[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Supercoolscan 5000 ED

["David J. Littleboy" <davidjl@gol.com>]

From: "Arthur Entlich" <artistik@shaw.ca>
>>>>>>>>>>>
I will leave this for those using this model to respond.  There were
reports with older models about banding, and Nikon's response at that
time was to go to the super fine mode which used one CCD line only, at
the cost of speed.

Some people claimed the banding was rare or never occurred, others
stated it only showed up in certain types of slides or subject matter,
some returned the machine due to the banding unhappy with the result.
<<<<<<<<<<<

I've only heard about this problem with the 8000, not with any other Nikon
scanner. Was it a problem on any of the 35mm scanners?

I've not seen it with mine, but I only scan in slow mode since checking for
it would take time. It turns out that the slow mode isn't any slower than
fast mode for 1x scans with ICE (apparently ICE
requires another exposure, defeating the speed-doubling effect for 1x (but
not 2x to 8x scans)) so it's not a problem here. Multisampling scans are so
slow that it doesn't matter if they're very slow: I have to go do something
else anyway.

The Nikon 8000 becomes grossly slow with a slower PC with less than 1GB of
RAM. Several of the early adopters used older PCs with 256MB of RAM, and
found the thing incredibly slow, so the fast mode not being faster really
hurt them, and there were a lot of seriously unhappy campers. By the time I
got mine (over 3 years ago), 1GB 1GHz machines were available. Moving to a
2GB 2GHz machine didn't speed up scanning 645 itself all that much. Getting
a 6x7 camera slowed it down a lot, though.

David J. Littleboy
davidjl@gol.com
Tokyo, Japan

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