Plustek OpticFilm 135i - Automatic Film & Slide Scanner, Batch converts 35mm Slides & Film Negatives, Support 3rd Party Editing Software Export, Max. 7200 dpi

My old slide converter, which is now obsolete did not produce good results. This slide converter I have found to be excellent and produces excellent photographs from my many sides taken years ago.t

Fast delivery, general functionality and build quality are good. Scanning at 3600 allows me to print very good images at A4 probaly bigger on my Canon Pro 200. Detail is good and grain is still eveident and keeps the appearence of film. It's small footprint allows me to keep it on my desk at all times so it's very convienient, it's also fast even at 7200 and only takes around five minuets to scan 6 negatives. So far it has exeeded my expectations in terms of scan quality in both colour and B&W. As yet I can't comment on the scratch and dust removal option as I havent used it. Be aware that final image quality will depend on a number of things like the quality of the negatives and understand that if you put rubbish in you will get rubbish out, I did and print results were poor otherwise with decent negatives quality paper and inks and proper operation this little box of tricks works very well.! Iv'e been a photographer for most of my life and know a good print when I see one so I'm giving them 8/10 from my office printer and 9/10 on my Pro 200. Software is basic but does the job there is no silverfast with it, something I would have liked to try, but I have PS pro and it works well with that. Cheaper models are available but this batch scanner is worth the extra money to me as I can push the button and go do something else, It's not the cheapest in the line up but so far it's delivered the goods. I shall now go and burn through some more ink and paper and hope my wife doesn't notice...

This is a super machine. Positives: Big upgrade from previous 135 in that it can do up to 7200 dpi and has an infra-red feature. (In practice, I scan at 3600 or 4000 as more gives you nothing much for a ton of extra space on your hard drive) Really good picture quality - I have compared scans on this to scans on units twice the cost and found it about as good or at worst 95% as good. Very fast. Ignore what some other fellow said here. I can scan 4 slides at 3600 dpi in 6-7 mins on batch and list scan (you need list to get it to do different file names and not confuse your filing system). Previewing would add to this about a minute or two...but considering some scanners take 7 mins for 1 slide and this is 4 slides for 7 mins, that is amazing! Plus you don't need to reload 4 different slides. Very solid slide and neg holders - you will need software to convert negs to positives without the orange cast -or be very good with curves. Very easy to use. Decent tech support (from USA) - live chat and email is better than phone, I found. Negatives Very poor quality plug with "adaptable@ Euro and Uk fit. Flimsy and dodgy. I bought my own for safety. The software you get is mediocre (but it is with most machines to be fair). I strongly suggest Vuescan, but many would suggest Silverfast. Why does the machine make the slide/neg container go all the way in and out for each slide on both scan and infra-red? Maybe a program update/new driver will make it more optimal for movement in and out for each slide - and probably knock another minute or two off of the scanning time. I use PhotoLab 4 for post processing and save on .tiff and covert to .jpeg. This gives you more control, less noise etc than .jpeg and for most scans, after post processing, you can then get rid of the .tiff and save space - if it is a very important slide or neg then keep the.tiff as well. I'd recommend previewing then cropping before the full scan - so you scan only what you want. I blower-brush the slides and then also set the infra-red to low and sometimes use the restore fading button which saves messing in post-processing. The restore color setting seems to be OTT and unnatural. I use color output on Adobe RGB as it is the most optimal. I also recommend Gerard Kingma's book, The Illustrated guide to Scanning, which is a short read but will probably save you hours of messing with some settings.

This is the fifth device I have used for scanning my large collection of slides and negatives. The first was a Canon which was great but used a SCSI interface which became obsolete (I think the light source failed at about the same time). I used a flatbed scanner for a while until one cell on the sensor failed and lift a line along the scans. I then bought a Plustek 8100 which was awkward to use because it needed the film holder to be moved manually for each frame. Then that stopped communicating with the computer so I got another flatbed scanner which worked well but then the film scanner part seemed to give up. I was reluctant to get another Plustek because of my previous experience but they seem to be the only reasonable option. I was attracted by the motor driven film holder and so far (one afternoon and about 5 films) it has worked very well. It is slightly awkward to load films that are not flat (some of mine seem to still be curved seven after being stored flat for 20 years). I would have bought another negative holder as well but they are out of stock. I have almost finished scanning all my colour negatives and I had already scanned my slides. I am looking forward to the earlier monochrome films after that. Then it is a question of whether I rescan some films that are only scanned at low resolution at the moment.

The machine works well with software supplied and scans good quality images with minimal intervention. I tried a comparison with vuescan and saw little difference. However quality of original negatives is important. I used fast film in the past and there is little improvement with this machine compared to the much cheaper scanners I have used in the past. Images are grainy and benefit little from the higher resolution.

UPDATE Januar 2025: Der Diascanner läuft auch mit Windowas 11 einwandfrei. Man muss nichts am Scanner umstellen oder einstellen. Weiterhin plug and play. Ich war im Zweifel, ob ich meine Dias von einem Anbieter digitalisieren lasse oder sie selbst digitalisiere. Die Entscheidung, selbst zu digitalisieren war dann definitiv besser. Einzuscannen hatte ich einige Kästen menes Schwiegervater aus den Ende der 50er Jahre. Und meine eigenen von 1982 bis 2000. Alles Reisebilder. Das heißt, die Belichtung ist nicht immer 100% korrekt gewesen, da es beim fotografieren auch mal schnell gehen musste. Damals war der Begriff Street Fotography noch nicht gebräuchlich. Hier leistet dann der Plustekscanner schon einiges an Vorarbeit. Mit dem intuitiven, einfachen Bildbearbeitungsprogramm kann man aus den Dias durchaus einiges rausholen. Natürlich sind die Bilder nicht digitalscharf. Dafür hat man jedoch einen sehr analogen, manchmal auch leicht nostalgischen und schönen Flair. Es gibt meiner Meinung nach zwischen der 7200er Auflösung in tif (88 MB)und der 3600er Auflösung in jpeg (8MB) keine relevanten Unterschiede. Es gibt zwei Dinge zu beachten: 1.) Die automatische Kratzer- und Staubentfernung mag bei gut erhaltenen Dias gut funktionieren. Bei uralt Dias, die zum Teil von der Farbtiefe her sehr flach sind, werden kleinere Blätter, Kies, Schriftzüge oder Augen rasch als Dreck identifiziert und entfernt. Auch bei neuen Dias sollte jedes Bild in ausreichender Vergrößerung betrachtet werden, um nachher - wenn die Originaldias weggeworfen wurden - keine bösen Überraschungen zu erleben. Die meisten der 50er Jahre Dias musste ich jedenfalls ohne automatische Staubentfernung einscannen. Aber mit Kosmetikpinsel und Puste lässt sich das Meiste entfernen. 2.) Wenn starke Kontraste vorhanden sind (zum Beispiel Sonnenuntergang mit sehr dunklem Vordergrund) wird das Bild beschnitten und der dunkle Vordergrund komplett entfernt. Es hat etwas gedauert, bis ich herausgefunden hatte, wie dies zu verhindern ist. DIe Gebrauchsanleitung für den Scanner ist eine reine Katastrophe. In den Einstellung muss die Einstellung für Röntgenaufnahmen oder so ähnlich aktiviert werden. Ganz unten im Menü - ist leicht findbar. (Ich hab jetzt nur gerade den Scanner verliehen, deshalb kann ich gerade nicht genau nachschauen). Tja, das Einscannen ist mit einigem Aufwand verbunden. Aber gerade deshalb lohnt sich - meiner Meinung nach - die Anschaffung des Scanners. Ich denke, dass bei unterschiedlich belichteten, farbverflachten, kontrastreichen Dias die Maschine eines Anbieters einfach alles automatisch durchzieht. DIe Einzelbildbearbeitung bringt wahrscheinlich nicht nur deutlich bessere Ergebnisse zustande, es bringt auch viel mehr Erinnerungen der Reisen zurück.

Il prodotto è veramente ottimo. Mi consente con estrema facilità di scannerizzare diapositive di 30-40 anni fa; è veramente un'emozione ritornare a quegli anni! L'unica cosa da migliorare, il software, che, abituato ad usare da sempre un Mac, è veramente spartano, ma con tutte le funzioni di base, facilmente gestibili anche dai neofiti. Anche se il prezzo è sensibilmente importante, lo consiglio caldamente, a chi, come me, ha centinai di diapositive e che portare in digitale e rivedere con comodità nel televisore i vostri ricordi di anni passati, veramente non ha prezzo!

J'ai redécouvert mes diapositives et mes négatifs depuis longtemps mis de côté, ce scanner est performant avec ses différentes possibilités de qualités, de formats. Le support à fermeture magnétique pour les négatifs permet à la pellicule de ne plus bouger et est simple à manipuler, idem avec le support diapositives dans un système différent. Prévoir du temps en fonction de la qualité demandée. Idéale machine à "souvenirs"... Alain.

Great little scanner. It allowed me to digitize and share boxes of negatives going all the way back to the 1970s. The scanner will do it's best to eliminate any small imperfections like dust, but scratches and larger foreign objects it can't quite handle. Make sure you at least dust the negatives before scanning them, and handle with cotton gloves to avoid fingerprints.

EPSON FS-1200WINS 以来のフィルムスキャナです。EPSON GT-X830でも取り込んでみましたが、変な黄色かぶりが部分的に生じて、取り除くことができませんでした。 画質に満足できず、5％割引のクーポンもついていたので、今しかないと思い切って5万以内で購入できました。設定で ①ハードウェアスキャン後、画像ファイルを保存 を選択 ②自動露出 にすると明るく調整しすぎるので、チェックせず ③スクラッチ&ごみの除去 はチェック ④スキャン 画面の形式 は後々の作業を考えて48ビットを選択 これでスキャンしていきました。 結果としては、黄色かぶりはネガの経年劣化のようで、あまり変わりませんでした。 元のネガが良くとれているものは割と満足できます。 今回は標準の1800dpiを選んだので、数分でスリーブ1本分の6コマを取り込むことができました。 万人向けの製品ではありませんが、たくさんネガを持っておられるなら購入しても良いと思います。 EPSON GT-X830ではカールしたネガがガラスと接触してニュートンリングが発生。裏返して読み込み左右反転させていました。その手間を考えるとこの機種はありだと思います。フィルムホルダーもしっかりしており作業が楽です。 取り込んだイメージは古いネガほど緑かぶりが強いので、SILKYPIX Developer Studio 7 で ホワイトバランス 色温度 5100K 色偏差 16 カラー 記憶色１ コントラスト 忠実 の設定で調整すると、一応満足のいく色調になりました。これを「現像パラメーターの保存」をして、複数コマを一挙に現像しています。もっと最適解を求めて挑戦してみます。