Plustek OpticFilm 7200 7200DPI Film Scanner by Plustek
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Digital camera reviews of Plustek OpticFilm 7200 7200DPI Film Scanner
Digital camera 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!!!
Digital camera Review: Great scanner for the money
Summary: 4 Stars
Setting up the hardware was simple and straightforward. My one complaint, and I'm being picky is that the included drivers did not work with Windows Vista and actually hung the machine when the CD autoran. I was eventually able to get them off of the website (be careful, there are different revisions as per the hardware serial number) and install.
Using the basic functions of the machine was easy enough, but there are enough functions in the software that if you want to really have great scans you'll have to jump on a steep and fairly intuitive learning curve, or read the instructions(!).
Overall, I'm happy with my purchase and am enjoying the slides I have my mother and grandfather scanning and tagging for future generations of our families.
Digital camera Review: Great value
Summary: 5 Stars
this scanner is easy to use and the software is easy to install and use as well....out of the box and scanning slides in 20 minutes!!! i have scanned over 800 slides in 3 days and is working very well!!!!Digital camera Review: High quality images but bad color reproduction
Summary: 2 Stars
I have had this scanner for about two years. I bought it when I started doing film photography as part of a class I was taking at a local college. I had many slides from class, mostly Fujifilm Velvia 100 taken with a Nikon N90 and a Voigtlander Bessa R3M.
The 7200DPI resolution of this scanner is very high. It is almost overkill with 35mm film. The quickscan option is nice and fast and once you get the hang of centering the slides the workflow is quick. Auto crop is pretty much hit or miss, many of my slides were missing detail on the edges. The silverfast software is not as good. The user interface has a pretty high learning curve. Even after playing with it for endless hours, I still can't get it to do anything I want and the scans look as same as the quickscan option.
Mostly, I just want an image file that looks like what my slide looks like. I figured with undamaged perfect slides, this should be no problem. No setting I tried with either quickscan or silverfast could make these images look like they do on the light table. Either the software or the scanner has a problem with proper color reproduction. I would give this three stars except that none of the software is compatible with Mac, which is where I do all of my digital photography (I bought my mac after I bought the scanner).
My biggest problem with this scanner, which is causing me to replace it, is the color reproduction. I have fresh slides straight from the E6 developer down the street and the scanned colors are WRONG. This scanner, by default, produces warm toned poorly saturated scans. Fujifilm Velvia is a very vivid colored transparency film. It looks gorgeous on the light table, yet garbage when scanned. After many tries with this scanner, I'm just gonna give up and buy something else.
Digital camera Review: How does it work?
Summary: 3 Stars
I find the instructions on how to set up the machine and how to make it work totally inadequate. It looks like it will do the job I want done but am having real trouble making it work.