How much would a good used Nikon ED5000 slide scanner be worth?

Peter wrote:

I bought one of these, with the bulk feeder, to scan in a few thousand slides.

It paid for itself on that one job but I now want to sell it.
Obviously there is Ebay but this is a fairly pricey and specialised item. I think the lot cost about £1500.

Does anybody have any better ideas?

Hi Peter

I am afraid i can’t help you much with a value on your
scanner……………….

but I was rather hoping that as you have actually used this unit extensively you might be able to pass on some information about it! – Rather than the twaddle that some spotty faced oik who has never seen one outside of its box let alone actually used one would spout when asked!

I have a big digitisation project coming up at work and am trying to persuade the bean counters that we should invest in a decent slide scanner and bulk feed unit.

How did you get on with it? I assume that you ran it with the software supplied (I assume that Nikon actually supply scanning software!)rather than via Photoshop. I take it that the Nikon app scans and then saves files as it goes rather than trying to leave them all open within Photoshop or CS. Is the scanning ap any good?

Any problems with the bulk feed mechanism. I guess that any slightly dog eared kodachromes will have to be remounted into plastic, but how does it cope with ultra thin Leitz mounts and old GAF mounts that are as thick as paving slabs? Did you run any glass mounted slides through it? Or slides with sticky labels that are lifting at the corners etc?

Did you find any ‘gotchas’ – those less than endearing short comings in the software, scanner design or functionality that you only find out once you start using it in anger?

Any pointers would be much appreciated – and good luck with findig a buyer. :o)

regards

Dudley

PS – remove THE.OBVIOUS to reply off group!

Dudley Simons wrote:

Peter wrote:

I bought one of these, with the bulk feeder, to scan in a few thousand slides.

It paid for itself on that one job but I now want to sell it.
Obviously there is Ebay but this is a fairly pricey and specialised item. I think the lot cost about £1500.

Does anybody have any better ideas?

Hi Peter

I am afraid i can’t help you much with a value on your
scanner……………….

but I was rather hoping that as you have actually used this unit extensively you might be able to pass on some information about it! – Rather than the twaddle that some spotty faced oik who has never seen one outside of its box let alone actually used one would spout when asked!
I have a big digitisation project coming up at work and am trying to persuade the bean counters that we should invest in a decent slide scanner and bulk feed unit.

How did you get on with it? I assume that you ran it with the software supplied (I assume that Nikon actually supply scanning software!)rather than via Photoshop. I take it that the Nikon app scans and then saves files as it goes rather than trying to leave them all open within Photoshop or CS. Is the scanning ap any good?

Any problems with the bulk feed mechanism. I guess that any slightly dog eared kodachromes will have to be remounted into plastic, but how does it cope with ultra thin Leitz mounts and old GAF mounts that are as thick as paving slabs? Did you run any glass mounted slides through it? Or slides with sticky labels that are lifting at the corners etc?
Did you find any ‘gotchas’ – those less than endearing short comings in the software, scanner design or functionality that you only find out once you start using it in anger?

Any pointers would be much appreciated – and good luck with findig a buyer. :o)

regards

Dudley

PS – remove THE.OBVIOUS to reply off group!

What do you have to digitise are they only 35mm slides and what do your require as the end result?

As a slide scanner may not be the answer.

r

Rob wrote:

Dudley Simons wrote:

Peter wrote:

I bought one of these, with the bulk feeder, to scan in a few thousand slides.

It paid for itself on that one job but I now want to sell it.
Obviously there is Ebay but this is a fairly pricey and specialised item. I think the lot cost about £1500.

Does anybody have any better ideas?

Hi Peter

I am afraid i can’t help you much with a value on your
scanner……………….

but I was rather hoping that as you have actually used this unit extensively you might be able to pass on some information about it! – Rather than the twaddle that some spotty faced oik who has never seen one outside of its box let alone actually used one would spout when asked!

I have a big digitisation project coming up at work and am trying to persuade the bean counters that we should invest in a decent slide scanner and bulk feed unit.

How did you get on with it? I assume that you ran it with the software supplied (I assume that Nikon actually supply scanning software!)rather than via Photoshop. I take it that the Nikon app scans and then saves files as it goes rather than trying to leave them all open within Photoshop or CS. Is the scanning ap any good?

Any problems with the bulk feed mechanism. I guess that any slightly dog eared kodachromes will have to be remounted into plastic, but how does it cope with ultra thin Leitz mounts and old GAF mounts that are as thick as paving slabs? Did you run any glass mounted slides through it? Or slides with sticky labels that are lifting at the corners etc?
Did you find any ‘gotchas’ – those less than endearing short comings in the software, scanner design or functionality that you only find out once you start using it in anger?

Any pointers would be much appreciated – and good luck with findig a buyer. :o)

regards

Dudley

PS – remove THE.OBVIOUS to reply off group!

What do you have to digitise are they only 35mm slides and what do your require as the end result?

As a slide scanner may not be the answer.

r

I take it you mean digitising the slides by shooting them with a camera?

I have a Bowens Illumitran which I have used in the past to digitize slides very successfully with a Nikon D2X.

regards

Dudley

Dudley Simons wrote:

Rob wrote:

Dudley Simons wrote:

Peter wrote:

I bought one of these, with the bulk feeder, to scan in a few thousand slides.

It paid for itself on that one job but I now want to sell it.
Obviously there is Ebay but this is a fairly pricey and specialised item. I think the lot cost about £1500.

Does anybody have any better ideas?

Hi Peter

I am afraid i can’t help you much with a value on your
scanner……………….

but I was rather hoping that as you have actually used this unit extensively you might be able to pass on some information about it! – Rather than the twaddle that some spotty faced oik who has never seen one outside of its box let alone actually used one would spout when asked!

I have a big digitisation project coming up at work and am trying to persuade the bean counters that we should invest in a decent slide scanner and bulk feed unit.

How did you get on with it? I assume that you ran it with the software supplied (I assume that Nikon actually supply scanning software!)rather than via Photoshop. I take it that the Nikon app scans and then saves files as it goes rather than trying to leave them all open within Photoshop or CS. Is the scanning ap any good?

Any problems with the bulk feed mechanism. I guess that any slightly dog eared kodachromes will have to be remounted into plastic, but how does it cope with ultra thin Leitz mounts and old GAF mounts that are as thick as paving slabs? Did you run any glass mounted slides through it? Or slides with sticky labels that are lifting at the corners etc?
Did you find any ‘gotchas’ – those less than endearing short comings in the software, scanner design or functionality that you only find out once you start using it in anger?

Any pointers would be much appreciated – and good luck with findig a buyer. :o)

regards

Dudley

PS – remove THE.OBVIOUS to reply off group!

What do you have to digitise are they only 35mm slides and what do your require as the end result?

As a slide scanner may not be the answer.

r

I take it you mean digitising the slides by shooting them with a camera?
I have a Bowens Illumitran which I have used in the past to digitize slides very successfully with a Nikon D2X.

regards

Dudley

Thats what I use, results are satisfactory, quick to use, small file size etc.

Slides or tranny stuff that’s for critical use are scanned.

But for most yes just copy them with the Bowens with the bulbs.

Very rarely does the scanner get used.

r

Dudley Simons wrote

Peter wrote:

I bought one of these, with the bulk feeder, to scan in a few thousand slides.

It paid for itself on that one job but I now want to sell it.
Obviously there is Ebay but this is a fairly pricey and specialised item. I think the lot cost about £1500.

Does anybody have any better ideas?

Hi Peter

I am afraid i can’t help you much with a value on your
scanner……………….

but I was rather hoping that as you have actually used this unit extensively you might be able to pass on some information about it! – Rather than the twaddle that some spotty faced oik who has never seen one outside of its box let alone actually used one would spout when asked!
I have a big digitisation project coming up at work and am trying to persuade the bean counters that we should invest in a decent slide scanner and bulk feed unit.

How did you get on with it? I assume that you ran it with the software supplied (I assume that Nikon actually supply scanning software!)rather than via Photoshop. I take it that the Nikon app scans and then saves files as it goes rather than trying to leave them all open within Photoshop or CS. Is the scanning ap any good?

The software is Nikon’s own and can save to BMP, TIFF, Jpeg etc. It is clunky but works. Loads of options for things like dust removal (does a double scan) and enhancement which I never used.

I scanned the lot into uncompressed TIFFs, about 80MB each, and then batch-reduced them in Photoshop into ~ 7MB Jpegs – simply because I *hope* that PS does a better job of it than any other software out there. It is certainly practically impossible to see a difference with the naked eye, at 100% zoom.

Any problems with the bulk feed mechanism. I guess that any slightly dog eared kodachromes will have to be remounted into plastic, but how does it cope with ultra thin Leitz mounts and old GAF mounts that are as thick as paving slabs? Did you run any glass mounted slides through it? Or slides with sticky labels that are lifting at the corners etc?

I didn’t have problems with any slides, 1970s onwards. Damaged ones won’t work, sure, but I didn’t have any of those. I did scan glass mounted ones too. The feeder takes about 50 at a time.

I think if you will have problems then it might be with the very thin paper ones. But for me everything worked.

Did you find any ‘gotchas’ – those less than endearing short comings in the software, scanner design or functionality that you only find out once you start using it in anger?

The software is a bit odd in the way it works but once you suss it, it just runs and runs.

The quality is stunning – as good as the film itself ever managed.

I am uploading some images here

http://www.zen74158.zen.co.uk/ed5000/

One of these, file3012.jpg, was used to compare the ED5000 against another Nikon scanner costing about £5000 and neither myself nor the shop could see any difference.

Any pointers would be much appreciated – and good luck with findig a buyer. :o)

Well, mine will be for sale; looking for about £500 🙂 In original packaging, with cables, software, etc.

I was quoted a min of 50p each for commercial scanning, and one firm wanted £10 each!

My email is above but replace o with 0 and 0 with o.

regards

Dudley

PS – remove THE.OBVIOUS to reply off group!

Peter wrote:

Dudley Simons wrote

Peter wrote:

I bought one of these, with the bulk feeder, to scan in a few thousand slides.

It paid for itself on that one job but I now want to sell it.
Obviously there is Ebay but this is a fairly pricey and specialised item. I think the lot cost about £1500.

Does anybody have any better ideas?

Hi Peter

I am afraid i can’t help you much with a value on your
scanner……………….

but I was rather hoping that as you have actually used this unit extensively you might be able to pass on some information about it! – Rather than the twaddle that some spotty faced oik who has never seen one outside of its box let alone actually used one would spout when asked!
I have a big digitisation project coming up at work and am trying to persuade the bean counters that we should invest in a decent slide scanner and bulk feed unit.

How did you get on with it? I assume that you ran it with the software supplied (I assume that Nikon actually supply scanning software!)rather than via Photoshop. I take it that the Nikon app scans and then saves files as it goes rather than trying to leave them all open within Photoshop or CS. Is the scanning ap any good?

The software is Nikon’s own and can save to BMP, TIFF, Jpeg etc. It is clunky but works. Loads of options for things like dust removal (does a double scan) and enhancement which I never used.

I scanned the lot into uncompressed TIFFs, about 80MB each, and then batch-reduced them in Photoshop into ~ 7MB Jpegs – simply because I *hope* that PS does a better job of it than any other software out there. It is certainly practically impossible to see a difference with the naked eye, at 100% zoom.

Any problems with the bulk feed mechanism. I guess that any slightly dog eared kodachromes will have to be remounted into plastic, but how does it cope with ultra thin Leitz mounts and old GAF mounts that are as thick as paving slabs? Did you run any glass mounted slides through it? Or slides with sticky labels that are lifting at the corners etc?

I didn’t have problems with any slides, 1970s onwards. Damaged ones won’t work, sure, but I didn’t have any of those. I did scan glass mounted ones too. The feeder takes about 50 at a time.

I think if you will have problems then it might be with the very thin paper ones. But for me everything worked.

Did you find any ‘gotchas’ – those less than endearing short comings in the software, scanner design or functionality that you only find out once you start using it in anger?

The software is a bit odd in the way it works but once you suss it, it just runs and runs.

The quality is stunning – as good as the film itself ever managed.
I am uploading some images here

http://www.zen74158.zen.co.uk/ed5000/

One of these, file3012.jpg, was used to compare the ED5000 against another Nikon scanner costing about £5000 and neither myself nor the shop could see any difference.

Any pointers would be much appreciated – and good luck with findig a buyer. :o)

Well, mine will be for sale; looking for about £500 🙂 In original packaging, with cables, software, etc.

I was quoted a min of 50p each for commercial scanning, and one firm wanted £10 each!

My email is above but replace o with 0 and 0 with o.

regards

Dudley

PS – remove THE.OBVIOUS to reply off group!

Hi Peter

Well thats pretty much what I had hoped to hear – would have been interested to know how well the dust removal system worked and how much longer it took. We have an old Monolta which does a multiple scan dust removal thang. It works reasonably well but takes forever to do one scan.

regards

Dudley

Dudley Simons wrote

Well thats pretty much what I had hoped to hear – would have been interested to know how well the dust removal system worked and how much longer it took. We have an old Monolta which does a multiple scan dust removal thang. It works reasonably well but takes forever to do one scan.

If you’ve got a bulk feeder, it doesn’t matter how long a scan takes. Just stick 50 slides in there and go off and do something else.

Peter wrote:

Dudley Simons wrote

Well thats pretty much what I had hoped to hear – would have been interested to know how well the dust removal system worked and how much longer it took. We have an old Monolta which does a multiple scan dust removal thang. It works reasonably well but takes forever to do one scan.

If you’ve got a bulk feeder, it doesn’t matter how long a scan takes. Just stick 50 slides in there and go off and do something else.

Hi Peter

exactly, I’d be happy to hook the scanner upto a spare pc and just leave it to chunter away to itself. The scan times would be particularily long as I need to get some fairly hefty files from the slides.

I am hoping that the dust removal would give good results and not just look like its been done with photoshop dust and scratches filter applied to a whole image. Some of the slides are not entirely dissimilar to a shag pile carpet and from previous experience I know that even once they have been given a quick blow there will be a fair bit of cack that is well and truly stuck on or embedded in the emulsion.

What I really want is to be able to get a straight scan and a ‘repaired’ scan. I really don’t like the idea of not having a straight version of the scan. Do you know if it looks as though this is possible in the software? I guess this is really a question for a techie at Nikon – if they still have any :o(

regards

dudley