tony_p6

<p>Thanks Les. My 5000 is already in Nikon's hands so I guess I'll have to just wait for the outcome.</p>

<p>I decided to send in my LS-5000 and both my SA-21 feeders to Nikon for evaluation and any fixing / adjustment that may be needed. I still have a bit of work to do and I'm figuring the chances of getting any parts replacements are not going to get any better in the future. I'll post with the outcome.</p>

<p>Thanks for the responses so far. Nikon will service the scanner - at a price. But as I've discovered with other photo friends who use the same scanner or the LS-50, one of the things that can happen with the older units is the caps on the power supply start bulging. This pretty much means either the caps or the supply would need to be replaced. Since my unit is one of the older ones I figured I'd send it and one of the SA-21s in to just have everything checked out and repaired. In all likelihood I figured we're nearing the end of Nikon having replacement parts.<br> As to the scanning itself, I do have the time, willingness, and resources (read: help) to finish what I've been doing for quite some time at this point.</p>

<p>Hi everyone. I'm new here but have been on other photo fora over the years. I can here because this seems to be a great site that has more than a few threads about the Nikon LS-5000 scanner. I own one and am trying to decide what to do.<br> I was already planning to send the scanner in to Nikon for cleaning and service. It's pretty old so I wanted to get it looked over. I also have two SA-21 negative feeders. One of them will feed anything; it's completely reliable in that regard. The other one is very picky; it will often fail to feed strips that give the first SA-21 no trouble at all. I've cleaned them both using the instruction in the manual.<br> The thing is the picky SA-21 produces scans that are just fractionally sharper than the other feeder. This is quite repeatable. What I'm not sure about is whether I should send in the picky SA-21 along with my scanner - in the hope that Nikon can get it to feed flawlessly and not have it lose it's ability to get razor sharp scans, or send in the other SA-21 and hope they can get it to scan as sharply as this other one. I know I can use manual focus of course, but I'd certainly be happier if I didn't have to on every single scan.<br> Anyone have experience in this area?</p>