Michael Sebastian

I purchased a new Nikon 9000 film scanner a little over a year ago, upgrading from the Nikon 8000 I’d been using for several years.. Both the 9000 and its predecessor produce top-quality exhibition-caliber scans from film sizes up to 120/220, which is the vast majority of what I shoot. The 9000 is a true 16 bit scanner, while the 8000 is 14-bit, and the 9000 is noticeably faster; but they are otherwise comparable devices. And unless I missed the memo, the 9000 is in current production, though it is frequently back-ordered. At $2200, and given that it’s a device targeted to professional users, one expects that Nikon would support it on the current operating systems used by those professionals, at least as long as the scanner is being manufactured. Right?
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