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Just received my mint nearly new Minolta 5400 and oh my for Black & White is amazing:clap:
I will do colour scan and comparison with my V370 later on.
 
Fred, looking forward to seeing some frames from your new scanner, I have thought about a Minolta dedicated film scanner
 
Jao said:
Fred, looking forward to seeing some frames from your new scanner, I have thought about a Minolta dedicated film scanner
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So far I'm very impressed and it work like a charm with vuescan. I shoot 99% black&white white and I needed a non LED scanner to achieved great scan.
The only thing is it wasn't cheap and I could have bought a v700 for the same price but no regret.
 
Fred, it looks like the Minolta was well worth the outlay.
 
Jao said:
Fred, it looks like the Minolta was well worth the outlay.
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Found out it as a grain dissolver function meant to be found only in really hight end scanner like hasselblad .
It work with reducing the light intensity, minolta only used it in this scanner and was abandoned after.
Seen a lot of old article about the version2 not having it and pepeol moaning.
 
fred2511 said:
The only thing is it wasn't cheap and I could have bought a v700 for the same price but no regret.
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Flatbeds are a compromise by design, I'll take a dedicated to scan my 35mm and nothing else....every day of the week, rather than be able to scan other things with a flatbed.
Unfortunately, flatbeds are pretty much the only option for LF, even dedicateds that scan MF are daft expensive so a flatbed will see you do all those and still allow you to.....eat.

I actually envy 35mm shooters because a dedicated for 35mm is the cheap(est) and easiest to acquire....I wouldn't call em cheap though.

I have a Minolta dedicated, it scans up to 6x9 MF, its at least a thousand years old but keeps on chugging, so that augers well for your 5400...:)
 
joxby said:
Flatbeds are a compromise by design, I'll take a dedicated to scan my 35mm and nothing else....every day of the week, rather than be able to scan other things with a flatbed.
Unfortunately, flatbeds are pretty much the only option for LF, even dedicateds that scan MF are daft expensive so a flatbed will see you do all those and still allow you to.....eat.

I actually envy 35mm shooters because a dedicated for 35mm is the cheap(est) and easiest to acquire....I wouldn't call em cheap though.

I have a Minolta dedicated, it scans up to 6x9 MF, its at least a thousand years old but keeps on chugging, so that augers well for your 5400...:)
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That was my dilemma buying the Minolta as i'm restricted to 35mm, if i ever get into medium format i will need another scanner like the V750
 
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Steve Smith said:
No... get an enlarger!

Steve.
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I'm starting a courses in october to learn darkroom, the teacher is meant to be anazing and old school.
they do up to 4x5 , toning burning and all kind of darkroom wizardry.
Then i will build a proper darkroom in my house hopefully.
 
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