Amazon.com Product Description The SF-210 from Nikon is an automatic slide feeder that lets you scan batches of up to 50 slides. The SF-210 accepts slide-mounted 35mm film up to 1.5 millimeters in thickness and is designed to work with Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 series scanners. Converting slide film has never been easier. Simply place your slide-mounted film into the slide feeder and insert into your Nikon Super Coolscan 5000. The SF-210 also comes backed with a one-year limited warranty.
Product Description Scan Up to 50 Mounted 35mm slides when attached to the CoolScan 5000ED Film Scanner
Good but not greatOctober 18, 2008 Through no fault of the SF-210, some slides (mostly thinner cardboard type)will catch on each other's film window as they slide past each other. It worked better on the plastic sleeve slides. I seldom had a group of 50 slides that went entirely through without a jam and I did about 2000 scans. I believe the SF-210 could have been designed to prevent the slides from catching on each other but it would be a more expensive piece of equipment if that were the case. The software requires you to restart it if a jam occurs, (that was frustrating). There are definitely improvements needed on the software. Having said all this, I don't think there is a better product on the market for the average home user, and overall I'm pleased with the scan quality of the slides. The experience I had with this product was good, but not great.
Not Up to Expected Nikon QualityOctober 14, 2008 The Nikon SF-210 Auto Slide Feeder could be a great product if the engineers would address a few possible design flaws. First is the spring pressure of the pressure plate which appears to generate excessive surface tension with the adjacent slide and possibly compresses the slides below the minimum thickness tolerance of the feeder ram. This can cause dual slide feeds and resultant jams. Second is a ridge on the slide track that tends to grab a feeding slide, also causing jams. The spring tension can be changed by adding a paper clip (ideally one should use a strain gauge to measure the actual pressures and replace the spring with one of less tension). The ridge can be camfered or radiused to eliminate the grab. After doing the above, it has worked fine without a jam in over a 1000 slides. That said, one should not have to pay $400+ for a Nikon product that provides sub optimum performance without user modifications. I am trying to contact Nikon to see if they too believe the above to be a problem and if they will provide a retrofit kit with better components. When it works, it works great and the ICE software does a remarkable job.
don't be scared by horror storiesSeptember 7, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having read about all sorts of alterations (from switching springs to shaving off bits of plastic) that are required to get the SF-210 to function properly, I was expecting only headaches from it. Happily though, I've been through more than 1200 slides of the family archive so far (about 3600 to go) while it is true that the slide feeder does occasionally jam, I have found that it is very much a function of the age of the slides. Slides less than 20-25 years old scan without a problem. I'm often able do 50 or so (about the max which fits in the feeder tray) without a single jam. On older slides (dating to the 50s and 60s), I do have some jamming problems but they are still the exception rather than the rule. Bottom line---if you are tackling the job of archiving all the old family photos, this is a must have and it works much better than many of the reviews would lead you to believe.
Works great until the metal spring loses it's shape!June 25, 2008 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The SF-210 auto slide feeder works great until you do 3 or 4 hundred slides then the little metal spring device loses it's shape and the feeder jams. You then need to reconfigure the little metal spring that handles the slide and get the four prongs back into the right shape where it can push the slides the right way again. Very frustrating because unless you manage to get the little piece of metal back into it's original shape it keeps jaming slides and shutting down.
CoolScan SF-210June 18, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have had very good luck scanning about 500 slides, with no jamming problems. it sure makes scanning slides easy. I am using a PowerPC with Mac OS X 10.4.11.
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