Comparison of film scanners

Does anybody know of a comparative survey of the 35 mm. film scanners currently on the market which would include price, scanning speed at different resolutions, and other indicia of quality?
Musawwir Spiegel

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:25:07 -0800, Musawwir Spiegel
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Does anybody know of a comparative survey of the 35 mm. film scanners currently on the market which would include price, scanning speed at different resolutions, and other indicia of quality?
Musawwir Spiegel

Don’t know about online, but all the comparisons I’ve seen recently put the Minolta Dimage 5400 at the top of the list.

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Hecate wrote:

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:25:07 -0800, Musawwir Spiegel
wrote:

Does anybody know of a comparative survey of the 35 mm. film scanners currently on the market which would include price, scanning speed at different resolutions, and other indicia of quality?
Musawwir Spiegel

Don’t know about online, but all the comparisons I’ve seen recently put the Minolta Dimage 5400 at the top of the list.

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Or, at about half the price, the Minolta Scan Dual III, which is USB

Hecate wrote:

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:25:07 -0800, Musawwir Spiegel
wrote:

Does anybody know of a comparative survey of the 35 mm. film scanners currently on the market which would include price, scanning speed at different resolutions, and other indicia of quality?
Musawwir Spiegel

Don’t know about online, but all the comparisons I’ve seen recently put the Minolta Dimage 5400 at the top of the list.

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Or, at about half the price, the Minolta Scan Dual III, which is USB

On 12/28/03 6:40 AM, in article , "Tony
H" wrote:

Hecate wrote:

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:25:07 -0800, Musawwir Spiegel
wrote:

Does anybody know of a comparative survey of the 35 mm. film scanners currently on the market which would include price, scanning speed at different resolutions, and other indicia of quality?
Musawwir Spiegel

Don’t know about online, but all the comparisons I’ve seen recently put the Minolta Dimage 5400 at the top of the list.

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Or, at about half the price, the Minolta Scan Dual III, which is USB

I’m not that familiar with the Minolta, though I did try one of their Dimage scanners about 3 months ago. I ended up taking it back for one main reason. I have a number of older negatives I needed to scan, and most are in need of serious repair after a scan. I ended up getting a Nikon Coolscan because it came with ICE software. To me, the ability to scan a good image is important, but the ability to correct the image without my having to do hours of work on it is also important. The Nikon is USB, works with both a PC and MAC, the software is easy to use, and it is as fast as the Minolta. If the Minolta I tried have come with ICE, I would have kept it.

I own a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual film scanner, which I bought a number of years ago.

It is an excellent device and came at a reasonable price. I have only two problems with it.

The first is that it is a SCSII device and the model I have is not compatible with Windows XP, since neither Minolta nor anybody else I know about has written a driver that would provide that compatibility. (If anybody knows of any third party driver that would make it compatible, please let me know.)

The second problem is that scanning color negatives (35 mm.) is a very slow process, particularly when scanning for 2400 x 2400 pixel density.

Does anybody know of a comparative survey of the 35 mm. film scanners currently on the market which would include price, scanning speed at different resolutions, and other indicia of quality?
Musawwir Spiegel