most easy to understand explanation of the scanning difference. It's amazing your before & afters, looks like a completely different look & definitely the film look people are aspiring to go for! Great shots.

Hi Nick. Thank you for your excellent video on the a7lv. As a Nikon Z landscape, product and wildlife photographer, I am researching a smaller camera for “travel”. My main concern is image sharpness and detail when printing 24”x36”. So far I’m looking at the A7IV or the A7R3. (I shoot stills only.) Do you have any recommendation on which Sony camera body would be best for me? Thanks!

I own a V ED. Sure, I can't do a whole roll at once like the guys with the 5000 can. But it's still a fine piece.

Great solution! I did end up getting a Kastar 2100mah battery but will definitely get that cord! Happy mobile printing 🎊

amazing! great project man

I would be intrested in seeing a video on how to clean the lens on these!

I need that gimbal for my sony trv17 camcorder.

Night vision camera? *10 custards remain*

Each film stock has its own own starting colour signature, and although it will change during the digitisation process, because the starting point was different, the end result will also be different. Matching exactly between film stocks would be nigh impossible.

You ask … What more could I ask for? Well … Any guidance/guidance on how to upgrade my Coolscan II with SCSI interface and Win 98 drivers ??

Where's the combat photography footage?

Got them all right except for the first one 😭😭

The main problem of Nikon software is that it often clips highlights, I can say always! And you cant set white balance or have consistency on one session ( frames from same photo shoot have different colors)

Shooting with a sigma 150-600?

There’s one of these in a shipping container in my yard

Alberta views

Brz of the 90s was the 240sx and the miata.

You could just get the actual 8-6

those pics lok amazing, i would loove to shoot motorsports one day. looks so fun and rallys are just sick

Hey Bro, Welcome to the world of Motorsports photogaphy and videography.. i am happy o see you out there and having, but i beg of you, please dont sit on the edge of the track.. always be ready to run. Rally Cars can change direction as fast as you can blink and you wanna be able to move if anything happens. . But keep it at.. the shots are beautiful,.

Nice video 👍

There was similar stuff like the NA Miata

Awesome shots! But one question though, did they end up using your pictures?! Also patiently awaiting your next film/scan related video!

It did throw an error initially saying, *WHY HAVE YOU DISTURBED MY REST?!*

I totally disagree with your opinion about lab scans. Personally I work in my lab and I use Fuji sp3000. Early 2000s scanner. It can produce for example BMP that is way better than jpg. The truth is that many labs aren’t giving a shizz about quality. Most of them don’t even correct scans, they just let the machine do the work.

I wonder if you can use it with a Windows 11 computer with an ARM processor.

Im not trying to be negative here, but I guess I don’t understand some of what’s going on in this video… First off, I was confused about how these negatives were captured and what scanner you had used, but I’ve since found out from the comments section. But Also, for the raw comparison you used Negative Lab Pro initially to make a positive version? so that already bypasses all the other software so I don’t really understand… then you color correct all these files yourself, and then compare all the edited files and say things like “I like the color on this one more” but that’s just because you edited that file in such a way, not because the software did a better job? Also I have to say, I have used Silverfast before and there is simply zero chance the iSRD was activated in those examples, it does a very good job and just needs default settings, and it looks like the dust wasn’t just partially removed but not removed at all, so I think there must have been some mistake there. Like if you captured a raw from a scanner even with the infrared information (in Silverfast’s language it would have to be a 64bit HDRi format), but then did the positive conversion in Negative Lab Pro, NLP wouldn’t be able to apply the iSRD, So I’m just really confused. Silverfast does not allow you to apply the iSRD and output a Raw, only a modified tiff or jpeg. This is a shortcoming when you want to use NLP for final editing/conversion because you can’t easily apply the dust removal with Silverfast before hand. All that said, thank you for the videos. Always good to have more videos from the film photography community.

A very strange review and strange conclusions. We were not told what settings the scanning was done with. Not long ago, I was choosing the best program to work with my Nikon Coolscan. After spending about a month, I finally came to the conclusion that Nikon Scan gives the most accurate result! The main condition was to get an accurate scan of the film without using subsequent processing. In Nikon Scan, this can be done. In the other two programs, it seemed to me that this was impossible. The only thing I used was Cool Ice. In Nikon Scan, this system showed itself the best. Next, I process the image in Photoshop. First, I subtract the orange mask, after which I invert the image. Next, I set the black and white points, after which I find the gray point. After these basic operations, I already carry out more subtle correction and retouching. At the output, I get an excellent result. Yes, it takes some time, but it's worth it! It must be remembered that negative film has low contrast in stock. This is done to compensate for this when printing on contrast paper. Accordingly, it is necessary to make a correction for contrasts by reproducing the characteristic curve of the photo paper during editing. For some reason, you do not do this, but simply try to correct some individual parts of the image, while everything else does not have sufficient contrast. I think editing scans in Lightroom is not a very good idea because this program is primarily designed to work with pictures from digital cameras. Also, many Lightroom tools do not work as well as in Photoshop. What you call a large number of details when working with VueScan is actually the result of the sharpening filter. The pictures show how roughly it works. In Photoshop, I can do the same thing, only much more delicately. Unfortunately, even if you want to digitize family photos, you will still have to spend time and learn to understand the basic principles of this process. Each frame is a creative work and there is no other way.

Why not use vuescan? Dont bother with the oem scanning software.

I tried the digital camera method with an old slide duplicator, and the result looks like the Epson, or worse. Maybe it's my old micronikkor. So I'm sticking with my Nikon 5000 ed.Thanks for the video. 👍👍

I'm cleaning out an old workstation upstairs and discovered my Nikon LS-5000 ED with Magazine feeder SF-210 and SA-21 I have the cords and CD but haven't found the manual or box yet. What would this be worth? It has very very little use probably less than 100 slides. I'm thinking of taking it to a used camera exchange / purchase event.

how big is the latency with usb?

Great video! Thank you for the information

When you touch your fingertip (or preferably a cleaning cloth) to the surface of the mirror, side A will show your fingertip pressed right up next to it, while side B will always show a gap. When assembled, only one side of the mirror touches the metal clip. Using the above reference, is it side A or side B that presses up against the metal clip?

Absolutely loved this video man... keep it up<3

do you prefer the iv or the 4000. do you notice a difference in picture quality?

I find these criticisms of Sony rather hilarious when Canon and Nikon are equally as bad and heartless as any other tech company. These companies exist to serve their shareholders, not to be your friend. There's a reason why Sony managed to become the 2nd largest in market share, and it wasn't because Canon and Nikon were giving customers what they wanted. Canon blocking 3rd parties from producing any lenses completely killed any chance of me considering them as a brand. Which was sad, because growing up, all I've had were Canon Point and Shoots.

Tbf, any dedicated scanner will crush the V600. I have a Plustek as well as the Coolscan IV and the plustek gives better results and far superior colour. The Coolscan digital ICE can't be beat though.

Sony, in general, is ass. They make a pretty good console and some good games, but those games are just exclusively owned by Sony, so honestly they just suck.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sony is still the same heartless consumer electronics company they were in the 80's. Never honor a warranty, always blame the customer, hold your equipment hostage, and make sure you hold it long enough that you are likely to just buy a new replacement rather than wait weeks or months to get your warranty denied repair completed.

If you're going to compare, then you need not do those editing.. the raw output from each scan is what matters and not your edited version cuz we're not goin to edit the same way.. I personally think the editing was irrelevant to the video.. What film were those shot on? I noticed different scanners have different rendering to different film and not a one size fit all thing

What lens would you suggest?

Are the later modules of the nikon as good, better or worse?

I would suggest anyone to just download a trial version of VueScan or Silverfast. These will come with alternative Nikon drivers that will work on Windows 7 and higher and solve a few bugs as well. Especially if you have the regular USB models. Nikonscan will work fine with these drivers; drivers won't expire.

I had a problem where the colors were terrible when converting, now i try to scan it as a positive and convert in negative lab pro. Did any of ypu have the same issue

"Sorry but you can't have a copy because apparently I can't be here 🤷🏾 too bad"

Filmlab 3 is much easier and gives excellent results when converting negatives.

Finally someone who gets it, speaks out and makes a video on the whole "look hype" ;) Fully agree. It's more all the other factors during the process that give any film its "look", rather than the film itself. And definitely every film is different - even between the same STOCK sometimes or 120/35/sheet...but not in the "look" as many people think.

"Do you have a media pass to be in the forest, beside a dirt road?" Smdh. If you are a good photographer, you dont worry about competition..