Nikon Super CoolScan 5000 ED Film Scanner

Average customer rating:

Not bad, but not great, either

Great Scanner

Defective Products out of the Box and Cost of Ownership

Nikon CoolScan 5000 ED

Crystal Clear Images

Nikon Super CoolScan 5000 ED Film Scanner

Manufacturer: Nikon
ProductGroup: CE
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Product Features:

4,000 dpi optical resolution, 4.8 density

16-bit A/D conversion, 8 or 16-bit output

Preview scans in 11 seconds, full scans as fast as 20 seconds

Digital ICE4 Advanced suite of image correction technologies

USB interface, PC and Mac compatible

ASIN: B0001DYTOY
Release Date: 2004-02-15

Product Description

NIKON CoolScan 5000 ED -- Designed for imaging professionals and serious hobbyists, this sophisticated unit offers 35mm (135) & IX240 (APS) film scanning at an amazing 20 seconds per image (including image transfer to display) -- at 4,000 dpi true optical resolution. A 16-bit A/D converter & 16-bit output channel ensure highly accurate color reproduction and representation of detail. Scan Image Enhancer function auto-adjusts brightness & color saturation Digital ICE4 Advanced suite includes - Digital ICE removes surface dust & scratches without altering image composition Digital ROC rebuilds & restores deteriorated color values Digital GEM reduces film grain effects Digital DEE reveals details hidden in shadow or highlights Dimensions - 6.8H 3.8W x 12.4D; weighs 6.6 pounds OS compatibility - Windows 98SE+, Mac OS 9.1+, OS X (10.1.5+)

Amazon.com Product Description

A high-performance dedicated film scanner designed for imaging professionals, the Super Coolscan 5000 ED offers high-quality scanning of 35mm slides, 35mm film strips, APS film (with optional IX240 film adapter), and prepared slides (with optional medical slide holder). The Scanner-Nikkor ED glass lens offers a 4,000 dpi optical resolution, while the 3,964-pixel, two-line linear CCD image sensor and 16-bit per color A/D input (8-/16-bit output) provide true-to-life, brilliant results.

Nikon's own LED illumination technology ensures accurate color separation with no warm-up time or risk of heat damage. Scan times are as fast as 20 seconds including image transfer to display, and as fast as 11 seconds in preview mode. Automatic color/contrast compensation helps you achieve accurate results, while the ICE4 advanced digital image correction suite of technologies--including digital ICE, digital ROC, digital GEM, and digital DEE--helps to restore old slides to their original glory. Additionally, the included Nikon Scan 4 software provides a comprehensive and easy-to-use interface for managing your scans.

The Super Coolscan 5000 ED has a convenient, plug-and-play USB interface, while one-touch scan and preview buttons will have you scanning film in no time. PC and Mac compatible, the Super Coolscan 5000 ED also comes backed with a one-year limited warranty.

More Features:

Scan Image Enhancer Nikkor ED glass lens

Scan Image Enhancer provides one-touch image correction. Automatic brightness and color saturation adjustments with no complicated control settings make it easy to produce images with optimal contrast. Scanner Nikkor ED glass lens greatly reduces chromatic aberration and image distortion, and delivers sharp images.

What's in the Box
Scanner, power cord, USB cable, MA-21 slide mount adapter, SA-21 strip film adapter, FH-3 strip film holder, software CD-ROM (Nikonview, Nikon Scan 4), Nikon User's Guide, one-year Nikon U.S.A. limited warranty information

Customer Reviews:

Not bad, but not great, either.......2007-06-18

I've owned this scanner for about 18 months now, and also have the slide and roll feeders. I've scanned about 12,000 images during that time, both slides and negatives.

The good news is, that for well-exposed negatives or slides, this scanner is fast and does a very high quality job. The bad news is that the software is buggy, and Nikon's tech support is non-existent. There are still no 64-bit drivers.

I'm running XP-Pro on an AMD x2 4600+ ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe with 2 GB memory and around a TB of SATA disk. While scanning, one of the two CPUs is totally consumed, but this is probably because of the polled USB driver. There are 3 software errors that keep occurring. First is the well-known Nikon Scan has encountered an error and must close - sorry for trashing your data. This malfunction occurs about every 10-40 frames. It simply requires a restart of the application. It usually happens just after or during a preview setup, so the work loss is minimal, but annoying. Nikon support ignores all reports to their support site of this particular problem.

The second problem is that the scanner software simply freezes. This usually happens in multiscan mode. To recover from this requires that the scanner be power cycled and the software needs to be killed with the task manager. Nikon support has also ignored this bug report.

The third problem is that when a slide jams in the feeder, the application loses communication with the scanner and must be restarted. Not too bad, since I had to manually clear the jam, but really an indication of the poor quality of the software error handling.

The software is incomplete with the slide scanner, in that it doesn't allow a preview scan for each slide like it does for the roll/strip feeder. That is basically a software issue, although the sloppy handling and positioning of the $500 slide feeder is also in play, in that it is probably impossible to get a complete alignment of the second feed with the first. (It actually misses a bit with the strip feeder as well, although not enough to matter.

The slide feeder is a bit of a kludge. It will require some modification to get it to work reliably enough to walk away from, but after a bit of tinkering, cutting and installing a modified pressure plate, it now can feed slides that are in good condition well enough that it seldom jams.

Another problem I have is with the hardware specification - it claims a Dmax of 4.8, which is just the specification of the 16-bit A/D converter attached to the sensor. But the sensor has nowhere near that much dynamic range, so the specification is downright misleading. Because of that, this scanner continues the history of scanners having great difficulty with dense slides. While Dee helps some, the problem of the limited dynamic range of the sensor becomes readily apparent. The amount of smear across high contrast boundaries is intolerable when scanning some very nice Velvia or even Provia images. If you shoot slides for scanning, consider over-exposing by 1/2 stop or so if the subject can tolerate that.

As mentioned earlier, the multi-scan setting does not seem to work very well, due to the software crashing.

Scan image Enhancement is a totally useless piece of software. The ICE works well for dust removal, but may give some image deterioration on some Kodachromes, although most work out okay. ROC works quite well for faded images, such as pre-85 Ektachromes and older negatives. Occasional Kodachromes are also restored. But there doesn't seem to be any difference between the setting from 1-4 that I have been able to detect. And you'll get bizarre results if ROC is one and the n\image hasn't faded.
GEM is okay for grain reduction, but like most such programs it loses detail fast, so us it sparingly. Faster negatives need it, and some of the older or faster slides films also, but if you can get away without it, then don't turn it on.

Negative scanning is very good, with the colors either well-balanced or easy to correct (Reala, for example, needs some manual setting to get right). But the negatives are grainy compared to slides. So you either get dynamic range problems or grain problems. Pick your favorite imperfection. I find negatives a breeze to scan, but the ultimate quality is not quite as good as a good slide scan, provided the slide is not too dense.

So Nikon gets only three stars for this. The idea is good, but the lack of dynamic range and software problems, coupled with Nikon tech support's utter incompetence or non responsiveness turn this into a mediocre product. Unfortunately, there is nothing much better at a reasonable price. Drum or pseudo-drum scanners may be better (I wouldn't count on it, though), but I don't have 10k to invest.

You'll get as good an image quality from a comparably priced 10MP digital SLR, so unless you have a lot of old stuff to scan, this is not the way to enter the digital age at this point in time. D80, D200 and comparable Canon or Fuji DSLRs give images subjectively as good or better than the scanned images from this scanner and slide film.

Great Scanner.......2007-06-02

I have used several other film/slide scanners in the past, the 5000ED really performs. I really like the multi-scan functions for higher signal to noise and 8 or 16 bit files. I highly recommend this scanner for archiving slides and film and for get a good digital image to work with if Photoshop. I have no problems producing 16x20 prints from scanned image. Quality in and Quality out. Quick scans for such high resolution with very consistent work flow. I will be doing a more in-depth review at [...] in the future.

Defective Products out of the Box and Cost of Ownership.......2007-05-09

One star is not for how Nikon products perform once they work properly, it is a measure of the lack of product defects (quality) and the extra costs incurred by the customer to get Nikon scanner products to work properly.

I purchased a CoolScan-IV. When I received it, it was defective out of the box. I contacted Nikon technical support and they told me to exchange it for a new scanner. The new 12-Bit CoolScan-IV worked perfectly. When I was ready to upgrade to 16-Bits, I purchased a CoolScan-5000 and gave my CoolScan-IV away. What a mistake!

This "upgrade" scanner was a total piece of junk. The images were noisy. I immediately contacted Nikon technical support about the problem. After some back and forth, they told me there was nothing wrong with the scanner; I was the problem. I recently found an archive copy of an under-scanned photo that I scanned on the old CoolScan-IV. I compared the images. The CoolScan-IV produced a very good image. The CoolScan-5000 was horrible. Without spending hundreds of dollars to pay Nikon Service to correct Nikon's initial quality defects, I am stuck with a piece of junk.

NikonScan. NikonScan is the scanning software that comes with the Nikon scanners. When it works, NikonScan works acceptably; however, it locks up repeatedly requiring closing the program and reopening it. Earlier versions worked much better in this regard to locking up.

Bottom line, Nikon quality has deteriorated to become very poor. I just described four Nikon product quality problems (initially defective products). There is a fifth: Nikon does not stand behind errors that their technical service personnel make.

Each item described above had additional out of pocket cost or lost time associated with it. I know the scanners can perform exceptionally well once they are working to spec. I would recommend a Nikon scanner only if you are willing to unnecessarily pay out a lot of extra money and waste a lot of time correcting initial Nikon product quality defects and incompetent technical service advice.

Nikon CoolScan 5000 ED.......2007-05-07

I'm switching from a Polaroid SprintScan 4000 to this Nikon unit because of what I'd heard about the imaging quality of the latter. So far, I'm impressed, especially with the in-system dust and scratch remover with the color images. I do do a lot of b & w scanning and printing, so, in that realm, there's no great difference except that the manual handling of b & w film strips is a bit tricky (with the Nikon). All and all, I'm very pleased with my purchase.

Crystal Clear Images.......2007-03-15

Purchased this scanner based on the positive reviews for image quality and it has certainly exceeded my expectations. Software is easy to use and and with a little tweaking and experimentation cleans up the slides beautifully. Even incredibly dark, under exposed slides have been resurrected to reveal hidden gems. Scans in single pass mode create near perfect replicas of the original slides, comparing the scans to slides viewed in fine detail with a hand lens. Having scanned over 100 slides, I have experienced the software crash mentioned by other people only 2-3 times. But even then, it's just a simply matter of starting up the software again and I'm back up in running within 30 seconds. There seems to be some correlation to the crashes and waking up my computer from sleep. The scanning process does take a little longer than I would have hoped, but I'm sure that is due to my older computer which only has USB 1.0 capabilities (the scanner comes with USB 2.0 - which is much faster). Having said that, users with older computers need not fear, it's works perfectly with mine. I'm currenly running Mac OS X 10.4.8 on a Power Mac G4 tower (Dual 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 processors).

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Trouble staying connected

Motorola SurfBoard Wireless Cable Modem Gateway

Easy to install

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Excellent Wireless Cable Modem

Motorola SURFboard® Wireless Cable Modem Gateway (SBG900)

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Trouble staying connected.......2007-09-24

I have had a regular cable modem and a separate router for about 5 years. After a lightning storm, both my cable modem and router no longer worked. I decided to replace the two of them with just a wireless cable modem. I like the two in one feature. But Everytime my 2.4 GHZ cordless phone rings, my wireless connection drops on my laptop. And I'm always having to do ipconfig/renew if I haven't surfed the internet in over an hour. I didn't have any of these problems when I just had a cable modem and router.

Motorola SurfBoard Wireless Cable Modem Gateway.......2007-09-21

This was a good price for this product and I am happy with product. The only issue I had was that it was a bit difficult to install (not the hardware, but getting my computers connected). It isn't as easy as the Linksys routers, but this model looks better and takes care of eliminating one piece of equipment from my desktop.

Overall I am happy with this product.

Easy to install.......2007-09-13

This is simple. Just attach cable and power. No desk area clutter as with separate modem and wireless router. Works great with Vista. Only caution comments would be that the Motorola direct router setup (for those of you who know how to do this) is not as easy to navigate or intuitive as the Linksys setup. Also, despite having all of the account and passwords, etc. established with the cable comopany, I could get no service until I called the cable company to give them the modem address. Did I miss this in all of the CDs and directions??? The cable company said "Sorry about that!" Anyway, works great. Be sure to safely secure your network with the password option!

Fantastic Modem.......2007-09-05

This modem replaced a Toshiba PCX-1100U modem. What a difference! It must be five times faster. I have done online speed tests and can routinely achieve download speeds of up to 12,000 kpbs. The wireless worked great immediately. I did have to call Comcast and register the modem with them before our cable connection would allow it to connect.

Excellent Wireless Cable Modem.......2007-09-02

I use this with the USB device that Motorola makes. It works great and connects well. Don't get the "free cable modem" like you've seen from Circuit City or others to sign up with Comcast. This gives you the flexibility of connecting outside that trapped extension of a basic cable modem. Again, NO holes to drill and route cables. Great solution in the right direction. I recommend the best possible high signal level, cable splitter designed especially for cable modem use ( I bought one from Monster Cable) to ensure the best connection. It also offers the ability for you to connect more computers to it's signal without interruption of service. Didn't have a picture problem while in use with the HD cable box. This one is ultra-fast and has a great signal all around. You should test where the "sweet spot" is with your Wireless USB Adapter. I bought a USB Adapter for connecting to this modem as I have a desktop without a Wi-Fi card (a must have if you want to use this wireless cable modem). Very happy all around with Motorola products.

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For Xerox Phaser 7750 laser printer
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Xerox Phaser EX7750GX / EX7750DXF Imaging Unit.
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Monster Composite THX V100 Video Cable Kit

Wow, Monster does make a difference!

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Monster Cable THX V100 AV-4 Audio / Composite Video Cable Kit

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Monster Composite THX V100 Video Cable Kit.......2006-03-01

This Composite video cable produced a high quality picture from my DVD player.

Wow, Monster does make a difference!.......2006-01-03

$20 for a composite cable?! Prior to buying these, I thought this was too expensive, and had mostly been using cheap $5 connectors.

Well, I took the plunge on these babies. On a 32" WEGA tv, these really make a huge difference. Clarity is amazing! Better than my generic S-Video cable.

Too bad these don't come in an intermediate length of 6 feet, because 4 feet is a bit short, and 8 feet is too long.

Pretty good for A/V cables.......2002-12-02

These cables are definitely worth the money. My 27" TV had cheap A/V wires hooking up the cable box to the television. When I bought a new 32" TV I couldn't understand why the picture quality was inferior to the older tv that we had. Well it turned out to be the cheap cables that we were using. The 32" tv showed the imperfections much more than the 27" tv. But after we got these cables wow was the picture clearer and the colors more vibrant. If you don't have an S-video port or component cables, I definitely suggest going with these high quality A/V cables from monster.

Monster Cable THX V100 AV-8 Audio / Composite Video Cable Kit

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Monster Cable THX V100 R-4 Composite Video Cable

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Here's everything you need to know...

Linksys disappoints

LOOKOUT: It doesn't work with IBM

Gets the job done

good, simple and cheap

Linksys PS2KVM4 ProConnect 4-Port Compact KVM Switch (PS/2)

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Here's everything you need to know..........2007-05-26

What are the two big things with KVM switches?? How many computers does it let you control and how is the video resolution.

Now, everyone in the world talks about "the video resolution is decent", but no one is every specific. I have been through MANY KVM switches over the years and yet to find a decent one, until now.

I got this, hopes that the good reviews were right - and that this could handle a higher resolution. It can - and it's flawless!!

In my particular case, I have a 24" widescreen monitor and wanted to control 3 machines. My preferred resolution is 1680x1050. I plugged in my machines and the picture quality, at that resolution is THE SAME as when the cable is plugged directly in. I am particularly finicky as I use my computer a lot. And I'm telling you, this KVM has virtually no impact to video quality - which I've never seen before in a KVM.

ONE BAD THING:
Just like most of the other home/small-business use KVM, they still require use of PS/2 style mouse and keyboard connections. I don't have a PS/2 mouse OR keyboard anymore - and also, the PC's don't have those connections either. So that meant a handful of little adapters. EXCEPT - the keyboard USB to PS/2 - something is screwy with it, it won't acknowledge the keyboard. I tried multiple machines and multiple keyboards. So, I'm going to have to go and try to find a classic PS/2 style keyboard as USB keyboards don't work with these units (doesn't work on the 4-port D-Link either).

BOTTOM LINE: if you are getting a KVM and your primary concern is video quality, get this one!!

Linksys disappoints.......2007-01-09

I had been using a Linksys 2 port KVM switch for years without a single problem so when it came time to add another computer, I naturally went with the Linksys 4 port model. Unfortunately, the 4 port model doesn't work nearly as well. The softkey controls on the 2 port model was a simple double click of any ctrl key. The 4 port model is a confusing and often times unsuccessful ctrl+alt+shift+ . Not only that, the keyboard and mouse appear to 'blink' out pretty regularly. Mostly the mouse, which will often freeze. This is quite annoying and I'm ready to throw this piece of product right into the trash bin. And I'm being nice!

LOOKOUT: It doesn't work with IBM.......2006-01-30

I've used KVMs over the years and this is the first one I've seen that doesn't work with IBM PCs. The manual suggests it's IBM's fault. Returning this POS.

Gets the job done.......2005-01-09

From a functional standpoint, this is one of the best "non-industrial" KVM switches I've used. Switches between multiple OS's (W2K/XP/Linux) with no issues. Seems perfectly happy with both my antique IBM keyboard and my brand new Logitech wireless mouse (with USB->PS2 adapter and the standard number of buttons). Ergonomically, it could be better, though. As other reviewers have noted, cables attach to this puppy on 3 of 4 sides. When set up with the max of 4 machines, it has 15 cables attached to it. Since it weighs all of a half-pound, it's pretty much sitting where ever the cables want it to be, not where you want it to be. I was able to get it to stay where I want it without an utter mess by careful routing of cables and use of lots of cable ties. Also, again because of the light weight of the device, you need to hold it in place while depressing the selector button, or it tends to walk away from you. And finally, I'm not a fan of the hotkey combination required to activate the device: Alt, Ctrl, Shift, PC#(1-4), Enter. Five keystrokes - you've gotta be joking! I'm a much bigger fan of the Belkin way (ScrlLk, ScrlLk, Up/Down). Pity their current products are so dicey.

good, simple and cheap.......2004-06-02

This is a very simple KVM. Lacking the fancy bells and whistles of the more expensive untis, this one does it's basic tasks.

Electronics:

Electronics

Electronics

Scan Image Enhancer		Nikkor ED glass lens
Scan Image Enhancer provides one-touch image correction. Automatic brightness and color saturation adjustments with no complicated control settings make it easy to produce images with optimal contrast.		Scanner Nikkor ED glass lens greatly reduces chromatic aberration and image distortion, and delivers sharp images.