![]() ![]() Which stuffs up things majorly with Silverfast. The installer simply does not understand 64-bit OS and forces a 32-bit install. But it took a bit of fiddling to get the 64-bit version of the drivers for my Win-64 desktop. ![]() After downloading the new version from the Plustek site, incorrect framing of 35mm went away. Good thing is: once that is out of the way, I can just leave it on and go for a coffee break: something I never was able to do with the Coolscans! And I'll need to fine tune the focus point, that much I've seen already. I haven't dared go 10000 yet as I don't feel it'll improve things that much with the film I'm testing - Fuji Xtra-400 - and that setting is interpolated anyway. But then again if it's good enough, I'm happy. I don't think it's as good as Kodak's d-Ice on the Coolscans. The d-Ice is Plustek/Silverfast's i-SRD thingie, which basically means a second (faster - lower rez?) pass with infra-red light on. The scan operation is not faster than the 9000 but it's right up there at least up to 5000 rez. The software UI is horrendous, but I'm getting used to it. As time goes by I'll try to fill more - and I'm quite sure I'll find things that are not ideal. ![]() All I can say at this stage is I am very well impressed with it. I don't have much free time to dedicate to a full review like I feel this gear deserves. I am flat out at work and about to go overseas on holidays soon. On the Coolscan V it was a constant source of pain with the strip holder not being able to keep film flat, forcing me to fine focus by trial and error for every frame in a strip of 6.įorgive me for not providing much more detail at this stage. What appears to be very good is the focus! Once set for the middle of a frame, I don't have to worry about it changing. It is however a much slower scanner in operation, but I can live with that if I can set it once and scan a long string automatically. Sure, the density range is way down on the Coolscans. The drivers and software are horrendous but with vuescan it's a much better scanner. The Opticfilm uses a much more intelligent way of moving the holders - a lateral acting gear that simply cannot push the holder out of focus.įor 35mm only, I'm finding a Primefilm 7250 Pro3 as good as anything else. It works really well now but the AN-glass introduces its own set of issues: one more thing to keep spotlessly clean! Which basically means: more lost time! On the 9000 I had to modify the holders myself with addition of a metal frame and AN-glass to try and work around the problem. That has been the bugbear of all Coolscans I've used: keeping the film flat. Mostly because the spring of the front door and initial track is so strong it actually bends the flimsy plastic holder! And the gear that moves the setup is under the holder, which immediately makes it prone to up-down movement against a fixed focus point. The point of ideal focus changes as the holder moves in and out of the scanner. The holders in the 9000 are completely unusable for serialized high definition 35mm scans. And getting them from overseas is horrendously expensive on p&p. The V750 Epson might be an exception but they are unobtainable in Australia as no one stocks them. Flatbeds are just not up to the task - I've owned 2 and they were hopeless for anything smaller than 6X4.5. ![]() And I'm counting my blessings as there ain't that many of them left. Hey, someone will have to pry my 9000 out of my cold dead hands!īut Nikon's failure in improving them at all in the last 10 years has finally resulted in a very reasonable scanner being available by someone else.Ībout time! Finally! This is the first multi-format scanner still being made that I found both good and affordable. I'm waiting for the sad time my 9000 goes the same way.Įntirely agreed: the Coolscans were excellent in their time. Fact is, as you very well noted: Nikon doesn't make them anymore and neither do they service them. Les, I'm not anymore interested in what Coolscans can do. ![]()
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