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: Terrible instructions - Difficult to use
Summary: 1 Stars
I have never been more disappointed with a purchase. The instructions for installation were confusing -- two different discs with no instructions as to which one to install first. I was never able to get my computer to recognize the hardware, and was never able to use the system. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, checked cables and finally have given up. Don't bother with this product! Digital camera Review: Does what I needed it to do
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw many complimentary reviews on the 7200 before I ordered it, and I've been just as pleased with mine as the folks in those reviews were. The bundeled image editing software is good enough for me as a casual user. The 7200 is not blazing fast, but it suits me as a home user. I've done about five hundred slides over the past month and am completely pleased with the performance of the scanner so far.Digital camera Review: good tech support
Summary: 5 Stars
I just purchased a model 7200 and am very pleased with it. When it arrived on a Friday I started installation late that afternoon. The CD ROM that came with the product wopuld not load. I went on line to the Plustek web site and contacted tech support. I received a message back that I would be contacted before the end of the next business day. I thought that that meant it would be Monday before I heard back from them. However about 7 PM I received a call from their tech support dept. They guided me through downloading the programs I needed from their web site even waiting while I got on line. The tech rep was very patient and made sure I understood everything I needed to do. He even stayed on the phone till I had scanned a slide sucessfully. Best Tech support I have ever had.Digital camera Review: Very dissapointing
Summary: 1 Stars
After reading all the reviews this scanner had, I was very excited to buy it. Once I received it, I tried all the options, default, auto, fixing, etc and the colors, never seemed to match with the original pictures (that I still have). I kept thinking some setting must be off. In summary: terrible color work, very good job at picking the details.
By chance, a friend of mine had just bought a scanner Epson v500, and offered to lend it to me for a few days. So I went scanning to compare, and to my big surprise, the Epson had no problems to get the right quality/color with the default settings, not tweaking required, and the same speed at 2400dpi of aprox 1min per negative, with the advantage of having up to 12 negatives scanned without human intervention vs 1 by 1 of the plustek.
Then I went comparing them with my old Epson 2400 Photo and to my surprise, the quality at 2400dpi was just as good as the v500, except a lot slower (14 min for 6 negatives).
Thanks to the awesome service of Amazon, I am able to return it and soon will be getting a v500.
Digital camera Review: Excellent but it won't run on a Mac
Summary: 4 Stars
We had been browsing for an affordable means to scan our family vacation kodachrome slides into the digital format for 4-5 years now and never quite found one -- until the Plustek Opticfilm 7200. The reviews featured on Amazon convinced me to give it a try and they were right on! Right out of the box the software loaded, the thing ran, the images were crisp and the software intuitive. Too bad we have Mac computers, though! Even the MacBook Pro with its Intel processor and rosetta software couldn't open up the Plustek drivers. I think the SilverFast would have run with a downloaded upgrade for Mac, but the scanner wasn't going to interface no-how. So we borrowed my son's big gaming computer (by AlienWare) and it set up and ran with ease. We are scanning, adjusting, naming, filing, and saving onto an external hard drive about 20 per hour. Terrific!