Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for your comments Sam, also to Djon for his.
As far as Techonweb is concerned, I get my printer paper
from there- for what it's worth, have not had any issues.
Try doing a search on www.resellerratings.com and see
what you come up with.

Regards

Andrei
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sam McCandless 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:52 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Minolta 5400 film scanner vs Nikon V ED


  At 3:39 PM -0500 3/17/05, <aderca@...> wrote:
  >I will be upgrading my film scanner soon

  Me too, unless Minolta keeps us waiting for version three of the 540o 
  (5400-III?).


  >and have more or less
  >settled on the two models above.

  Assuming you meant the Minolta 5400-II, so have I except that I 
  believe I thought the Nikon 5000 (misleading name) is a better match 
  for the Minolta 5400-II than the Nikon V is. The bigger question, of 
  course, is how the Minolta "5400-III" will compare, and whether to 
  wait for it to be reviewed or take the lower price on the 5400-II.


  >  4000 dpi is plentiful for what I need

  Not for me, so in my case, that's a sizeable plus for the 5400 - if 
  the samples-per-inch differences imply higher resolution.


  >but the 4.8 dynamic range (as purported by Konica-Minolta) is what
  >caught my attention. Can this claim be substantiated ?

  My impression is that the manufacturers (not just K-M) don't even try 
  even to explain, much less substantiate, their dynamic-range claims.


  >Anybody have an idea how the two machines compare in terms of speed?

  I don't. I assume that Nikon's 9000 would, because of its FireWire 
  connection, be appreciably faster than the others, but I haven't been 
  able to persuade myself that's worth the additional expense to me. 
  And if the 5400's speed increased in going from II to III, maybe it 
  will again?


  >I will be using Vuescan, am not setting much hope on the prepackaged
  >software, all the scanners that I've used so far were lacking in that respect.
  >Silverfast is nice but a bit expensive in the Ai version, at least for what I
  >can afford.

  It was bundled with my other scanners, but I'm not sure I'll upgrade 
  it; I think I'll go with VueScan too.


  >Any comments would be greatly appreciated

  I've heard that Mac users have a harder time working with the Nikons 
  and with getting Nikon's attention, and that's a big minus for me.

  I found the best price, $544.21 ($553.58 w/shipping to Northern 
  California) for the Minolta 5400-II at TechOnWeb.com, which I've 
  never heard of and on which I'd like some reports.


  >Regards
  >
  >Andrei
  --
  Sam


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