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by **Brian P** » Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:47:47

Hello,
I have just purchased and am experimenting with the Nikon Coolscan 4000
ED scanner. I have the software upgrade (3.1) and when I use the software
stand-alone (outside of Photoshop) I get images from slides and things run
pretty well. This evening I tried to scan my first color negative. I did one
scan with ICE dust removal and things went great. I then tried setting the
GEM setting to 2 and the ROC setting to 0 and did one more scan, trying to
reduce the grain while leaving the ROC function inactive. Two things
happened. The scan was much, much darker than the first scan where I did not
alter the GEM or ROC settings. The second thing that happened is that the
software refused to let me save the scan. It kept coming back with a fatal
error - something to the effect that 'Nikon Scan cannot perform the desired
function - the program will now shit down.' It also stated that some entry
was made into an error log somewhere.
I then tried to rescan the image using the import function in Photoshop.
This did work so I guess I can save the image if I scan it through
Photoshop. However the scan is still very dark.
Could someone shed any light on these two problems?

thanks much,

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by **Kennedy McEwe** » Mon, 06 Aug 2001 09:18:43

Quote:>the program will now shit down.
> Could someone shed any light on these two problems?

That is probably more than sufficient light being shed on the problem!
:-)
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by **Peter Thornv** » Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:05:40

I stick to LS2000 at the moment.
1. It take around 2x the time to scan same image in same quality.
A little bit faster using SilverFast
2. It only run firewire ! (Ultrawide SCSI is much faster and no match
when working professional)
3. The software in Demark is only Nikon Scan and use this scanner in a
professional way, I need to by SilverFast. So I have to ad 3.300 Dkr
at SilverFast with IT8, to the price LS4000 price of 17.000 Dkr (ex
vat).

The Nikon Scan userinterface is weary much improved, but her all the
other reasons why I'm not using NikonScan, 1. It don't work as
Photoshop plug-in - only as TWAIN !
2. It is slower than Silverfast
3. The preview had to be rescanned if you want a bigger image field
after
prescan to get a usable preview quality
4. The control of the scan is from my point of view not nearly good
enough.
Ex: No saturisation possibilities as in Silverfast
5. In my opinion there are some problems with the conversion to
positive, when
scanning from negative.
Peter Thornvig

by **Norman Blac** » Thu, 09 Aug 2001 09:40:14

I have a Coolscan IV not a 4000 but for what is it worth

I never saw activating GEM darken the image. I thought GEM was awesome. I
always had ROC at zero and tried GEM at 2-3.
I never used NikonScan stand alone, only via TWAIN.
I am running on Win2k.

Sorry... not much light to shed.

Norman

> Hello,
> I have just purchased and am experimenting with the Nikon Coolscan
4000
> ED scanner. I have the software upgrade (3.1) and when I use the software
> stand-alone (outside of Photoshop) I get images from slides and things run
> pretty well. This evening I tried to scan my first color negative. I did
one
> scan with ICE dust removal and things went great. I then tried setting the
> GEM setting to 2 and the ROC setting to 0 and did one more scan, trying to
> reduce the grain while leaving the ROC function inactive. Two things
> happened. The scan was much, much darker than the first scan where I did
not
> alter the GEM or ROC settings. The second thing that happened is that the
> software refused to let me save the scan. It kept coming back with a fatal
> error - something to the effect that 'Nikon Scan cannot perform the
desired
> function - the program will now shit down.' It also stated that some entry
> was made into an error log somewhere.
> I then tried to rescan the image using the import function in
Photoshop.
> This did work so I guess I can save the image if I scan it through
> Photoshop. However the scan is still very dark.
> Could someone shed any light on these two problems?

> thanks much,

> --
> Brian P.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Remove 'nspm' from email address and

by **Brian P** » Thu, 09 Aug 2001 10:17:21

Norman,
Thanks for the comments. Ultimately, I uninstalled everything, including
the device drivers. I deleted all references to the software I could find -
e.g., the settings files in the Administrator settings subdirectory, etc. I
then reinstalled everything. Actually, I did this twice. In the end, I was
able to get things to work OK. I can now save files and the scans do not
darken when I use different settings of the GEM and ROC features. I am
keeping my fingers crossed that this has done the trick.

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Brian P.
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> I have a Coolscan IV not a 4000 but for what is it worth

> I never saw activating GEM darken the image. I thought GEM was awesome. I
> always had ROC at zero and tried GEM at 2-3.
> I never used NikonScan stand alone, only via TWAIN.
> I am running on Win2k.

> Sorry... not much light to shed.

> Norman

> > Hello,
> > I have just purchased and am experimenting with the Nikon Coolscan
> 4000
> > ED scanner. I have the software upgrade (3.1) and when I use the
software
> > stand-alone (outside of Photoshop) I get images from slides and things
run
> > pretty well. This evening I tried to scan my first color negative. I did
> one
> > scan with ICE dust removal and things went great. I then tried setting
the
> > GEM setting to 2 and the ROC setting to 0 and did one more scan, trying
to
> > reduce the grain while leaving the ROC function inactive. Two things
> > happened. The scan was much, much darker than the first scan where I did
> not
> > alter the GEM or ROC settings. The second thing that happened is that
the
> > software refused to let me save the scan. It kept coming back with a
fatal
> > error - something to the effect that 'Nikon Scan cannot perform the
> desired
> > function - the program will now shit down.' It also stated that some
entry
> > was made into an error log somewhere.
> > I then tried to rescan the image using the import function in
> Photoshop.
> > This did work so I guess I can save the image if I scan it through
> > Photoshop. However the scan is still very dark.
> > Could someone shed any light on these two problems?

> > thanks much,

> > --
> > Brian P.
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > Remove 'nspm' from email address and

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