Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 Scanner
Details
- Availability:
- No longer available through SilverGelatin.net
- List Price:
- $1,099.99
- Average Customer Rating:
- 2.5 out of 5
- Manufacturer:
- Minolta
Features
- Single-pass, 35mm film and slide scanner
- 16-bit A/D conversion, 5,400 dpi image resolution
- Grain Dissolver, Digital ICE, Pixel Polish software
- FireWire and USB 2.0 connectivity
- PC and Mac compatible
Description
The popularity of digital imaging is continually on the rise. It is involved in numerous professional applications as well as home use for e-mail correspondence, Internet web sites, and cataloging on CD. Minolta's DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 makes it easy for 35mm film camera enthusiasts to create professional-quality digital images from their film slides and negatives. With 5, 400 dpi resolution, advanced lens optics, simple scanning and image-processing procedures, plus USB or FireWire interfaces, creating beautiful digital scans is "quick as a click."
The DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 gives even novice users the power to achieve professional-quality digital scans at up to 5,400 dpi from 35mm film or slides, perfect for countless professional applications or for professional-looking images of friends and family.
With 16-bit A/D conversion, the DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 is able capture and reproduce the depth, subtleties, and rich variations in tone and color of the original film image. Choose from Grain Dissolver or Digital ICE functionality to select the desired level of visible grain, or remove the affects of surface contaminants such as dust, scratches, even fingerprints. Pixel Polish provides automatic corrections for color, exposure, and more, and can even provide restorative simulation for faded colors on aged film.
With clean, modern styling, the DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 is housed in a sleek metal body, slim enough to fit into small spaces on your busy desktop. It offers automatic or manual focus, with a large manual focus dial that allows you to make fine adjustments quickly and easily.
Offering compatibility for both PC and Mac based systems, the DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 is connected to your computer through an IEEE1394 (FireWire) or USB 2.0 interface, both of which offer fast data transfer rates well suited to the large image files associated with image scanning.
What's in the Box
Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 Scanner, FH-M10 35mm film holder, SH-M10 slide mount holder, UC-2 USB cable, FC-2 IEEE 1394 cable, AC-U25 AC adapter, DiMAGE Scan, Photoshop Elements 2.0, ST-M10 stand, RT-M10 reset tool
Spotlight customer reviews
Probably the 2nd best 35mm film scanner, when it works.
[ Posted: 2007-06-11 ]
The best would be the 5400-II...
This is my second Minolta 5400 scanner. The first one failed not even three months after purchase. It was exchanged after countless (international long distance) calls to Minolta USA. In all I was without a film scanner for over four months. The first unit refused to eject the film holder, no matter what. It seems a common ailment for this model, as I much later found out.
My present unit did the same a few months ago, long after the warranty had expired. I came to find good advice in (...) that permitted me to repair the unit --actually it was a film holder problem.
I wouldn't recommend this scanner to any one who is not very technically and mechanically oriented.
On the bright side, you won't find a better 35mm film scanner regardless of cost. It beats the finest enlarger fitted with the best lens. If you are still shooting film and can live with the quirks, by all means get one.
Good performance & High resolution
[ Posted: 2006-08-01 ]
Let's clarify here; this is for the Elite 5400, not the later 5400II which has seemingly had tons of reliability issues. Some reviews here are for the 5400II and others sound like they could be too.
My personal experience has been that it has processed through hundreds, probably thousands, of slides without a hitch. Color rendering does not quite match my Velvia slides but otherwise I am quite happy. Only complaint (aside from the amount of time it takes to scan at 5400 dpi/16 bit) would be the focusing. I seem to spend a lot of time re-focusing, especially for images with a lot of empty space.
All in all, I would certainly consider this one again. The only other comparable model is the Nikon 5000 which is more expensive and has lower resolution.
This is all probably a bit of a moot point anyway. Minolta has sold off all of its photography interests to Sony. While they continue to support the existing ones, Sony does not seem to have any interest in developing or selling film scanners.
Great Product
[ Posted: 2006-01-30 ]
This is a great product and one of the easiest Scanners I've ever used! I'm sure there are better ones out there, but this is a great choice if you are just beginning.
worked great when it worked
[ Posted: 2005-12-19 ]
I was greatly dissapointed in this scanner. The software was very problematic on my Mac G4 OSX.4 platform. User groups had solutions but were cumbersome and rediculous to do. The hardware constantly crashed and finally never started. Minolta suggested it needed repair, right out of the box, that it was a hardware problem!!
Good luck.
Dissapointed
Bad news
[ Posted: 2005-10-14 ]
Unfortunately the scanner was defective. I have sent it to Minolta for repair.