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Old 09-13-2020, 05:51 PM
Marburg Marburg is offline
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I recently inherited a Minolta film scanner from my father to enable my 35mm film habit. The scan quality is quite good, though after 20 years on the shelf it needs a good cleaning.

I highly recommend shelling out for Vuescan. I've run this scanner on both Windows 10 and Mac with no issues even though the hardware itself is from the Windows 97 era.

Having done a little ebay window shopping, I know the desirable models are, uh, desirable (Minolta Dimage 5400 II are $500+) while the just-off-peak models (like my Dimage Scan Dual IV) can be had for a song.

As others have said, scanning can be exceptionally slow, esp at high resolutions. I think my model will do 6 frames in a strip of 35mm film, and that takes ~2min /pc to scan, plus cleaning the film before scan, general clicking about. Doing a couple of 24 exposure rolls can take an hour plus.

Last edited by Marburg; 09-13-2020 at 06:08 PM.
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