Plustek OpticFilm 7200 7200DPI Film Scanner
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Customer Review: Great machine that does the job!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a winner! Intalled it and within 5 minutes, I had scanned my first slide. It was a snap. You insert the slide in the holder provided, insert the holder into the slot and push until you feel the detent. At that point, the slide is centered. Click the scan button and it's done. The lighted window on the top of the machine is just a light for you to view a slide you have in your hand. It has nothing to do with centering the slide. The slides easily insert into the holder. ALL of the slides scanned in focus. Results are fantastic.
Operation was so simple that there really isn't much to say about that here.
Here's my story: I had 900 baby pictures on slides. No prints. I thought making slides was a great idea 30 years ago. Now, mold is growing on them. Also, they take up too much room to rent a safe deposit box. I bought three different flat bed scanners and two different setups using an S.L.R. camera to take pictures of the slides. Poor quality. I had spent $1,000+ without a decent result. Finally read about the Plustek 7200. Bought it and now, in three days, I'm done digitizing ALL the slides. Go ahead mold... eat the slide because I have them all on CD's. Still have the original packing so I'm going to auction the scanner to recover most of the cost of the scanner. This is a small sturdy machine. I'm sure it'll scan thousands more slides. I am VERY HAPPY!! :-)
I sent each of my sons a copy of the CD, two in a safe deposit box and two in my home office. We'll never lose those memories. Thank you Plustek I am soooo happy!!!
Customer Review: Extremely useful product
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm delighted with this purchase even though I'm aghast to see that it went up nearly a hundred dollars since I bought it last summer. I thought electronics were supposed to be going down in price! But never mind that, I'm not reviewing the price but the product and it is good. I ended up installing a lot of software that I didn't end up using because I wasn't sure about the software interdependencies but once that was all done, I got to work and was soon successfully scanning away. Even though you must (natch) scan each slide individually, you develop a rhythm and it is quite possible to multitask on small things or play spider solitaire whilst working. I ended up scanning nearly 1200 slides and it took me approximately 16 hours (on and off over the course of several days). There was such joy in seeing 50-year-old slides come to life! I messed up a couple of times and put a slide in backwards. Not to worry. You can correct that sort of thing with the viewing software and also rotate those pesky sideways pictures. This was a pricey item, even before the price hike, but I've already got folks lining up to borrow it so I think that it will have been a worthwhile investment (I work on the barter system - a bottle of wine or some cookies in trade). Another thing that mattered to me: I have a pretty crowded desktop and it doesn't take up a lot of space. Plus it makes cool sounds that baffle the cat.Customer Review: Excellent choice for it's purpose
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a tremendous number of black-and-white negatives that I needed turned into prints (the original photos are long gone), but needed to stay within a budget. My seven-year-old Microtek flatbed scanner still runs great for documents and photos, and I tried using the slide/negative adapter, but at 600 dpi, the results were much less than what I require. I bought the Plustek Opticfilm 7200 and am quite pleased with the resolution, the ease of use and the software. At 7200 dpi, it shows a slight graininess (not unlike using Kodak Tri-X film) but nothing worth worrying about. The software shows options for higher resolutions (at a very high price of disk space), but I haven't tried them yet. The software is designed specifically for the purpose of processing transparencies and has yielded far better results than scanning negatives with my flatbed and reversing them to positive using Photoshop Elements. If there is a downside to this scanner, it is probably the limitations of media size; I could not scan my 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" negatives with it, and I would have to make a special holder for my old 126 and 127 film size negatives to fit the slide holder. Other scanners costing more that $1000 may have better end results, but for the money and for my purposes, this is perfect.Customer Review: Inexpensive Easy to use scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my first slide and color negative scanner. Though i have used scanners for documents and pictures since the days of the 80286, I had no idea what to buy to catalog over 50 years of family slides and negatives.
For the price, this scanner did exactly what I wanted, was easy to learn to use. You can scan four slides, or one strip of negatives. You must advance the slides manually for each scan, but the included film holders let you preload. It comes with three pieces of software, once, which i have learned is one of the best named Silverfast SE. This is a fully licensed copy, and I was able to download a software update immediately after registering the included serial number.
Prescanning at a low resolution is quite fast. Editing is simple once you master a workflow. I can scan about 30 to 40 slides in about 40-60 minutes. Once you decide on a specific slide to do a full detail scan on for image enhancement and repair, a scan can easily last 4 minutes for a 7200 DPI (optical) scan. Interpolation allows even higher dpi, though i can't imagine that being necessary.
I was able to use the included twain drive with PaintShop Pro, and their is an included plugin for Photoshop users.
I highly recommend this scanner.
Customer Review: Product performed as indicated
Summary: 5 Stars
After looking at having slides converted into digital images and found the cost to be 25 cents to $1.50 each, purchasing a machine and investing my time was the way to go. I have some 3000 plus slides to convert so I did a little investigating and the Plustek 7200 was a middle of the road product and reasonably priced. Upon receipt, I started to scan slides and have completed about 800 so far and the results have been very acceptable. Some of the slides are very old and the original quality is not so good. Some are very dirty which the scanner picks up. The preview feature helps so that you can clean and re-preview prior to making the final scan. The installation was straight forward and I was up and running in a very short period of time. I have not played around with the many additional software applications provided so I have no feedback on those. The basic slide contract and brightness adjustments and cropping features work very easy and do a level of quality I was looking for. Having never used the more expensive tools in this category I don't have a comparison. If you are looking to save the family slides to digital images and that is your main objective then I would say that this machine works as the manufacturer indicates. good basic slide scanner.