"Use the D850's 45.7 MP back illuminated sensor and Live View for Stills Mode as a negative film scanner with the new optional ES-2 Film Digitizing Adapter on a compatible Micro-NIKKOR lens. You can copy slides or negatives one at a time. Digitize the gems from your film days."
"The ES-2 is a Film Digitizing Adapter that lets you easily convert your film images to digital. Taking advantage of the high-pixel count of the D850's 45.7 MP, the Film Digitizing Adapter lets you convert both 35mm slides and negatives to digital files. Using a lens such as the AF-S Micro NIKKOR 60mm f/2.8G ED attached to the D850, the camera's digitizing function automatically reverses the colors and stores them as JPEG images. This once time-consuming process involving a film scanner can be done much more quickly. For negative strips, use the FH-4 Strip Film Holder with the ES-2 and for slides, use the FH-5 Slide Mount Holder with the ES-2."
http://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-pro...eras/d850.html
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
"Digitize the gems from your film days... can be done much more quickly."
And then waste your time with dust and scratch removal in PP ?
And then waste your time with dust and scratch removal in PP ?
ptpdprinter
Veteran
Need corresponding adapter for medium format.
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
So what's the cost of a D850? That's a pretty expensive scanner!
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
it's a rather clickbait-smelling title 
brbo
Well-known
VERY interesting. Can't wait to see some samples.
I'll never own D850, of course, and I don't believe this feature will be that great from the start, but maybe Nikon (and some other companies) can put some R&D into inverting negative films that is better (or at least has a great "film look") than doing it in PS.
Aristophanes
Well-known
According to the Nikon blurs it automatically inverts and colour corrects the image in-cameraas a JPG.
No word on dust and scratches.
Dust spotting is no big deal, prep the negs/slides first to reduce or eliminate the need.
The color inversion is a very cool feature, that is a HUGE workflow time saver.
Will be interesting to see if any third parties engineer a medium format holder. Guessing this would require a different lens/extension tube setup, but a 46mp scan could be quite nice...
The color inversion is a very cool feature, that is a HUGE workflow time saver.
Will be interesting to see if any third parties engineer a medium format holder. Guessing this would require a different lens/extension tube setup, but a 46mp scan could be quite nice...
Timmyjoe
Veteran
Not sure what the quality will look like compared to the Coolscan 9000, but it certainly would be a lot quicker.
Also, why wouldn't that adapter, since it fits on the end of the Macro camera lens, work with any Nikon DSLR? Not sure why you'd need to buy a D850. Sure, you'd need Photoshop to invert a negative image, but you could shoot RAW (as opposed to the jpg they are pushing when using the D850), and no inversion needed when shooting slides.
Looks interesting.
Best,
-Tim
Also, why wouldn't that adapter, since it fits on the end of the Macro camera lens, work with any Nikon DSLR? Not sure why you'd need to buy a D850. Sure, you'd need Photoshop to invert a negative image, but you could shoot RAW (as opposed to the jpg they are pushing when using the D850), and no inversion needed when shooting slides.
Looks interesting.
Best,
-Tim
Huss
Veteran
I have had no issues with dust and scratch removal in PP scanning w a D750. Just handle the negs appropriately, and use a rocket blower (or equivalent) before scanning.
Instead of worrying about dust getting sucked into a traditional film scanner, in second or two I get a dust free neg ready to go.
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
I beg your pardon, I purchased specific film scanner model to deal with my film era films and sold it after it was done. It was fast to scan and has very effective iCE. Condition of my film from film era was totally unmanageable to deal with its scratches like defects and else just in PP.
Yes, it is not big deal if film is fresh. IMO. Digital era film were comments "just blow the dust" are valid.
But it is not in the adapter advertisement where it is specifically aimed to film era films.
Film era films required formalin to prevent degradation, but it wasn't always applied by the labs, it seems.
Yes, it is not big deal if film is fresh. IMO. Digital era film were comments "just blow the dust" are valid.
But it is not in the adapter advertisement where it is specifically aimed to film era films.
Film era films required formalin to prevent degradation, but it wasn't always applied by the labs, it seems.
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Stelios
Guest
Wouldn't that work with any full frame camera?
Huss
Veteran
the camera's digitizing function automatically reverses the colors and stores them as JPEG images
Does it have film profiles that you can pick from to do this?
This is the most interesting bit for me. The rest I am already doing.
Huss
Veteran
I beg your pardon, I purchased specific film scanner model to deal with my film era films and sold it after it was done. It was fast to scan and has very effective iCE. Condition of my film from film era was totally unmanageable to deal with its scratches and else just in PP.
It is not big deal if film is fresh. IMO. Digital era film were comments "just blow the dust are valid".
Ok, so you had to deal w/ damaged film. I can see that being an issue.
Mine was/is properly stored.
Which begs the question, is there a standalone 3rd party plug in for ICE? Something like a NikFx plug in, so you can do it after scanning on your computer. That would help people with damaged film.
I am assuming that Nikon has included some sophisticated software in the D850 for accurate colors.
Doing this manually in photoshop is, frankly speaking, a pain in the a**.
It's very hard to get consistent results, and time consuming.Having it all done in camera is very cool.
Kudos to Nikon for putting the engineering effort into this, curious to see just how good it is...
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
From my basic knowledge this is not how ICE works. ICE is optical and firmware RT operation which is possible only at the scan. Where dust and scratches are optically recognized as the layer which is getting masked and missing parts are getting interpolated. Just SW based solutions were failure to get it done fast and effectively, last time I checked it.
How film is stored is important, but it all starts with how film was developed. Where it was developed for me, back then, it was often quick and dirty by all means....
Not sure if there is software that replicates ICE or not. But the original Digital ICE is not just software, it's also partly hardware.
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
850 camera has something called back illuminated sensor. Back light is the key for scanning.
Dwig
Well-known
Optically, it would work with any Nikon FX DSLR. You might be able to fudge it on a DX model with an appropriate lens+extension choice, but only maybe.
Only the D850 will have the ability to invert negs to positive and automagically color correct to adjust to a color neg's mask. If you were to use this on a D800, or similar, you could easily dupe slides/transparencies and B&W would be easy to invert in post, but dealing with color negs would require some skill.
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Stelios
Guest
That's what I was thinking. Not impossible, software can deal with the conversion just like it does with negative scanners (right?).
In that case it would be tempting, although I know that people have been duplicating film using bellows etc for a while now...
In that case it would be tempting, although I know that people have been duplicating film using bellows etc for a while now...