ICE is now referred to as ICE 4, so I suppose some day we'll get an update to ICE 9 and our scanners will all freeze over (warning: obscure Vonnegut reference). ED glass is used by Nikon to insure that colors all focus at the same point.Īs before, Nikon relies upon Applied Science Fiction's Digital ICE, though now we also have Digital ROC, Digital GEM, and Digital DEE to add to our "what the heck is that" list (see right column, further down). The ED in their name indicates their is ED-type glass in the scanning mechanism. The actual scanning is done via a 3964-pixel line CCD (actually two lines in the 5000 and three lines on the 9000 models). All three new scanners (V, 5000, and 9000) are 4000 dpi, which is a bump over the previous low end and a significant bump over the first generation I wrote about before. The Coolpix 5000 ED hooks to your computer via USB 2.0, which provides fast enough throughput to keep up with the scanning mechanism. On the physical side, like a lot of us, the Coolscan has bulked up in size and weight over the years, though it still remains a relatively modest sized footprint on the desktop. Moreover, the price has dropped a bit so that today's mid-level scanner (the 5000 reviewed here) is priced about where the low-level one was at introduction.
#NIKON SCAN 4.0 SPEED FULL#
Nikon is now on its third full generation of desktop scanners, and as you might expect, the latest models generate improved results over the previous ones.
This article is kept here for legacy purposes. For example, Silverfast 8 still supports the Coolscan 5000 ED. Product discontinued, though sometimes still available on the used market and supported by some current software.