RIP Coolscan!

[Fraser]

Well my coolscan V is as good as new, the power button had been playing up quite difficult to turn on and sometimes turning off by itself! Bought a cheap IV that was described as powering on but nothing else took a risk hoping the power unit was the same, seems it is, quick swap and works fine. But what makes it even better thought I would try the sa21 that had stopped working thats working fine now as well now.
Might even buy vuescan now so I can finally update my mac and dump Nikon scan!

 

[RichardPhoto]

I had a Coolscan V - they're excellent scanners.

In terms of alternatives, I've read that the Reflecta RPS 10m is very good. It's about the same price as a used Coolscan V though. I guess you get the reassurance of new+warranty though. They don't look as user friendly as the coolscan though.

If I was to go back to 35mm film I would a) scan with mirrorless camera if I wasn't shooting a lot, or, b) buy another Coolscan V.

From all the research I did the better technical option is the scanning with a camera route. I'm not sure if I'd like to bother with that if I was producing any sort of large volume of film. One of the reasons I walked away from film is that I was getting annoyed by the time sink that is scanning...

 

[wizofz2k]

Having good results with a Plustek Opticfilm120.
Incredibly expensive because of the silly forced purchase of the Silverfast scanner software ($500 of itself!).
But with vuescan it's a much better and faster scanner.
I find vuescan works really well with this one for colour negative film.
For slide film nothing compares with Nikonscan and the Coolscan 9000, mostly because of its DEE mode to resolve the increased contrast.
If vuescan had a similar setting, the Opticfilm120 would be as good for slide film...

 

[kanzlr]

Love my OpticFilm 120 too 🙂

 

[SaveKodak]

I cannot recommend the Primefilm XA enough.

AUTOFOCUS for goodness sakes. And for me personally the batch scanning works great.

 

[Dguebey]

I have the Coolscan V ED always usable for slides.
Power plug sometimes have problem.
Like anybody I suffered the unavoidable problem of SA-21 programmed death.
There is a remedy, if it is your case, see here :
http://janburke.de/index.php/compon...cing-photo-sensors-on-nikon-sa-21-film-feeder