These pages are dedicated to use, service and repair of nikon coolsan scanners, in particular the iv, 4000, v, 5000, 8000 and 9000 models. But, now, im using an asus rog with tons of ram and a 1tb ssd which runs windows 10. Over the years i had to repair modify many of my scanners. If you need to upgrade the software possibly because of some random update to your computer os they will often charge you the full price for each and every one of your unnecessarily locked copies. Dec 03, 2006 my coolscan 9000 and my hasselblad had been lying around for years collecting dust. Its a free download and is a fully functional version. Optimal workflow with vuescan and lightroom using coolscan. As you can see on our film scanner ranking list the nikon ls9000 ed is the top model among all film scanners ever built. Super coolscan 9000 ed can scan a piece of 6x9 cm film 185 in only 185 seconds. No manufacturer has ever brought a device on the market which was nearly equal to the nikon ls9000.
Scanning film with nikon super coolscan 4000 jip van kuijk. Nikon coolscan iv ed ls40 ed photo scanner complete. Key features multiple film format 120220, 35mm, etc. The nikon super coolscan 9000 ed is the best film scanner ever built. The coolscan iv is placed in the middle of the nikon film scanner range. Vuescan 9 solves that problem and lets you use your old scanner again. The version of digital ice that is installed on the nikon 9000 allows us to scan pretty much every type of slide with the benefits of digital ice. Outputs scans in a variety of formats vuescan 9 can output scanned documents, photos, and film in. The nikon coolscan 9000 comes with an upgraded version of kodaks digital ice technology not available on the nikon 5000. Nikon scan, silverfast or vuescan for coolscan 5000. Jun 15, 2004 the ls 9000 ed requires about a minute and a quarter to boot up the manual states 2 minutes, but after that its ready to scan as often as you need. Vuescan is very easy to use, and also has advanced features for restoring faded. Digital film scanners nikon super coolscan 8000ed film and.
Vuescan is the best way to get your nikon coolscan 9000 ed working on windows 10, windows 8, windows 7, macos catalina, and more. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. As a film shooter i scan a lot and currently use a coolscan 9000. A highperformance dedicated film scanner designed for imaging professionals, the super coolscan 9000 ed offers highquality scanning of 35mm slides, 35mm film strips, mediumformat film, mediumformat slides with optional 120220 mounted film holder fh869m, glass slides for microscopes with optional medical slide holder fh8g1, and 16mm film with optional 16mm film holder fh816. Previous versions of digital ice would mistake eye lashes and other fine lines such as power lines, or patterns as scratches and thus remove them from the image erroneously. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone. Hi and thanks for looking at my auction, up for grabs this time is nikon coolscan 9000 thanks for looking a valid contact number will be helpfull to the courier collection can be arranged, please include a postcode so i can give you a postcourier quote. Vuescan claims to use all those scanner features as well as. It could also be that there is some other kind of unexpected behavior due to the modified holder.
The unthinkable switching from vuescan to silverfast. Feb 10, 2010 getting your nikon coolscan to work on w7 x64 note this tutorial applies to the 4000, 5000, 8000, and 9000 series scanners as well as windows 810 will need to temporally disable windows driver signature enforcement policy option 1. Some features and options will vary per scanner but most will be the same. Nikon coolscan 9000 for sale in uk view 21 bargains. Possible to connect a coolscan 9000 to a macbook pro. Although nikon officially stopped supporting the coolscan products, there have been several workarounds found that apparently work well in most cases.
Exclusive scanner nikkor ed highperformance lens elements for reduced color. Nov 26, 2001 the coolscan iv is placed in the middle of the nikon film scanner range. Anyone using the nikon super coolscan 9000 film scanner with windows 10. Digital film scanners nikon super coolscan 8000ed film. The unthinkable switching from vuescan to silverfast film forum. One of the biggest problems with the old scanners is that with time, the manufacturer of the scanner stops providing the driver and other relevant. If it wasnt for vuescan my nikon super coolscan 4000 and 9000 would be junk. Nikon scan is nikons own proprietary software for film scanners but it only supported computer operating systems up until scanner development stopped. Users found a way to generate a 64 bit driver that works with windows 7 using the scan. Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. However i can not see any obvious reason for the issue.
To select what negative to scan, you must click a unmarked vertical bar to open a small box showing numbers from 1 to 6 by default. Come and experience your torrent treasure chest right here. The ls 9000 ed requires about a minute and a quarter to boot up the manual states 2 minutes, but after that its ready to scan as often as you need. A highperformance dedicated film scanner designed for imaging professionals, the super coolscan 9000 ed offers highquality scanning of 35mm slides, 35mm film strips, mediumformat film, mediumformat slides with optional 120220 mounted film holder fh869m, glass slides for microscopes with optional medical slide holder fh8g1, and 16mm film with optional 16mm film.
Jun 18, 2016 the scan went through and i simply got a black scan. Archive nikon coolscan 9000 and scan software on intel mac platform. Here is a comparison of ice on the coolscan 5000 using vuescan and nikonscan. Nikon coolscan ls8000 ed ls9000 ed service and repair notes my own considerations for optimization of the performance of nikon scanners when running nikon scan software. As an alternative we recommend you our scan service. One of the neat things about taking pictures with 35mm film is that you can shoot a picture and include the films sprockets in a frame.
Allowing you to scan film strips, slides and aps film scanners like this are the best way of achieving high quality digital. The scanner provides an extremely good image quality at 4000 dpi resolution. I havent tried vuescan or silverfast, but i run nikon scan on 10. It can also recognize text using ocr and create multipage pdfs using both flatbed scanners and scanners with automatic document feeders. And, to my surprise, none of the software that i originally purchased for the 9000 works on windows 10. Windows xp x64 bits beta release was september 2003, and if my research is correct this nikon super coolscan 5000 ed was put on the market nine months later june 2004 yet as old as that is im forced to run it on a 32bit xp box as there is no support for any x64 bit microsoft operating system. The windows 7 compatibility center does not list the coolscan 4000 ed, but it does report noncompatibility for the 5000 ed and 9000 ed. Nikon scan, silverfast or vuescan for coolscan 5000 discussion in scanning and scanners started by eaf64.
Vuescan is a replacement for the software that came with your scanner. Film scanners of the nikon coolscan brand belong to the most popular and quality devices for scanning negatives and. I must say that canoscan 9000f mark ii, and even the plustek slide scanner. Scanning 35mm film with sprockets using vuescan and a. In particular, there is one optical component, a mirror, that is more likely than. The super coolscan 9000 is a awardwinning medium format scanner which accepts virtually any format up to 6x9cm. The unthinkable switching from vuescan to silverfast film. Possible to connect a coolscan 9000 to a macbook pro retina. Nikon super coolscan 4000 ed scanner compatible with. Nikon coolscan ls8000 ed ls 9000 ed service and repair notes i still dont know how good these 8000s are, ive had mine for two years but it wont give me a chance to find out, but hopefully soon i will know when i reassemble it and scan a film after all the cleaning and repairing. Nikon has not released any software updates for the super coolscan 9000 film scanner since vista. Nikon super coolscan 9000 ed driver software, download driver. Cleaning the mirror in nikon super coolscan ls8000 ed and.
T he nikon 8000 with is highly collimated light source, takes full advantage of wet mounting, which. Nikons super coolscan 9000 ed film scanner offers 4,000 dpi true optical resolution and ad conversion at 16 bits, for superiorquality digital images. Uploaded on 3312019, downloaded 5342 times, receiving a 99100 rating by 3154 users. Nikon coolscan 9000 and scan software on intel mac platform. Coolscan iii, vuescan and win xp photography forums. Cleaning the mirror in nikon super coolscan ls8000 and ls9000 scanners. Scanscience fluid scanning kits upgrade your nikon 9000 8000. I will be using software suite nikon scan 4, and will go over the settings i use for scanning with the nikon super coolscan 4000 ed hereafter ls4000. Vuescan, the worlds most popular scanner software, is used extensively by photographers, home users, scanning services and corporations. But how would i connect the scanner to my macbook pro retina which only has thunderbolt and usb. Evaluation of resolution of nikon coolscan scanners. Super coolscan ls 9000 ed film scanners nikon australia. Nikon super coolscan 9000 ed scanner microsoft community.
Summary of contents for nikon super coolscan 4000 ed page 1 this electronic manual provides complete operating instructions for the software that makes your scanner run, nikon scan 3. The original computer i used for the 9000 ran windows vista. This article contains links to the latest version of nikon scan software produced for each film scanner, please follow the links for. My coolscan 9000 and my hasselblad had been lying around for years collecting dust. Vuescan can output scanned documents, photos, and film in pdf, jpeg, tiff formats.
Nikon super coolscan 9000 ed driver software found 12. Every day more than 10,000 people download vuescan to fix their old scanner. Software for nikon super coolscan 5000 ed slidefilm scanner. Added support for scanner calibrate with nikon coolscan 8000 and 9000 scanners fixed problem with some epson do cument feeders fixed problem with some epson dsseries scanners. Silverfast will charge you 340 for a licence for your coolscan 9000, but if you add a coolscan 5000, then you have to pay them 340 again. We have 3 nikon super coolscan 9000 ed manuals available for free pdf download. Getting your nikon coolscan to work on w7 x64 windows 7. However because the scanner is in the source drop down as ls30 i do not think the problem is with the visibility of the scanner rather than a problem with the scanner itself or the slide adaptor. Still some maintenance is desirable to make sure the scan image quality remains high. I have tried starting the scanner before the laptop, changing f files all to no avail. In late 2007 much of the softwares code had to be rewritten to make. The scan went through and i simply got a black scan.
Furthermore, the super coolscan 9000 ed features industryleading scanning speeds and scans a 35mm image in an astounding 20 seconds. Nikon imaging products product archive super coolscan. Buy scanner software for nikon better scan results with silverfast. I am using windows 7 64 but and understand that although the nikonscan software is no supported it is possible to get it work with a bit of fiddling. With a d rum scan its special quality stems from fluid scann ing. I am contemplating buying a 2nd hand nikon coolscan v ed to scan a whole load of colour negatives. Vuescan is a unique kind of drivers provider for the scanners.
Nikon super coolscan 4000 ed driver for windows 7 32 bit, windows 7 64 bit, windows 10, 8, xp. See why over 10 million people have downloaded vuescan to get the most out of their scanner. Fluid scanning also upgrades the nikon 90008000 significantly, and the output short of turning out central station filling murals, are outstanding. Aug 26, 2010 flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. This article will be most of interest to anyone using nikon scan 3 or 4 with any of the nikon coolscan film scanners. Nikon super coolscan 4000 ed user manual pdf download. Thats what i do to run nikonscan 4 on an uptodate imac with a coolscan 9000.
Page 1 of 2 software for nikon super coolscan 5000 ed slidefilm. Get cutting edge quality scans comparable to drum scans. Worth the dollars, plus the manager is really a full waste of. Scancience fluid scanning delivers enhanced performance using the scanners own holders,no need for glass holder or an glass. The program recognises my scanner nikon 9000, firewire but is unable to access and comes back with the message no scanner. Optimal workflow with vuescan and lightroom using coolscan 5000 jh4wvu cds media solutions cincinnati, oh registered users posts. It works with most highquality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. As you can see on our film scanner ranking list the nikon ls 9000 ed is the top model among all film scanners ever built. Nikon scan uses nikon super coolscan in a separate always on top window to do the actual scanning. Nikon ls8000 and ls9000 scanners are, in my opinion, very well built and are extremely reliable. Theres a thunderboltfirewire adapter but it only gives fw800, not 400 which the coolscan uses.
Getting nikon super coolscan scanners work under windows 7 including x64, 8, and 10. It is available for free and in the paid version for almost all operating systems. May 17, 2012 optimal workflow with vuescan and lightroom using coolscan 5000 jh4wvu cds media solutions cincinnati, oh registered users posts. Now its your turn to bring your scanner back to life and keep it out of the landfill. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. Cleaning the mirror in nikon super coolscan ls8000 ed and ls. Howdy folks, having an issue with my 9000ed scanner and vuescan. Its a nice effect and for the most part it adds a nice touch of character and personalization to your work. Nikon coolscan 9000 ed driver vuescan scanner software. Sep 29, 2014 as a film shooter i scan a lot and currently use a coolscan 9000. We scan negatives and slides with the nikon super coolscan 9000 ed. The scan area of the actual 896s is slightly smaller than the 35mm holder so i would not expect any issues there. Nikon super coolscan 9000 ed driver driver comments.
Nikon film scanners were manufactured from 1988 to 2004. It is available on the reference cd provided with your scanner, where it can be viewed using adobe acrobat reader 4. This pro version provides a more robust technology that is designed to work with kodachrome film types. Funktioniert hervorragend zusammen mit einem nikon coolscan 5000 inkl. With the launch of the coolscan 9000 ed nikon introduced its most uptodate film scanner which, like the minolta dimage scanners were the only film scanners that, due to a special version of digital ice, were able to scan kodachrome film reliably both dust and scratch free.