Nikon Redefines Quality and Performance With New Products and Exclusive Features

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- MACWORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO, Booth 1129 -- Nikon(R) has answered the calls of photo hobbyists, professional photographers and graphics professionals with the next generation of Coolscan desktop film scanners -- the Coolscan V ED, Super Coolscan 5000 ED and the Super Coolscan 9000 ED.

The new film scanners are loaded with features and benefits designed for a wide range of users, including Applied Science Fiction's(TM) Digital ICE4(TM) Advanced technology, Nikon's exclusive Scan Image Enhancer(TM) and other 'one-button-simple' solutions. The new lineup of Coolscan products will help small and large businesses to streamline their operations and increase productivity while giving home users and hobbyists an affordable solution to revitalize, restore and save precious family memories.

"While digital is dominating today's photography and printing markets, there are still an enormous amount of film images as well as a need for creating high-quality, versatile hi-resolution digital files. In American homes, literally millions of negatives and slides holding precious family memories are wasting away in shoeboxes and attics," said Jerry Grossman, vice president, marketing, Consumer Digital Products and Compact Cameras, Nikon Inc. "A Nikon film scanner is an incredibly useful tool to help unlock the potential of an image and use the advantages of digital to bring that image to life."

Why Nikon?

Nikon invented affordable desktop film scanning in 1994 with the introduction of the original Coolscan, and has been the market leader ever since. In 2001, Nikon was the first manufacturer to offer the groundbreaking Digital ICE3(TM) technology in its film scanners, as well as high quality ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass for sharp clear images and accurate color representation. Designed with this tradition in mind, Nikon possesses defining capabilities that make each Coolscan scanner the best in its class.

The new Nikon Coolscan desktop film scanners boast 4,000 dpi across the product line, a greater optical density range for even deeper levels of details, faster processing speeds (USB 2 and FireWire -- IEEE 1394) and an enhanced version of Nikon Scan 4.

Nikon Coolscan scanners offer features such as:

� Scanner Nikkor ED lens -- The single most important element in the production of high-quality scans is the lens. Nikon has incorporated lenses of the highest quality in each film scanner. ED (Extra-low Dispersion) lens elements are far superior in edge-to-edge sharpness, definition and contrast, as well as color registration, saturation and accuracy.

� Low-heat, high-accuracy LED light source -- Most scanners use halogen or fluorescent lamps as light sources, but they require time to warm up and the heat they generate can cause damage to film. Nikon products are the only scanners to employ LEDs as the source of light. LEDs are a stable, precise light source, which require no maintenance or warm-up time and present no risk of your film being damaged.

� Digital ICE4 Advanced(TM) -- Nikon's ED glass and LED lighting help to optimize the effectiveness of Digital ICE4 Advanced(TM) components, making Nikon Coolscan scanners and ICE a perfect match.

� Nikon Color Management System (CMS) -- Nikon CMS provides consistently accurate reproduction of image data on monitors and in printouts.

Coolscan Scanners Are Designed for Multiple Applications

Nikon Coolscan V ED -- The Digital Time Machine

The Coolscan V ED is an affordable, high-performance film scanner that is designed to be easy to operate for first-time scanner users. For some film camera users, their best digital camera may, in fact, be their own film SLR camera. By using the Nikon Coolscan V ED, a Nikon N75 or N80 can produce digital scans at close to 22-megapixel resolution.