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Nikon CoolScan III Driver

Want to keep using your
Nikon CoolScan III on Windows 10?
VueScan is here to help!

We reverse engineered the Nikon CoolScan III driver and included it in VueScan so you can keep using your old scanner.

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What is VueScan?

  • Scanning app for Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • Supports over 7400 scanners from 42 manufacturers
  • Works with scanners no longer supported by their OS/manufacturer
  • Includes custom reverse-engineered drivers for scanners

Why use VueScan?

  • Infrared cleaning of Kodachrome film
  • Brilliant, lifelike color scans
  • Correct for faded color film dyes
  • High quality black/white film scans
  • Save raw files for later post-processing

How it works

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We reverse engineer older scanner drivers so that you can use old scanners that are no longer supported
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We also use the latest drivers and plugins from manufacturers and operating systems
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You download VueScan and use it to scan documents, photos, film and slides with your scanner

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Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux

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VueScan has the features you need no matter what you need to scan

Scan Film and Slides

VueScan is the ultimate tool for all your film and slide scanning needs.

  • Works with almost all film/slide scanners

  • Scan to JPEG/TIFF/RAW

  • Infrared Dust Removal

  • Color correction

  • IT8 Calibration

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Nikon CoolScan III

Nikon CoolScan III Technical Information

VueScan is compatible with the Nikon CoolScan III on Windows, macOS and Linux.

This scanner has an infrared lamp for scanning film. VueScan's 'Filter | Infrared clean' option can be used to remove dust spots from film scans. This is similar to (and we think better than) the ICE and FARE algorithms.

It scans with both visible light and infrared light in a single pass.

Infrared cleaning works well with all types of color negative and color slide film, including Kodachrome. However, silver-based black/white film doesn't work with infrared cleaning because the silver particles look the same in visible light and infrared light.

All types of Nikon film adapters are supported.

If you're using Windows and you've installed a Nikon driver, VueScan's built-in drivers won't conflict with this. If you haven't installed a Windows driver for this scanner, VueScan will automatically install a driver.

You can use this scanner on Mac OS X and Linux without installing any other software.

Nikon sold this scanner in some countries as the LS-30.

Film Scanning:

Yes

Infrared lamp:

Yes

Windows:

Yes

Mac:

Yes

Linux:

Yes

USB:

No

SCSI:

Yes

Firewire:

No

Network:

No

Optical DPI:

2700

Every day thousands of people download VueScan to fix their old scanner

Now it's your turn to bring your scanner back to life - and keep it out of the landfill