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Beta Report: Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ED Film Scanner
By Niceole Levy
35mm shooters, get ready to go digital in a big way—a very big way—with stunning 4,000 dpi scans of your best shots. Nikon's newest film scanner, the Super Coolscan 4000 ED, delivers 130 MB, 48-bit color scans, with a dynamic range that exceeds your film's!
The Super Coolscan 4000 ED is, simply put, everything terrific about the LS-2000 made bigger and better. Most impressively, Nikon has increased the LS-2000's already high dynamic range of 3.6 to 4.2.
Average scan times have increased from 20 to 38 seconds—but don't be misled—the increase in optical resolution (from 2,700 dpi to 4,000 dpi) and in color depth (from 36-bit to 48-bit) mean the Super Coolscan 4000 ED is capturing more than twice the information in just under twice the time of its predecessor.
While the LS-2000, an impressive scanner in its own right, rendered 36-bit images at file sizes up to 58 MB, the Super Coolscan 4000 ED turns in 48-bit color images at sizes up to 130 MB—big enough for 16x20 prints at 300 dpi. Nikon has also redesigned the CCD in the Super Coolscan 4000 ED to reduce noise in the shadow and highlight areas for "cleaner" scans and smoother tonality.
The powerful, built-in color management system and 16X multi-sample scanning capabilities of the LS-2000 return in the Super Coolscan 4000 ED. Applied Science Fiction's Digital ICE™ scratch and dust removal technology also returns, but this time in concert with Digital ROC™ and Digital GEM™ to help restore faded colors and reduce grain in your scans.
Other options that have carried over include an auto slide feeder that handles up to 50 slides and a series of adapters for slide mounts, Advanced Photo System film and a new adapter for uncut rolls of 35mm film. Software bundled with the Super Coolscan 4000 ED includes Nikon Scan 3 and Altamira Genuine Fractals 2.0.
An exact release date and street price weren't set at press time, but keep an eye out. We'll bring you a more detailed review once we've had a chance to take this one for a test drive.
Contact: Nikon, (800) NIKON-UX, www.nikonusa.com.
Key Features
- 4,000 dpi optical resolution
- 4.2 dynamic range
- 130 MB files (48-bit color)
- 16X Multi-Sample scanning
- Digital ICE3 (ICE™, ROC™, GEM™)
- Built-in color-management system
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