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Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED Film Scanner
Price: $2,199.95
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Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 months
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| 4,000 dpi optical resolution |
| 16-bit A/D conversion, 8 or 16-bit output |
| Scan speeds as fast as 40 seconds |
| Digital ICE4 advanced suite of image correction technologies |
| IEEE 1394 FireWire interface, PC and Mac compatible |
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Customers Reviews
2009-11-16
Amazing price stability for technology that is MORE than 6years old!
Its amazing to me that this model, the 5000ED and the 9000ED can maintain their outrageously high price for so long!
I created two attributes and gave them both 1 star:
1) Valued Technology = *
If the film scanning technology was so valuable, Nikon would be replacing and upgading the electronics every 2 or 3 yrs at the most.
This is a extremely OLD electronic product! Its market introduction date was Novemeber 2003 - 6 years ago! Or about 3.5-4 released generations of other electronic products ago, including cameras.
The Super Cool Scan 9000 ED came out in the Spring of 2004.. more than 5.5 yrs ago
The 9000ED uses firewire, which is stupid since USB 2.0 is slightly faster than firewire.
But as I said they built these products a very very very very long time ago. At that time firewire still meant something and USB 2.0 was just started. Hence their firewire port.
USB 3.0 is nearly out.
2) Customer Support = *
Forget about it, its not supported very well
The support for these film scanners is arguably the worst ever recorded for tech support in general
Reviews abound in the internet, if you're lucky you will not need customer service
3) Price Stability = *****
Like I said its amazing that these Nikon Film Scanners can maintain their pricing over the years!
These electronic products are nearly 6 years old!!! NO other electronic product comes close to maintaining their price.
In fact, their price stability reminds of of the price stability in the Lenses made by Nikon and Canon. But most of those Lenses can hardly be called an electronic product - they're lenses.
Summary:
I hate these scanners, because Nikon does not feel there is a need for them. I want a faster scanner, this is OLD technology! I want ability to scan more film at the same time as well.
So I want speed and capacity!
If you have tens of thousands of film strips to scan like I do, and you want high quality scans, IT WILL TAKE FOREVER TO SCAN THESE!
THE TECHNOLOGY IN THESE BOXES IS OLD - VERY OLD. We are talking 6 years people and anf that is only from the market introduction date. So actually most of the technology in these boxes is about 7-8 yrs old. It uses a very old and very slow single processor, a version that is even older than when the first USB 2.0 cam out!
If you go buy a laptop, a television, or a printer, or even a camera, Im sure you want something that is using new technology! Anyone want to go out and buy a 6 year old printer? NO ME !
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2008-12-12
No 64-bit drivers
This item will not work with 64-bit Vista. I had bought a new PC specifically for scanning and enhancing a large number of transparencies and was a very unhappy camper when I found out that I had to keep my old machine just to use with this scanner. If Nikon is not willing to keep the drivers up to date, the product should be considered to be abandoned.
Incidentally the old 32-bit drivers aren't that hot either. Firewire is supposed to be plug and play, but Nikon warns that this scanner isn't, and may conflict if you have another Firewire device installed. I found another issue - if I turn off the scanner before I shut down Windows, Windows hangs on shut-down.
One final bug - if I use the hardware eject button on the front of the machine rather than ejecting through software it reports that I have an unrecognized carrier type when I re-insert it. It's a pity that decent hardware is ruined by sloppy software/firmware.
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2006-12-20
For medium format negatives, easily better than my local pro lab
I was astonished at what this scanner could do, in terms of preserving the gentle tones of my black and white negatives. My only regret is that there is no equivalent to Digital ICE for black and white. That problem is not unique to this scanner, of course.
The quality of the images I get from this scanner, with 6cm x 6cm negatives from a 1970-vintage twin lens camera, trounces the images I get with a Canon 5D SLR. I also have used it with 35MM negatives, which work beautifully, and with both 4.5cm x 4.5cm negatives and 110 negatives, which require that I jury-rig a special mask for the glass-covered medium format carriage (FH-869GR, not included).
The 9000ED comes with a 35MM carriage, 35MM slide carriage, and basic MF carriage. For the price, I would have preferred if they had included the glass-covered, rotating 120 unit as well.
[2009 note: there is a bug in the NikonScan software that drives this scanner such that with recent versions of Mac OSX -- starting with 10.5.6 I believe -- the software won't recognize the scanner if there are other firewire devices attached at the time the software is launched. The other devices can be plugged back in after the software is running, but they have to be unplugged when it starts. Vuescan, a popular third party software package that works with this scanner, does not have the same problem. I prefer NikonScan despite this quirk, but opinions vary.]
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2006-11-10
Best solution for what I needed
The device has worked exactly as I had hoped allowing me to archieve hundreds of old negatives that would have been lost or cost much more than what I paid for it. I am very pleased.
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2006-05-30
Amazing scans of seriously degraded film
I bought one of these units primarily to digitally archive hundreds of old photos shot and mounted as 6x6 and 35mm slides, as well as lots of B&W 35mm negatives. The 6x6 color slides are as much as 50 years old, with some mounted in glass -- which was a bad idea, as those slides have had exceptionally severe color shifts and many have been partially eaten by fungus trapped behind the glass. The scanner's digital ICE and ROC were downright magical (GEM less so, and DEE was sometimes great but touchy to adjust for some slides). With just a few exceptions, even gross over and under exposed slides still yielded usable images. Infected slides that I could barely see through came out perfect except for little pink splotches where the fungus was particularly nasty. The only other defect observed was that interference rings were highly visible on 3 out of about 50 glass-mounted slides... which I suspect was due to the slides having been overheated years ago when they were viewed by projection. Some non-glass mounted slides had significant heat warp damage, but I didn't see serious problems in their scans. BTW, scanning 6x6 slides requires an optional adapter... it's a pitty that the adapter doesn't hold at least three 6x6 slides at once and it does take a little time to put a new slide in, but that time was hidden by the processing time using my 1.6GHz Turion laptop.
The 35mm slides are better exposed, newer, and in better condition; the worst of them was handled very well by this scanner. I haven't yet tried scanning the B&W negatives.
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Product Details
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Nikon
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EAN: 0018208092376
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Label: Nikon
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Manufacturer: Nikon
Model: 9237
Publisher: Nikon
Release Date: 2004-02-15
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Nikon Cameras HistoryNikon Corporation is one of the major companies of the Mitsubishi Group, a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and specializing in optics and imaging.
Nippon Kogaku K.K., or Japanese Optical Society (afterwards became known as Nikon Corporation) was formed at July 25, 1917 as a result of merging of three firms: Tokyo Keiki Seisaku-sho's optical division, Iwaki Glass Seisaku-sho и Fujii Lens Seizo-sho. The new company was aimed at manufacturing high-quality optics for Imperial Japanese Navy. And up to 1945 it actually was their main goal that determined the company’s philosophy and traditions. The first president of Nippon Kogaku was Yoshihira Wada.
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