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Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 Film Scanner (35 mm)The popularity of digital imaging is continually on the rise. It is involved in numerous professional applications as well as home use for...
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The popularity of digital imaging is continually on the rise. It is involved in numerous professional applications as well as home use for e-mail correspondence, Internet web sites, and cataloging on CD. Minolta's DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 makes it easy for 35mm film camera enthusiasts to create professional-quality digital images from their film slides and negatives. With 5, 400 dpi resolution, advanced lens optics, simple scanning and image-processing procedures, plus USB or FireWire interfaces, creating beautiful digital scans is "quick as a click."
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Pros: Sharpness, bulk loading, speed at 2700 dpi is plenty fast
Cons: inconsistent color accuracy, blue-tinting, unclarity of software
The Bottom Line:
Can't recommend it, not good enough color results
I appreciate the slide and negative loader on this scanner. I can scan four slides at a time, and go back and forth between it and other projects. When you scan slides, though, make sure you set it to expose for slides in the preferences because setting it to color positives in the menu will not be enough. This is one of those annoying aspects to the software which makes you wonder what
was going on in the mind of Minolta. Previously I was able to get it to stop blue-casting all my slides to the point where I had to up the yellow values in the color balance 30 points. Now, I'm having the problem again and I cant remember how I calibrated it to make it generate even color scans. This basically makes the scanner useless without me spending double time color correcting the images, but this may be the reality of scanning film. This is a great reason to stick to digital SLRs, but I dont know if they're up to snuff on landscapes, why I'm shooting film still. Anyway, this scanner has not bothered me as that it can scan sharper than most glass can register anyway, but the color and exposure control, as well as the horrible your-on-your-own software make you really reconsider buying another minolta scanner.
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