I use a Minolta S404 and am quite pleased with it. One thing that may affect others however is the way the Dimage Viewer Utility works. It is quite basic, slow, and NOT twain compatible for calling from say Photoshop. Just by passing the image from the card through the utility converts the image to Srgb or Adobe and in most all cases you will notice a dramatic improvement to the picture quality. However, I use a San Disk card reader and import the jpg files straight into Photoshop where I find that I can manually adjust any image equally as well as can the Utility, perhaps better taking into consideration my own taste. I never process any photo without going to Photoshop anysways where I crop, enhance, resize, add text and effects. so the bottom line for me is that the Dimage Viewer Utility is not a drawback, but is definitely a consideration for others thinking about the Minolta line. Rick
