How crappy is Nikon 5000ED software these days?

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Peter - 12 Nov 2007 07:24 GMT

I bought the 5000ED and a bulk slide feeder ~ 3 years ago, for about
£1300, for the single purpose of scanning in 5000 slides for which the
lowest commercial quote was £2500 :)

It did the job OK, with many software crashes...

I have just used it again to scan in a few hundred 35mm transparencies
in strips (unmounted) using the film feeder (the one which can scan
2-6 trannies in one piece).

The control software crashes roughly every 2 scans. It's a piece of
sh1t. I have heard this from professional Nikon gear owners too.

I wonder if anybody is using more recent software and how reliable it
is.

The scanner is very good quality. However the film feeder is
unreliable but that is another thing - I am having to feed some strips
in upside down and then invert the image in software. The strips are
not bent lengthwise; they have been stored perfectly flat for about 20
years; Kodachrome mainly.

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Michael J Davis - 12 Nov 2007 12:37 GMT

Peter <peter0o0o0o@peter2-0-o-0.c0.uk> observed

>I bought the 5000ED and a bulk slide feeder ~ 3 years ago, for about
>£1300, for the single purpose of scanning in 5000 slides for which the
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>not bent lengthwise; they have been stored perfectly flat for about 20
>years; Kodachrome mainly.

Check out vuescan from http://www.hamrick.com/

I've used it happily with my Canon scanner.

ummm, must update it!!

Mike

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Willy Eckerslyke - 13 Nov 2007 09:57 GMT

> Check out vuescan from http://www.hamrick.com/
>
> I've used it happily with my Canon scanner.

Silverfast is another option. I used it in the past with a Nikon film
scanner and a different version in a Umax flatbed. Dunno how it compares
nowadays, but it used to be excellent, though pricey - especially when
there was no discount if you needed more than one version.
http://www.silverfast.com

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Peter - 13 Nov 2007 11:10 GMT

>> Check out vuescan from http://www.hamrick.com/
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>there was no discount if you needed more than one version.
>http://www.silverfast.com

I've used Silverfast - it used to be bundled with a certain Epson A4
scanner I have.

However, the problem isn't in the raw scanning. The Nikon does the
dumb scanning fine. It is to do with the way the Nikon software
interfaces with the scanner accessories e.g. the bulk slide feeder or
the film strip scanner.

The bulk feeder works OK most of the time but the strip feeder crashes
the software roughly every two scans.

I don't think Silverfast will have the special features for these
accessories.

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Trev - 13 Nov 2007 11:50 GMT

>>> Check out vuescan from http://www.hamrick.com/
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> I don't think Silverfast will have the special features for these
> accessories.

Would that be a Memorey problem by chance

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