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At the price I found this one ( 81.98 delivered in excellent condition ) I'm very happy with it . Much better for slides than negatives ( as expected ) . Scanning slides and negatives is far more problematical than print scanning . If you have a number of slides you need to do decent scans of fairly quickly , and can find one of these at a good price , I'd recommend it . On black and white negatives, highlights ( dense areas of negative ) tend to wash out, and don't know of any way to correct for this . Haven't been able to get very satisfactory results with some of my color negatives either . On 35mm slides I'd try scanning at only around 1800 . The file size is much more manageable ; and , although I'm reasonably critical about image quality , I don't find that there's much more useful information to be obtained by scans of enormous size . The included SilverFast software is satisfactory for scanning , but definitely should have Photoshop for follow-up ( auto contrast & auto levels often provide instant gratification ). Scratches , dust spots & other discoloration often require extensive retouching, of course ; if there's an easier way of dealing with this , I haven't found it , although there's an old Polaroid program that's highly recommended and virtually unobtainable . I believe some other scanners do include additional software that may help with dust problems , but don't know how well they work . In summary , I'm sure a fabulously expensive pro-quality film scanner would give superior results ;but, for scanning 35mm slides at a budget price , the Plustek is quick and easy to operate ( slides pop easily into the 4 slide mounting bracket )and provides very decent results - particularly if you can follow up with Photoshop contrast & color adjustment .Read full review
I have used this unit to scan thousands of slides. The initial setup took time in finding the right driver on-line. The key is to find the correct driver on the Plustek site that matches the serial number of your unit. If the driver does not match your serial number, the unit appears completely dead even if it looks the same as any other 7200. The scan software application I used was :Vuescan". An excellent software product in my opinion. The Plustek scanner is well built and a good design. Worth it if you have slides or negatives.
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This scanner is actually very difficult to use - why? Because you need to find the correct drivers from the website - and there are three drivers you need to try - although my S/N starts at 5A15 but I actually need a 5A11 driver! The silverfast update also took me a while because I am the second owner of this scanner and I need to call the silverfast company to register the update! It took me 5 hours to just get this scanner working. This scanner does scan a very high resolution image from 35mm negative. However, I realized unless I am scanning slide film, the resolution to 3600 dpi is definitely enough! And slide film basically only provide 5400 dpi resolution! This scanner is very slow. Scanning a 3600 dpi image will take it about 20 minutes. It does not have a very advance modern exposure and white balance function. I would go for a Canon 9000F scanner - its much faster and easier to use although its a flatbed scanner - the image definitely looks the same/better with Plustek OpticFilm 7200. If you don't shoot slide films, get a 20 to 30 dollars film scanner is enough.Read full review
Actually it is an 8200i scanner! I bought this scanner so that I could digitize all of my 35mm slides and negatives that I had prior to digital cameras, so that I can pass these along to my children. It works very well, although the documentation could have done a little bit more hand-holding. I have done hundreds and hundreds of slides by both the semi-auto and manual processes; it just depended how degraded the image was. If your results weren't as desired with the semi-auto method, it is easy to switch to the manual process. I have brought many slides back from the dead. The scanner only comes with one slide holder (4 slides), and one negative holder (up to a six picture strip), so I bought 2 more of each to speed up the process as I have thirty years of slides and negatives (I was an avid amateur). My only wish is for this to be a faster process as it takes about 90 seconds to scan at 3600 dpi. I did my research and since I wanted these images to be passed down through the family because my one of my gripes is that I have few pictures of my ancestors, I picked the scanner that had the best price/benefit ratio without taking out a second mortgage. All of the other scanner that I looked at seemed plastic, shoddy and the opposite of sturdy. This unit looks and feels like it would withstand a lot of abuse. Glad I purchased it, without a doubt. Thanks PlustekRead full review
Great value for the money... Much easier and faster than my Nikon coolscan, a 2054 x 1360 scan for cataloging my film and slides takes about 1 minute per frame. SilverFast AI studio software is easy to learn, and you quickly get consistent results. A max resolution multi-pass scan with dust and scratch removal takes several minutes, but that's a process you save for the couple of shots per roll that you really want to show off. Not perfect, but very capable for the price. Able to output 10k dpi resolution equivalent scans with nice looking results (very slow though). Much cheaper than sending my 6k frames of film off to be scanned at $.50 a frame!