It is not clear if they have abandoned the scanner business from reading
this press release.
I see a real problem here in that Windows will be going to Vista in a
year and there will be no drivers for Minolta scanners.
ppatton@bgnet.bgsu.edu wrote:
>>Any reason you left the Dimage 5400 II off the list?
>>
>
> I just did a bit of investigation of this scanner and discovered
> that although it has some impressive features, Konica-Minolta is
> going out of business. It is only still available in a few
> places, but is available at a very good price. If I do get it, I
> will probably need to act quickly, rather than do careful
> research. Any opinions on this scanner? Should I snap one up
> quickly, before they are gone, or let it pass? Like the Nikon
> Coolscan V ED, the reviews seem to be very mixed with some people
> loving it, and others having lots of problems. The reviews on
> Nikon's 50 slide feeder seem fairly uniformly negative.
>
> Another question. Is anyone familiar with the film scanning
> service or with other such scanning
> services? Do they do a good job of producing professional
> quality scans at 4000+ dpi of 35 mm slides? How safe is it to
> mail away my very best irreplaceble slides to a service like this
> for scanning?
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