Nikon LS-2000 User Manual

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11. OverviewNikon LS-2000 35 mm Film Scanner User’s Guide1. OverviewThank you for your purchase of a Nikon LS-2000 scanner for 35mm film. The LS-2000 is a high-speed, high-resolution scannercapable of producing images suited to a wide variety of tasks,including desk-top publishing, design, and multi-media publishing.Its modular design allows you to change from scanning 35 mmslides to scanning 35 mm strip film “on the fly,” while optionaladapters are available for scanning IX240 film and multiple con-secutive slides. The LS-2000 uses a high-speed SCSI interface forconnection to computers running Mac OS System Software 7.1 orlater, Windows 95 or later, or Windows NT 4.0 or later.The scanner driver software provided with your scanner, Nikon Scan2.0, offers sophisticated pre-scan editing of images, includingprecise color correction, contrast, and brightness adjustment. NikonScan can be launched from any TWAIN-compliant application underWindows or from any application that supports Adobe Photoshopplug-ins (version 4.0 or higher) on the Macintosh. Nikon Scan canalso be used as a “stand-alone” application, allowing you to savescanned images to disk without the help of another application.The user’s manuals for the LS-2000 and Nikon Scan are dividedinto three parts. This User’s Guide offers a brief introduction tosetting up the scanner and scanning images using Nikon Scan.More detailed reference manuals for the scanner and for Nikon Scanare provided on CD-ROM. To read these manuals you will need toinstall the Adobe Acrobat Reader software included on the refer-ence CD. In addition, a one-page Fast Track Guide is provided forexperienced users who want to get started with the minimum ofinstruction. Where appropriate, this guide will refer readers to thereference manuals or Fast Track Guide for more information.References to the manuals on CD are indicated by a icon in themargin, references to the Fast Track Guide by a icon.