Digital BW, The Print

Wow, there is a whole lot of "techno babble" laced, pompous opinions about a
device that apparently no one has used! To read the opinions that are
expressed in this thread one could draw the conclusion that this unit is a
piece of junk. Further, that the Minolta people are just a mendacious bunch
and have just entered the commercial world of photography.

It is surprising that on this list of over 500 members who are involved in
digital photography that no member has used this scanner and/or has seen a
product of the machine. I have read the very recent and comprehensive review
of this scanner at www.imaging-resource.com An excerpt from that review
states:"...First and foremost, the Dimage Scan Multi Pro delivers an
extraordinary level of detail, in this respect eclipsing all desktop
scanners we've recently tested (September, 2001)...This is a scanner that
takes a back seat to no one in image quality although it (sic) we found its
scan times to be a little slow, at least on a Mac platform".

I wonder which marvelous scanner is being used by those on this list that is
better than this Minolta model.

I do not now own or have a every owned or used a film scanner, have no bias
about a Minolta or any other film scanner. I would like to read users'
opinions about film scanners that would be useful in helping one make a
prudent buying decision for a scanner in this category. I am not really
interested in best quality for the price--only quality.

Peter Palmer