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: Gets the job done - but...
Summary: 3 Stars
All the reviews for this product do a good job of summing up the products strengths, (good quality for the cost) and weaknesses, (SLOWWWWWWW). I bought my unit on Ebay and I intend to sell it there when I'm through with my project. There's no reason to purchase this unit new if you can avoid it. If you look at the contruction of the box, its bulletproof. This thing could survive in the Sarah. The only compliant I have other than its slowness, is the poor user documentation, which I think is typical. Because the doc's are so poor in introducing you to "how" to create scanned images from slides and neg's, it takes time to figure it out. Once you've gone through that process, the real time is consumed in the sheer process of feeding film & neg's into this bugger. I'm using the batch feature, with only IDC enabled, (not ROC or GEM), forget that. At least in batch mode you can stick in a strip of film, scan it in and convert to a file type of your choosing and then walk away and do something more productive with your life than looking at process ribbon scroll across the screen. Check on it through out a day and you'll be surprised to see how many negs you've managed to scan.Digital camera Review: Good Choice for scanning Negatives
Summary: 4 Stars
It works rather well, and its not too slow. I do not like the Nikon Software it came with, as it was a little limited. I opted to use Vuescan instead, for its added features. Otherwise If you have any 35mm single frame negatives - best get the extra adapter, as it will not take them otherwise. Good quality scans. Happy customer.Digital camera Review: Good Choice!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this scanner after researching a number of slide scanners. While the price was higher than some, the Nikon reputation for quality, and the fact that I have thousands of slides to scan caused me to make this choice. I have been very pleased with the scanner. It came out of the box, plugged into my USB port, and with the software installation done immediately started scanning slides. The quality has been everything I expected. The images are very very good, and the software to process the imagery during scan works very well. I store my images using the JPEG2000 format, and the only criticism I have is that the scanning software does not support that format, forcing me to always go to PhotoShop Elements, even if I don't need further processing, in order to store.
All in all, an outstanding value for the dollar, which produces exceptional scanned slides.
Digital camera Review: Good Scanner, but Hard Install
Summary: 4 Stars
Great scanner after you get past the install. After many hours of trying too install, I had to call tech. support. Afteer several days of trying things finally got the scanner working and now does great scans. Nikon needs to improve on their install program. Still I love the scanner.Digital camera Review: Good equipment
Summary: 4 Stars
The scanner is a great product. Only thing I regret is that it doesn't have the multiple pass scanning like the Nikon CoolScan 5000 has. But other than that feature, the two scanners are pretty much on par with the 5000 only being a few seconds faster. The V ED is great, though, good quality scans and quick. Well worth the money.