Nikon 5000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED User Manual

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Quick Start Guide

35mm/APS(IX240) Film Scanner

If you need help:

Visit http://www.nikontechusa.com/ or call 1-800-NikonUX

(for users in the U.S.A.)

Vist

http://www.europe-nikon.com/support

or users in Europe)

Visit

http://www.nikon-asia.com/

(for users in Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, and Africa)

Visit these sites to keep up-to-date with the latest product information, tips, answers to frequently-asked questions (FAQs), and general advice on digital imaging and photography.

Preparation

Status LED

MA-21 slide-

mount adapter

Power switch

Adapter slot

Parts of the Scanner

Film gate

(5000 ED only)

AC connector

Feet

AC connector

USB interface

connector

USB interface

connector

Feet

After reading the license agreement, click Ac-

cept to accept the agreement and view the ReadMe ﬁ le. Take a few moments to read this ﬁ le, which may contain important information that could not be included in the product manuals. Click Continue… to proceed to the next step.

Click Install to begin installation. Nikon Scan 4 will be installed to the folder shown

under “Install Location.” In Mac OS X, Nikon Scan 4 is installed to the “Applications : Nikon Software” folder on the start-up disk. The default install location for Mac OS 9 is the “Applications (Mac OS 9) : Nikon Software” folder on the OS 9 start-up disk.

If Multiple Copies of Photoshop Are Installed (Mac OS 9 Only)

If a copy of the Nikon Scan plug-in is installed in the plug-ins folders for supported versions of Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop can be used to acquire images directly from the scanner. If

Note

more than one copy of Photoshop is installed on the computer, a list of plug-ins folders will be displayed. Select the plug-ins folders for the copies of Photoshop that will be used to acquire images and click Continue to copy the Nikon Scan plug-in to the selected folders.

The opening dialog of the color space selection

wizard will be displayed. Click Use Wizard.

Step

Remove the scanner from the box and conﬁ rm that you have all the items listed below.

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ﬁ lm scanner

 MA-21 slide-mount adapter  SA-21 strip-ﬁ lm adapter  Power cable  USB cable  CD-ROM

• Nikon Scan CD (Yellow)

• Nikon Scan Reference Manual / Easy Scanning Guide CD

• Nikon View CD (Yellow)

• Nikon View Reference Manual CD

 Warranty  User’s Manual  Quick Start Guide (this guide)

Check the package contents

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Windows

Turn the com puter on and wait for Windows to start up. Do not connect the

scanner.

Windows XP Home Edition / Windows XP Professional / Windows 2000 Professional

When installing or uninstalling Nikon Scan, log in as the “Computer

Important

administrator” (Windows XP Home Edition/Windows XP Professional) or “Administrator” (Windows 2000 Professional).

Earlier Versions of Nikon Scan

Before installing Nikon Scan 4, uninstall any earlier versions of Nikon

Important

Scan. See “Uninstalling Nikon Scan” on pages 62–64 of the User’s Manual.

Insert the Nikon Scan CD in the CD-ROM drive.

After a brief pause, a language selection dialog will be displayed. Select a language and click Next.

The “Install Center” dialog will be displayed.

Click the “Software” tab and click Install.

The opening dialog of the color space selection

wizard will be displayed. Click Use Wizard.

Click Windows.

A list of color-space proﬁ les will be displayed.

Select sRGB (recommended) and click OK. For more information on color-space proﬁ les, see page 88 of the Nikon Scan Reference Manual (on CD).

Windows 98 SE

If the computer displays a message stating that an IEEE 1394 update

Importan

is required, click OK.

Click Finish to exit the Nikon Scan installer.

Click Macintosh.

A list of color-space proﬁ les will be displayed.

Select Apple RGB (recommended) and click OK. For more information on color-space proﬁ les, see page 90 of the Nikon Scan Reference Manual (on CD).

Click Yes to add Nikon Scan 4 to the Dock (Mac

OS X) or create an alias of Nikon Scan 4 on the desktop (Mac OS 9).

Click Quit to exit the installer.

Mac OS X Mac OS 9

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35mm/APS(IX240) Film Scanner

Warranty



Quick Start Guide

Visit http://www.nikontechusa.com/ or call 1-800-NikonUX (for users in the U.S.A.)

Vist

http://www.europe-nikon.com/support

or users in Europe)

Visit

http://www.nikon-asia.com/

(for users in Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, and Africa)

If you need help:

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Step

Before connecting the scanner, install Nikon Scan as described below.

Supported operating systems

Windows • Windows XP Home Edition/Professional

Macintosh • Mac OS X (version 10.1.5 or later)

Install Nikon Scan

• Windows 2000 Professional

• Windows Millennium Edition (Me)

• Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)

• Mac OS 9 (version 9.1 or later)

Other system requirements are detailed on page 10 (Windows), 15 (Macintosh) of the User’s Manual.

Click Restart to restart the computer.

Click Yes to restart the computer.

The opening dialog of the Nikon Scan installer

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will be displayed. Click Next.

After reading the license agreement, click Yes to

accept the agreement and proceed with installation.

The default install location for Nikon Scan (c:

\Program Files\Nikon\Nkscan4) is displayed under “Destination location.” To choose a different location, click Browse… and navigate to the desired folder. Click Next to begin installation.

The dialog shown at right will be displayed. Click Yes to create the destination folder for Nikon Scan.

When prompted to select the scanner drivers,

conﬁ rm that LS-40/50/5000 is selected and click Next.

Windows 2000 Professional

The dialog shown at right will be displayed;

Note

click Yes (if the dialog is displayed twice, click Yes each time).

Click Yes to create a shortcut to Nikon Scan on

the desktop.

Associating Image Enhancement Extensions with Nikon Scan

If Nikon Capture or other Nikon software is already installed on the computer, a dialog

Note

will be displayed requesting permission to associate image enhancement settings ﬁ le extensions with Nikon Scan. Click Yes.

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Macintosh

Turn on t he computer and wait for it to start up. Do not connect the scan-

b c

ner.

Mac OS X

Administrator privileges are required to install or uninstall Nikon

Importan

Scan.

Mac OS 9

CarbonLib 1.5 or later is required to install Nikon Scan 4. If the installer detects an earlier version, a message will be displayed.

Importan

Click Install to upgrade to a new version of CarbonLib. Be sure to restart the computer before continuing the installation.

Insert the Nikon Scan 4 CD in the CD-ROM drive. Double-click the Welcome

icon (

) in the root directory of the Nikon Scan 4 CD.

A language selection dialog will be displayed.

Select a language and click Next.

The “Install Center” dialog will be displayed.

Click the “Software” tab and click Easy Install.

Mac OS X

Clicking Install displays the “Authenticate”

Note

dialog shown at right. Enter the administrator name and password and click OK.

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See Other Side

Nikon Scan Reference Manual / Easy Scanning Guide CD

This CD contains the Nikon Scan Reference Manual, which provides complete infor- mation on Nikon Scan, and the Easy Scanning Guide, an animated guide introducing such basic scanning tasks as setting image size and resolution.

Easy

Scanning

Nikon Scan

Reference

Windows

†

· Viewing the Nikon Scan Reference Manual

Double-click the manual.pdf icon on the reference manual CD. Adobe Acrobat Reader will start and a language selection screen will be displayed; click the appropriate link to view the manual in the desired language. Note that Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 or later is required to view the Reference Manual; Windows users can install Acrobat Reader 5 from the “Acrobat Reader” folder on the reference manual CD.

· Viewing the Easy Scanning Guide

Double -click the easy_guide.exe icon (Windows ), easy_guide_OSX icon (Mac OS X) , or easy_guide_OS9 icon (Mac OS 9). The Macromedia Flash Player will start and a language selection screen will be displayed; click the appropriate link to view the guide in the desired language. The Easy Scanning Guide can also be copied to the computer hard disk for ease of reference. Copy the “easy_guide_main” folder and easy_guide.exe (Windows), easy_guide_OSX (Mac OS X), or easy_guide_OS9 (Mac OS 9) to the desktop

* Users of Mac OS X should ensure that the start-up disk is named using only

letters and numbers (the default name for the start-up drive is “Macintosh HD”). The guide may not start if the volume name contains punctuation or other non-alphanumeric characters.

Guide

Manual

Macintosh * Icons may differ. † Extensions may not be displayed in some

environments.

Scanning

This side of the guide describes how to connect the scanner to the computer and scan images using Nikon Scan. Be sure to complete the steps on the other side of this guide before proceeding.

Slide the SA-21 into the adapter slot.

Step

Click the ﬁ lm -type menu and choose a ﬁ lm type

that matches the ﬁ lm being scanned. To scan color negatives, select Neg (Color).

Scan

Click the Scan button to scan the image. When

scanning is complete, the image will be opened in an image window. The image in the image window will reﬂ ect any rotations, ﬂ ips, and other modiﬁ cations made in the scan window.

Step

After conﬁ rming that the power switch is in the off position, connect the

power cable as shown and plug the scanner into a general-purpose household outlet.

Connect the USB cable as shown.

Connect the scanner

Shape of plug varies with country or region of purchase

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When the adapter is fully inserted, the

status LED will blink while the scanner is calibrated. Wait for the status LED to glow steadily.

Windows 2000 Professional

A “Digital Signature Not Found” dialog will be displayed the ﬁ rst

Note

time the scanner is connected and turned on. Click Yes to register the scanner with Windows.

Step

Windows

If a shortcut was created at installation, double-click the shortcut (

Nikon Scan can also be started by button and selecting Nikon Scan 4 the Programs menu.

Macintosh

Nikon Scan can be started by clicking the Nikon Scan icon or double-clicking the Nikon Scan alias these options are only available if Nikon Scan was added to the Dock or an alias was created during installation.

Start Nikon Scan

) created on the desktop.

clicking the Start

Nikon Scan 4 from

( )

on the desktop (Mac OS 9). Note that

in the Dock (Ma c OS X)

Select Neg

(Color)

Select the frames to be scanned.

Thumbnail

drawer tab

Click the thumbnail drawer tab.

Click to hide thumbnails

The Progress Window

The “Progress” window shows the progress of

Note

Click the Preview button to preview the selected frame in the preview area.

preview and scan operations. Click Stop to cancel the current operation.

Click to display

thumbnails

The thumbnail drawer will open. The frames in the ﬁ lm are identiﬁ ed by frame number. To view each frame as a small “thumbnail” preview, click the

A thumbnail will be created for each frame. Click a frame to select it for preview at a larger size in the scan window preview area.

Selected thumbnail

Drag to enlarge thumbnail area

Thumbnail area

button.

Windows Macintosh

The scan window may remain open “on top” of the image window.

Note

To save the image, select Save from the File

Drag the scan window to move it out of the way of the image window.

menu. A “Save As” dialog will be displayed; navigate to the desired location, choose a name and ﬁ le type, and click Save.

Eject the ﬁ lm and

Step

Click the (eject) button in the scan window to eject the ﬁ lm from the

SA-21 (for more information on ejecting ﬁ lm from other adapters, see the User’s Manual).

turn the scanner off

Eject button

Connect the ﬂ at connector to the computer and the square connector to the scanner. Align the connectors to match the areas circled in the illustration below. Using the wrong connector or attempting to insert the connectors in

another orientation could not only damage the connector, but also the scanner or computer.

Scanner

Scanner USB

terminal

Square

connector

Note

Computer

USB terminal

USB 2.0

For information on USB 2.0, see page 22 of the User’s Manual.

Flat connector

Step

The type of ﬁ lm that can be scanned depends on the adapter used. This guide describes how to scan strips of 35-mm ﬁ lm using the SA-21 strip-ﬁ lm adapter. The SA-21 can be used to scan developed 35- mm ﬁ lm in strips of two to six frames. An MA-21 slide-mount adapter is also provided for scanning 35-mm slides. See the User’s Manual for details.

Step

Ready ﬁ lm

35-mm ﬁ lm in strips of

two to six frames

SA-21 strip-ﬁ lm adapter

After making sure that the computer is run-

ning, turn the scanner on will blink steadily.

Remove the MA-21.

Insert the adapter

. The status LED

. Wait until the status LED glows

Status LED

Power switch

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Nikon Scan can also be started by installed and opening the Nikon Software : Nikon Scan 4 folder. Double-click the Nikon Scan 4 icon ( “Applic a t ions” fo l der on the start-up disk. Under Mac OS 9, the default install location is in the “Applications (Mac OS 9)” folder on the start-up disk.

The scan window will open.

Mac OS 9

Before using Nikon Scan under Mac OS 9, be sure to read the section

Important

Note

on recommended memory allocations on page 139 of the Nikon Scan Reference Manual (on CD).

Temporary Storage (Windows Only)

A message may be displayed stating that the folder selected for temporary storage is not available. Click OK to use the default folder.

). Under Mac OS X, the “Nikon Software” folder will be in the

Scan window

locating the folder in which Nikon Scan was

Progress window

Tool Palette 1

Step

Hold the edges of the ﬁ lm lightly between thumb and foreﬁ nger with the

reﬂ ective base up and the matte emulsion surface down.

Insert the ﬁ lm in the adapter ﬁ lm slot.

The ﬁ lm will be fed into the adapter automatically after being inserted a short distance.

Insert ﬁ lm with the reﬂ ective

Important

Insert ﬁ lm

Film slot

base up

Release the ﬁ lm when the feed mechanism activates. Do not pull or push on the ﬁ lm or otherwise interfere with the feed mechanism.

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Click the triangle next to the “Layout Tools” palette in Tool Palette 1. The

For information on the other image enhancement tools in Tool Palette 1, see pages 30–76 of the Nikon Scan Reference Manual (on CD).

“Layout Tools” palette will be displayed.

The “Layout Tools” palette can be used to:

• Rotate or ﬂ ip the image in the preview area

If the preview image is not in the desired orientation, rotate or ﬂ ip the im-

age by clicking the

Rotate image 90° counterclockwise

Flip image horizontally Flip image vertically

• Select the area to be scanned

To select the p ortion of the image that will be scanned (called the “crop”),

click the Crop Tool ( over the image.

The borders of the crop are indicated by

a dotted line. The size of the crop can be changed by dragging its borders. To change the position of the crop, place the cursor inside the selected area and drag it to a new location.

, , or button.

Rotate image 90° clockwise

) in the “Layout Tools” palette and drag the mouse

Tip: Specifying Output Size and Resolution

When an image is displayed in the preview area, the “Crop” palette in Tool Palette 1 can be used to specify the size and resolution at which the image will be scanned (for details, see pages 36–40 of the Nikon Scan Reference Manual on the Nikon Scan Reference Manual / Easy Scanning Guide CD). For example, to scan an image so that it can be printed within the margins of A4 (21.0 × 29.7 cm) or letter-sized (8.5˝ × 11˝ ) paper using a typical inkjet printer, adjust settings as follows:printing:

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Click to open the “Crop”

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palette.

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Choose Keep this crop.



Conﬁ rm that pixels/inch

is selected in the resolutions units menu and enter an output resolution of 360.

Choose Centimeters or Inches

from the output units menu.



Enter a value for either Height

or Width that will ﬁ t on A4 or letter-sized paper. The other value will automatically be adjusted to maintain the current crop.

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Select Exit (Windows) or Quit (Mac OS 9) from the File menu. In Mac OS X,

Nikon View (Nikon View 6 or later

If Nikon View is installed on the computer, selecting Show Nikon Browser from the Nikon Scan Tools menu will start the Nikon Browser component of Nikon View. Nikon View can be used to view scanned images either as thumbnails or at full size and to edit and print images after scanning. For more information, see the Nikon View Reference Manual (available in pdf format on the Nikon View Reference manual CD) or Nikon View’s on-line help.

Nikon View can be installed from the Nikon View 6 CD. Before you can install Nikon View 6, you must uninstall any earlier versions of Nikon View.

select Quit Nikon Scan 4 from the Nikon Scan 4 menu.

After checking that the scanner status LED is not blinking, press the power

switch to turn the scanner off.

Status LED

Power switch

When the Scanner Is Not in Use

Important

To prevent dust from accumulating inside the scanner, leave the SA-21 or MA-21 in the adapter slot when the scanner is not in use.

)

Select Show Nikon Browser from the Nikon

Scan Tools menu

Nikon View

To regis ter your copy of Nikon View, open the “Product Registration”

Note

panel in the “Install Center” window and click the Product Registration button (Internet connection required)

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