Can't get Nikon SuperCoolscan 9000 to work in Win 7

[MineSix66]

Hi,

I am not able to get my Nikon Super Cool Scan 9000 to work in WIn 7 64bit. I was able to use Vuescan to run it but the preview image was not completely scanned. It showed a very thin bar in the preview section.

Nikon scan was unable to recognize the scanner even though in my device manager states it is working properly. Any ideas?

 

[jim_jm]

A few years ago I had a similar problem getting my Win Vista 64 bit OS to recognize my Nikon Coolscan V ED.

I found this page which detailed how to modify some of the driver files to get Nikon scanners to run on 64-bit OS's. I suspect this may help you solve your problem.

This worked fine for my scanner, and I haven't had any issues since.

 

[jonmanjiro]

If you haven't already, try installing Nikon Scan 4.0.3 64-bit for Vista.

 

[MineSix66]

Hey I forgot to mention that I did install for Vista and did the Nikon Scan Modification. In my device manager is shows Firewire scanner as a Imaging Device and the Driver Provider is Hamrick Software 8/21/2006.

 

[MineSix66]

Got it going with Vuescan. Does anyone like Vuescan better than Nikon Scan. I used Vuescan for my Microtek Artixscan and Epson but never tried it with Vuescan.

 

[Particular]

I think a lot of people prefer vuescan. I suppose it somewhat depends on the kind of work flow you are after. I bypass vuescan's fussy controls, and output a raw file which I then work on in photoshop and lightroom. It is the only software that will continue to get updates for modern operating systems, so it is worth the effort to find a way to make it work for you.

 

[nikku]

Got it going with Vuescan. Does anyone like Vuescan better than Nikon Scan. I used Vuescan for my Microtek Artixscan and Epson but never tried it with Vuescan.

I like Vuescan better than Nikon Scan, but as CNNY above I simply scan to a tiff file (or high res jpeg) then post process in PS. This workflow works far better/faster for me as I can post process image files while scanning the next set of negs.

 

[MineSix66]

I am scanning with it using vuescan right now. I noticed it pauses for a while during scanning. It is paused at the 35% marks and didn't save the file as a complete image. I did another scan and it stopped at 74% and didn't save the complete image. Any ideas?

 

[Particular]

Are you somehow interrupting the scan? Sometimes the scan may pause if it is waiting for memory to clear. It doesn't start saving until the scan is complete, so if you stop or interrupt the scan part way through, it will save the incomplete scan.

 

[nikku]

What CNNY said. Are you running multiple programs at the same time while scanning?

Got it going with Vuescan. Does anyone like Vuescan better than Nikon Scan. I used Vuescan for my Microtek Artixscan and Epson but never tried it with Vuescan.

Are you somehow interrupting the scan? Sometimes the scan may pause if it is waiting for memory to clear. It doesn't start saving until the scan is complete, so if you stop or interrupt the scan part way through, it will save the incomplete scan.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I have used Vuescan with my Nikon LS-800ED for many years, and I am very happy with the results. I have a Mac Pro with Mavericks, and Nikon Scan probably doesn't work on it. It was so slow and buggy, crash prone, on my older Powermac G4 that I gave up on it years ago. Vuescan has a crappy user interface but image quality is top notch.

I have a couple of tutorials I made for using Vuescan for black and white scans:

Written tutorial:
http://crawfordphotoschool.com/digital/scanning.php

Video tutorial on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/Y5xBHKGVOB8

 

[MineSix66]

Thanks Chris,

Been following you on Rangefinder Forum ever since I joined. How come you don't scan with more samples. I tried 16 samples but 10% in the scan the picture started showing a pink/red vertical line.

 

[nikku]

Chris, great tutorial. That's all stuff I wish I had known 5+ years ago. It took me a loooooong time to figure it out on my own.

I have used Vuescan with my Nikon LS-800ED for many years, and I am very happy with the results. I have a Mac Pro with Mavericks, and Nikon Scan probably doesn't work on it. It was so slow and buggy, crash prone, on my older Powermac G4 that I gave up on it years ago. Vuescan has a crappy user interface but image quality is top notch.

I have a couple of tutorials I made for using Vuescan for black and white scans:

Written tutorial:
http://crawfordphotoschool.com/digital/scanning.php

Video tutorial on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/Y5xBHKGVOB8

MineSix66, did you try turning on "Fine Mode" as suggested in the tutorial?

 

[KM-25]

I have used Vuescan with my Nikon LS-800ED for many years, and I am very happy with the results. I have a Mac Pro with Mavericks, and Nikon Scan probably doesn't work on it. It was so slow and buggy, crash prone, on my older Powermac G4 that I gave up on it years ago. Vuescan has a crappy user interface but image quality is top notch.

Just an FYI, I am using both Vuescan and Silverfast Ai with my 9000ED on my 2011 Mac Pro with Yosemite and it is really smooth. In fact, the whole OS is a lot smoother and hiccup free than Mavericks was.

I also tried out the scanner on my Retina Macbook Pro using a firewire to Thunderbolt adapter and it worked perfectly so between that and OWC's new hub that has a FW800 port, these scanners should be fine with the latest Mac Pro 6,1 trash cans.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Thanks Chris,

Been following you on Rangefinder Forum ever since I joined. How come you don't scan with more samples. I tried 16 samples but 10% in the scan the picture started showing a pink/red vertical line.

I have found that multisampling does not increase image quality for scans of negatives. It is useful for scanning transparencies, because they have a higher density range than negs do, and multisampling helps control noise in dark tones that sometimes occurs with scans of transparencies.