thinking of buying a film scanner that can produce relatively good result so anyone mind telling me what brand to buy?? is my budget 500 dollars enough to get one that work reasonably well?

-- Allan (allan9@pacific.net.sg), October 29, 2003

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Whew...here I am for the first time in ages, and this question pops up (That's what I get for old-fashioned "surfing").

I recently (a week ago) bought a Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400, which at the moment is the highest-resolution (5400dpi, hence the model designation) 35mm desktop scanner available. The scanner has too many useful features to list here, but it's enough to say that, at a street price as low as US$800, this scanner will be at or near the top of the heap for serious - or even frivolous - 35mm scanning work.

-- Barrett Benton (bwbenton@bellatlantic.net), November 06, 2003.