Coolscan V issue

[benno]

So guys, I finally got myself a 'decent' scanner last night, but I'm already having issues with it - whenever I insert a strip of film, it reverts to 'positive' mode and previews everything as colour positive. With the infernally slow preview speed, having to preview everything twice is really pissing me off!

I've tried rebooting, removing the SA-21 adaptor and finally re-installing the software, all to no avail.

Anyone else have a solution?

 

[JTK]

Unless you're using all sorts of fancy, unnecessary settings, you should experience 1.5 second scans including Ice, maybe 1 second without Ice.

My guess is that you're playing with the settings...anything they do can be done better in post processing. In any case, you can save your color positives and invert in Photoshop...you probably want to do that anyway if you're scanning B&W silver film.

I use Nikon V and have never had difficulties.

 

[rogue_designer]

Benno.

What software version are you using and what operating system?

 

[benno]

I don't have/use photoshop...

but a 1.5 second scan? Really?

I'm happy with the time of the actual scans, it's just the previews that seem unreasonably slow. Not to mention the general slowness of the program.

But the main problem is the colour inversion thing - it keeps resetting to colour positive when I try to scan a strip of negs!

It's driving me freakin crazy!

Edit:
Im using Mac OSX and Nikon Scan 4.0 .... although I thought it auto-updated itself just after I installed it.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Do the thumbnails first, not preview scans. Thumbnails are scanned FAST, and you can change the scan type (trans, neg, BW) after the thumbs are made, then choose the images you want to do previews of

 

[benno]

Thanks Chris, that does work after a fashion. Seems stupid of Nikon to let this bug through though - does it happen with yours?

I tried Vuescan and the previews seem quicker. It's overall a harder to use package I think, I can't seem to find a histogram with levels adjustment etc.

 

[Laowai]

Benno,

There is no bug - it's Nikon, not Leica. Go to the "profile" menu. There you can preset and save your preferred film type. The manual is not really helpful, you need to play around a bit

 

[JTK]

You might want to uninstall and re-install the Nikonscan.

Yes 1.5 seconds, irrespective the film type or density..with Ice. Without Ice you save a fraction. If you're having scan times longer than 1.5 seconds either you're doing something wrong (using the special settings...which you should ignore) or yes, something's wrong with your scanner.

It's not a Nikon bug. Nikonscan's excellent, as is Minolta's equivalent and Vuescan. Nikonscan's often the best with V (assuming strip film) because it drives the motorized carrier with precision, and Vuescan doesn't.

 

[FifthLeaf]

Are you using an Intel Mac? Nikon Scan is a PPC-native program, so it runs through Rosetta. This would definitely slow down the program.

I know this because I'm in this situation. The program often runs slowly and crashes more often than it should.

 

[J J Kapsberger]

Yes 1.5 seconds, irrespective the film type or density...

What resolution setting do you use that allows such quick scans?