[filmscanners] Re: Minolta 5400

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

That's interesting.  The Minolta Dual Dimage II also suffered from the
same problem.  I went through several before getting one with minimal
defects.  My scanner was apparently made by Avision for Minolta, I don't
know who is making the 5400.

Another interesting tidbit.  As some may know, Minolta has been
floundering for some time now in terms of business structure, and I
imagine finances as well. Well, the company was recently purchased by
Konica, and they are in the mist of integrating the companies together,
including the QMS division (which Minolta bought a few years back).

The company's new name is Konica-Minolta, suggesting the money went it
that direction.  I would expect a stronger company to come of this, but
as often occurs in this kind of merger, we'll have to wait and see which
divisions survive.

I disappointed the new company didn't decide to call itself "MiKon" ;-)

Art


david.gordon wrote:

> I've not been here for a while, humour me if this has just been done to
> death but there's no archive...
>
> Need to replace a Polaroid SS4000. Googling around I see many people
> complain that the Minolta 5400 produces fine lines it some scans,
> sometimes, with some software. They look very much to me like a dud pixel
> in the CCD - a one pixel wide line running the length of the scan.
> Usually seen in darker areas. Many people report the exact same trouble
> and show images with the same lines.
>
> Maybe this is fixed in a firmware update, maybe not. Who can tell me more?
>
> From what I've read (on other lists, in other places) this is a scanner
> to avoid.
>

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