Plustek Opticfilm 7300
by Plustek
|
List Price: Our Price: $250.00 You Save: $39.00 (13%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Category: CE See more product details |
|---|
Customers in the UK,
Buy this product at amazon.co.uk
for British Pounds
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Plustek Opticfilm 7300
Customer Review: Plustek OptiFilm 7300
Summary: 4 Stars
I like the hardware.......now. After several installs, removals, and reinstalls of the programs and drivers, I called support on day 2. I was talked through a download and install (I tried this once before) of the drivers. It was suggested that I not use the SilverFast program. I tried SilverFast again on Day 3. I couldn't get it to open the program (I DID type in the correct serial number, but it says I did not).
What I do is just use the OpticFilm drivers and programs and scan the image to a folder which I can then open in a photo editing program. If the film strips are ready to go it takes about 50-60 seconds to make an image file. Hard to believs all the scratches in 35 year old negatives. I am finding no advantage to go beyond 2400 dpi on these negatives.
Customer Review: Good at the reduced price
Summary: 4 Stars
Setup was little problem, both hardware and software. I was scanning in less than a half hour.
The included Silverfast software controller is absolutely necessary to make it produce accurate contrast and density.
The highest resolution is quite impressive with legacy Kodachromes BUT at max resolution it takes MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES to scan one slide.
So if you want to go into business converting other people's legacy film collections - this won't give you adequate throughput. But if you are converting your own legacy slides/negatives and are willing to prune your past down to the better images at this point, then this slide scanner is a cost effective solution.
In short: good results but painfully slow.
Customer Review: Works great
Summary: 4 Stars
The 7300 works great. I have a lot of old slides with dirt and scratches.
You can just set up how much definition you want, till you see the scratches, and back off.
The software is great, as one other user said :"Don't even try the quick scan" Use the silverfast software, it is great.
I did have one problem, one of the 35mm slide slots in the holder won't take a slide, something broken. I tried to write the Plustek co , to find out where I could buy another holder. No answer. I sure would like to buy a few more holders, but could not find any on internet.
As usual, once you have the unit, good luck finding any parts. That is why I gave it 4 stars intead of 5 stars.
Frank
Customer Review: A few issues, but I'd buy it again.
Summary: 4 Stars
There are a few issues, but I'd buy it again. Originally, there was a film alignment issue: the frames had a 2 degree tilt and the bottom of the image was cut off. I probably should have sent it in for warranty work, but instead took it apart and fixed it. Now it looks great. SilverFast works okay, but the scratch & dust removal feature is pretty much worthless. Plan either to upgrade to a more expensive version of SilverFast, or spend a lot of time manually removing scratches and spots. And the scanning process itself takes awhile. If I was scanning professionally, I would not be happy. But the quality of the scans themselves is very good, so for personal use and considering the price, I'd buy it again.Customer Review: Super at what it does, Good scanner
Summary: 4 Stars
I got this scanner to do some slide scanning. I wanted one that would be compatible with 64 Bit Vista...there are some of the cheaper ones out there on the market that are not compatible with it.
I still have more scanning to do, but so far I've been pleased with the results. The software that works with the scanner has a tremendous amount of flexibility (For some that would be translated as "learning curve", but I was scanning pretty quick with the unit.
One thing I did not like however, is that every time you boot up the computer it says that "silverfast" is not found. If the machine is on, this will not appear. This is only an annoyance...
Good unit overall.