This is an amazing scanner. I am running it on Mac OS 10.12 Sierra using 64-bit VueScan. All of the features work including the Digital ICE. It has taken old faded slides and slides with scratches and delivered incredible colour accurate scans completely fixed with almost no adjustments necessary or post-processing. If you've got a computer with a Firewire 400 port and need to scan film or slides, this is a great investment.
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Creates beautiful scans at 4800 dpi. Teams seamlessly with VueScan and my Mac running High Sierra to correct color and exposure values from some old slides in bad condition. I have scanned 35mm slides and strips of color negatives. It has also driven my SF200 stack loader, with some intervention every few slides. Overall, I am very happy with the scanner. I produces better output than anything else i have seen at twice the price.
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This scanner really captures the color nuances better than my Canon 4400F did, and it avoids the washed-out highlights that the Canon produced. And it's great with the SF-210 slide feeder to munch thru stacks of pictures. Do try to get it with the OEM firewire board by Ratoc. Not certain quite how necessary this is, but see below. The first problem I had with the scanner was, when the the SF-210 jammed, the software would also lock up. Nikon said that was a hardware problem, send in the feeder and scanner both. Since the scanner was out of warranty, I decided to let it slide. Then it stopped producing images altogether. Nikon said this was also a hardware problem, so I shipped scanner and feeder to them. $300 to 'fix' the scanner, thank goodness feeder was under warranty. Got it back, same problem, no images from scanning. Nikon told me ship it to them again. I did, no charge this time but no change either. Many e-mails back and forth, reinstall Nikonscan, reinstall drivers for firewire card, try a new firewire card - who has a Ratoc? - maybe an OrangeMicro will work, get the card but the company went belly up 5 years ago so no drivers - oh, Nikon has a few Ratoc cards for the 9000 but should work for the 4000. They'd sell it to me for another Benjamin plus. Got the Ratoc card - and NO CHANGE!! So I took the scanner with my now idle OrangeMicro card to a local computer store. Plugged it in, worked fine. They suggested I reinstall Windows. OF COURSE REINSTALL WINDOWS! I should have known that, but I'd rate my computer knowledge as barely above average. Nikon's tech support should know a lot more than I, but apparently they don't. They sure didn't suggest it to me, anyway. Anyway, it now works again. Except the first 'hardware' problem of the software locking up when it jams. Well, if hardware it was, they didn't fix it. Still locks up, and I guess I'll still live with it. If you have the luck not to have to deal with anyone at Nikon, you'll like the scanner.Read full review
The Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 is a film scanner capable of extracting all of the image quality present in your 35mm negatives and slides. At well under $1000 including film and slide adapters, it's a truly outstanding value. ...Really can't be matched. It uses a FireWire (IEEE1394) interface, and can easily be installed on any desktop PC and many laptop PCs under any 32-bit or 64-bit edition of Windows, including Windows 10. It can be operated with Nikon Scan 4, VueScan, or SilverFast software. My personal preference is Nikon Scan 4, and installation is easy.
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The scanner is only 14-bit depth per color channel but have made some excellent scans. One-the-less. For those who don’t want to spend several thousand dollars to scan your slide collection the Nikon Coolscan 4000 is excellent.
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If you are buying this used, beware that a layer of dust on the mirror and lens inside the unit will degrade scanning quality drastically. Once you get it dialed in, this scanner will deliver pro level scans. I'm using Vuescan on my MacPro and it is speedy, less than 30 seconds a scan. Make sure you have all the components that comes with the original unit, it is hard to track down parts. My old slides had a bend in the film that made the scanner hard to autofocus, you might have to play around and bend the mount to achieve critical focus. There is a lot of moving parts for a "digital" machine, so be careful and don't go to crazy in handling this delicate instrument.
I bought this to replace an older Nikon LS-2000 slide scanner. I have several thousand old slides inherited via deceased relatives to scan for extended family &, so far, it is a much better scanner than the LS-2000. Higher quality images & less fiddling required to have consistently good scans using my old SF-200 batch scanner (bought years ago with the LS-200 & works fine with the 4000!). Buying it used on ebay saved me a lot of money. 4000 works fine with the firewire on my xw9300 workstation and on my nw8440 laptop. I'm a fan of using Photoshop with the NikonScan software but it's not really necessary. The NikonScan software is much improved over the version I can use with the old Scsi based LS-2000. In short, highly recommended, especially with an SF-200 or SF-210 batch scanner.
This is the second machine I have purchased through e-bay. The reason for the purchase is, I do professional slide, photo, negative and positive restoration and repair. At the present I am doing preservation for 1st Air Cav Pilots tours of the Nam, from 1966 through 1972, from Pleiku, to Northern I Corp Camp Eagle just south of Hue, Gunner's Gulch, Danang and on. The first Nikon was purchased about 10 years ago, and I had to get it repaired after about a year, but still far less expensive than the 5000 or a new one. The first machine was for the restoration of my Mother's professional work, Hydroplane race reporting and slides of her National work in the late 50's through the early 70's. The average scan capability with ICE at fair and ROC and GEM on moderate, is about 17 slides per hour. That is the highest repair I let the machine do. Any higher and you loose personal touch. I then repair and restore via a very simple photo program. All the above work requires the most professional equipment you can get for a resonable price. To me that is the Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ed. After learning to operate this machine, it is fairly automatic for a person to do this. One needs to understand that the cost for a one time use for most is probably not worth it. Far better to have professionals do the work for you. One that does each slide one at a time, not with a batch scanner and machine fixing. As far as the Nikon goes, I would not have purchased another if the machine was not Top of the Line, in my opinion. Thank You for Your Time, and I hope this helps. Popcorn590Read full review
Absolutely wonderful scans using Vuescan. Easy to set up and the seller was absolutely A+++
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Wonderful scanner. serviced very well indeed. I strongly suggest you buy and use the Vuescan software available for it. it makes all the difference in the world when scanning color negatives. Had trouble installing the Nikon software but that might be me. Anyway, Vuescan makes this thing sing!
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