the scan software is also compatible with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 and Windows Vista 64 bit. One last word, I found that this software works 10 X faster on this machine than my old MacBook Pro of the same era, 10 X !! Maybe there was a problem with the mac, but only with Nikon software. The Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED is a film scanner for 35mm films. The 4000 ed scanner came out in 2001, the 5000 ed was released in 2003.
A system with recent discontinuation of new super coolscan.
You can get it on-line Amazon, Staples & Best Buy $35 bucks CDN. Go to nikon coolscan, nikon scan, driver, 64 bit windows vista / windows 7 / windows 8 for information on updating nikonscan driver. This will let you use Nikon Scan 4.03 on the 64 bit versions of Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista with the following Scanners, Nikon Super Coolscan LS-4000 ED, Nikon Super Coolscan LS-5000 ED, Nikon Super Coolscan LS-8000 ED, Nikon Super Coolscan LS-9000 ED, Nikon Coolscan IV LS-40 and Nikon Coolscan V LS-50.
Nikon 8000 Scanner with Nikon Scan 4.03 on Windows Vista SP 2 worked with the StarTech $ Port 1394a FireWire Card Part # PCI1394MP Nikon apparently missed the 64-bit computing world, in particular their excellent usb slide scanners ls-40, ls-50 and ls-5000 ed are totally unsupported under windows 8.x 64-bit, windows 7 64-bit, and 64-bit windows vista I have managed to install Nikon Scan for my Coolscan V ED film scanner in Windows 10 but I need a driver for this scanner. Any way I profit from these forums daily so I wanted to put this out there. In the description I thought it would be better than most. " Compliant with IEEE 1394a - 2000 as well as 1394-1995 standards" I had read several times that a Texas Instruments chipset was best but when I saw this and I was scanning in 10 min with the Nikon software and my old settings. I found that on my machine at least the StarTech $ Port 1394a FireWire Card Part # PCI1394MP worked out of the box, Scan 4 recognized the scanner right off, a visit to prefs. ControlSpace: Nikon Scan on 64-bit Windows (Vista, 7, 8, 10) Axel Rietschin: Nikon LS-40 / LS-50 / LS-5000 Scanners on Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista 64-bit I have also downloaded both Vuescan and Silverfast without success. I seem to recall people having issues running Nikon Scan with. If you want to run Nikon Scan on a Mac, I think you need a PPC. I have an old Powerbook I keep around that has Nikon Scan loaded on it.
most of what I have read are older posts (2015 and earlier) with newer operating systems W 7-10. That said, Nikon Scan is really good for color neg film without much fuss. I'd I'd like to give a definitive answer to this question for Vista computers in 2018.