The names and functions of the controls in the scan window are described below. Se- lect the frame or frames to be scanned from the thumbnail drawer. Page 42 Click the Preview button A preview will be displayed in the preview area. Preview button If multiple frames are selected, additional frames can be previewed by clicking the thumbnails in the thumbnail drawer.
Page Step 8 - Scan And Save 32 , clicking the Scan button will display a dialog of batch scan options. Click OK to save the scanned images to disk. Page 46 Images can be printed by selecting the print command from the File menu in the host application. Ejec- tion is complete when the status LED has stopped blinking. The Scan Window Page The Control Area Choose a color model according to how the image will be processed or used. Tools button Click to open the Tool Chest or progress window.
Help button Click to open Nikon Scan help. If multiple frames are selected, the selected images can be scanned in a single batch. Page The Tool Chest Tools button in the control area of the scan window. Color balance Adjust overall brightness, contrast, and color balance. Unsharp mask Sharpen images by making colors more dis- tinct. Page Technical Notes Maintenance Page Fh-3 Film Holder Placing Film in the Holder Open the holder Holding the FH-3 with the Nikon logo uppermost, unlatch the holder snaps and open the holder.
When the adapter is fully inserted, the status LED will blink while the scanner initializes until the status LED stops blinking. Page Maintenance Servicing Nikon scanners are precision devices. Transport or use outside the region or country of sale is at the risk and responsibility of the user.
Attempting to force the frame open past this point could damage the adapter. Continuing Jams If jams continue to occur frequently after the interior of the adapter has been cleaned, consult a Nikon service representative. Release button Front Page Caring For The Ma Slide-Mount Adapter Clean the rollers Using a dry cotton swab or a swab that has been lightly dampened with water and wrung out, clean the rollers while turning the toothed wheel slowly in either direction with the ball of your thumb.
Excessive force or the use of a screwdriver or other rigid object could damage the wheel. Page Troubleshooting If the scanner fails to function as expected, check the problems described below before con- sulting the original retailer or Nikon service representative. For more information on solving the problems listed here, refer to the page numbers in the rightmost column.
Film is more than six frames long. Open the roller frame Release the frame lock lever and open the roller frame. The instructions that follow are divided into Win- dows and Macintosh sections. Export Settings Before uninstalling Nikon Scan, export frequently-used scan window settings to a location outside the Nikon Scan application folder. Select Uninstall Select Uninstall from the menu at the top left corner of the installer dialog and click the Uninstall button to remove Nikon Scan and its components from the computer.
If the computer fails to detect the scanner or the scanner does not function as expected when Nikon Scan is running, the computer may not have correctly registered the scanner.
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Don't have an account? Sign up! The new slide mount adaptor MA has got an integrated cover protecting the scanner's interior against dust. This function is very important with the new Nikon LS because this scanner hasn't got a front cover anymore, which could be used to simply close the scanner when not in use. So the MA not only acts as a film adaptor but as well as a cover for the front insertion.
You can insert a single mounted slide into the slide mount adaptor MA Nikon specifies a slide thickness between 1mm 0,04in. In my opinion there is nothing to be said against inserting a super thin slide mount with the thickness of only 0,5mm. There is no problem with thicker glass mounts neither, but attention while inserting the slide is advisable. If you push the button on the right hand side of the film adaptor the inserted slide is pushed out mechanically, so that it can be easily removed.
The slide mount adaptor MA and his predecessor respectivley proved themselves during the years. Using those you can digitise single slides very quickly: simply insert the slide, make a prescan, adjust the settings and scan - fast and simple. Of course you have to scan every slide individually. The slide scanner Nikon Super Coolscan can operate either in horizontal or vertical position.
For scanning single mounted slides with the MA the upright position is advisable, because the slide is inserted horizontally into the adaptor. By doing so, you can avoid shifting of the film in the mount - a big advantage when processing old wobbly mounts that don't fix the transparency firmly anymore. Thus portrait format slides have to be inserted at right angle into the slide mount adaptor and rotated afterwards with the scan software or any image processing software.
While the serial slide mount adaptor MA is inserted into the scanner virtually just as a holder to carry slides, the also serial strip film holder SA is inserted deeper and connected to the scanner by an interface with 35 pins. The adaptor is provided with data and power via this interface. After all the strip film holder not only has to carry the film material but also transport and correctly align it. With the SA it is possible to scan 35mm film strips with up to six frames automatically.
To insert the strip film holder the scanner needn't be turned off. You gently insert the film strip positive or negative into the strip film holder. The scanner then automatically retracts the film to the right position. The film is transported by rubber rolls.
In the beginning I was sceptical of this design - but in the meantime I've inserted hundrets of film strips into the scanner with the strip film holder, and there never was a problem. So this design works flawlessly. Of course it is very important that no dirt gets on the rubber rolls. You can imagine how a tiny dust paricle can wreak havoc on a rubber roll over which moves a whole film strip. So you should clean the rolls from time to time!
The function of automatically finding the beginning of the film and the division of the film strip into single frames respectively don't work flawlessly. On a negative film strip with night shots the software can't distinguish the bridge between the frames and dark areas of the image. That of course applies for positive film strips too. In such cases, after the index scan which tried to split up the single frames of a film strip automatically, it's hand time: you can set up the image position with the Nikon software using the menu item "Scanner Extras".
After several trials whereas the index image is reloadaed consistently, you can find the right division of the images.
The possibility of setting the image position manually is very useful and indispensible, but it costs a lot of time. That's the reason why I do not scan film strips with the Nikon Coolscan V or Super Coolscan anymore, but only with the big Nikon Super Coolscan , where I can put the film strips into special film holders and fix them. With the strip film adaptor SA you'll know the true promise of batch scans the first time.
Using the scan software you can choose which one of the up to six images you want to scan. And there is nothing to be said against scanning all six of them in one go. If you run NikonScan indirectly via an image editing software you'll get up to six windows with the image s for editing. You can not automatically take over the settings you made for instance for the first image to the remaining images. Instead you have to save the settings and apply them to the other images.
This works fast and comfortable though. Furthermore you can automatically apply these settings when scanning the next film strip, so that you don't have to make any settings again at all.
I would yet like to point at an unpleasing feature of using the strip film adaptor SA the SA can not be removed from the scanner when a film strip is inside the feeder. A sophisticated mechanism locks the adaptor in the scanner. If you forcibly pull on the adaptor you can damage the scanner. I don't like this construction at all.
The 35mm strip film holder SA comes to its limits when scanning greatly curled or curved film strips. The automatic feeder possibly doesn't draw these strips in or incorrectly transports them. For scanning such film material you can only use the strip film holder FH-3, which was supplied in shipment with the predecessors, but has to be purchased separately now. You can insert single mounted transparencies into the slide mount adaptor MA and whole film strips into the strip film adaptor SA What to do if you have single loose negatives or positives as they often remain when developing the film in photographic labs?
You can get the optional FH-3 strip film holder. Although the FH-3 is an indispensible accessory for Nikon film scanners. You can place up to 6 single loose negatives or positives in the FH-3 and poition them exactly between the bridges.
The inserted film meterial is fixed in the film holder with a spring lock so that it can not slip. The FH-3 is plugged into the slide mount adaptor MA So an image in the FH-3 is handled like a single mounted frame and you can only scan one image at once. The image to be scanned is moved into a little window by an adjustable guide rail. You could put single loose transparencies into slide mounts as well, if you want to spare the optional FH The strip film holder FH-3 becomes really usefull not until you have greatly curled or curved negative or positive strips which the automatic strip film adaptor SA processes incorrectly or doesn't draw in at all.
Due to the spring lock such problematic film strips can be firmly fixed in the strip film holder and scanned frame by frame. I'd recommend that everybody who buys a Nikon Coolscan V or Super Coolscan should order the strip film holder FH-3 as well, because in my eyes this is an indispensible accessory.
Those who want to scan whole 35mm film rolls need the roll film adaptor SA as optional accessory for the Nikon Super Coolscan For dear money you'll get a film adaptor which is plugged into the front of the scanner just as any other adaptor. Additionally you'll get a film drum which is attached to the backside of the scanner. The drum is that big that one could believe that it can contain hundrets of images.
Effectively the Nikon LS only handles film rolls with up to 40 images, which is the lenghth of a common 35mm film roll. The 35mm roll film adaptor consists of two parts: the film roll feeder resembles the supplied strip film holder from Nikon. You simply plug it into the front side of the scanner and it's beeing detected automatically.
Attaching the film drum to the backside of the film scanner is more difficult: first of all you have to attach a connecting piece with three screws to the backside of the Coolscan After that the film drum can be fixed to that connecting piece with its integrated assembling screws.
The required space for the film scanner then increases considerably. Scanning the film roll: you gently insert the film roll into the scanner via the roll film feeder on the front side. The film then gets drawn in automatically. It is very important that the film roll is correctly trimmed, because otherwise the scanner doesn't automatically find the beginning of the first image on the roll.
After that everything goes on as already known: you can perform index scans, prescans and fine scans. It's amazing how fast an index scan is performed: in one minute the index images of a whole 36 frames film roll appear on your screen. This index scan is very important, because you can see if the film scanner drew the film correctly in and if the film roll is trimmed correctly. By means of the index images you can make significant adjustments for every single frame by setting the image position.
You can indeed define the scan area as usual with a frame, but if the scanner can't correctly distinguish the single frames on the film roll for example with several night shots you can find the correct images by setting the image position manually.
This procedure is very time-consuming of course, because the settings have to be made for every single image. Often the software automatically detects the single frames though, so that there is no need to set up the image position at all. A few words to Nikon's sales policy: one could easily do without the film drum on the backside.
It's nice indeed, if the film is neatly spooled onto a large drum, but scanning film rolls works well without a film drum on the back side of the scanner, too. The film adaptor which you insert into the scanner slot is practically identical to the serial SA So those who scan film rolls only occasionally, could actually cope with the supplied accessory of a Nikon scanner.
But those users as well have to buy the expensive roll film adaptor SA Considering this I can only compliment Reflecta's sales policy, because virtually all of their scanners can not only handle film strips but film rolls as well.
How many people have thousands or even ten thousands of mounted 35mm slides in magazines, boxes and other containers, whitch they'd like to digitise? Often a whole family life is documented in a wardrobe full of slide magazines. With such stocks of films you won't get far with single scans or with film holders carrying slides at once. For this kind of application there is Nikon's slide feeder SF available as optional and expensive accessory for the Super Coolscan ED.
The slide feeder SF is attached to the scanner in the same way as the serial film adaptors until it snaps in. The scanner needn't be turned off for doing that and the slide feeder is being detected automatically. For using the SF the film scanner has to be in horizontal position though. The slide feeder has got two drawers: into the outer one you put the slides which are to scan, while the finished slides get into the inner one. Two holders strained by springs fix the two batches of slides in their particular position.
The two drawers are each 78mm long, so that slides, depending on the thickness of the mounts, can be inserted. The whole device can be covered by a hatch, so that the slides and the mechanisms of the feeder are protected against dust and dirt.
The slides all have to be inserted in the landscape format, i. The slides are automatically transported from the lower drawer into the scanner and after the scan is complete back out into the other drawer. A sophisticated mechanical turnout prevents the scanned slides getting back into the input magazine. Nikon specifies the possible mount thickness between 1,0 and 3,2 mm 0,4 - 1,3 in.
Inserting thinner slides theoretically is no problem, but there is often problems with the transport of those slides, so that you'd better scan them individually.
Nikon supplies a small plate which can be attached to the transport slider when scanning thick slides. Thicker slides than 3,2 mm often get jammed when transported. You can be sure that such a transport mechanism is afflicted with all perfidies you can imagine. Just like copiers the slide feeder too has known problems like jams, feeding twice, feeding nothing, etc. But Nikon worked on this problem and came out with the SF, a highly improved successor to the SF What has changed and what are the features of the new SF?
In principle it's only a thumb wheel on the right hand side and a simple metal bar, that makes the difference to the old slide feeder SF By turning the small wheel you can move the metal bar back and forth.
Before scanning a batch of slides you set the metal bar to a position in which the transport slider can only move one single slide into the scanner. If two slides get stuck the metal bar prevents them being both drawn into the scanner simultanenously.
This method works perfectly and I must praise this advancement! With the predecessor SF batch scanning paperboard mounted slides was nearly impossible, because the transport slider drew in slides at once. This shortcoming now doesn't exist any more, and scanning paperboard slides for example Kodachrome now works without any problems.
Naturally this adjustable metal bar only helps when scanning slide mounts of the same kind. If you put a potpourri of plastic, glass and paperboard mounts with thicknesses between 1 and 3,2 mm into the magazine you have to fully open the metal bar, and can not prevent two slides being drawn in at once. But you can move the metal bar during scan mode. So if 5 thin paperboard mounts follow 5 thick mounts you can accordingly adjust the metal bar before the scanner draws the paperboard mounts in.
There are the same kind of problems with the transportation of the slides just as with the predecessor: it happens that slides get stuck on their way into or out of the scanner, jam on the turnout or that the transport slider slips past the mounts.
Thus the dream of automatically batch scanning 50 images at once becomes true only occasionally. Slides with double sided glass mounts get stuck almost categorically and can even damage the feeder.
You'd better not digitse this kind of slides with the SF at all. The Nikon scan software brilliantly supports the SF after prescanning the first image you can make all settings like scan area, resolution and colour settings. These settings then apply for all images being scanned in one pass. The maximum number of batch scans is 99 by the way, you can not set a higher number with the software. The images are automatically numbered serially, for example Image Of course you can't place 99 slides into the magazine at once.
But nothing argues against placing further slides in the half-empty input magazine and remove the already scanned slides out of the half-full output magazine during scan mode, in order to allow non-stop scanning of up to 99 images. Overall I can say that the slide feeder SF is a worthwhile purchase for people who have to digitise thousands of slides.
But you should be aware of the fact that not everything works fully automatically by itself and without problems, but that you have to check the scanning process from time to time and that - just like with a copier - you sometimes have to manually remove jams. The APS adaptor is installed in the scanner just like the strip film holder until it locks in place.
After all ist's responsible for the automatic film transport. You can place IX films with 15, 25 or 40 frames negative or postive in the adaptor. Attention: only developed films can be placed in the adaptor, otherwise a mechanism prevents closing the front cover. If you try to close it anyway, you can damage the APS adaptor. Right after placing the film in the adaptor an automatic pulls the film out of the cartridge by itself. The cover of the APS adaptor is locked then and can not be opened any more.
Even if the computer crashes the cover stays locked as long as the film wasn't rewind back into the cartridge. In this case only restarting the scan software and rewinding the film by clicking the appropriate button helps. With an index scan you'll get thumbnails of all images on the film. Thereby you can see if all frames are exposed or if the film has been rewind before.
When scanning a single image it can of course happen that the whole film has to be winded first, what can take a lot of time if you want to scan frame 3 and then frame 37 for example.
But it's really comfortable to scan a whole APS film at once: if you make the desired settings after prescanning for example image 1, then you can assign these settings to all other images and scanning the whole film proceeds fully automatically in batch mode.
That's really comfortable! It's not a pleasure to scan certain IX films which can not be winded easily. Here problems with drawing in the film frequently occur - the adaptor crashes and you can't use it anymore! Only resetting it by the Nikon servie helps, you can not do it by yourself.
I had never problems with Kodak APS films though. Now it's getting exotic but by no means unrealistic. The field of application seems to be very small for this optional accessory at first sight, but preparates are produced in many sciences and not only in medical science.
For example I have already scanned transparent cut preparates of different kind of rocks for a mineralogist.
In principle a film scanner with a resolution of dpi can be used as a microscope with camera by means of the FH-G1. You can insert object slides with a width of up to 26 mm into the medical slide holder. Bearings on both left and right hand side fix the object slide so that it can't shake or fall off. In the slot area the object slide is secured by two assembling clips springs and at the bedstop another notch prevents movement of the slide.
The medical slide holder FH-G1 can be inserted into the serial slide mount adaptor MA just like a normal slide mount. There is no limitation in the length of the object slide, but the scan area is as big as the normal 35mm frames - about 23x35 mm. The field of application for the FH-G1 designated by Nikon actually is digitising medical preparates. But you can scan virtually all sorts of things with it.
Due to its guides on all four sides you can insert and fix virtually any original with a height of up to 2mm and a width of up to 26mm. In this way I've alread scanned 16mm films, glas pattern, samples of rocks between glass plates and pieces of microfilm. I've already mentioned that Nikon does not ship its new models of film scanners with Silverfast anymore.
Thereby the price reduction compared to the predecessors LS and LS levels out - thus the scanners didn't really get cheaper, they were only reduced in the scope of delivery. Nikon supplies a threepart software bundle with the filmscanners:. Some owners of a Nikon digital camera will ask themselves "What's Nikon View doing with a Nikon filmscanner? But what is this programm used for with a film scanner? Of course you can always create a slide show and so on with existing images, no matter if they accrue from a digital camera or from a scanner.
But the actual application for owners of a Nikon film scanner should be the possibility to process NEF images. NEF is Nikon's own raw format which can be selected as output file format when scanning with NikonScan.
This raw format contains almost all original information from the scan process, so that you have numerous possibilities of image enhancement and changing scan settings after the scan with the help of Nikon View. Many users already adjust the settings with the scan software, and for the "normal" image processing you'll get the Elements version of the best imaging software currently available my humble opinion anyway.
There are almost innumerable possibilities for colour enhancement - from a simple brightness slider up to the gradation curves tool there is virtually every nameable tool for processing colours available. And who wants to apply filters to his scan afterwards, for example to sharpen the image, finds almost boundless possibilities here, too. Does the extra charge of the 10 times more expensive full version pay off?
I really do miss one appreciable feature in the light version: batch processing of images - whether embedded in the program or as separate batch processing software. And there is one more reason for the expensive full version: the Elements version can only process an image file with a colour depth of 16 bit if it is previously converted into 8 bit. The full version can load, process and save image files with 16 bit per colour channel. Let's deal with the scan software Nikon Scan.
At first glance the new Version 4 doesn't seem to have changed a lot compared to the old version. The user interface looks virtually identical, the settings work as known. A few drawbacks have been improved, new features have been added. And I'd like to mention a very pleasant one right at the beginning: you can choose for which scanners you want to use the program for already at the installation.
Those who have five different Nikon scanners of different generations on their desktop like me will be very happy about not having to install every single driver separately.
That's great! Of course John Doe purchases exactly one scanner and hence only benefits indirectly from this feature, for example when downloading a new version of the software. So how good is NikonScan really? Can the software be recommended?
There are people who are so sworn in the leading scansoftware Silverfast, that they depreciate any other program as crab without looking at it any closer. You'll easily realize the importance of the scan software when using a cheap film scanner. Owners of a cheap scanner who switch from the cheap scan software of the manufacturer to Lasersoft's Silverfast suddenly can see an increasement of quality of their scans as big as if they had purchased a new scanner.
I've always said: it's not only the scanner that makes the image, it's also the software. You definitely won't see a gigantic increase of quality when you use Silverfast instead of NikonScan. NikonScan is so good and extensive in the meantime that you can perfectly use it for comfortably producing very good scans. In my opinion it's rather a matter of personal prefernce which program you choose.
Who already knows Silverfast from his flat bed scanner or even already owned another film scanner with Silverfast doesn't want to become acquaintetd with another scan software of course, because handling this kind of software correctly requires a lot of time. So what are those special features of NikonScan that make scanning so easy? The user interface is very clear and easy to use: there is a preview window, a little window showing the scan progress and a palette window containing all settings.
Most other film scanners fail with this special task. You can adjust all scan settings in a palette window: image format portrait or landscape and image size can be set in different ways and units. For setting the colour there is gradation curves, colour balance sliders, a LCH editor and an analog-amplifying slider. To achieve a higher sharpness you can use the function "unsharp mask" with a live preview in the preview window.
Furthermore you can switch the Scan Image Enhancer automatic setting of brightness and contrast on and off. But what would all those settings which can be comfortably adjusted one after another be, if they could not be saved? NikonScan provides the opportunity to save and load complete sets of settings.
So you can save for example all settings for mounted colour slides as "SlidejpgICE. Once you have made and saved your different settings you can quickly perform a scan or a series of same scans virtually at the push of a button. That's really comfortable and in my opinion no other software handles this task better than NikonScan. Of course NikonScan has got some shortcomings too which I don't want to keep secret.
While scanning it happens every now and then that the software totally crashes. But it doesn't crash with an error message or demands restarting the computer - no, it simply quits itself with the motto "I don't feel like scanning today.
Let's try again tomorrow Another shortcoming is that sometimes the communication with the scanner doesn't work anymore - the software then messages that no scanner is connected. It's annoying when suddenly the progress bar stands still in the middle of the scan process and nothing happens for a couple of minutes. Another drawback of the NikonScan software is enormously annoying: when using the Nikon Super Coolscan ED together with the slide feeder SF the maximum number of slides you can set is But what if you want to digitise a whole slide magazine with exactly images at once in batch mode?
It's clear that you can't put slides into the feeder at once. But it's no problem to keep supplies coming during the scan process, so that the scanner virtually runs non-stop. This actually works perfectly, but after 99 slides the scanner stops.
It's annoying everytime you have to manually scan exactly one leftover image. The scan software is very clearly arranged and easy to learn. The settings for a good scan can be adjusted easily and intuitively. And last but not least the scan software delivers very good images and really makes the best out of the connected scanner.
For me NikonScan still is the best film scanner manufacturer own scan software. Appendix The scan software NikonScan from Nikon does not run on actual operating systems any more. How can the image quality of a Nikon Super Coolscan be actually judged? Should we scan maybe 10 standardized test slides with resolution bar, colour patterns and gray scales to check to what extent the scans match the original?
With such experiments you can indeed determine certain numerical values, but you often can't use them to find out what an image will look like. Maybe it's better to simply scan different images to make a conclusion by rule of thumb. Or should we just assume the Nikon scans normal snap shots perfectly and fade to discerning originals like night shots or back light shots?
A good image is first of all made by a good film scanner, second by the scan software and third by the following image editing. It's clear that you can't fix too much with the image editing software if already the first link of this chain is weak.
The second link of the chain is also very important - and often overlooked: the scan software. A scan of an underexposed image though will be too dark as well if scanned with the standard settings. Does this mean poor image quality? An image like this can be slightly lightended either directly with the scan software or afterwards with an image editing software. You can make all settings adjusted with the scan software with the image editing software, too, except for one: the dust and scratches correction ICE.
ICE works perfectly with the Nikon dust, scratches, fingerprints, lint etc. An additional infrared source identifies what doesn't belong to the image and sophisticated algorithms correct the corresponding spots with close pixels.
Back to my statement that all settings which can be made within the scan software except ICE can be made with the image editing software, too. From this it follows that it's not that important what the scanned image effectively looks like, but rather which information it contains. Example: a black and white astronomy shot looks worthless with standard scan settings. A lot of stars, dust in space, not on the image and clouds disappear.
If you scan an image with 48 Bit colour depth and save the outcome in the TIF format, you'll have all image information in a large file, so that you can make a virtually perfect digital image by editing it afterwards. You can particularly see it with discerning twilight or night shots. When performing a resolution test the Nikon shows its strength. The horizontal and vertical lines of the second element of the sixth group are still clearly visible - the corresponding resolution is dpi.
If you enlarge element 6.
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