Plustek OpticFilm 8100 - Reviews
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28.4.2018
More or less immediately on receiving the item, I was straight into getting it connected and fired up. It took a protracted phone call to the Silverfast Helpdesk (in Germany) to work out registration and get it working.For any Mac users, it isn't necessary to use the Plustek software. It's all managed from the Silverfast software. I've been uploading negs via my iMac into Pictures for editing, then transferring the finished article to my NAS external hard drive. It's possible to scan up to 600dpi which makes for a slow upload, but worth it for the higher resolution. The onboard editing suite is a tad tricky to get used to, so I just uploaded and used the editing software I already have.All said and done,
23.5.2019
I bought this because I was fed up with scanning B&W negs on my old Epson flatbed, which was painfully slow and difficult to keep dust free and almost enough to make me abandon my beloved film cameras. The Plustek is a game changer, it was up and running on my Windows 10 PC in less than 10 minutes out of the box and produces very high quality scans. The software is heavily populated with video clips to help you learn how to use it, but I found everything very intuitive and you can make it easy or complex, up to you. The whole thing is light and portable and comes in a nifty zip up bag, so with this, a changing bag and a laptop I've essentially got a portable darkroom I can take on holiday (as long as I don't try and fly with bottles of suspicious liquids...)
18.3.2018
I recently bought one of these because of the limitations of my ageing flatbed scanner. It's a nice piece of kit, solid and well made and the scans are probably about as good as is possible from my old negatives.However, the Silverfast software is troublesome to set up and understand and I found that on my 4K monitor the fonts used were so small that I could only see them with a magnifying glass ! The only solution (since I already had magnification set to 200%) was to reduce screen resolution to 1920 x 1080 while using the scanner. Also note that the scanner only has manual transport of the trays so you have to push them through to scan each image.Scan time is fairly quick and after a bit of
23.3.2018
This scanner can out resolve any known film and has greater dynamic range, so everything on the film is going to be captured. The advantage of oversampling like this is that any slight quality loss due to colour correction, cropping or rotating will be invisible. Images can be downsized after processing.The colour rendering of film is not very good, so to be able to colour balance in the digital domain is very useful.The only penalty of a true scanner is that a scan takes a bit of time. Given the results, it's worth it.
23.4.2020
With several thousand slides to copy and countless film negatives we needed a quality and efficient means of digitising old film media. The Plustec Optic-Film 8100 came recommended by Digital Camera World within an article reviewing similar scanners. It does not disappoint. It was a touch frustrating to set up as the software with the scanner was dated however a download worked fine. It is an ideal project under lockdown permanently connected to the computer. We have yet to explore the full features of the bundles software.
24.1.2018
Just replaced my old 7600i + SilverFast6.6 with this 8100 + SilverFast 8. What an improvement! The new software needed some re-learning, but once sussed is easy to use and more flexible than the 6.6. Colour slides and negatives come out very well, thus minimising the need for PhotoScape or the like. I've not yet tried my monochrome negs, but don't anticipate any problems.
17.8.2016
Does what it says on the tin. A bit slow at high resolution but gives good results. I wouldn't want to use it to do a whole large collection, life is too short, but for special images it's very good. The colour setting software for negative films is excellent. So much better than the rubbish 5mp stuff floating about.
2.7.2020
A really good product. Software however did not work and I had to find downloadable versions on the Internet. Worked fine after about an hour of fiddling about.It quick to scan and easy to load. Watch the help videos available for each section - they helped me.
21.3.2018
This is an excellent slide scanner, I had a slight difficulty in getting it set up on my MacBook , but after downloading the latest Silverfast driver it is now working perfectly , very easy to use as it takes you through all the steps needed.
7.3.2018
Good software but it does take a few minutes to get to grips with but workflow principle is great help. Lots of tweaks but you probably need a photo editor for final finishing and restoration. Great value for money.
30.11.2018
Excellent scanner giving accurate colours ! I am very happy (and will be even more when the Quickscan function will allow me to do settings...).
20.5.2020
This does what it says on the box! It’s compact and good value. I only use the basic functions and edit on more sophisticated programs.
24.6.2020
A great negative scanner, easy to use and can scan at 7200 dpi. Highly recommended
1.4.2020
very easy to set up, comes with excellent software ...a good buy
11.9.2017
All good with great sharp results