Nikon FH-869GR 120/220 Film Stip Holder (Glass) Review

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(More customer reviews)I use this carrier with my Coolscan 9000. It holds a medium format negative flat for sharper scanning, allows you to rotate it for more perfect capturing of the entire image, and includes a variety of masks so that it can be used with many different film formats. I've used it mostly with 6x6cm negatives on 120 stock, and 4x4cm negatives on 127 stock (by using a 6x4 mask and adding a supplementary mask of my own). It may also work with 35mm; I haven't tried.
The problems with this carrier are (1) it is expensive, (2) you will constantly be cleaning dust and fingerprints off the glass, especially when scanning black and white images on which Digital ICE can not be used, and (3) the paper masks seem frail. I am sure I will tear or mangle them before long, and the carrier won't work without them. And (4) one negative at a time, so it's slow.

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The Nikon FH-869GR is a rotating strip film holder that accepts medium format strip film, film for electron microscopes, and frames of panorama film. A wide variety of film sizes are accepted, while a glass cover helps to both protect your film and achieve the best possible scans. The FH-869GR is designed for use with Nikon's LS-8000 and LS-9000ED scanners, so you can be assured that your film holder and scanner are working together to provide you with accurate results. The FH-869GR is backed by a one-year limited warranty.

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Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED Film Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased the Nikon 9000ED scanner mostly because I could not find anything else that would scann my 2.75 x 2.75 slides. There may be other products out there but the recommendations I got was to go with the Nikon. Basically I inherited a case of these slides which feature my family from roughly 1960 to 1979. Most of the slides are badly faded, underexposed or otherwise not usable. So I figured in order to save the memories I need to spend the money to do it right.
I am not disappointed. Initially I kept getting a mysterious error in the post-processing cycle. After many emails back in forth with 3rd level support staff at Nikon (nice to be able to get support) we figured out that I was setting something called digital GEM on when that wasn't necessary. The process works on badly grained film which I didn't have. Once I changed the default scan settings by not asking for GEM corrections, all has gone beautiful for me.
The red-brown slides magically come back to me with their original colors via the digital ROC process. I'm not too technical on all the things that happen within the hardware-software process but the results an amateur like me can get are simply awsome. I scan the slides at a full 4000 bpi and store the results as huge TIFF files. I figure that disk space is cheap but at least I have the original in a best possible digitized format. The slides will continue to deteriorate but not the digiatl data.
Fred Rump


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A high-performance dedicated film scanner designed for imaging professionals, the Super Coolscan 9000 ED offers high-quality scanning of 35mm slides, 35mm film strips, medium-format film, medium-format slides (with optional 120/220 mounted film holder FH-869M), glass slides for microscopes (with optional Medical Slide Holder FH-8G1), and 16mm film (with optional 16mm film holder FH-816). The Scanner-Nikkor ED glass lens offers a 4,000 dpi optical resolution, while the 10,000-pixel, three-line monochrome linear CCD image sensor and 16-bit per color A/D input (8-/16-bit output) provide true-to-life, brilliant results.
Nikon's own LED illumination technology ensures accurate color separation with no warm-up time or risk of heat damage. Scan times are as fast as 40 seconds including image transfer to display, and as fast as 13 seconds in preview mode. Automatic color/contrast compensation helps you achieve accurate results, while the ICE4 advanced digital image correction suite of technologies, including digital ICE, digital ROC, digital GEM, and digital DEE, helps to restore old slides to their original glory. Additionally, the included Nikon Scan 4 software provides a comprehensive and easy-to-use interface for managing your scans.
The Super Coolscan 9000 ED has an IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interface, while one-touch scan and preview buttons will have you scanning film in no time. PC and Mac compatible, the Super Coolscan 9000 ED also comes backed with a one-year limited warranty.
What's in the BoxScanner, CD-ROM, interface card for Mac OS and Windows, strip film holder FH-835S, slide holder FH-835M, 129/220 strip film holder FH-869S

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