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Title: Buy at your own peril
Review: I bought a Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan 5400 II three months ago. I've not produced a single usable scan yet. Most of the time my scanner has been in transit between my house and Minolta's Technical Service. The scans have fine parallel streaks that show up on large prints. After I posted the resulting scans on a photographer's discussion list I got e-mail from many other people who had problems with Minolta scanners. It looks like this product has a very poor quality control. After three repair attempts Minolta agreed to replace my scanner. Today they went back on their word. Someone from their service department called and told me my scanner is "as per factory specifications" and that the streaks "can only be seen at high magnifications" - as if that was not the whole point of buying a dedicated film scanner. My advice: get a Nikon. You don't want to deal with jerks.
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