Plustek Opticfilm 7300 by Plustek
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Digital camera reviews of Plustek Opticfilm 7300
Digital camera Review: Its slow but does what it promised
Summary: 4 Stars
The Plustek scanner has been great so far after 700 slides is working great. I use it with OS X Leopard. The photos are looking great and get a color and brightness tweak automatically. there are shortcuts you will use when you get used to it. Obviously scanning one slide at a time is going to be slow to go but the quality is extremely high and the files can be very large if you choose to save them that way.
Installing the program was a bit of a challenge, I had to register it online first before it would work.
I hope this helped someone to choose this scanner, it is really a great buy for the money
Digital camera Review: Just what I needed.
Summary: 4 Stars
I am currently scanning my slide collection to my computer. Doing the slides scanning one at a time is time consuming, but I knew that before I purchased it thanks to other folks comments. The digital result is very good. I prescan to make sure I want to save the image. The unit doesn't take up too much space on my desk top. The software that was bundled with it is a great help. Easy to install and use.
I am not so pleased with the film scanning portion. I have old film and I don't have a clue what film type, speed etc. it wants to know for each one. I have to play with it to find one that gives me the clearest image.
Digital camera Review: MAC User Review
Summary: 4 Stars
I hope this review helps out any MAC / OSX 10.5 people out there.
My criteria was to buy a decent 35mm film scanner that fell within $200 - $300. Had to be OSX compatible and create scans around 5 megs each I believe it can go up to 12 meg scans.
At first I thought I would be stuck with buying a really expensive scanner but did read some reviews of this Plustek. As others have described the instructions are lacking.
Installation.
Based on the my installation experience of the software this improved compared from the past reviews. I installed the silverfast software SE software and and started scanning within 10 minutes. I recommend that you also go to their website for the latest update. I received this in November 08 and was several revisions down. Everything went smoothly after the update.
Experience
Depending on the quality you are looking for this unit did go beyond my expectations with old 35mm film. The speed to scan is not bad. If you are using single pass. You can use up to 16 pass scans but that does take much longer (Noticed the Silverfast app would crash after first installing the sotfware. To fix this I ran disk utility to repair permissions and everything is working fine). A single pass scan take about a minute to show up on my macbook pro. Dust removal does work but really depends on how much damage was done to the film. The more damage, the more you will need to retouch using photoshop.
Finally, the filter presets for the type of film does work great. Use this!
Final Impressions
As I am writing this I dropped this down from 5 to 4 stars. For the price this is a great scanner. Works with my Macbook Pro and and does excellent scans. It is a manual feed scanner. I am taking one star away because it does not include the best documentation and the web site support is rather lacking. The Silverfast software is not as intuitive as other OS X applications but isn't too bad after getting used to it. If you have prior experience with scanning and retouching this is a great film scanner.
Digital camera 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.
Digital camera Review: Nice Product
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good product overall. I used it for couple client project to do about 1000 slides total. I would have rated 5 stars if it was not for the clunky software. For the price this is a great scanner. I would recommend.