Digital BW, The Print

What works best with the Minolta 5400?

I have only 35mm film to scan. On a Mac, with which I've heard the 
Nikon scanners don't work very well. So I thought I'd get a 5400 and 
maybe buy LaserSoft SilverFast software to use with it, if that would 
help.

Should a Mac user who is willing to pay a premium for better 35mm 
scans instead consider getting a Microtek 120 to get better 35mm 
scans?

Thanks.
--
Sam


At 3:31 PM +0100 3/10/05, Daniel Staver wrote:
>  > Vuescan uses a different exposure per RGB channel to handle the color
>>  negative's orange mask. The green exposure time is 2.5x and the blue
>>  exposure time is 3.5x to the red exposure time. Sounds like a sensible
>>  approach that isn't used when the negative is scanned as a positive. Any
>>  comments on that in the Docs cited ?
>
>Not that I know, but I haven't read the docs very carefully either. I
>just installed the plugin and really liked the results.
>
>I remember being less than happy with the colors from Vuescan with the
>Minolta 5400 scanner I had before.
>
>--
>Daniel Staver
>http://daniel.staver.no