Thank you for purchasing the Nikon LS-2000 Super Coolscan and/or Coolscan III. We are sure that it will give you many hours of reliable and productive use. Please read the following important information, which was not included in the manual.

Nikon Scan 2.5.1 is designed to support the LS-2000 and Coolscan III only.


1. Nikon Scan 2.5.1
1.1 Scanner Firmware Version
This version of Nikon Scan requires Version 1.1 or greater firmware to be installed in the scanner. The firmware version is displayed in the title bar of the main dialog. If the firmware version is older than 1.1, please update the firmware by using the Firmware Update Software, located in the ÒFirmware Update SoftwareÓ folder on the Nikon Scan 2.5.1 CD-ROM. Please read the ÒReadme.txtÓ and ÒManual.pdfÓ files prior to updating the firmware.

1.2. Performa 5200 series, 6200 series, Power Macintosh 6200, 6300 and PowerBook 1400 series, 5300 series
These computers may experience scanning problems. If you experience any problems, move the file called "MAID Driver HS", located in the "Utility" folder into the folder called "Nikon MAID", which can be found in the  "Preferences" folder, located within your System Folder.

1.3. Scan speed
Scan speed will vary, depending upon the computer system environment. Turning off the Nikon Color Management System (CMS) and/or Surface Defect Correction may decrease scan times. When you turn CMS off, you will need to restart Nikon Scan.

1.4 PhotoDeluxe 2.0
If you use Nikon Scan 2.5.1 with PhotoDeluxe 2.0, you should not perform batch scans. You turn on Òclose windows after scanningÓ.

1.5. Using the Strip Film adapter and the IX240 (Advanced Photo System) film adapter
1.5.1. Working with multiple thumbnails
The Strip Film and IX240 film adapters allow you to browse your film as thumbnails. Additionally, selecting multiple thumbnails by pressing the shift key and clicking on each thumbnail in turn, allows batch scans of the selected frames to be performed. In this case, if you wish to set individual color adjustments and crops for each image, please select each thumbnail individually, making the required selections for color adjustments, prior to selecting multiple images for scanning. If you wish to change the film type between negative and positive, you should select all of the thumbnails prior to changing the film type. For technical reasons, the film type is applied to each image individually.

1.5.2. Frame Boundary
When using the IX240 film adapter or the Strip Film adapter, Nikon Scan will automatically detect the edges of each frame. If, however, the Film Type setting is incorrect (e.g. Positive Film Type selected for a strip of negative images), this auto detect operation may not work properly. Make sure that the Film Type is set correctly prior to performing any scans. Additionally, the thumbnail scan is an important step in aligning multiple frames for preview and main scans, so you should try to perform at least one thumbnail scan prior to doing any preview scans or main scans. If you cannot perform a thumbnail scan (it can be quite memory-intensive), you should try a preview scan.
However, dark image film or certain content types can cause problems with edge detection. In this case, the thumbnail scan may give incorrect thumbnails. If the image appears to be offset, use the "Adjust Boundary Offset" controls, located within the "Extras" tab, to change the scan offset. Continue to take preview scans until you are satisfied with the result.

1.5.3. Differences between thumbnail images and preview images when using the strip film adapter There is a slight difference between thumbnail images and previewed/scanned images when using the strip film adapter. Basically, thumbnails show a bit more of the top and bottom of the image than do previewed/scanned images. This is only a slight difference, and there should be little or no consequences to your use of the scanner.

1.6. Memory allocation
If you are using the Nikon Scan 2.5.1 Application, here are the suggested allocations

	                                                     Allocation (MB)
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MA-20 (Single Slide Adapter)	                                  37
SA-20 (Strip Film Adapter)                                       48
IA-20 (Advanced Photo System Adapter)	             60

If you are using the Adobe Photoshop 5.0.X plug-in, here are the suggested minimum allocation sizes
for the Adobe Photoshop application:

	                                                     Allocation (MB)
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MA-20 (Single Slide Adapter)	                                 30
SA-20 (Strip Film Adapter)                                      40
IA-20 (Advanced Photo System Adapter)	            50

The memory needed by Nikon Scan depends upon the conditions of each scan. Here are some techniques that you can try in order to minimize memory usage:
     1.) Reduce the number of images. that have previews. Each preview takes up memory.
     2.) Use Calibrated RGB color space and avoid CMYK color space. CMYK has more channels and uses more memory.
     3.) When using the IA-20 (Advanced Photo System) adapter, donÕt display thumbnails and use the index print supplied with the developed film instead.
     4.) Defect correction (CleanImage) takes memory (It will also slow scans down.). Turn it off unless you really need it.
     5.) Turn off Nikon Color Management system. Nikon CMS takes memory to handle calibrated color spaces. Turn it off and use RGB instead of Calibrated RGB or CMYK.

1.7. 12bit scanning
For the LS-2000, 3rd party applications must support 16 bit/channel to acquire 12 bits images when using the Nikon scan Adobe Photoshop Plugin. We have tested 12-bit scanning on the following applications:
	Photoshop 4.0
	Photoshop 5.0

1.8. System Virtual Memory
Nikon ScanÕs performance may be affected when System Virtual Memory is on. We suggest that you turn Virtual Memory off when using Nikon Scan.

1.9. Disk space requirement
Nikon Scan requires free disk space of approximately three (3) times the size of the image to be acquired.

1.10. Saved file Prefix
Filename or filename prefixes should be less than 20 characters long. Nikon Scan often appends suffixes to filenames.

1.11.Shared Disks
Do not specify network volumes (shared disks) as scratch disks. This may cause problems in the operation of Nikon Scan.

1.12. RAM DOUBLER 2
Connectix RAM Doubler 2 may cause performance problems with Nikon Scan.

1.13. Autofocus and prescan
If the "Perform Autoexposure Before Preview", "Perform Autoexposure Before Main Scan" and/or "Perform Autofocus Before Scan" checkboxes, located within the "Misc" tab of the "Preferences" dialog, are checked, an autofocus and/or autoexposure (prescan densitometry test) will be made immediately prior to making a scan. Once these operations have been performed, they should not need to be repeated, as long as the film is not removed from the scanner. You may also perform these tasks manually by using the "Autofocus" and "Autoexposure" icon buttons in the main control dialog.

2. Using Kodak Kodachrome film
Kodachrome Slide Film uses a unique dye. Because of this, it will respond to scanning in a manner different from all other slide films, including Ektachrome and Fujichrome. This unique dye may affect the color reproduction of images scanned from Kodachrome originals. In addition, Surface Defect Correction will be affected when using Kodachrome film.

3. Known problems
3.1. Connecting scanners
Nikon Scan is designed to work with one scanner at a time. If you have multiple scanners attached, you should ensure that only one scan window is open during any given scanning operation. Use the ÒDeviceÓ tab in the preferences dialog to change the scanner.

3.2. Progress bar
In some cases, the progress bar may not accurately reflect the progress of an autofocus, autoexposure (prescan) or a preview scan.

3.3. Color space conversion
There is a menu selection called "Document Color Space (Windows)" or "Color Space (Macintosh)" under the "NikonScan" menu. This function may not work properly in some cases.

4. Problems that have been corrected in this release
4.1. Color differences between Nikon Scan and Adobe Photoshop version 5.x
There were color differences between an image displayed in a Nikon Scan window and the same image displayed in a Photoshop window. Choosing a different white reference point in the color spaces between Nikon and Adobe software caused this phenomenon. Now the displayed images should look nearly identical. There is still very small difference between the two images.
Engineers from both Nikon and Adobe are working together to find a resolution to this problem.

4.2. Noise problem when Digital ICE on
Occasionally a strange noise pattern appeared around the edge of an image when you used Digital ICE. Now this pattern has been reduced.

4.3. Targeted Auto focus problem
When you hold down the Option key and click the auto focus button to target a focus point in the preview window, the point that the scanner actually used to focus was incorrect. Now targeted focus will be performed at your specified point.

4.4. Virtual memory disk
When you restart your computer after using and closing the Nikon Scan program, sometimes a file called 'VMFiles' would appear in the 'recovered items' folder in the trash can. This file was useless. Now this file should not be created.

5. Versions
The Nikon Scan 2.5.1 CD-ROM contains a suite of components, each of which have their own names and version numbers. When an upgrade is released, a new general number is assigned to the Nikon Scan Suite. This release is called Version 2.5.1.

Please note that one of the components of Nikon Scan 2.5.1; the application, is also called "Nikon Scan 2.5", and that it has a different version number from the general number.

The following software packages are included in this CD release:

- Nikon Scan 2.5.1 for LS-2000 and CoolScan III (The suite of components mentioned above)
- Slides & Sound Plus 2.02

5.1. Component Versions
The following files are included in Nikon Scan Version 2.5.1;

       Nikon Scan 2.5                           2.5.1.3005
       Nikon Scan Plugin 2.5              2.5.1.3005
       LS2000 Module                           1.5.1.3000
       MAID Driver                              1.2.0.3003
       MAID Driver HS                        1.2.0.3003
       SDCLPower                                  1.0.0.3004
       AttachmentUtility                     1.0.0.3000

       NKAdobe.icm                              1.0.0.3002
       NKApple.icm                               1.0.0.3002
       NKApple_CPS.icm                     1.0.0.3002
       NKBruce.icm                                1.0.0.3002
       NKCIE.icm                                    1.0.0.3002
       NKCMatch.icm                            1.0.0.3002
       NKCMYK.icm                              1.0.0.3002
       NKLS2000LS30.icm                     2.5.0.1001
       NKLS2000LS30_N.icm               2.5.0.1000
       NKLS2000LS30_N_SDC.icm    2.5.0.1000
       NKLS2000LS30_P.icm                 2.5.0.1001
       NKLS2000LS30_P_SDC.icm      2.5.0.1001
       NKLS2000_8N.icm                      2.5.0.1000
       NKLS2000_8P.icm                       2.5.0.1001
       NKMonitor_Mac.icm                 1.0.0.3002
       NKNTSC.icm                                1.0.0.3002
       NKsRGB.icm                                 1.0.0.3002
       NKWide.icm                                 1.0.0.3002
       %_NKWide_CPS.icm                 2.5.0.1001

6. Bundled software packages:
This CD-ROM includes bundled software packages. Please contact the companies supplying the bundled software for technical support for that particular product. Nikon does not provide any technical support for these software packages.

6.1. Slides & Sound Plus:
Slides & Sound Plus is a multimedia slide show application developed by InMedia Presentations Inc. of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Please refer to the Quick Start guide for more information. This software is a trial version. Some functions on this software will expire 30 days after installation.

6.1.1 Slides & Sound Plus requires a PowerPC system and does not support any 68k Macintosh systems.

6.1.2 You need to allocate 30 Megabytes to Slides & Sound Plus when using the Nikon Scan 2.5 Plug-in. To allocate this memory, use the Finder to select the Slides & Sound Plus application (single-click), select "Get Info" from the FinderÕs ÒFileÓ menu and set the Preferred Size to 30720 KB (30 MB).


Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
Adobe is a registered trademark, and Photoshop a trademark, of Adobe Systems, Inc.
The Defect Correction function incorporated in the LS-2000 makes use of Digital ICE technology developed by Applied Science Fiction Inc. Digital ICE and the Digital ICE logo are trademarks of Applied Science Fiction Inc.
Other brand or product names are the trademarks or registered trade-marks of their respective holders.

May 15, 2000