Nikon - Super Cool Scan 8000 Slide Scanning Workflow

Turn on the scanner
Green light will flash a few times before staying on green when the unit is powered up
Make sure the Firewire to USB cable with Adapters is connected to the IMac See Example
NOW Restart the IMac for best results = Suggested
The Slide door must be in the up position before inserting the slide tray
Load the slide tray with slides
Open VueScan
Now pull down the slide door and insert the trey with the Arrow pointing towards the scanner
Now pull down the slide door and insert the trey with the Arrow pointing towards the scanner You will feel a click or resistance when you've pushed in the tray completely and the scanner will take control of it. May have to pull tray out and push up the slide door and then back down to engage the tray properly DON'T FORCE THE TRAY IT'LL BREAK IT
Set these options or modify if you choose Options = Standard Source = LS800 Media = Image Batch Scan Auto Frame number = 1 Default Folder is where you want the images to be saved File Type JPEG JPEG file name year day date
Press Preview to see the image and crop or if you want the whole image press >Scan
After you scan the first slide change the Frame number to 2 to scan the next one
After you scan the second slide change the Frame number to 3 to scan the next one Keep going till you scan the whole tray of 5 slides if you have filled the tray
When you are finished quit VueScan and the tray will eject and you can remove your slides to insert new ones or you can hit the eject button if you don't want to quit VueScan

Nikon - Super Cool Scan 8000 Slide Scanning Workflow

NOW Restart the IMac for best results = Suggested

DON'T FORCE THE TRAY IT'LL BREAK IT