Plustek Opticfilm 7300
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Customer Review: Best 35mm scanner (for the price)
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, It's slow but worth the wait. I left film photography several years ago to get "into" the digital era. But I missed the quality of Ilford and Kodak B&W film. Plus I have tons of Negatives laying around. As a result, I've taken my old film camera's out from storage (Nikon fe, Nikon f100) and began shooting several roles. I then decided to have most of my c41/b&w film developed at the local mini lab and scanned on a disc for digital editing... The best of both worlds I thought.
But something was missing... I soon realized that taking film to get developed by others takes the fun out AND is frequently a hit or miss experience. So I dug into my storage room and found my developing/darkroom equipment and then began to do some research on quality 35mm scanners. Plustek was the best for it's price and was recently reviewed on Shutterbug mag. The downfall... Plustek Opticfilm 7200 wasn't MAC compatible. BUT... to my surprise this new model (7300) as well as the 7500 are now MAC compatible. Fairly quick and painless to set up and get started. And yes it takes some time to scan (especially at highter res) but I'm in no hurry especially since I'm so particular of results. I totally recommend this scanner to anyone looking to digitize old 35mm film or for those creative folks that want to use both analog and digital formats. Does the trick!
Customer Review: An Amazing Film Scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
The Plustek OpticFilm 7300 is an amazing film scanner which I couldn't be happier with. I previously used a Polaroid Sprintscan 4000, which cost me way more than the Plustek and delivered much less resolution and not as good results. It also requires a SCSI port, which my newer computers don't have and which I really didn't want to bother with. I have also been using an Epson Perfection 4990, which is a good scanner but not that convenient or sharp for 35mm slides. I plan to scan lots of family slides which are stashed in metal cases and wanted something easy and relatively fast and convenient.
The Plustek with its USB 2.0 connection and incredibly nice SilverFast SE software fit my requirements perfectly. Especially terrific is the multiscan function for exposure where it first scans the slide for the bright areas, then again for the dark areas, giving you a final scan with detail in both as well as good dynamic range. You can have it do all sorts of other things so that you end up with a slide practically ready to print, or you can leave most of the work for Photoshop, which you scan directly into.
The results are clear, perfect color, with great exposure and contrast range using multiscan, fast and easy to use. It is everything that most folks would want in a film scanner. Kudos to Plustek on the 7300.
Customer Review: great
Summary: 5 Stars
this thing is great. i can't say enough about it. i took my grandmothers old negatives and created a shutterfly site with all of the pictures and shared it with the entire family. the only draw back is the time it takes to scan an image. i settled in on 18mb .tiff file output and it takes about 1 min to do each negative. to first pre-scan, adjust and then scan. that also counts the time it takes to mount the negatives in the tray. it would be nice if the tray held 8 35mm images because the negatives i have are cut in 4 image segments.
just a heads up. don't bother with the included drivers they are a waste and crash the software a lot. dl the latest stuff and start from there. i do have to say that the included silverfast software with the included film color profiles is great.
i have scaned over 3000 images and i would call this a deal at 2 or 3 times the price. it is all most priceless and i am glad i got this product. if you are considering it. go for it you will not be disappointed.
Customer Review: Excellent device at great price
Summary: 5 Stars
The Plustek Opticfilm 7300 has proven to be an excellent scanner. The software installation was a snap ans altough the instructions are a bit scattered they come together as one uses the machine. After trying four other scanners with poor results the Opticfilm has been has given me results which capture the quality of the aoriginal film image. The included software provides enough adjustments that most difficult exposures can be adjusted for acceptable results prior to scanning (and detailed fixes can then be made in photoshop). I have scanned about 700 slides with the Opticfilm ( scan times can be a bit slow depending on dpi and details selected) the results are worth the time. Anyway the scan time can be put to good use - selecting other slides for scanning or reading a good book for example. Usually I find some point of disappointment with photo electronics ( I'm an old school film photographer who began making the digital transition about 2 years ago) but the Opticfilm 7300 has performed a great job.Customer Review: Makes scanning slides easy
Summary: 5 Stars
I just received my scanner today. Wonderful. This puts flat bed scanners to scan slides to shame! I've tried several gadgets and flat bed scanners over the years to scan slides and it was a royal pain in the butt.
The setup was quite easy. After installing the drivers (the support website had the new drivers for Windows 7) I was able to use Gimp to acquire images from the scanner. I was able to scan 4 slides in about 4-5 minutes. Very easy and very quick.
I would recommend if you buy this to use Gimp or make sure to get the newer version of SilverFast if you're using Windows. The SilverFast software provided with the scanner I received didn't recognize the new drivers properly so I can't use the software. I don't care, however, as I can use Gimp to acqure the images from the device.
I am rating it 5 out of 5 beause these have dropped significantly in price and is the first scanning device that does the job on slides very well.