Has anybody used the Minolta Scan Dual IV yet?

[wildwoodgallery]

I've pretty much decided I'm going to get one. Would sure like to

hear from someone who has used it.

 

Also saving my money for the new Minolta DSLR. :)

 

Thanks,

Rick

[derek_iritsky]

I have one. As soon as it arrived, I used it to scan these:

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/2121664

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/2121670

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=375357

 

And a couple of others that I haven't posted. The included software is nice and straightfoward, and the scans came out great, until it froze in the middle of a scan. Afterward, scans from slides had no green channel, and scans from negative, color or BW, were washed out and extremely high contrast. Now, Windows doesn't recognize the scanner at all. Waiting until Tuesday to speak with a senior technician at Konica Minolta. Hopefully, you'll have better luck than I've had.

 

Be sure to clean your originals well. The auto dust brush helps, but you'll still need to do spotting in your image manipulation program.

[wildwoodgallery]

Derek,

 

Thanks for sharing the photos. I hate hearing problems like that so soon. It makes me wonder if there would less problems just going with a flat bed scanner like the Epson 4870. I've had a Plustek OpticPro 9630P flat bed scanner for a few years now that still works fine.

 

Rick

[steven_clark]

Minolta does not seem to have the best driver programmers in the world working on the Scan Dual series. This is par for the course.

[hurdlr55]

Actually, I've used the Scan Dual III for over a year and have had no driver or any other problems at all (Win XP PC).

[alex_bain1]

I just received the IV last week.

 

I really like it, and have had no real problems with it at all. I've had a few instances of slides scanning in rather dark, but curves and levels can usually bring it back to a respectable level. This could also be my slides, so I don't know for certain. Black and white scans phenominally though.

 

For $300 I feel it's a great scanner.

[johan berg]

Derek,

 

Nice pictures. Could you maybe post a cropped off part of a picture scanned in the highest resolution with the Dual scan IV? If you had a chance of scanning one before it broke down.

 

I had decided on buying this scanner. Then I found these pictures at Minoltas web site in Sweden:

 

http://www.minolta.se/pe/crome/scanners_se/stage222114.htm

 

I did not like the quallity at all, specially not the bottom one. I would think the scanner is capabel of better results than this though since I read so many positive things about the scanner. I was thinking maybe they did something wrong when they scanned these pictures.

 

So it would be really nice to see the quallity of a high resolution picture that is scanned by someone that knows how to operate the scanner.

 

Johan.

[derek_iritsky]

Johan,

 

Thanks for the compliment. :-) Here is an actual pixels crop of this picture ( http://www.photo.net/photo/2145407&size=lg ) scanned at the maximum 3200 DPI.

 

BTW, I sent the scanner out for warranty repair yesterday. Hopefully eveyrthing will turn out well.<div></div>

[johan berg]

Thanks a lot

 

Looks excelent to me. Way better than the one Minolta have on their web page.

 

Did you use the multi scan feature?

I was thinking maybe that is difference why Minoltas picture is so noisy.

 

Johan.