innerimager Posted March 9, 2008 Share #1 Posted March 9, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) With some trepidation, I'm reporting my experience using Nikon Scan with my Coolscan 5000 rather than Vuescan. I was persuaded to try Vuescan with the very positive reports about it on this forum. While I like many things about it, especially the "Raw Scan" feature, I found many things that slowed me down a lot. There is no thumbnail generation allowing you to see all the images on the roll ( of you have the roll adapter of course) which means that in order to see what image you are scanning you have a wait for a full preview to generate. Nikon Scan allows this feature so selecting the images to batch scan, and sorting them out as to subject and thus where to file them, is very fast. Also, I have a terrible time adjusting the offset so that each image is lined up. It takes lot's of fiddling, of course once set it's fine for the roll. Nikon Scan always lined up the images immediately, I have not had to adjust at all. Of course, the image quality is the most important, and in this regard I am very happy with Nikon Scan at 4000 DPI. It has more contrast at default than Vuescan which I almost always prefer, so that with viewscan I either have to adjust this in Vuescan or PS for every image. while with Nikon Scan I am doing much less of this. Am I the only one here who prefers Nikon Scan? Here are some examples This is a full sized link to the last, no sharpening added 50 cron9.jpg photo - halperin photos at pbase.com Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gylee Posted March 10, 2008 Share #2 Posted March 10, 2008 No, you are not the only one. After reading all of the recommendations I did not even install Nikon Scan - I went straight for Vuescan. After weeks of fiddling around with its absolutely impenetrable interface, I was about to give up the entire business of scanning, when I decided that I would give Nikon Scan a try. What a revelation. Scans from 400CN and Delta 100 come out basically perfect right from the negative, it is simple to use and it is quicker. I too particularly liked the thumbnail option. I will never use Vuescan again. It might be a marvellous programme capable of superior results - frankly I couldn't care less. As a practical scanning solution, it is, for me, useless. This may be a reflection on my technical skills, but if I am getting a result I like from Nikon Scan with virtually no effort, I am OK with being labelled a noddy. G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerimager Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share #3 Posted March 10, 2008 No, you are not the only one. G. Right, we're the only two! i don't quite share your distaste for Vuescan, but I just find Nikon Scan does a very god job with much less time and effort. best...Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkness30 Posted March 10, 2008 Share #4 Posted March 10, 2008 I also use Nikonscan on my Windoz machine but on my laptop vuescan is the only option due to linux operating system. After some experience vuescan is just as easy as Nikon. At least thats how i feel. Best Mehmet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolsen Posted March 11, 2008 Share #5 Posted March 11, 2008 I use NikonScan also. Have you noticed something interesting? If you scan your negatives as Negative (color) and set the dropdown list below as Monochrome, the contrast will be lower than if you scan as Negative (B/W) and Monochrome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leica dream Posted March 11, 2008 Share #6 Posted March 11, 2008 This is a very interesting topic for me as I am considering buying a Nikon scanner. I guess the only problem left for me now is to decide whether it is actually worth spending the money and effort transferring the slides to digital. Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerimager Posted March 11, 2008 Author Share #7 Posted March 11, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) I use NikonScan also.Have you noticed something interesting? If you scan your negatives as Negative (color) and set the dropdown list below as Monochrome, the contrast will be lower than if you scan as Negative (B/W) and Monochrome. I'll have a look at this, thanks....Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicapages Posted March 12, 2008 Share #8 Posted March 12, 2008 my vote goes to Nikon Scan. But it does not work on Vista :-( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterv Posted March 12, 2008 Share #9 Posted March 12, 2008 Hi Peter, I use an Epson scanner V750, and I also like the Epson software better than third party software. (BTW Vuescan only 'sees' my scanner as a V700 and won't even give me the option to scan slides or negatives) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkness30 Posted March 13, 2008 Share #10 Posted March 13, 2008 Pascal, I use it on Vista Ultimate without any problem. Best Mehmet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedubbed Posted March 13, 2008 Share #11 Posted March 13, 2008 Pascal. Nikon Scan does work on Vista. All you have to do is right click on the setup file and change the properties so it runs in XP mode. I just set mine up the other day and have had no problems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ai1 Posted March 13, 2008 Share #12 Posted March 13, 2008 I too like NikonScan. When I first got my ED 5000 a few years ago, I thought I would get Silverfast 6.5, which I had been using on my previous scanner (a Kodak 3600), but tried the NikonScan first. I never looked back -- generally better scans, B&W and color (which is what I mostly shoot) and easier. I recently added a Microtek Artixscan M1 for scanning 4x5 negatives. The Microtek Scanwizard software does not work at all (currently using OS 10.5.2 on an Intel iMac, but it also did not function on a a G4 tower running 10.3.9) -- and, when I mean does not work, I mean crashes immediately. As a result, I am using Silverfast SE Plus, which was bundled with the M1. Using the same color negative film, Fuji Pro 160S Pro, in both formats, the NikonScan is not only easier, but, more important, produces better color -- and, when needed, has better controls than SE Plus or AI 6.5. In all cases. of course, I do further adjustments in Photoshop, but the Nikonscan negative seem to require less work in Photoshop. I have not used Vuescan, but did try the demo for the NIkon scanner. From that limited experience, I agree with the other comments posted here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrh68uk Posted March 13, 2008 Share #13 Posted March 13, 2008 I have also tried both NikonScan and Vuescan and very much prefer Nikon for usability and (default) results. I tried fiddling with Vuescan to get results that matched NikonScan (which, to me, were better on first attempt) and I wondered why I was bothering. NikonScan does the job for me. BTW, Nikon has just released a point upgrade (v4.0.3) as a Vista-compatible update to NikonScan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieri Posted March 13, 2008 Share #14 Posted March 13, 2008 One more vote for Nikon Scan here - Mac user. Seems to work very well with Tri-X & Ilford HP5; I scan to TIFF, basic settings except for EV if needed and ROC/GEM a couple of times, and then do whatever I need to do in PS. You can see some results in these threads: http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/people/47852-mp-moma.html http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/people/47857-simit-seller.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
el.nino Posted March 13, 2008 Share #15 Posted March 13, 2008 my vote goes to Nikon Scan. But it does not work on Vista :-( as you can see it DOES work on vista: nikon scan 4.03 still waiting for a ub-version for leopard... and i'd like to have a real raw-scan-possibility. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nei1 Posted March 13, 2008 Share #16 Posted March 13, 2008 Hello everyone,have enjoyed the forums here a great deal,theres a lot of experience here. Just a quick question.If Im only scanning b&w negs will I get the same quality scan from the nikon coolscan 5 ED as from the 5000ED.Speed is not important but I am after a similar quality digital print to wet print.Any advice gratefully received. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicapages Posted March 14, 2008 Share #17 Posted March 14, 2008 thanks to all who replied to nikon scan and vista compatibility. Great news. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
el.nino Posted March 14, 2008 Share #18 Posted March 14, 2008 Hello everyone,have enjoyed the forums here a great deal,theres a lot of experience here. Just a quick question.If Im only scanning b&w negs will I get the same quality scan from the nikon coolscan 5 ED as from the 5000ED.Speed is not important but I am after a similar quality digital print to wet print.Any advice gratefully received. as far as i know the 5000ED hast the possibility to do a multi-pass-scan by hardware. don't know how much it is affecting the scan-qualitiy but if money is not an issue i'd go for the 5000. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nei1 Posted March 14, 2008 Share #19 Posted March 14, 2008 Thanks Daniel,enjoyed your website. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted March 14, 2008 Share #20 Posted March 14, 2008 as far as i know the 5000ED hast the possibility to do a multi-pass-scan by hardware. don't know how much it is affecting the scan-qualitiy but if money is not an issue i'd go for the 5000. Vuescan can do multi-pass scans with the Coolscan V. The 5000ED has the better dynamic range, so if money's not an issue I'd go for that one. Also the 5000ED allows the scanning of an entire film and multiple slides using the appropriate adaptors. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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