Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED Scanner

If you look on the used scanner market you will find a few Nikon Super Coolscan 9000s on EBay. With out a doubt this is the best scanner I've ever used. Alas, Nikon no longer makes or supports the scanner so getting it connected to a new Mac will be an issue.

I believe it also requires Rosetta in order to run in the new Mac environment and OS 10.7 doesn't support Rosetta anymore. It's also Firewire 400 so it doesn't take advantage of the Firewire 800 speed newer makes offered.

If you have one sitting around I'd recommend putting it on EBay. There are selling for more than when they were new. If you have one and are using it then keep it happy. Odds are there isn't a replacement in the works by Nikon.

Not only did they take our Kodachrome away they even took away the best way to digitize it!!

"Leave your boyfriend far from home.....momma don't take my Kodachrome away...." Paul Simon.

Man, I'm getting old.