GoranPhoto wrote:
Would anyone be interested in purchasing a Nikon CoolScan 8000 ED? Thinking of selling mine so would like to gauge interest before putting it up in B&S
It is the older version. The 9000 is the newest one, although I believe it has been discontinued. Both also handle medium format. Scanning with these gives a noticeable, but not huge IMO, step up from, say, an Epson V750 with a good negative holder. To get a real step up you really need an Imacon/Hasselblad, or of course a drum scanner.
rattymouse wrote:
Is that the top of the line Nikon scanner?
As Carsten said, it isn't the newest model, but it is really the best option available if you haven't got thousands and thousands of dollars to spend. I have been very pleased with it, but I just don't use it enough and could use the extra space on my desk
Out of town on vacation for some time, so I haven't been able to post. This is from a roll of Portra 400 early this summer. Camera: Leica R6. Lens: Summicron R 35mm f2.
KjetilHav wrote:
I've hardly got time to shoot anything else than my kids. So here's another kids shot. R8/Summicron 50 with Tmax 400 in Tmax developer 1:7.
Kids are great....
Rattymouse: You are getting really good images with the RF and film combo...very nice.
Here are three taken around New England during the past couple of weeks. GSW690II, TMax 100...
carstenw wrote:
It is the older version. The 9000 is the newest one, although I believe it has been discontinued. Both also handle medium format. Scanning with these gives a noticeable, but not huge IMO, step up from, say, an Epson V750 with a good negative holder. To get a real step up you really need an Imacon/Hasselblad, or of course a drum scanner.
With the advent of the Plustek 120, I am not sure how Nikon's older scanners (that require ports I may not have on my computer and 3rd party software) derive interest in the used market.
corposant wrote:
With the advent of the Plustek 120, I am not sure how Nikon's older scanners (that require ports I may not have on my computer and 3rd party software) derive interest in the used market.
Yeah, the Plustek 120 fills in a much needed hole in the scanning world. I'd own one today if I were in the US. Here in China the Plustek is over $3000 which is a lot higher than the US price.
The Nikon software is hard to run on today's Mac's I think too.
A shame Nikon got out of this market. They made very highly rated equipment.
rattymouse wrote:
Yeah, the Plustek 120 fills in a much needed hole in the scanning world. I'd own one today if I were in the US. Here in China the Plustek is over $3000 which is a lot higher than the US price.
The Nikon software is hard to run on today's Mac's I think too.
A shame Nikon got out of this market. They made very highly rated equipment.
Just got a Plustek this week. IMHO it is a huge leap from the Epson V750 I had in tonality but no so much in sharpness. If you use Betterscanning glass with the Epson you won't notice any difference in sharpness unless you print really big or view the files at 100%. But Plustek's rich and smooth tonality is not in the same league as the Epson, it really is someting else.
Here is my first test scan with the Plustek 120, a RZ67 frame scanned to raw with Vuescan and processed with default settings with ColorPerfect in Photoshop:
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