Plustek Opticfilm 7300

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 4.7 x 4.7 inches ; 3.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000UVHI9A
• Item model number: A17-BBM31-C
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 28, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

An ideal film scanner for most users including home users, photographers, small office, and even small workshops, the Plustek OpticFilm 7300 is a dedicated 7200 dpi film scanner with multi-exposure multi-sampling functions designed to bring out the best quality in photos and images. Key features of the 7300 include multi-exposure functions on negative film, built-in multi-sampling function for quality images, and high speed USB 2.0 connectivity.

Located on top of the scanner, the illuminated slide viewer provides the user with an excellent way to examine the slide before scanning. When scanning negatives, simply hold the film holder above the illuminate viewer to preview the frame to be scanned. Not only suitable for examining slides before scanning, the illuminated viewer can be the perfect helper for further digital file retouching. Two film holders are provided. One is for mounted slides, which can hold up to four mounted slides. The other is for filmstrips, which holds a piece of filmstrip--up to six frames. The 7300 comes bundled with world-class SilverFast SEPlus 6.6 ME. image editing software, its own padded carrying case, and is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Mac OS X 10.3.9 and higher including Leopard operating systems.

Product Description

High resolution film scanner now offers you with enhanced Multi-Sampling and Multi-Exposure for more quality images... The Plustek OpticFilm 7300, a dedicated 7200 dpi film scanner, now brings you a more powerful scanning device with its added Multi-Exposure for negative film and also the Multi-Sampling functions brings out the best quality on photos and images at the most affordable price. Plustek OpticFilm 7300 bundles the latest LaserSoft Imaging’s SilverFast 6.5 SEPlus (MultiExposure) software. The SilverFast 6.5 SEPlus (MultiExposure) software enhanced with powerful Multi-Exposure, Automatic Frame Detection, , SilverFast-Basic,NegaFix, Selective Color Correction, Auto Adjust, USM, plus many many more (For more information, please visit www.SilverFast.com) Plustek OpticFilm 7300 combined with SilverFast SEPlus ME makes it a perfect combination which outstand all other film scanner in the market. The most ideal film scanner for most users including home users, photographers and small office / workshop users! PLUSTEK MULTI SAMPLING To minimize noise, the Plustek multiple sampling function makes 4 scans during scan time, since the noise patterns changes each scans, the image is averaged together and noise cancel out if inconsistencies are present. See the photo below of a normal scan and Plustek MULTI SAMPLING scans.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

118 of 119 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good scanner that does the job done, January 24, 2008

By	Jay Cai "qshell" (Irvine, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been using this scanner for a couple of days now, and have scanned approx. 50 negs.

Pros: Works as promised. Installation is quick and easy. You can get the software installed and ready to work in minutes. I tried both Quick Scan and Intelliscan. If you are trying to preserve your treasured memory recorded on your negs, don't bother with Quick Scan as its result is quite poor. Intellican, together with SliveFast software, on the other hand can produce very good results. I'm now using Intelliscan exclusively to scan all my negs into digital photos. SilverFast software is powerful and feature rich. There are many switches and knobs you can turn to adjust your scan result. The build quality of this machine is also very impressive.

Cons: I consider these things minor, but they do affect user experience.
1) There are 3 Quick Start guides when you open the box, how will you know which one to go first? Well, let me document it here so everyone else can save some time. Follow the Quick Start guide for hardware and driver installation first. If you don't want to bother with Quick Scan that generates poor result, skip the guide on that. Follow the guide on SilverFast software installation guide. Once finished, you can start scanning your negs and slides using Intelliscan.
2) The learning curve for SilverFast is steep because its documentation is not very well organized. The CD does contain QuickTime movies that explain various features in the software, but there is nothing to connect them together to give you a bigger picture on the work flow that you will go through. But I still find that to be more useful than the doc.
3) The film holder is not the easiest thing to use. I wish it had "teeth" that can quickly and easily hold your neg strips in place.
4) If you plan to scan all your negs accumulated over the years in one weekend, it won't happen.

Conclusion: Overall, it's a very good machine that gets the job done. Result is good, and price is reasonable. For all the memory recorded on your early pictures, spending a bit time to preserve it is well worthwhile.

79 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best 35mm scanner (for the price), January 31, 2008

By	J. Huerta (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Yes, It's slow but worth the wait. I left film photography several years ago to get "into" the digital era. But I missed the quality of Ilford and Kodak B&W film. Plus I have tons of Negatives laying around. As a result, I've taken my old film camera's out from storage (Nikon fe, Nikon f100) and began shooting several roles. I then decided to have most of my c41/b&w film developed at the local mini lab and scanned on a disc for digital editing... The best of both worlds I thought.
But something was missing... I soon realized that taking film to get developed by others takes the fun out AND is frequently a hit or miss experience. So I dug into my storage room and found my developing/darkroom equipment and then began to do some research on quality 35mm scanners. Plustek was the best for it's price and was recently reviewed on Shutterbug mag. The downfall... Plustek Opticfilm 7200 wasn't MAC compatible. BUT... to my surprise this new model (7300) as well as the 7500 are now MAC compatible. Fairly quick and painless to set up and get started. And yes it takes some time to scan (especially at highter res) but I'm in no hurry especially since I'm so particular of results. I totally recommend this scanner to anyone looking to digitize old 35mm film or for those creative folks that want to use both analog and digital formats. Does the trick!

57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Its slow but does what it promised, February 28, 2008

By	Zeke Kelso (Boise, ID) - See all my reviews

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