Hi everybody- just got the Minolta 5400 today through Jessops and wanted to let you know that I paid �529 - pricematch from Jessops with www.warehouseexpress.com . The interesting point is (apart from that Jessops seems to be the first one that has them in stock???) that normally Jessops would not really pricematch if the other company hasn't got it in stock yet -which was the case with warehouseexpress, but seemed to be happy with the fact that warehouse had ordered them and Minolta had already dispatched them. So you can tell your local Jessops about my case. The other thing (I had no real chance to check the scanner out yet) is and I am replying to somebody a couple of days ago who was concerned with the grain reduction- that it seems sofar that as soon as you use ICE the grain reduction filter is automatically switched on- so it seems you can't use one without the other. But I will let you know more the next days- the pixel polish can not be used when in 16bit mode- I anyhow think it is more useful to use the photoshop tools for this, but thought I let you know. Kodakchrome films or traditional black and white films can not be used with ICE (no idea how this is with other scanners?) As soon as I know more (the file size of around 206 mb in 16 bit mode or half in 8 bit is indeed very impressive...) I let you know. Bye for now
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