

- #Vuescan nikon coolscan 9000 best settings for slides drivers
- #Vuescan nikon coolscan 9000 best settings for slides driver
I think I also made a mistake in the choice of Kodachrome film used. But USB is SO slow!ĭave, does your Coolscan still work, and do you want to sell it? I bopught a Epson V500 photo about three months ago which is pretty good, although the negative film holder is very iffy. My Coolscan III was OK in that mode with Kodak, but it died. If you turn IC off, it should function just as well. Re Dave Flint's reply: I believe Kodachrome lacks the 4th layer that the IC function of Nikon Coolscan needs to do dirt removal. This link to to old RM web shows some more of my photos all scanned on my Nikon Coolscan V, some are E-6 and some are Kodachrome
#Vuescan nikon coolscan 9000 best settings for slides driver
I installed this driver last week and now all is sweet and dandy.

Nikon do not (and have to plans to) support this scanner under Windows 7 32 or 64 bit, but someone has now written a driver for it. I have been using a Nikon Coolscan V for about three years and find it to be fantastic, also no problem with Kodachrome (as long as you use the Kodachrome setting). I have seen much better resuilts with KChrome on a Minolta scanner, so just have a good think about what your scanning first, as this may be important. This seems to be a common failing of the Nikon scanner range. This is a killer bit of kit, BUT doesn't like Kodachrome film. I bought a nikon coolscan v that should (yet to try) work with windows 7. I did lots of scans using my nikon coolscan iii, which although working, has a scsi interface that renders it pretty useless these days. Silverfast costs almost as much as Photoshop, which is somewhat hard to justify. Personally I find Vuescan does a better job on negatives, but that Nikon Scan works slightly better on positives. Vuescan and more recent versions of Silverfast (older versions used the Nikon drivers) work fine, but their user interfaces are poorer, not all scanner functions are supported properly and some people claim the scan quality is poorer.
#Vuescan nikon coolscan 9000 best settings for slides drivers
It hasn't been upgraded for XP-64 or Windows 7, although there is a hack involving persuading Nikon Scan to work with the Vuescan drivers and it will sometimes work in 7's XP compatibility mode.

The Nikon Scan software was last upgraded to a version for XP-32 (the Mac version was last upgraded for OSX 10.4 and is hit-and-miss on later OSes). The only scanner still produced by Nikon is the Coolscan 9000, which is only manufactured in small batches and you have to sell your first-born to afford a new one. I once owned a Minolta 5400 for 36 hours (the dealer was closed on Sundays, so I had to wait a day before returning it). I am more than satisfied with my Minolta but if I were starting now I would probably opt for a Nikon Coolscan.
