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My interest in the Minolta ScanElite arose primarily from a desire to be able to deal with black and white negatives in the digital domain. Read full review Verified purchase: Ready for Your Close-Up?: A notable exception to my general comment on documentation is that the software booklet includes a listing of the names and locations of all files installed by the installer. Averaging multiple scans is possible with this scanner but none of my trial samples needed such treatment. I thought perhaps that the warning not to use the scanner with glass slides might mean simply that Digital ICE would not work with glass slides, but as can be seen from the example, it worked just fine.

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The software forces you to use grain dissolver when Digital ICE is turned on, so this feature is always in use for my scans.

Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 Slide & Film Scanner

The II gets more and better image information out of both highlights and shadows, providing much more effective adjustment of local contrast. On one of my visits to the ghost town of Bodie, California, which is at a very high altitude, I brought along some Technical Dimxge, originally intended for microscope slides, thus configured with very high contrast and saturation.

Here's a scan of an old, uncleaned, Agfacolor reversal film, glass-mounted slide taken somewhere in the Alps in dimagd Hardly bigger than an external hard drive, the Scan Elite takes up just 6. There are brightness and colour adjustments possible, but I could never get shadow detail without blocked highlights or open highlights without blocked shadows. And, I found by beginning by using Levels to optimize the gamut, and then going to Elements' Quick Fix using the manual sliders to adjust contrast and color, I could achieve a quite refined, finished image rather easily, and even dimaye efficiently than using the full CS version of Photoshop.

The scanner goes through an initialization stage blinking 5400 indicator lamp before it's ready to get to work.

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It takes you step-by-step through the scanning process, with buttons to enable all dimaeg advanced 540 and even an edit option to adjust the final image beyond what the scanner likes. And unlike the Nikon products, the allows set and forget workflow for 4 slide batches without an add-on slide feeder.

Apart from powering the scanner on or off and loading film holders, you really don't need to access it. I found the film strip holder a bit tricky to load, but it did an excellent job of holding the film strip flat.

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One 540 a spot in the pre-scan image on which to focus. This may be true for some but I think this assessment comes from two things: This scanner is typical of many other 35 mm scanners in that it is a long narrow brick on edge: It does not include a copy of SilverFast.

It seems the law of diminishing returns is in effect as I can see little difference between 4x and 16x multi-sample scanning. 540

I believe it does deliver the promised resolution and dynamic range. After configuring Master settings for the batch scan and initializing the scanner, you can scan holder after holder of images.

The multisampling option in this Konika desktop scanner produces clearer and sharper scan, as it scans the image various diamge to remove all the dirt and noise. Ejecting the holder can be done in the software after you've scanned everything or just by pressing the Eject button. Still, if I have the time and am working on one slide at a time I usually choose manual focus.

Scanner Review: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite II

I may be wrong in this but I choose to leave it off and make all corrections necessary in Photoshop. An instruction manual and a warranty card complete the kit. If you scan a file at maximum resolution with Digital ICE turned on, you'll wait about 3 minutes, which is longer than the Coolscan V's time of 1 minute, 10 seconds.

The Index displays the strip of images here four slides in a small window under the main Scan window. If this is a problem in future, I'll be tempted to mount the slide in a glass mount.

This allows you to adjust each dimension of image quality to get to a finished image result in a continuous flow, including sharpening and if necessary using SilverFast's own GANE grain and noise reduction and ACR color restoration facilities.

The scanner will grab the holder and feed it in to do an index scan, which shows the software what's in the holder.

We can't guarantee the Logitech M mouse will boost your productivity, but at this price There is no reference whatever to the beep in the manual. However, there are a few hurdles standing between it and the adoration of the pro market. Of course the software provides for all sorts of adjustments: Maximum 20W Energy Star compliant Dimensions: There is no holder for APS film.