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Thom Hogan has just reviewed the Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED film scanner.

“Unlike Digital ICE on my old Coolscan LS-30, it works better on the Coolscan 5000. The slide we’ll look at in a moment has a faint scratch on it that the latest iteration doesn’t quite completely remove, but I also don’t find any destruction of details as I found in previous iterations. Moreover, Digital ICE doesn’t do anything about film grain (that’s GEM, which I find to be too slow for what little effect it manages). I now run Neat Image noise reduction on every scanned image in addition to Digital ICE—the grainless, dustless, mostly scratchless results are impressive to say the least. “

Website: Thom Hogan - Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED Review

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