Advantages: high quality scans, large files, robust and intelligently designed. Disadvantages: None.
The Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED is a brilliantly designed multi- format filmscanner aimed at professionals but I would seriously recommend it for anyone passionate about photography. It is a joy to use.
It scans 35mm, Medium format 120/220, 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 (cm) and 16mm size films. Excellent results with black and white, colour negative and slide film in all the available above formats.
The price for the Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED is around £1800 to £2200. Compared to the Imacon range of Flextight scanners which can be anything around £5000 to £12000 the NikonCoolscan 9000 ED price is instantly more attractive but what about quality?
The NikonCoolscan produces images that are certainly good enough for professional, commercial and archival uses and fine art exhibiting purposes.
If you use Photoshop and have a good ...
Advantages: Movies, LiveView, 12.3 mpixels, build quality, excellent lens range Disadvantages: Still quite bulky for casual use. Expensive if that's all you want it for
, although it?s noticeably slower if using LiveView, which also seems to take ages coming into focus.
Lens Conversion Factor ? 1.5. This means that anyone used to the terminology of 35mmfilm-camera lenses will have to rethink the power of their existing lens collection. Under the old rule of thumb that a 50mm focal length equalled 1 magnification, in digital days, it now represents 1.5 magnifications. This is because lenses don?t change, but the sensor of the D90 (and most other DSLRs) is about 66% the size of a 35mmfilm negative (that?s about the same size as an APS negative ? remember them?). Hence my Nikkor 100 mm to 300 mm zoom is about 3 - 9 magnification (a power which would have needed a 150mm to 450 mm lens in ?celluloid days?)
Note: All Nikon lenses ?fit?, even the lenses from my 1970s Nikon F, but don?t expect an old lens like this ...
BNibbles 04.08.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: exceptional Review of Nikon D90
Advantages: Superb quality images and amazing ICE dust removal Disadvantages: Poor user interface & price (especially for the optional APS adaptor)
I bought this scanner last year, having finally got round to sorting out our wedding photos. We'd decided not to bother with a professional photographer and instead asked everyone to send us the negatives of their own photos. In the meantime, my old 35mm camera died, and I had decided to get a digital camera. What a revelation. I then decided that the only sensible way to sort out and edit our wedding photos was to get the negatives scanned into digital format.
After a fair bit of research, I finally decided to get the Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED. All the reviews I read suggested a good balance between cost and performance, and I can confirm this.
The scanner cost $1065 or about £600 from a US company called Cameta Camera who were selling the scanner new on ebay.
When it arrived, it was very easy to install and get working ...
