Customer Reviews

Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Ii Film Scanner

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I own one of these--bought it used in 2004--and have had nothing but success in transferring images from film to digital. Initially, I used it only on a Mac G3 as that was what the Minolta software supported. It worked fine on the G3 as most of the image processing is done in the scanner. Recently, I tried VueScan [...] and found that not only was the scanner supported, it worked like a new puppy on my iMac with Snow Leopard! OK, I used a Ratoc SCSI to firewire box Ratoc Systems FR1SX FireWire to Ultra SCSI Converter (IEEE1394), but other than that it was a simple setup.

Hardware vendors have every right to discontinue support for product software and drivers needed to support operating systems introduced many years after the hardware was discontinued. In the land of innovation, this creates an opportunity for software developers to provide solutions at a reasonable price.

The Dimage model I have is a bit earlier than this one, but I thought you'd like to know about Minolta's driver update practices. For my Dimage scanner, Minolta chooses not to update the driver from XP to Vista, effectively tuning my scanner into an $800 brick. Thanks for nothin fellas.

hello. Sorry for my bad english.
This scanner, works for 120mm too?

Thanks,
Celeste.