[CBQ] Nikon Film Scanners

["qmp211" <milepost206@mchsi.com>]

Gordon,

Nikon still repairs the 5000 and 9000 series film scanners. Only repair for the 
4000 series scanners has been discontinued.

If you have 40k slides to scan, the investment is worth every dime. A 5000 ED 
with auto load will do the job very nicely. 40K scans will not wear out the 
scanner. You can buy a good used one, send it in to Nikon for a tune up, scan 
slides and get basically what you paid for it on resale even if you have to 
send it in for a tune up before sale. The 9000 ED does not have an auto loader 
but does have a tray for maybe 4-5 slides that can batch scan. 

But I advise not to buy a used auto loader. They are susceptible to issues that 
tend to evolve from owners tweaking them. Sort different brands of slides 
separately for scanning. It reduces jamming immensely. Same for bent slides.

The Nikon scanners have a Dmax in excess of 4.2 which is necessary for popping 
up the shadows.

They are excellent machines.

Randy


--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Smith <kc2bw@...> wrote:
>
> Too bad Nikon discontinued all the scanners. And what I hear they wont repair 
> them. I've been watching scanners on ebay and the prices are astronomical ! g 
> !!




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