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The Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 4000 ED (LS-4000 ED) was the best consumer scanner I've used, but they are discontinued. If you get one second hand, you need to buy 3rd party software like VUESCAN software or Silverfast to run it. When they discontinued, Nikon stopped updating the drivers as operating systems changed.
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I second Joe about the Coolscan 4000ED with Vuescan software. I have these and they give excellent results.
The 4000ED has an extra channel which does an IR scan of the film surfaces, and uses this information to eliminate or reduce scratches and marks on the film.
Without this feature, espcially if the slide/negative is old and has been viewed through projectors, you will spend considerable time in Photoshop etc to manually edit these blemishes out.
The downside is large file sizes. But if your slides are valuable and printable then I consider large file size as secondary to saving your films to a digital record.
The Vuescan software also does a pretty good job at correcting colour casts in old slides.
cheers Phil
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