Nikon 9000 scanner software

It’s O.K. for most applications, I downloaded version 6.6.2 for an old Nikon scanner. I used it to scan lots of transparencies and color negatives and it worked fine with the usual tweaking of the files. There was a problem with scanning black and white negatives, however. The program produced some really weird artifacts when the iSRD (dust and scratch removal) was engaged. Never could seem to get it to work right. They may have fixed it by now, I wound up cleaning up most stuff frame by frame, it was annoying. Might be the only game in town for older scanners, though.

Thanks John, but which is ok? I’m looking for which people like better, vuescan or sivrlight?

Eros, I used Silverfast but not for this scanner, instead for the Canoscan 9950 F. It gives me good scans except when I used high resolutions scans, around a 40 or 50 cm prints for the long side. The problem was that the software give me good detail but when I use this resolution I had artifacts in the borders. I think you can test Silverfast so the best idea I have is download the software, make some test scans (they will appear you with a watermark) but this will make you and idea of what you can have with this software.
John, ISRD don’t work for BW as Ice don’t worked either with BW negatives. Equal, I don’t recommend this kind of functions, is better clean the most you can your negatives and scanner and retouch manually each scan.

Gracias Hernan

I thought Nikon Scan worked on Leopard ? Possibly you just need to use it as a plugin to Photoshop, but it should work in 10.5 despite what Nikon mentions.

I much prefer NS, so I just bootcamp on my Mac into Windows to run it where it still works fine on Win7 x64 with a little bit of tweaking.

While I have Vuescan also, I never liked it, and thought it rather a waste of cash.

Yeah, sorry, Eros, I was referring to the Silverfast. It seemed better to me than the Vuescan interface. It was some time ago, though, and I suppose the Vuescan interface may have been updated by now. Also, I’m using a fairly old Mac, running 10.5.8, and needed the the software for a Coolscan IV. Not sure if this helps, but I did like the software, and it did the job for me just fine.

well I tried silverfast with my Super coolscan 5000 and it didn’t work as advertised. It crashed, or was stuck during the proces. Did get a refund in the end. I am on the lastest OSX. Switched to vuescan… working like a charm with this scanner. Frequent updates, good support…. Nikon scan definitively does not workk on the latest OSX

my 2 cts

I use the nikonscan software with the 5000 & mac 10.5.8. Try unplugging all usb & firewire cables except keyboard & mouse & restart. Hopefully will work for you.

yeah Nikon used to work but not on the latest versions of OSX. And Nikon is not interested in updating the stuff so you have to look elsewhere: that is Silverfast or scanvue.

Vuescan does what you need and with the pro version you got all the updates free for life.
suerte.
Giorgio

I warmly recomend silverfast. it’s simple and works on mac much much better than nikon software that i was using on pc