I was photographing falconry action, bucketing across rough ground at 80 mph in a Range Rover with 4 cameras strapped on, a different lens on each (falconry action is far, fast and furious and there's no time to change lenses). At one point we were camped in a red sand district and the color of the sand (in the slides) changed dramatically as the light changed at different times of day. I was able to get very satisfactory scans but in a few cases had to do a bit of tinkering in the Nikon software. Some of them shot under harsh sunlight conditions in the Saudi Arabian desert. I will have more to relate when I get it back from the overhaul.Īll the slides I did scan back then were Kodachrome (mostly K25, some K64). Now it needs at least cleaning, and perhaps an overhaul. Used it to scan 400-odd slides, then life intervened in various ways and the scanner sat unused for years. I bought my scanner new when it was still current (walked out of the B&H store in NYC with the last one they had in stock). Is it the same to you or did you find a way to limit that issue ?Īpologies for having left this so long unanswered.
Hello, I'm using the same scanner too with nikon software on windows 10 but the scanning seems to suffer from some "noise". I have Windows 10, and I am using Nikon Scan successfully with a tweaked version of the original driver's inf file. I am hopeful I'll get a preferred settings worked out that I can generally use moving forward.īut I digressed. I primarily work with digital cameras now, and I figure I can use Lightroom faster to correct images once they are scanned than spend too much time with the scanner software. Of course the Nikon Scan software is outdated, but so is the 5000 ED.
Vuescan doesn't seem to use the DigitalIce features to the full extant but rather developed their own feature that serves a similar purpose, and Silverfast is quite expensive.
My primary goal is to get archive copies of negatives, and from what I can see the Nikon Scan software will be good enough. I am using the scanner to archive all my parents' slides (and then I'll do this for my own negatives). In terms of your original question, I think the software choice depends. There are a few places online that guide one through the process, and it is essentially the same process that made the scanner work in Windows 7.
I'm posting to let you know that Nikon Scan can be operated in Windows 10. Aside from your thread, I've been researching best practices for using the Nikon Scan software. I know it's been a few months since the original post.
I am now recovering from a recent, not very pleasant brush with heart disease and don't yet trust my ability to take the scanner apart and clean the mirror. As noted in an earlier post, I think there is a mechanical problem, probably a dirty mirror. I used it for a while, then complicated life events intervened, and now several years later I am trying to resuscitate it. I think it was the last one they had in stock. The Nikon 5000 ED scanner I have was purchased new from B&H in New York.
Long ago now - I started photography at age 15 with a 1925 vintage Leica my father brought back from Germany. Most of my best work (my opinion ) has been in black and white (and doing all my own darkroom work). Now it is all digital (still Nikon, too much invested in lenses to change brands even if I wanted to) but digital and film are really two different media and b/w is different again. I went through a big freezer full of Kodachrome each year. It was all Kodachrome, mostly K25 but sometimes (especially for underwater work, I had a Swiss made underwater housing for my Nikon F2s, and also 4 Nikonos underwater cameras) I used K64. I still have 2 of the 4 Nikon F2AS cameras I used back then. I have been a "Nikon photographer" since 1970, when I arrived in Saudi Arabia as the first environmental scientist there. I'd be very interested in learning more about that. From other things I have seen, I had suspected that it was indeed possible to use Nikon Scan in Windows 10, a matter of convincing it to accept a modified driver.