Connecting Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 to Modern PC with Windows 11

J C said:

Vuescan focuses the scanner before scanning like Nikon Scan does, right? I noticed that Nikon Scan has a plethora of setup and calibration options that I fear I would lose out on in Vuescan.

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Vuescan will autofocus at preview, scan, both, never, manually... It's your choice. It will also calibrate the scanner whenever you click 'Scanner - Calibrate'.

It is missing some features from Nikon Scan, but it has it's own versions of ICE, ROC, GEM... and some features that Nikon Scan doesn't have.

J C said:

I guess Vuescan will have to do for now, as it does work with the 35mm film carriers. I wonder why Nikon Scan is having issues with only some carriers but not others.

Vuescan focuses the scanner before scanning like Nikon Scan does, right? I noticed that Nikon Scan has a plethora of setup and calibration options that I fear I would lose out on in Vuescan.

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Which version of NikonScan are you running? At first I would have guessed it was an issue with the tray, but if VueScan works with the same tray then I wonder...

Nikon Scan 4.0.3.

As for VueScan, I'm trying out my first scan with the full version now, but I can't work out how to prevent the scanner from outputting an inverted color scan, rather than the scan of the negative as is. I'd prefer to do my own color correction outside of VueScan for now.

J C said:

Nikon Scan 4.0.3.

As for VueScan, I'm trying out my first scan with the full version now, but I can't work out how to prevent the scanner from outputting an inverted color scan, rather than the scan of the negative as is. I'd prefer to do my own color correction outside of VueScan for now.

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Okay. I too am running 4.0.3 but have not had any issues with any of my film holders. Admittedly, I have not used the one for slides.

VueScan is not intuitive to use. I would highly recommend you check the manual. There's a box to control this behavior on the Input tab. It's labelled "Source". If you want to scan a negative "as it is" then you should select "Media" in this box.

Much appreciated. I will indeed read the manual.

As for Nikon Scan; I will try scanning some 120 in the one holder that did work.

Just received my (relatively cheaply!) found 9000 (incl. a bunch of film holders, incl. the rotating 120 one, this alone seems to sell for twice of what I paid...) and tried it with vuescan under Linux, using my old laptop's expresscard FireWire card which I had used before with Minolta scanners. Beside a dead cable everything went smooth.

What confused me: trying to scan with the glassless 120 holder, vuescan gives me arbitrary frames when when I select manual cropping. I looked it up and seems I have to fiddle manually with frame spacing and offset. Is there no other way? With the Epson v800 I could just zoom out the whole preview and crop frames manually, this doesn't seem to work. Any better idea?

I am also installing right now a Windows XP virtual machine on this laptop, with the goal to try out Nikon scan, since it seems not that great supported on win10 (which I have installed aside Linux)? But I'm afraid getting the FireWire card pass through to the XP virtual machine might be a mess, let's see... Anyone tried out this route?