RE: [Leica] Nikon 8000 scanner

[Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Tim, if John has any pointers that would be
great. I have Vuescan and am trying to find one of the
glass slide holders (so far haven't found one in stock
anywhere, but have just started looking). I bought a
holder for 2 1/4x2 1/4 mounted slides, but all of mine
are in glass slide mounts, and I suspect that the
glass in the slide mount may degrade the quality of
the scan...I'll try the same image both ways and see. 
- --- Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com> wrote:
> Darrell,
> 
> we have an 8000 at work, but my colleague (and
> fellow lugger) John Poirier
> uses it mainly and has fiddled with it the most.
> 
> John did get the glass film holder (those nikon
> scanner accessories are
> darned expensive!) and I think found it works fine
> with that.
> 
> We also use it with vuescan a lot more than the
> Nikon software
> 
> tim
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On
> Behalf Of Darrell
> > Jennings
> > Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 12:53 PM
> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon 8000 scanner
> >
> >
> > Thanks Simon, I will check this out. I bought it
> > mainly for medium format color slide film,
> although I
> > figured I would use it for black and white (though
> if
> > there is a problem with this I can fall back on my
> > Epson 2450 which does a pretty good job of black
> and
> > white. Unfortunately the 2450 did a poor job of
> color,
> > particularly the MF stuff...lots of noise in the
> solid
> > color areas.
> >
> > Did you have to do anything special to set up
> > Photoshop in terms of color management with the
> 8000?
> > --- Simon Lamb <simon@sclamb.com> wrote:
> > > On 6/7/02 2:52 pm, "Darrell Jennings"
> > > <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just bought one and will be using it shortly.
> > > Anyone
> > > > have experience with this scanner?  Anything
> > > special
> > > > that a new owner ought to know? (being used
> with
> > > > Windows machine)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Darrell
> > >
> > > Go to http://www.imaging-resource.com and look
> in
> > > the filmscanners forum.
> > > There are many issues with the 8000 that have
> been
> > > explained in this forum,
> > > such as banding issues and depth of field on
> medium
> > > format film being too
> > > small if the film is not completely flat.  If
> you
> > > are only doing 35mm work
> > > then you may not hit the DOF issue, although if
> that
> > > is the case, why didn't
> > > you get the LS4000.
> > >
> > > On the LS4000, you should be aware that Nikon
> state
> > > that you should not scan
> > > BW film as RGB positive since the scanner will
> not
> > > find the gaps between the
> > > frames.  I had all sorts of frame misalignment
> and
> > > eventually sent the
> > > scanner back as I predominantly scan BW film.
> > >
> > > You will certainly find that the LED light
> source of
> > > the Nikon scanners will
> > > bring out every bit of dust, scratches, bits of
> dirt
> > > and film grain.  ICE is
> > > almost a necessity with these scanners, and I
> found
> > > that BW film was
> > > especially hard to scan cleanly (and of course
> you
> > > cannot use ICE with BW
> > > film except the C41 process films).
> > >
> > > The forum I mentioned above should give you all
> the
> > > info you need.
> > >
> > > Simon
> > >
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