Re: Color Negatives...
Re: Color Negatives...
- Subject: Re: Color Negatives...
- From: "Dave King" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:14:21 -0500
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Dave King wrote:
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> I think Ed is right on the money here, Nikon has the best color neg
scanner
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> software on the planet
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Lets just say my experience is completely opposite from yours. The first of
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three Nikon scanners I owned was the original Coolscan and I agree that it
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showed Nikons long experience in Photojournalism scanning tools as it
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handled neg scans better than most other offerings at the time (94?). It
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was a groundbreaking product but it was quickly surpassed by competitors.
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Success with that scanner and loyalty to other Nikon products kept me
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throwing money at more Nikon scanners (through the LS4500) while being
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extremely disappointed mainly because of software. I haven't touched a
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Nikon scanner for two years so maybe they've cured all of their many ills by
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now but considering the pace at which they release software updates I'd be
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surprised. I've used offerings from Polaroid, Linocolor, SilverFast, and
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Imacon... any one of which could get me a better neg scan with far less
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effort than Nikon.
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Bob Smith
Well, that's interesting. I wonder if 2.5 and later software was the turning
point? I originally got the LS-30 with Viewscan hoping to end run the lower
cost LS-30 restrictions on hi-bit output and multipass scanning. But after
getting color management and Nikonscan preferences correctly set up, I found
Nikon software to get so close to correct color/density right off the bat (esp
w/ negs) that hi-bit editing advantages were largely mitigated. I do feel
like I can sometimes get a better scan on the Agfa T-2500, but I have to work
for it. Current FotoLook software has a feature which allows sampling the
clear film edge for building custom neg film terms. It's pretty good, but
NikonScan is still closer right off the bat. I wonder how they do it.
Dave King