Digital Film Scanners - Nikon Super Coolscan 8000ED Film and Slide Scanner Review, Information, and Specifications

Digital Film Scanners - Nikon Super Coolscan 8000ED Film and Slide Scanner Review, Information, and Specifications: "our 'Train' slide, an extraordinarily difficult slide to process. It's a shot of a black locomotive, with deep shadows and bright highlights under a near-noonday sun. The range of dark-to-light in it is about as extreme as slide film is capable of producing, and the slide constitutes a fiendishly difficult test of scanners' dynamic range capabilities. To be sure, we still needed to tweak the scanner settings a fair bit to achieve the ultimate in detail from this slide, but we immediately observed that even the default settings, with the scanner in 8-bit A/D mode produced better results than we've managed to obtain in the past with lesser scanners, even with extensive adjustment. When we brought the full panoply of controls and adjustments the 8000 ED offers to bear, we were literally amazed by the level of shadow detail we were able to extract from this slide, and the low noise levels we were able to achieve. No question about it, the 8000 ED equaled or bettered the performance of the Super Coolscan 4000 ED, and together they blew away every other scanner we've tested on this exceptionally difficult test."