Minolta, until 2003, was alongside Canon and Nikon one of the world’s biggest camera manufacturers as well as one of the oldest camera manufacturers in Japan.
Already founded in 1928, the later brand name Minolta, which stands for mechanism, instruments, optic and lenses, merged with Tashima (which was the last name of the company’s founder).
In 2003, Minolta Co., Ltd. merged with the Konica Corporation, out of which the company Konica Minolta later originated.
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Alongside digital and DSLR cameras, copy and printer systems as well as color and light measuring devices, Minolta also produced film scanners. SilverFast supports a wide variety of these devices and its unique features improve the hardware’s scope and efficiency.
SilverFast offers in-house designs that ensure that some Minolta scanner models can even be used with current operating systems.
Does SilverFast represent a valuable alternative to the Minolta DiMAGE Scan software? […] SilverFast is a very good, reliable, well designed, complete scanning software. It makes the scanning process both easy and fun. It is equally suited for the novice as well as for the expert user. It will be very easy to get near-perfect images even on your first attempts.
SilverFast is an excellent choice if you like to have an integrated approach to image editing within the scanning process. I would recommend it to users (especially novice users) who cannot / do not want to take the hassle of using the original Minolta software, which is heavily limited by its bugs and by the lack of an integrated color management approach.
BASIC, PLUS and PREMIUM editions have different sets of SilverFast feature highlights. Compare SilverFast's Scanner Software editions here.
SilverFast is adjusted to each scanner model individually. The listed scanners have been tested and are supported by our software.
Here you can ensure that your system setup meets SilverFast's minimum requirements regarding hardware and operating systems.