http://konicaminolta.com/releases/2006/0119_03_01.html It is not clear if they have abandoned the scanner business from reading this press release.
I see a real problem here in that Windows will be going to Vista in a year and there will be no drivers for Minolta scanners. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Any reason you left the Dimage 5400 II off the list? >> > > I just did a bit of investigation of this scanner and discovered > that although it has some impressive features, Konica-Minolta is > going out of business. It is only still available in a few > places, but is available at a very good price. If I do get it, I > will probably need to act quickly, rather than do careful > research. Any opinions on this scanner? Should I snap one up > quickly, before they are gone, or let it pass? Like the Nikon > Coolscan V ED, the reviews seem to be very mixed with some people > loving it, and others having lots of problems. The reviews on > Nikon's 50 slide feeder seem fairly uniformly negative. > > Another question. Is anyone familiar with the film scanning > service http://www.digmypics.com/ or with other such scanning > services? Do they do a good job of producing professional > quality scans at 4000+ dpi of 35 mm slides? How safe is it to > mail away my very best irreplaceble slides to a service like this > for scanning? > ___________________________________________________ > Dr. Paul Patton > Life Sciences Building Rm 538A > work: (419)-372-3858 > home: (419)-352-5523 > Biology Department > Bowling Green State University > Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 > > "The most beautiful thing we can experience is > the mysterious. It is the source of all true art > and science." > -Albert Einstein > ___________________________________________________ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body