Coolscan 9000, Plustek, Minolta.. again, I need your Help!

I would only consider one of the following options:
1) Find a good lab for scanning
2) Plustek 120 for the warranty - I am not sure it gives the same performance as Coolscan 9000, but it seems like a decent machine and as was mentioned before comes with warranty.

I am so far using the option (1), but should I shoot more, than I would go with (2). Just keep in mind scanning the films yourself takes time and a LOT of time to learn to use new scanner.
 
Finally I've purchased the Coolscan 4000, Hope I Will enjoy it!

Do I need that glass holder? Anti-Newton or something like that?

Thanks!
 
Bruno Gracia said:
Finally I've purchased the Coolscan 4000, Hope I Will enjoy it!

Do I need that glass holder? Anti-Newton or something like that?

Thanks!
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Glassholder is very good for filmstripes & filmpieces, especially when they are not flat. Meanwhile I mount every piece of film in the glassholder.
 
thegman said:
I have not used any of the scanners you mention, but I'd get the Plustek. That sort of money on electronics should come with a warranty and the assurance that repair is possible, in my opinion.

I mean, would you spend Coolscan 9000 money on a used computer of that age, with no warranty, and no assurance that if it broke, it could be repaired?
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I did, and I'm delighted with it. :)
I was considering the Plustek 120, but with all the interminable delays and the the problems I read about, I felt the practically new CS9000 I was offered was a better deal.

G
 
Bruno Gracia said:
thank You all!

By the way.. the Nikon Coolscan support Firewire 800? or just 400??
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The Super Coolscan 4000 ED has a FW400 interface. The Coolscan IV (often referred to as the Coolscan 4000 or LS-40) has a USB2 interface. They're both great scanners. I had the CS-IV until I upgraded to the CS-V model (also a peach). I had Minolta scanners before these and find the Nikons to be far more robust.

Use VueScan to drive the scanner. Well supported and does the best job, IMO.

G
 
Super Coolscan 4000 ED here, and if you have the SA-21 film strip adapter, you can mod it to scan an entire roll...
 
I Don't know what's happend but the output file is missing, nowhere... I can't get any picture after 1 hour scanning the same file! changing all the outpout options.. grra!!!
 
BTW the only time multi exposure is ever useful is with high DR slides or extremely well done black and white negatives (tmax) which push the boundaries of the scanner's DR. Any other time it's just wasting time. This of course assumes we're talking about using a capable scanner.
 
Bruno Gracia said:
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what for is the option called "last page" ?
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If you mean in VueScan, when you've set it to capture multiple scans as PDF pages in a single PDF document, you close the PDF file by clicking the "Last page" button. Then the next scan with the same settings will start a new PDF document.

Sascha Steinhoff has written two useful books on VueScan:
The VueScan Bible: Everything You Need to Know for Perfect Scanning
Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archive

I've been using it so long I can't even tell you what I do with it anymore ... I just load one of my option presets and it works. ;-)

G
 
Bruno Gracia said:
Ok.. I fix it, think was the option multiple exposure?
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Alpsman said:
How many times? 16 times?:D
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Bruno Gracia said:
Alpsman.. Just two or something like that not sure jajajaja
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If we're talking Vuescan Multi Exposure is 2 passes, or two exposures. Number of Samples or Number of Passes (depending on the hardware it's one or the other) can be set up to 16 but they are all the same exposure setting. But Multi Exposure is just a tick box that causes a second pass at a setting brighter than the base exposure setting. How much brighter I don't know.
 
The Coolscan V is a very good scanner, don't know about the 4000. Once I got used to Vuescan I found I could feed the slides in very quickly. I prepare a pile of them and remove the dust from one while the previous one is scanning. Vuescan automatically names the file being saved and then automatically gives me a preview of the slide I just inserted.
 
KevinS said:
The Coolscan V is a very good scanner, don't know about the 4000. Once I got used to Vuescan I found I could feed the slides in very quickly. I prepare a pile of them and remove the dust from one while the previous one is scanning. Vuescan automatically names the file being saved and then automatically gives me a preview of the slide I just inserted.
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I also use the Coolscan V ED quite a lot. It is a very fine negative scanner. Had a Coolscan IV ED before it. No problems with either, although the V is a small improvement on the IV. How they compare to the Super Coolscan 4000 and 5000 models, I'm not sure.

G
 
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