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Nikon SF-210 Auto Slide Feeder

The SF-210 from Nikon is an automatic slide feeder that lets you scan batches of up to 50 slides. The SF-210 accepts slide-mounted 35mm film up to 1.5 millimeters in thickness and is designed to work with Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 series scanners. Converting slide film has never been easier. Simply place your slide-mounted film into the slide feeder and insert into your Nikon Super Coolscan 5000. The SF-210 also comes backed with a one-year limited warranty.

Brand: Nikon Model: SF-210 Released on: 2009-11-30 Dimensions: 9.00" h x 7.00" w x 16.00" l, .22 pounds Automatic slide mount adapter For use with Nikon Super Cool scan 5000 series scanners Accepts slide-mounted 35mm film Up to 50 slides for batch scanning 1-Year limited warranty

The SF-210 from Nikon is an automatic slide feeder that lets you scan batches of up to 50 slides. The SF-210 accepts slide-mounted 35mm film up to 1.5 millimeters in thickness and is designed to work with Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 series scanners. Converting slide film has never been easier. Simply place your slide-mounted film into the slide feeder and insert into your Nikon Super Coolscan 5000. The SF-210 also comes backed with a one-year limited warranty.

Client more useful to 112 of 113 people found this review helpful. Works, mostly by Mark Huth After reading horror stories about the previous slide feeder (SF-200), it was with some trepidation that I bought it for LS5000ED. I have thousands of slides to scan, and feed them one at a time does not seem an option. I was pleased to discover that the first batch of Kodak on the map has gone through smoothly. These were some Kodachrome early 70s, usually displayed. The scanner took the stack of 40 scans and was completed without problems. But my luck did not really continue. Approximately every third cell is able to jam, usually right after I see the first 3 slides and delivery go smoothly for my real job. This image is simply poorly designed power supply. The feed path is designed so that each slide must pass under the battery, giving the ability to capture the edge of the window on top of the mountain. In addition, for some reason, the sliding adjustment, which adjusts the thickness of the frame, only wants to correct their own failures are caused by summation of a few jams, as the door moved from the vertical and closed the opening too far. These problems have all been held with non-uniform cell slide from good to very good condition. I had no problem with plastic holders for Gepe slide that I went, but that's usually a small fraction of the films that people need to scan. A solution to the impasse seems to use a shim to put pressure on the fan to force outside of the stack of slides. Fans of the battery a little inside, so that a cell refractory to eat well. Be careful when this engineer, but as if the holding is in the feeding mechanism, will have a different set of problems with the charger returns to normal. Additional error I once had to go for auto focus completely wrong. It managed to scan an entire stack of slides badly mis-focused I put the single slide adapter in and the slides focused and scanned fine. I put the feeder back, only to find the problem persisted. I was about to pack it off to Nikon, when I power cycled the whole thing and found that correct operation had been restored. The error handling on the batch scanning is broken, with the software thinking that scans have been completed which haven't. This is just a nuisance, resulting in the wrong file number part of the saved files if you don't catch it when you restart the scan. However, my software does detect that the slide didn't feed, and just shuts down, requiring exiting and restarting the scanner software to resume. And then there is the general issue of software stability. On Windows 2000 with the SP4+ stuff, I cannot use USB 2.0 (scanner software looses communications with the scanner, and restarting the software leads to a blue screen of death). I also have to restart the software after each roll of film (approximately) or the application crashes I'm going to try XP one of these days and see if it's any better. Hard to say if it's Nikon or MS that is screwing this up. Probably a joint effort. Update: now running on a fast machine with XP Pro SP2, USB2.0 - after solving the XP ROC-GEM problem, I can report that the software is reasonably stable, typically going several rolls or sets of slides without crashing. There are no system crashes under XP, just application faults. Slide scans take around a minute to 90 seconds each in the stack feeded. One drawback of the slide feeder over the film strip batch scanner is that there is no way to do different scan settings for the slides in the stack. With film strips you can tweak the settings for each frame, but there is no preview capability in the batch scan from the slide feeder. This is an oversight that they could correct in the software. However, the feeder reverses the slide order, so you would have to restack the slides between the preview pass and the

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