Digital BW, The Print

Look at the back of your scanner.. Sounds like you have the LS version These do say supercoolscan on the front of them.. Folks including Nikon stopped referrring to them as "Coolscans" with this model.. and started calling them LS5000 or LS9000..
The actual model will be written on the back..If it says LS-50 then it's a 14 bit scanner.
Visually the two scanners look alike as I recall.

jimbo
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mhaffey@... 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 2:01 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re:Panic mode: no more affordable 35mm scanners.


    
  Now I am getting confused. The scanner I have is the Nikon Super Coolscan
  5000 ED. It is a 16 bit scanner. What I was wondering is how the 5000 ED
  compares with the LS-5000. I'm not sure which scanner is the latest or
  what the differences are. Nikon gives the specs for the 5000 ED on their
  web site but I am unable to find out anything about the LS-5000, which is
  why I was asking here. The LS-5000 seems to garner higher prices on ebay,
  but I'm not sure that that is a consistent pattern. Anyway, the
  discussion led me to question whether there was room to improve on the
  scanner I currently have.

  Thanks for any information anyone has on this question.

  Mark

  > I don't think Jimbo is quite right, although I'm by no means an expert. I
  > believe that the LS-50 was a cut down version (as in it wouldn't work with
  > some of the accessories) of the LS-5000. The predecessor to the LS-5000
  > was
  > the LS-4000. One of the main accessories that won't work with the LS-50
  > is
  > the bulk slide feeder, otherwise I think they are pretty much the same. I
  > have an LS-5000 which I use for bulk slide scanning - the feeder takes 50
  > mounted slides at a time and just gets on with scanning them. Its quick
  > and
  > dirty but clearly doesn't compare with a drum.
  >
  > David Whistance
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  > [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
  > mhaffey@...
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  > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re:Panic mode: no more affordable 35mm
  > scanners.
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  > Thanks. Very helpful.
  >
  > Mark
  >
  > > Hopefully I do this right.. Ok the LS 5000 is the latest version of
  > the
  > > scanner ..the previous version which looked pretty much the same was
  > > called the LS-50 ED.. It was a 14 bit scanner not 16 bit like the LS
  > > version.. I actually had the previous version long ago but can't
  > remember
  > > that much about it.. it's been too long.. It was notably slower I
  > remember
  > > that.. Oh with the LS using supplied software you can scan to raw
  > which
  > > you can't do as I recall with the previous version. I will say that
  > while
  > > I'm not a fan of either for serious scanning the LS version is
  > probably
  > > the best of that type technology going.
  > >
  > > jimbo
  > > ----- Original Message -----
  > > From: mhaffey@...
  > > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  > > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 12:03 PM
  > > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re:Panic mode: no more affordable 35mm
  > > scanners.
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  > >
  > >
  > > Jimbo,
  > >
  > > What is the difference between the LS-5000 and the more commonly
  > > available
  > > 5000 ED scanner.
  > >
  > > Mark
  > >
  > > > The 5400 at the time it was introduced was a good move... Nikon's
  > > scanners
  > > > at that time fell a bit short.. This prompted Nikon to redo it's
  > > scanners
  > > > and they raised the bar considerably.. So constructively if one
  > > chooses to
  > > > go after a film scanner of this type the LS5000 would be the better
  > of
  > > the
  > > > two choices.
  > > >
  > > > jimbo
  > > > ----- Original Message -----
  > > > From: andy bessette
  > > > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  > > > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:54 AM
  > > > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re:Panic mode: no more affordable 35mm
  > > > scanners.
  > > >
  > > >
  > > >
  > > > Sorry,
  > > >
  > > > but the 5400 II was the last one by Konica Minolta.
  > > >
  > > > Andy
  > > >
  > > > Lew Schwartz schreef:
  > > > > Is the Minolta scanner still being made? I don't see it at B&H or
  > > > Adorama.
  > > >
  > > > No Minolta scanner is made anymore. No Minolta camera either :-)
  > > > The 5400 was the best model of the Minolta range...
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