I've got a Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 which is superb (UK designation), the mark II is even better but Minolta have gone from the photographic business as said elsewhere. If you can find one though I would highly recommend it. Nikon do the Nikon Coolscan V ED and the Nikon Super Coolscan5000ED which are well thought of in UK magazines.These dedicated film scanners will give the best results, the higher the D Max the greater the range of shadow to highlight detail can be scanned and these top scanners should all be able to handle a slides contrast ok, the Minolta had the highest resolution and top D Max if I recall correctly. ICE 3 or ICE 4 are well worth having for automatic dust removal which can save hours of cloning without losing quality.
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