Hi Dean,
At this moment Minolta has only handmade versions available for demonstration at trade shows and such. There are no tests yet, as there are no serial versions available. Of course this will change soon.
I am very confident that it will be a good scanner, although with a resolution like that it will probably be suffering from the lack of a glass holder. It is like with slow films: the finer the grain, the smaller the depth of field. So film flatness will be vital with this scanner. Considering that fact that the holders are leaving space around the image area, it will even be more of an issue because that'll leave less support to keep the film flat.
The fact that they have put a device called Grain Dissolver into it is very promising, because being the maker of the
Scanhancer 5LE that uses the same principle, I know this will give a lot of improvement on film grain issues and ICE artifacts.
Cheers!
Erik
http://www.scanhancer.com
