It may not be clear, but they are certainly no longer making or selling
scanners. The Dimage Scan Elite 5400 II are now exceptionally rare and
if you can get one for a "very good price", buy it. Also I am looking
for one, so if you could tell me where you found some, I would much
appreciate it.
The Scan Elite 5400 II is really a very good scanner for 35mm film. It
provides better and faster results than my Nikon 8000. I didn't think
about the driver issue with Vista. But then again, everyone isn't going
to be rushing out to get Vista as soon as it appears. XP will still be
a viable OS for several years to come, giving the scanner a long enough
life span.
gary wrote:
>
> 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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>> and science."
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