tinker, this it can be made to work. But I have a day job, am very computer literate, but can't devote 30 or 40 hours to getting this up and running without crashing my system (assuming that it would eventually run properly). Beautiful Results OK OK its a little slow, and a little noisy when scanning strip negatives. But the results are spectacular!!! Careful what you wish for...the file sizes can be HUGE. Digital ICE4 is a God send...and well...its a Nikon, it just doesn't get any better. I still using my black body FE2 I bought USED in 1984. Highly recommended. Cool but Slow The claim made by Nikon regarding the speed of the Coolscan V ED scanner (14 sec for preview and 38 sec for scanning) is just a sales pitch. It takes the scanner nealy five minutes to preview and scan a slide at 2400 dpi with functions such as ICE and DEE on. The end product is a well-exposed image and the Image Correction Enhancement (ICE) works wonders in cleaning the tiny particles which cannot be brushed off even with a $ 25 static free brush. As a comparison my 6 year old Epson 1240 U flatbed scanner will scan at the same resolution in two minutes but it lacks features such as ICE and DEE. The Nikon Scan 4 software is problematic. It does not work through Photoshop even though Nikon recommends to install their Nikon Scan plug-in file in the application's plug-ins folder. I tried this and my computer had the tendency to freeze. Something which did not happen during the two years since I have been using my Mac G-5 machine. When I called the Nikon technical help support I was told Nikon is aware of the problem and they recommended that I launch the scanner through the Nikon software only. Their software works fine most of the time but will not respond from time to time and the only way to quit the program is to force quit the application. This of course is problematic to say the least. Nikon said at this time they do not have any update to resolve the problem. So I have to scan the slide, then open the file in Photoshop and crop and enhance it. This means spending more time in processing a slide. Other than this the scanner works like a charm, focusing is sharp and its optics are great. The machine is quite noisy though. It is an excellent machine but Nikon definitely needs to improve the software. Given the quality of the scanned slides the Coolscan V ED is well worth the price of $ 547 including shipping.