Nikon CoolScan V LS-50 ED Film Scanner by Nikon
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Digital camera reviews of Nikon CoolScan V LS-50 ED Film Scanner
Digital camera Review: A scan of Old Memories
Summary: 5 Stars
We have been trying to scan and save our old slides and negatives to dvds for quite a long time.Our nikon V ED scanner is perfect for the job. I have slides that that I took in Korea in 1952 and the Nikon does a great job in restoring them. We have negatives of our children, Grandchildren and old friends and bringing them to light has been beautiful. We have several thousand of them and it will take time but well worth it. Our Thanks to Nikon for making it possible. Ted and Eleanor Gawaylak, Long Lake NY
Digital camera Review: Attention Mac Users
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great product. Robust, well built & fast enough for the occasional slide & negative film scanner like I am. From time to time I still prefer my Nikon F100 film camera over the newer digital D300. Scanning high quality professional slide & film material easily renders about 22mpix images without noise or grain. Excellent!
Just be aware that the latest Nikon Scan software is still PowerPC and not Universal. You'll notice minor speed issues when working with extremely large images, even with 4GB of ram. I use a 24" iMac.
The software sometime looses it's USB connection to the scanner (I am guessing: about once per 50 slides)
I think these glitches will be fixed with any future software releases, although Nikon is a bit slow in this field.
After all, I am happy with the scanner and I think it was money well spent. Now I have some of the slides I took 10 years ago in Aperture and am post-processing them just as any other RAW/NEF file.
One more thing: The NikonScan RAW (.NEF) format is not compatible with MacOS X 10.5.2 at this point. You'll have to use 14 bit tiff as a second option. Beware: HUGE FILES... about 140 MB each! What I do is scan TIFFS, post-process and save 8 bit tiffs so I save about 1/2 HD space.
Cheers!
Digital camera Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
I have used this scanner for about a month, during which I have scanned about 200 Fujichrome slides and a few Kodacolor negatives. I am thrilled with the performance of this scanner! The color rendition is flawless, and the ICE scratch and dust removal is amazing.
It takes about a minute to scan each slide and this unit does not have an automatic slide loader (nor is one available, as near as I can tell). Therefore, it takes a little practice to where you can sit and read a book while hand-loading slides. Once you have that figured out, the time passes pleasantly.
By Japanese electronics standards, I would say the user manual is quite helpful and gives useful guidelines for scanning for different purposes, e.g., printing, web posting, etc.
Digital camera Review: Awesome scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
The ICE4 and software and scanner all do a great job of making old slides look like they were professionally restored, but with just a few clicks of the mouse.Digital camera Review: Beautiful Results
Summary: 5 Stars
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.