24bits' 16.7m colour gamut is enough for proper display. This is a new Nikon technology, made possible by the use of an LED lightsource. As the CCD passes across the target, each scan line is sampled 4 or 16 times in Multi Scanning with the lightsource in a slightly different position. This scan is a reduced-resolution 600 x 400 JPEG with low compression, to show overall colour accuracy and saturation, as outlined on the protocol page. Overall impression of colour accuracy is excellent, with vibrant punchy colour, good tonal separation and neutral greys.
Skin tones are a little deficient in yellow , due to a slight excess of blue in lower tones.
But these are relatively small divergences. As with other Nikon scanners, the partially collimated lightsource shows up every speck of dirt and imperfection. ICE offers a means to correct this automatically, at the cost of a little sharpness. The mounted Q60 has not fed into the scanner straight. Unlike the LS1000, eveness of illumination and colour show good consistency across the frame.