Nikon LS-1000?

[joeyjoe]

Hi Everyone,

I've got the chance to get one of these guys really cheaply ($80 shipped to my door) . I do realize it an older scanner, but it's got 2700 DPI and it's gotta be waaay better than the 1200 DPI epson flatbed I have. If I do prints from this guy it'll most likely be 4x6's, 5x7's and *MAYBE* 8x10's.

I'll be doing mostly B&W Neg scans with it, but occasionally I'll do slides and color negatives.

I've also read that it takes about a minute per scan at full resolution, but that doesn't bother me too much. I'll probably do lower res. scans of a whole roll and then go back and do full res. scans of the shots I like and would want to reproduce.

anyone have experience with this scanner? Facts & Opinions would be greatly appreciiated.

 

[Chaser]

make sure you can get the right drivers and software....i have one that was loaned to me but i have no way of making it work on my computer because of the lack of drivers from nikon....also i believe that the scanner is scsi so you need to have scsi abilities......

sorry i dont actually know about how it performs but these are a few considerations..
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[mac_wt]

I have one! It works with Vuescan and the interface is SCSI. No need for drivers on my Beige Powermac G3. It gives nice results, but the proces of scanning is timeconsuming. You can put up to six frames in the holder, but you have to adjust it for each frame. Scanning a film of 36 shots takes me about 1 hour of constant attention (not including post processing). I recently bought an Epson 3170. It isn't faster, but I can start scanning up to 12 frames at once and then go do something else for 20 minutes.
But that is a good price. If you have matching hardware (an older Mac or a PC with a SCSI card), that's a great scanner!

Wim

 

[kbg32]

One thing to keep in consideration is that the LS 1000 will not work in OSX. No driver.

 

[mac_wt]

That's wrong. I use it under OSX 10.3.9 with VueScan. No Nikon driver needed. I did install a SCSI card in My Beige G3 as the SCSI on the motherboard isn't supported by OS X.

Wim

 

[kbg32]

That's wrong. I use it under OSX 10.3.9 with VueScan. No Nikon driver needed. I did install a SCSI card in My Beige G3 as the SCSI on the motherboard isn't supported by OS X.

Wim

Wim,

I was speaking of the Nikon driver, not third party software. You're running OSX on your G3? No problems? How much memory are you running?


JoeyJoe - what computer system are you using?

 

[nikarlo]

No problem with my iBook g3 500 and mac osX Tiger!!! With 640mb sdram!
Tiger is also faster than panter!!

 

[mac_wt]

kbg32,

The original G3 has been replaced with a 400 MHz G4. 512Mb Ram. Panther runs really well. I'm looking forward to installing Tiger, but I'm waiting for some more reports on succesfull installs on Beige G3's. These aren't supposed to be supported. This G3 is my workhorse: scanjobs, long downloads, fileserver, backups,... Most of the time I use my PowerBook for wireless surfing, e-mail, Photoshop, music,...

nikario,

how do you connect the SCSI LS-1000 to your iBook? With a SCSI to USB or FireWire converter?

Wim

 

[mac_wt]

nikario,

scrap that question, I now understand your comment was regarding OSX on a G3, not regarding using the scanner under OSX.

Wim

 

[joeyjoe]

I'm on a PC with an AMD 2700+, 256 MB of DDR memory, two 80 gig WD hard drives and a NVidia Geforce 2 Ti Video card.

Installing a SCSI card is no big deal to me, in fact the person I'll be purchasing from is going to be providing one.

Now the fact that scanning a 36 exposure roll takes an entire hour of constant attention concerns me a little bit. I guess that's about how long it takes for me to scan on my flatbed though, and the quality I'll be getting will be *MUCH* better.

How's the Nikon software/drivers work in comparison to Vuescan?

 

[blee017]

I'm using one on Windows 2000 with vuescan.
I couldn't get the NiconScan work but the results with vuescan are good so I didn't bother.
By the way, Windows will complain that there is no "driver" for the scanner.
Just ignore it and vuescan will detect the scanner alright.