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Multi Pro or Coolscan 8000?
On Sep 15, 10:27 am, "David J. Littleboy" wrote:
I disagree with this, though. Things like GEM and ROC make changes that one may later want to reconsider. ICE is, of course, wonderful. But you are better off just using ICE to make your archive file, and then working from there. so what? just re-scan without them! :-) It's not like the "raw" file is gone, is it? Still: I prefer NI to what GEM does. But in the absence of NI, GEM will do a good job. Just don't use it full strength: setting of 1 works fine for me. But I'll agree here. I've been quite successful at persuading Neat Image to clean up the grain on negative scans. I can't speak for Focus Magic, but as long as you keep a clean archived original, whatever you do is fine. (I say this because I found that over the years I was using less and less and less sharpening. YMMV here, of course. But sharpening can be overdone, and your opinion on where the necessary/overdone boundary falls will change over time.) David: get an eval copy of FM and give it a try. It works very well as a plug-in to Irfanview, for example. It beats any other sharpening method I've tried with the possible exception of some based on high-pass filters. It leaves USM for dead, period. Kid you not. It works particularly well with digital raw images. |
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Multi Pro or Coolscan 8000?
Noons writes:
I'm sure you will enjoy your 8000 a lot. It's an amazing piece of machinery. One hint: never be afraid of using GEM/ICE/other software paraphernalia that comes with Nikonscan. and get the latest versions. Indeed, getting working ICE for medium format was one of my long-standing dreams. It's a marvel on the K-M 5400 II but nearly useless on the Epson V700... I've also used GEM (during scanning) to good effect on films that show "sand" grain effects when scanned. Too bad neither of these work for silver halide B&W film, though. there is no reason why one should not use software corrections on film scans. I'm currently using a mix of Neat Image and Focus Magic in the workflow after the scans and the results are absolutely stunning. and of course, MF film has an advantage right up front! I've found the Kodak GEM photoshop plugin to be very good for controlling grainy scans, I wonder why nobody ever mentions that. |
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Multi Pro or Coolscan 8000?
On Sep 17, 7:33 am, Toni Nikkanen wrote:
Noons writes: I'm sure you will enjoy your 8000 a lot. It's an amazing piece of machinery. One hint: never be afraid of using GEM/ICE/other software paraphernalia that comes with Nikonscan. and get the latest versions. Indeed, getting working ICE for medium format was one of my long-standing dreams. Well I just saw this. I finally got a Minolta Multi Pro second hand from an small online dealer who gave me a return policy and took my credit card. (I am totally leery of Ebay now.) Anyway I just love the Multi Pro. It actually came with a scanhancer in the box and the images I"ve scanned with it have really made me happy. Unfortunately I can't get any store to buy my Microtek Artixscan 120TF (sans ICE). I suppose I could keep it as a backup? |
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Multi Pro or Coolscan 8000?
Rosemary writes:
Unfortunately I can't get any store to buy my Microtek Artixscan 120TF (sans ICE). I suppose I could keep it as a backup? Maybe you should put it up for sale on eBay, I think there is some demand for those and you're likely to get more money selling it yourself instead of getting a store to buy it from you. If you let it sit around unused it'll just rot away along with its selling value.. Even though you're leery of eBay... as a seller you have less risk as long as you don't send anything before you have the money. |
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Multi Pro or Coolscan 8000?
Well, I have my scanner now and it seems to have a problem. To describe it briefly: it made some very loud noises while it was moving the carrier back and forth - I know film scanners make a lot of noise but some of these noises seemed way out of place. The autofocus function wouldn't work at all. I only managed to scan one frame and even that was very badly misaligned; I got the latter half of the 6x7 frame I intended, plus a bit of the next one, and the rest of the frame consisted of the same horizontal repeated again and again. The next scan I tried was just the repeating horizontal line. After that, I haven't managed to feed it with film at all; it just won't respond when I insert a carrier (any carrier). Nikon Scan occasionally says the scanner has reported a hardware malfunction - and sometimes it just isn't detected at all.. I've tried Nikon Scan 3 and 4, Vuescan 8 on Windows XP and Nikon Scan 4 and Vuescan 8 on a Mac, with the same results. I'd just like to ask, what is the normal Power On Self Test (POST) sequence like on a working unit? On mine, without the firewire cable attached, it is: 1. Infrequent flashing of the green LED (about one per second) 2. A mechanical sound while the flashing continues 3. flashing continues for a moment but the sound stops 4. Another mechanical sound, flashing continues 5. Very rapid flashing, no sound 6. The green led is glowing continuously, no more sounds are emitted I guess what I am going to do next is call the company who is responsible for servicing Nikon equipment in Finland the first thing Monday morning, to find out if I have any options for getting this to work. For some reason I didn't have to pay customs or taxes on this one, which is a nice plus, but it seems that savings is going into getting the thing serviced.. Apart from not working, the machine is very impressive. It looks like it's built to last with no miniscular plastic piece of crap parts that are so typical of today's consumer electronics. The stuff I managed to scan looked exactly like the stuff I want to be able to achieve with my scanner.. |
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Multi Pro or Coolscan 8000?
On Sep 23, 8:26 pm, Toni Nikkanen wrote:
1. Infrequent flashing of the green LED (about one per second) 2. A mechanical sound while the flashing continues 3. flashing continues for a moment but the sound stops 4. Another mechanical sound, flashing continues 5. Very rapid flashing, no sound 6. The green led is glowing continuously, no more sounds are emitted any chance of sending it back? just doesn't look right to me. the flashing is normal during the POST but it should stop after a coupla minutes or so. and I only hear a couple of rattles on start-up in my 9000, nothing else. |
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Multi Pro or Coolscan 8000?
Toni -
Have you visited the Nikon 8000/9000 group at Yahoo Groups and read through the archives? It seems like I have heard of some similar problems with the 8000 and there may be some good tips there on how to solve it. Lots of good people there to help you troubleshoot things. Doug -- www.BetterScanning.com - Custom Film Holders and Accessories for Agfa, Microtek and Epson Scanners |
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Multi Pro or Coolscan 8000?
" -" writes:
Toni - Have you visited the Nikon 8000/9000 group at Yahoo Groups and read through the archives? Thanks for the tip, I'll go and check it out right away. |
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I took it to the service company this morning and a few hours later they already called me back, they had found the fault (a motor switch was broken) and it will cost about 100 euros to fix it, they will need one spare part which they have ordered and should arrive next week. So it seems Coolscan 8000 is still being serviced. If this fixes it I'm going to be happy after this is all over. |
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Multi Pro or Coolscan 8000?
Just got my scanner back. Apparently they fixed it completely, as I have performed several scans of absolutely stunning quality with no problems whatsoever. And that's before even trying the glass carrier yet. |
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