Mike - Without divulging any trade secrets - do you have any idea when (roughly) we can except a new Nikon Coolscan film scanner ??? The 2000 has been out there for 2 years now, so I'm hoping that you'll soon release something with a resolution higher than 2700 dpi. Thanks for answering all these questions !!!!!

-- Ron Sholand (nwcheesehead@earthlink.net), March 18, 2000

Answers

AS of today and for the forseeable future the Coolscan line will remain as it stands. As reviews have shown-the color depth and accuracy of the 2700 dpi Coolscan products exceed some of the higher resolution scanners. If you want to become independent of resolution- use Altamira Group's Genuine Fractals software for scaling and compressing. We have made prints as large as 8 feet by 12 feet from a 35 mm scan on a Super Coolscan 2000.

A 400 horsepower engine in a VW Bug-while cool-is useless-in other words-the 150 HP Turbo engine is more than enough....

Michael

-- Mike Rubin, Product Marketing Manager Nikon (web@imaging-resource.com), March 23, 2000.

3 new Nikon film scanners seem to be due soon (1 or 2/2001): Coolscan IV-ED, Coolscan 4000-ED, and Coolscan 8000-ED. IV is update of LS-2000 w/ED optics, and Digital ICE-3 software, 4000 is 4000dpi and density range to 4.2, ED optics and ICE-3, and 8000 is same as 4000, but also accepts 120 film. Not much further info yet, but there is a page link to scanner home page at nikonusa site (don't have it at the moment). Seem very interesting, especially the 4.2 density. -JW 1/17/01

-- J. Walden (JWalden01@aol.com), January 18, 2001.