{"id":81,"date":"2005-01-28T20:08:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T01:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=81"},"modified":"2005-01-31T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T13:20:48","slug":"nikon-coolscan-iii-ls-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2005\/01\/28\/nikon-coolscan-iii-ls-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon Coolscan III LS-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;m ready.  I just won a 35mm Nikon transparency scanner on ebay.  This Coolscan LS-30 originally sold for $750 to $900 from 1999-2002.  I paid a whopping $57.96 plus shipping.  I may even dedicate an old PC to it.  I happen to have a 19&#8243; Viewsonic monitor that&#8217;s not being used.  I could build a retro, late 90&#8217;s digital image processing station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/coolscan.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/coolscan.jpg\" align=right vspace=2 hspace=10 width=\"340\" height=\"200\" alt=\"image\"\/><\/a>This unit&#8217;s got modern power though.  It scans at up to 2700 dpi (25MB file) from a 35mm negative and uses Nikon Coolscan software &#8211; the best in the business.  It doesn&#8217;t have high end things like multi-sample averaging and can&#8217;t output files with more than 8 bits per channel.  To get features like those you&#8217;ve gotta spend some bucks.  This is an old-school pro-tool that has fallen into my price range by technological attrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;m ready. I just won a 35mm Nikon transparency scanner on ebay. This Coolscan LS-30 originally sold for $750 to $900 from 1999-2002. I paid a whopping $57.96 plus shipping. I may even dedicate an old PC to it. I happen to have a 19&#8243; Viewsonic monitor that&#8217;s not being used. I could build &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2005\/01\/28\/nikon-coolscan-iii-ls-30\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nikon Coolscan III LS-30<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}