Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I need to get a film scanner that will also do medium format (645) negatives. If I don't want to spend almost $3000 (I don't), the only option seems to be this scanner. I can get one for about $500 reconditioned. The problem is I can't find any real reviews on this model on the web. The specs and downloadable manual from Minolta's website make it seem almost perfect for what I want to do (which is make small to reasonably large prints - like 16x20 maybe). Does anyone own this scanner? Apparently the original Scan Multi only scanned medium format at very low resolution (barely over 1100dpi), and the same is true of the model II, except that it will interpolate to 2880 dpi. It also says that it adjusts it's "scanning pitch" to do this, which makes me think it's not ONLY a software difference, but something is actually happening during the scan to make this interpolation better than Photoshop could do by itself. Does anyone know if this is the case? Thanks in advance!!! Randy - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html