Nikon LS-2000 Super CoolScan Film Scanner (PC/Mac)

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• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 3.5 x 5.6 inches ; 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 12 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00001MXW8
• Item model number: LS-2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
The Nikon LS-2000 Super CoolScan Film Scanner is designed with businesslike efficiency in mind, offering a desktop digital color scanner adapted for 35mm film in strip or slide format. With photo enthusiasts in mind, the Super CoolScan features superb color accuracy and 2,700 dpi optical resolution. All these advantage tally up to premium quality and resolution with 36-bit color images in file sizes up to 58 MB. Nikon's Color Management System allows you to produce expeditiously sharp scans with notably true-to-life colors.

Top-quality output is the paramount concern behind the design of the compact (5.5 pounds) Super CoolScan. You can scan 35mm film strips or slides and Advanced Photo System film. Adapters permit an exchange of film types without resetting the scanner or software. The average scan time is approximately 20 seconds at 2,700 dpi optical resolution. LED technology provides unadulterated, dependable color without requiring recalibration and supports work in 1 of 10 RGB color spaces, plus CMYK. The multisample scanning feature permits automatic removal of surface imperfections from your scans and a high dynamic range of 3.6.

The Nikon LS-2000 Super CoolScan's compatibility with both PC and Mac is particularly convenient for business needs. For more scaling options, the LS-2000 scanner is bundled with Altamira Genuine Fractals software.

Product Description
Get great results from slides, strip film or Advanced Photo System film with the Super Coolscan 2000 from Nikon. This 36-bit professional level 35mm film scanner features Digital ICE, a revolutionary new technology that locates, isolates and subtracts defects such as dust, scratches, and smudges on the film surface. This scanner's results can rival that of drum scanners with its Multi-Sample scanning technology, a scanning method that samples the image up to 16 times, then combines the data into one image.The Super Coolscan 2000 scans 35mm film and Advanced Photo System film (with optional adapter), positive or negative, color or monochrome. The Nikon Color Management System provides very accurate color and correctly matches colors on monitors and printers, and users can work in sRGB, CMYK, RGB and Lch color spaces. The LS-2000 offers auto focus and single-pass RGB line sequential image transfer.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

76 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Makes outstanding scans, though slide feeder is clunky, November 7, 2000

By	Eugene Wei "eugene" (Santa Monica, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I shoot a lot of slide film, and instead of getting a digital camera I decided to buy this scanner because it generates such high quality scans. Setup was fairly easy once I downloaded the latest Windows 2000 drivers from Nikon's US website (you have to dig around their convoluted site to find it). The Nikon Scan software contains all the basic controls to allow you to adjust levels to your satisfaction. The CleanImage feature is amazing! If you have any scratches, smudges, or other such blemishes on your film, the CleanImage function will get rid of them 9 times out of 10. At the highest settings (12 bit) the scans from my slides come out wonderful, and the resulting files are large (around 50MB) but great for archiving your slides digitally. The Nikon Scan software does so much that you don't have to open up Photoshop unless you really want to tinker with the photo for use on the web or with other artwork.

Now for the negatives. The documentation is not very thorough. If you want to learn the ins and outs of every function and menu of the Nikon Scan software, you'll have to consult the websites of some powerusers. The slide feeder, which I also bought, is a bit clumsy. I haven't had any huge problems with it yet, but its construction certainly doesn't inspire a lot of faith. Also, you have to sit their and use the software to advance to the next slide, so it isn't as automated as you think. You can't pop 50 slides in, adjust all the settings, and come back the next day to fifty completed scans. And finally, as others have noted, Nikon's tech support is extremely weak.

All in all, I think this is a great scanner for the serious photographer who wants to generate high quality scans without spending a fortune on drum scans. Those who just wish to get usable scans to post on web pages should go with a lower cost scanner or have their local photo shop transfer their photos to a Kodak Photo CD.

56 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nikon LS-2000 scanner, January 30, 2000

By	Robert D. Jones (Kettle Falls, WA) - See all my reviews

The scanner is great. The problem is Nikon's serious lack of customer support. Once you buy from Nikon they completely forget about you! My LS-2000 has a problem with certain flash transparencies. They just fail to scan at all. I have called Nikon's tech support 4 times (on my own nickle) and they havn't made any effort to contact me at all. The equipment is great - but beware that you will be all alone once you purchase it!

51 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Quite a shoddy scanner if you ask me, June 11, 2000

By	Tom Tom "istomtom" (Arizona USA) - See all my reviews

We bought one of these, and the slidefeeder attachment, to do scans at work. Well, we're on our 3rd scanner right now. That after having to make numerous calls each time to tech support before they decided to replace the scanner each time. The scanner is VERY buggy, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The slidefeeder is poorly designed and poorly manufactured, sometimes it jams, sometimes it tries to feed 2 slides at once. The most common error we get is "Stage locking screw is still in place", even though the stage locking screws have been removed. Our first scanner simply died, the 2nd one kept getting the "stage locking screw" error, and the 3rd one which we have currently is doing ok, SO FAR, I have no doubt it will fail shortly and we'll be on #4. There are better scanners to be had.