sucks! here goes my hope of scanning MF on a budget. i sold nikon 4000 this summer and got this instead, and it's been an excercise in frustration ever since.
the resolution (1180dpi) is ok for my purposes. but pretty much everything else is horrible. the minolta software is lousy, it does horrible job with colors (and realy screws up the green channel if you have saturated reds), vuescan is a tad better, but still, it is as true to the film as 4x6 prints from an 1hr lab are. and the scans have banding no matter how you try, so i believe this is a hardware problem. it's ok as long as you don't adjust the levels. but since there's no analog gain control in hardware, levels is the only way to adjust the final scan. anyway, it's off to ebay, and i would recommend anyone considering getting one to think again. i guess i'll be waiting for the next gen of nikon multiformat offering... mishka.
