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13 Jul, 2016
Drum-Scanner quality 35mm scanner
The Scan Elite 5400 II is sharp enough to capture not only the smallest details 35mm film can resolve, but grain and dust far smaller. It also pulls out all of the detail in the darkest shadows, even in the most dense
Kodachromes, which the Minolta Dimage Multi-Pro and Imacon 848 had trouble with. It is also the only scanner whose ICE dust and scratch removal works with Kodachromes. It does multiple scans of an image with no loss of sharpness, which reduces or nearly eliminates CCD noise. And, at 5400dpi, there is none of the grain aliasing that is a problem with lower resolution machines.
The included Minolta software is excellent for negatives, but has some drawbacks when scanning slides. These include not having the ability to profile the scanner (rendering the colors less accurately and slightly duller) and very minor banding that is only visible at very high magnification. Vuescan software allows IT8 profiling, and works on systems newer than XP, which neither Lasersoft Silverfast nor the Minolta software do. Silverfast, though quite expensive in its full-featured version, works very well with this scanner, eliminating what little banding the machine generates, and rendering the smallest and darkest details accurately and beautifully. The improvement over the original software is only noticeable for difficult images at high magnification, but it takes the 5400 from excellent to "drum scanner quality."
This scanner's weakest feature is focus falloff, where parts of the image are out of focus because the film doesn't sit flat. This is a problem with most negatives and older mounted slides, and is, obviously the reason drum scanners and Imacons bend film to counteract its curling. (The Imacon virtual drum process, incidentally, works imperfectly with cardboard mounted 35mm slides.) At the Minolta's 5400dpi resolution, this focus falloff is noticeable at high magnification, though it is more grain than image detail which is lost.
With images for which this amount of focus falloff would be unacceptable, you need a workaround. You can scan the image twice on the 5400II using point autofocus, focusing first at a point near the center, next near the edge. The two scans can be auto-aligned in Photoshop and then the out-of-focus zones from each of the two scans removed. Scans from the 5400 are consistent enough in both alignment and exposure to make this possible without leaving artifacts. There will probably be a sufficiently large zone where both scans are in focus to be able to simplifiy this process with a mask. It's a fuss, but you get drum-scanner quality scans without having to put your film through the traumas of drum scanning and you get to do it all for the price of a small handful of drum-scans and a lot of late nights with the 5400.
13 Jul, 2016
Perfect replacement part for Parker Duofold pens.
It's an exact reproduction of the original pressure plate, and got my 1926 Big Red writing like new again.