Why won't Nikon re-release the Nikon Supercoolscan 9000

[S.H.]

Well, for less than a film scanner you can buy a good DLSR and a macro lens (for example, a Micro Nikkor). With a mechanical setup which is not that hard to build, you can have good results. And use the DLSR to take pictures.

A quick and dirty test with a M8 / Visoflex / old Micro Nikkor 55 3.5 and my desktop lamp already gave me better results in BW / slide than my v750, without stitching frames. With the new sensors out there now, one can do probably even better.

Perhaps a small cottage industry will develop well-thought copy stands, that is all we need to replace a 2000$ scanner. Perhaps Nikon thought about that too.

 

[J. Borger]

Support Plustek!! The 120 scanner is just around the corner and i have high hopes about it. It looked great and felt solid at Photokina. I am convinced it will deliver.

 

[dcsang]

Hmm.. that Plustek scanner, spec wise, looks good. Price wise, it's the same price as the Nikon 9000ED was back near the end of it's production. That's a good sign - the question is, how does that thing hold up and how well does it do scanning?

Cheers,
Dave

 

[V-12]

A bit off topic, but what is the best option for dedicated 35mm scanning now, sticking to stuff that's currently in production.

Any of the Plustek 35mm scanners. Apart from the 7400 which doesn't have the IR dust removal facility they are all essentially the same model but with a different version of Silverfast. So if you are only doing B&W or keep very clean colour negs that don't need dust removing the 7400 is a great bargain, otherwise choose your Silverfast option. You could also buy an 'older' model and budget for Vuescan as well, to use instead of Silverfast. Making digital contact sheets of 35mm can take some time, (this is where the Epson V700 wins), but it is really down to what you get used to doing.

 

[willie_901]

Support Plustek!! The 120 scanner is just around the corner and i have high hopes about it. It looked great and felt solid at Photokina. I am convinced it will deliver.

Never... Plustek does not want my business since they refuse to provide up to date OS-X drivers. Plustek is dead to me.

 

[scottyb70]

I have another idea for the plustek 120.
People concerned about the glass holder not available for it to keep the film flat (that's if their holder doesn't work as claimed), maybe, FocalPoint Inc could make something up. They manufactured glass holders for the Microtek Artixscan 120 and Polaroid Sprintscan 120 which are the same model.

 

[dcsang]

I have another idea for the plustek 120.
People concerned about the glass holder not available for it to keep the film flat (that's if their holder doesn't work as claimed), maybe, FocalPoint Inc could make something up. They manufactured glass holders for the Microtek Artixscan 120 and Polaroid Sprintscan 120 which are the same model.

I use FocalPoint's glass in the Nikon 9000 right now and it works beautifully 🙂

Cheers,
Dave

 

[semi-ambivalent]

Nikon has asked to borrow my Coolscan 9000. They need it to back-engineer a 2014 Limited Edition 9000 in black paint.

Nice.

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[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

Nikon has moved on from film.

I thought that Nikon were still manufacturing the F6? Or at least, they were until fairly recently? If so: that doesn't sound entirely like a company that has moved on from film, does it?
Regards,
Brett

 

[jsrockit]

I thought that Nikon were still manufacturing the F6? Or at least, they were until fairly recently? If so: that doesn't sound entirely like a company that has moved on from film, does it?
Regards,
Brett

Ok, you got me... so they have one lagacy camera and that is supposed to show a company's support of film? :bang:

 

[jonmanjiro]

Ok, you got me... so they have one lagacy camera and that is supposed to show a company's support of film? :bang:

There's also the FM10 😛

 

[jsrockit]

There's also the FM10 😛

Not anymore... I read recently they discontinued that too. Might have some to sell still though... but hardly indicative of supporting film.

 

[jonmanjiro]

I thought that Nikon were still manufacturing the F6? Or at least, they were until fairly recently? If so: that doesn't sound entirely like a company that has moved on from film, does it?
Regards,
Brett

It was reported in Feb. 2012 here that Nikon was making 50 F6 bodies per month. With used F6s selling so cheaply even at used camera stores now (for example this one, but I've even seen them as cheap as 65,000 yen at MAP Camera) that production figure of 50 is no doubt lower now.

 

[dcsang]

If you really want to see how Nikon "supports" film; look no further than their recent "photo competition" which only allowed entry from digital cameras - no film, no scans regardless if they were shot with Nikon gear.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[jonmanjiro]

Not anymore... I read recently they discontinued that too. Might have some to sell still though... but hardly indicative of supporting film.

The FM10 is not discontinued in Japan.
http://www.nikon-image.com/products/camera/slr/

What would be indicative of supporting film?

 

[jsrockit]

What would be indicative of supporting film?

Designing and releasing a new film camera... building new scanners, etc. Sure, they have legacy film products, but they aren't looking towards a future with film. That is apparent.

 

[jonmanjiro]

Designing and releasing a new film camera... building new scanners, etc. Sure, they have legacy film products, but they aren't looking towards a future with film. That is apparent.

Is any camera manufacturer looking towards a future with film? By releasing new models? I personally don't see it. I doubt Leica makes 50 film cameras per month either.

 

[jsrockit]

Is any camera manufacturer looking towards a future with film? By releasing new models? I personally don't see it. I doubt Leica makes 50 film cameras per month either.

Right, that's my point. There is no real support for film going forward. It's all legacy based.

 

[willie_901]

Obviously the owners of these billions of images have other priorities and did not put in enough orders for Nikon to continue their scanner production.
That ship has sailed, get over it.

Ouch! The truth hurts sometimes.

If I was committed to 35mm film, I would add high-quality, outsourced scanning to my photography budget.

 

[mani]

I don't know why some people seem so passionately desperate to see film disappear?? 😕
There's also this utter obsession with getting film-interested people to somehow admit that it's all over with film. The game's up. Finito!

Why the obsession? You see it all the time in these debates. LIke - OKAY! FILM IS DEAD! Happy now? Satisfied?

Now I'll go back to happily using my film AND digital cameras, buying the plentiful amounts of film that are still available everywhere, enjoying the company of other people who are also converting to film, and continuing to use my perfectly great Coolscan9000 to create images that are miles better than I can produce with my digital cameras.