That's interesting. The Minolta Dual Dimage II also suffered from the same problem. I went through several before getting one with minimal defects. My scanner was apparently made by Avision for Minolta, I don't know who is making the 5400.
Another interesting tidbit. As some may know, Minolta has been floundering for some time now in terms of business structure, and I imagine finances as well. Well, the company was recently purchased by Konica, and they are in the mist of integrating the companies together, including the QMS division (which Minolta bought a few years back). The company's new name is Konica-Minolta, suggesting the money went it that direction. I would expect a stronger company to come of this, but as often occurs in this kind of merger, we'll have to wait and see which divisions survive. I disappointed the new company didn't decide to call itself "MiKon" ;-) Art david.gordon wrote: > I've not been here for a while, humour me if this has just been done to > death but there's no archive... > > Need to replace a Polaroid SS4000. Googling around I see many people > complain that the Minolta 5400 produces fine lines it some scans, > sometimes, with some software. They look very much to me like a dud pixel > in the CCD - a one pixel wide line running the length of the scan. > Usually seen in darker areas. Many people report the exact same trouble > and show images with the same lines. > > Maybe this is fixed in a firmware update, maybe not. Who can tell me more? > > From what I've read (on other lists, in other places) this is a scanner > to avoid. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
