How good are Minolta Dimage Scan Duals?

[Helios 1984]

Here's a DiMage IV lens test that I stumbled on a while back.

And here's the procedure to use it on Win 10/11.

 

[koraks]

Here's a DiMage IV lens test that I stumbled on a while back.

It pains me to see this, really. I mean, to each their own and all that. But this is just creating a market for these scanners that will be ripped apart and only the lens used. It'll destroy perfectly good scanners. Too bad.

And here's the procedure to use it on Win 10/11.

This should work; that's to say, it's how I've been doing it since Win7 and it has always worked for me (currently on Win11x64). The scanner then works with the actual Minolta software - which has always been perfectly adequate for my use. I generally scan negatives as positives with most corrections turned off, only autofocus on (that really makes a difference!!), and then do all inversion etc. manually in post processing. The scans are excellent that way, IMO.