If you like your SS4000, you will love the 5400. If you are evaluating scans done by others, you should take that into consideration. Scan quality depends a lot on an operator's skill. With my 5400dpi scans, I can crop aggressively and still make 13x19" prints at 300ppi without upsampling. For well exposed slides, I find adjusting the exposure unnecessary, but it is very handy with some slides. Unfortunately, they both suffer a very shallow DOF, and I have developed a rather tedious workflow to get the sharpest scans on the 5400, as described in the following thread.īoth the 5400 and the Coolscans offer hw exposure control, which Rob Landry accurately described. Unlike the SS4000, both the 5400 and Coolscans offer AF and MF focus points. If you intend to evaluate scans with a test image, make sure that your test image includes some highlight areas against a deep shadow background. This is the primary reason why I chose the 5400. The flares on the SS4000 described below drove me crazy, but are almost unnoticeable on the 5400 scans. I therefore attribute the improvements to the 5400's hw capabilities. On both scanners, I scan raw using the native sw without any corrections done at the scanners. My 5400 scans have no offensive flares, have better deep shadow details, more accurate colors, with less noise and are sharper. In a nutshell, my 5400 Kodachrome and Fujichrome scans are far better than my SS4000 scans. I posted my experience of upgrading from a Polaroid SS4000 to a KM DSE 5400 (original), and why I chose it over the Nikon Coolscans in the following thread.
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