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| Plustek Opticfilm 7300 | 
| Brand: Plustek
Category: CE
Buy New: $239.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1529
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.6
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: A17-BBM31-C
Model: A17-BBM31-C
EAN: 4042485363542
ASIN: B000UVHI9A
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Color CCD image sensor | | • | 7200 x 7200 dpi | | • | IBM Compatible PC, with Pentium III or faster CPU or Macs with PPC G4, PPC G5 or Intel CPU |
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Product Description
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.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!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 great little scanner October 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
after 2 weeks and over 700 negatives and slides scanned i find very little to complain about with this scanner. i am using this under osx leopard and have not tried the windows software.
pros - depending on the quality of the negatives or slides the results can be absolutely amazing. some well preserved slides i scanned, kodak of unknown film type, at 1200 dpi produce 1.3 megabyte files of approximately 7.1 megapixles - 3320x2240 pixels. color saturation and replication was excellent using the default settings. color negatives from kodak gold 200 also scanned excellent using the default settings. slight changes to the saturation and brightness were necessary on a few of the negatives but those were a result of the lighting when the pictures were taken. for black and white negatives the default settings for kodak tmax 400 and trix 400 work very well. the only items i have needed to change are the brightness for midtones and overall brightness depending on how the picture was exposed orginally. several negatives i scanned at 2000 dpi, both color and bw, and the size of the files grows to about 11 megabytes each, 5577x3763 pixels. still excellent quality scan, just about 3 times longer to actually scan the file. i have not used the more advanced featurse for automatic scratch removal so i cannot comment on that part of the software. if your negatives or slides have been stored in protective sleeves, the 3 hole punch style with 6 sleeves for 6 pictures each seem to have worked best for me, the results can be fantastic. a few color negatives i have tried that were loose in the packets ritz camera would return your pictures in have a had a lot of scratches on the negatives.
cons - 1. the software will not work without stamping a big DEMO text across the scans unless you register it thru the internet. this is lousy! especially as the software provided is an SE version. read Special Edition with less features than a full version. 2. user name has to be capital first letter of first name and capital first letter of last name. you cannot type your user name in all caps or all lowercase. registration fails otherwise but does not tell you why. 3. how do you this on a machine that does not have access to the internet? i.e. a dedicated workstation in an office would not be able to use it. 4. sometimes when scanning bw negatives the saturation will wig out and the displayed color will change to a purplish hue. turning the saturation setting to the lowest setting corrects this but i am not sure why it happens in the first place.
neutral - as stated by others scanning is a little slow. you will not scan your entire collection in a weekend. considering the amount of tweaking i have done on underexposed or overexposed pictures i can see automatic scanning might not be best for everyone.
final comments - on osx after the scan is complete the file is opened with preview so you can rotate it then if you need to. i would recommend this scanner to someone else who has the time, the collection, and the desire to scan a lot of negatives or slides. the only negative, pun intended, i have is the software registration - especially for an SE version of software.
Not only Mac but Windows to... July 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The "Silverfast SE plus Mac Os" inference is very misleading in the title of this scanner. After researching the model no. and checking on the Plustek Website; I rolled the dice and bought this scanner for use on a Windows Vista computer.
As I suspected; the Mac name in the title is misleading... The scanner comes with two disks. One with the scanner drivers and basic scanning software... The other with the SilverFast SE Plus... BOTH for Mac and WINDOWS... So if you are a Windows Vista, XP or 2000 user; fear not. It is supported...
The installation was straight forward. There is a mild learning curve in the use of the software. However, I haven't yet come up to full speed on using it. My initial scans have been quite good... Stay tuned...
 Good, works on a Mac, but not yet mac frendly June 13, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is the second one of these I have purchased. The first on was windows only, but didn't say so on the Amazon site. I bought it through AntOnLine via Amazon marketplace, won't do that ever again. Ant would not take the return because they said they don't take returns on things with optics. So I gave that scanner as a gift to someone who uses windows. I bought this new scanner, now Mac compatible, but NO mac instructions in the docks. The driver disc had no Mac software. I tried the Silverfast software, again no Mac instructions, but DID find a Mac instal, after really looking around on the Silverfast disc. It installed well, weird install but worked fine, and now Silverfast talks to the scanner and I can finally scan!! But just to prove the Mac software still has need to improve, there is no quit command. You need to use command Q or force quit. But it works, it works well, and that's all I really care about.
Very impressive scaner June 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This scanner is a wonderful toy. Quality of scans exceeded my expectations. Considering that my slides are of very poor quality the results I get are amazing. Your own results will depend on how well you master the software which is very powerful but not completely user friendly. I scan 4 times at resolution 7200 and use automated Dust and Scratch Removing utility which is rather easy to learn how to use. Scanning of one slide at this resolution may take up to 10 min but it worth the effort. I do preliminary trials at low resolution to accelerate the process. Main issue I have with the software - resetting parameters. Manual instructs to press ALT-"Reset All" button. Only I wish there was one there. I guess you need to pay extra to make this button visible. Overall - great scanner for the price of a digital camera.
Plustek to the Rescue May 12, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This scanner is a marvel! It arrived less than 24 hours after I'd place the
order, and it has changed my life! I'd struggled with terrible name-brand
flat-bed scanners for years [they produced terrible noise in the shadows and
were dead-slow at resolutions above 200dpi] in my efforts to digitalize a
collection of many thousands of treasured 35mm slides dating back 50 years.
Not only is this scanner incredibly fast compared to the my old ones, but it
does a triple pass for every slide, then averages the results to produce
images that are beautiful and have no noise in the shadows. I've succeeded
in making wonderful pictures from slides that were terrible! One set, very
important to family memories, taken in 1969 at a special occasion, had been
unusable due to inadequate flash technique [they made everyone look like
stainless steel; i.e., no flesh tones and gleaming highlights]. Due to the
capacity to try different resolutions [up to 7200dpi] and then use the
remarkable software to achieve optimal tones, I was able to resurrect the
entire collection, with the exception of a few that had been hopelessly
underexposed. Trouble with finding the detente position for the slide carriage
reported for earlier/other models has been eliminated on this model. While I
can't just set it and walk away the way commercial processors would have to
do, I'm thoroughly delighted with this unit. Thank you, Plustek & AOL.
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