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Amateur Photographer Reviews Nikon Coolscan V ED
Last week’s issue of the UK magazine Amateur Photographer, which costs £1.99 from your local newsagents in the UK, contained a review of the Nikon Coolscan V ED film scanner. The Coolscan V ED has a true optical resolution of 4,000 dpi and 14-bit A/D input conversion. It scored 91% and this is how the reviewer, Damien Demolder, summed it up:
“This really is a very good film scanner with both speed and accuracy on its side. I am not sure why we cannot scan more than one slide at a time, but if you can live with that you will be very pleased with this machine. Its scanning accuracy acknowledges the qualities of your camera lens, the performance of your exposure system and the finite characteristics of your favourite film. It can return what you feed it with nothing added and very little taken away - and that is how film scanners should behave.”
The Nikon Coolscan V ED costs around £550 and is available in shops now.
Website: Amateur Photographer
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#1 Fazal Majid
You cannot scan more than one slide at a time becaue Nikon would rather have you pay twice the price for the LS-5000, not to mention the cost of the multi-slide adapter.
6:01 pm - Monday, January 12, 2004
#2 Fazal Majid
The trick i use is not to have slides mounted any more. I don't have a projector, and I view slides on a lightbox or scan them, so I don't need the added cost and bulk of mounts. I then scan the slides in strips of 5 on my Coolscan IVED using the strip film adapter.
6:04 pm - Monday, January 12, 2004