Chris Lauritzen
(K=14949) - Comment Date 4/10/2003
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Very cool, hope the others will follow!
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Brendan Bhagan
(K=531) - Comment Date 4/21/2003
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Too late for me, already have a 4000 dpi polaroid, now to get a printer that can do it justice.
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Jeroen Wenting
(K=25317) - Comment Date 4/23/2003
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I wondered why the Scan Multi II showed as discounted suddenly last week.
No price yet on the 5400, "contact us for details" is all my dealer's website shows so far.
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David Goldfarb
(K=7611) - Comment Date 9/12/2003
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Anyone using this scanner yet and have any opinions or sample scans? It's around $900 USD.
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Dave Holland
(K=13074) - Comment Date 9/12/2003
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I've had this one for a few weeks. It seems fast, very accurate. Grain on Provia 100F and Velvia shows up dramatically, so I think this will be close to the practical limit that can be derived from scanning film. There has been discussion about slow scan times on some usenet groups. I have not encountered that on my Pentium III 1GHz with XP and 512 RAM and a 2.0 USB port. I think the limiting factor is how fast your computer is and how much RAM you have. My aftermarket 2.0 USB port is attached through it's own HUB, and strangely I have to start the scanner first, and then do a cold boot on the computer to get it to initialize. It's a little irritating but no big deal. The dmax is said to be much better than most other scanners. I don't have any way to quantify that, but my home scans of similar slides show an obviously better dmax than the local professional lab's best attempt. Overall I am happy with it, and I don't plan to ever buy another film scanner. For more careful reviews do a Google search.
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Tony Smallman
(K=23858) - Comment Date 9/13/2003
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I've had this scanner since the beginning of August and am very happy with the results so far.As Dave mentioned it's important to have plenty of RAM -I have over 700 right now and scans are a bit faster.I'm waiting for a FireWire which should give the very fast scan times quoted in the Minolta handbook.Until that arrives I'll have to wait around 20 minutes which is how long a high resolution scan takes at present.
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David Goldfarb
(K=7611) - Comment Date 9/14/2003
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Thanks for the reports. It may be time for an upgrade. Even for drum scanners that can scan 11000 dpi, 5000 dpi is considered an upper limit for extracting the most information out of most films, so I would guess this is as good as it will get in desktop scanners for a while.
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