Coolscan V ED software vs Vuescan

[3rdtrick]

I know this is last years post but I just got my CS 4000 out of the closet so I can get back into the scanning. I will clean it as someone from the forum suggested. I always used Nikon Scan and think that the manufacturer software is usually the best but wait a minute! Windows 7 is here and is already old but Nikon Scan does not support it. Anyone have any luck with Nikon Scan on Windows 7 or do I just count on getting Vuescan? I have looked at Silverfast but it does not seem to have support for the 4000. I was hoping to do some batch scanning so I would really like to get Nikon Scan working.
Pete

[lewis44]

I know this is last years post but I just got my CS 4000 out of the closet so I can get back into the scanning. I will clean it as someone from the forum suggested. I always used Nikon Scan and think that the manufacturer software is usually the best but wait a minute! Windows 7 is here and is already old but Nikon Scan does not support it. Anyone have any luck with Nikon Scan on Windows 7 or do I just count on getting Vuescan? I have looked at Silverfast but it does not seem to have support for the 4000. I was hoping to do some batch scanning so I would really like to get Nikon Scan working.
Pete

Follow this thread and you will get your answer re:windows 7
It will work

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-...ndows-7-a.html

[3rdtrick]

Thank you Randy,
I checked it out., I am also 3rdtrick on that forum. So far I have downloaded Vuescan and it finds the scanner ok. I also downloaded Nikon Scan hoping to use the driver from Vuescan but NS does not find the scanner. Vuescan seems like it will work well and is current with the times so I will probably just use that but I would like to get NS working also. Guess I need to read the LUG thread again...
Pete

[jja]

I started reading Chris Crawford's page on scanning:

http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/technical/scanning.php

Chris is an rff member, and I hope he finds this thread. He has lots of experience in these matters!

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Originally Posted by jja

I started reading Chris Crawford's page on scanning:

http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/technical/scanning.php

Chris is an rff member, and I hope he finds this thread. He has lots of experience in these matters!

Thanks, jja.

I think Nikon Scan does better for color transparencies than Vuescan. I get nicer color. For black and white negatives, I like Vuescan better. I think both programs give equal quality for BW negs, but Vuescan is much faster. I don't have much experience scanning color negs, its been 10 yrs since I scanned one, so I can't really comment on them.

The big problem with Nikon Scan is that it has not been updated by Nikon in many, many years. On modern computers with modern operating systems it is excruciatingly slow and has a nasty habit of crashing at or near the end of a long scan, requiring you to redo the whole scan. It sucks because, as I mentioned above, NS gives better color when scanning slide film, so I tolerate it for that.

For BW I just use Vuescan. Someone posted a comparison of a BW neg scanned with Vuescan and Nikon Scan, and concluded that the Nikon Scan version was better. The grain looks sharper, but keep in mind that the Nikon Scan example he showed is much higher in contrast than the Vuescan one. Increase the Vuescan example's contrast and I bet they'll look near identical.

[Michalm]

Can anyone comment on multi exposure in Vuescan is there any advantage of Vuescan over NS here when trying to get better shadows details using Coolscan V?

[DrTebi]

Originally Posted by exlboy

How about color slides?
Thanks.

I have just made the plunge and bought ColorPerfect, after getting some nice results from the demo version.

After scanning slides with Vuescan in "RAW" mode and then converting them in Photoshop with the ColorPefect plugin, I truly got color-perfect results (on screen that is, haven't tried to print yet). After conversion the scans look pretty much exactly as the slides on the light-table.

ColorPerfect is free to try, the demo version just adds a noise raster to the final output. So give it a try, you've got nothing to loose.

BTW, the slides I scanned were Profia 100F medium format, and my scanner is a Minolta Dimage Multi Pro. The image below had no further adjustments besides resizing and sharpening in Photivo: