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India Press Store - Nikon Coolscan IV APS Film Adapter
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List Price: $199.00
Our Price: $189.71
Your Save: $ 9.29 ( 5% )
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Manufacturer: Nikon
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Nikon
EAN: 0018208092963
Feature: Accessory for both Super Coolscan V ED and Super Coolscan 5000 ED Scanners
Label: Nikon
Manufacturer: Nikon
Model: IA-20s
Publisher: Nikon
Release Date: 2004-04-26
Studio: Nikon
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Features
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Accessory for both Super Coolscan V ED and Super Coolscan 5000 ED Scanners
Compatible with the Nikon CoolScan IV ED
Scan APS film without hindering your other scanning jobs
Easy-to-install attachment
A quality Nikon product
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: a little patience and practice
Comment: I read all the negative reviews of this piece of equipment and bought it anyway. With the negative reviews in mind I have taken special care to load and unload the film cartridges carefully, which can be tricky until you get some practice, now nearly a year later with all my APS rolls finished, I will say I have had no problems at all.
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Summary: Great for it's intended use but reliability is poor
Comment: For its intended use case this works very well for scanning in APS films (15, 25 and 40 exposure). I have a Coolscan V (LS-50) and use VueScan software. I scanned in quite a lot of images quite happily. Some months afterwards I had to scan in some more APS films and the adapter jammed leaving the film stuck in the adapter.
The adapter is also REALLY loud when spooling and unspooling film from the cartridge. If you are in a smallish room you will not want to scan too many films in one sitting.
On the whole I have been happy and may well purchase another one just because I still have APS films to scan.
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Summary: Works great, until it doesn't
Comment: Exactly as predicted by all the other reviews. I had mine for exactly 1 week, during which I scanned 61 rolls of APS film, all 25 exposure. Roll #62 went with the unit back to Nikon service for repair. It sounded like the gears stripped. I have to believe they built the thing with cheap plastic gears in order to be cost effective, and due to the relatively low volume of sales for such a thing, it's cheaper to repair them then to re-design. Buyer should also be aware that this thing doesn't scan the entire negative area of the APS film strip. It actually cuts off about 3mm of the width of the frame. So if your scanning an especially nice panoramic shot, you might want to get a strip holder and scan it that way, in order to get the entire negative. But when it works, there's no easier way to scan a bunch of old pics.
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Summary: Works for me
Comment: I had a brief interlude with APS film during 2000-2001, so I only had 16 rolls to scan with 25 shots each. The APS film adapter has performed well for me, no jams. In the Nikon Scan software, I am able to specify a crop and rotation for one frame, save the settings, and then apply the settings to each frame of an entire roll; the auto feeder lines up the frames accurately. I can walk away while 25 frames scan automatically, a real timesaver. I scan using ICE/GEM (no ROC) at 4000 dpi; the scans have much more shadow detail than the original prints, and the GEM does a great job of smoothing the very grainy APS film. Because the original APS prints have the date/time each photo was taken printed on the back, I use free Exifer software to apply date/time EXIF information to each jpeg file.
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Summary: mine jammed too
Comment: It jammed after about 40 rolls, so I sent it back for a warranty repair and to extract the film cartridge. When it came back it jammed again on the first roll. I sent it again and now it's working (12 rolls and counting...).
That said, when it works it works well, and I did some research and couldn't find a better way scan all my old film. So be prepared for some frustration if you decide to use this adapter.
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Editorial Reviews:
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IA-20S APS Film Adapter for Coolscan III, IV, 2000, 4000, 5000ED
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