It’s roughly double the girth of my 8200i (and about four times as heavy), which isn’t bad for a dual format scanner, and its aesthetics aren’t anything to turn away from either. Marketed as a scanner for both professionals and amateurs alike, the Plustek OpticFilm 120 is quite a remarkable piece of hardware. The unit feels hefty and solid like I’m dealing with a pro-level machine. I’d already achieved stellar results with my Plustek 8200i, so I figured the OpticFilm 120 would be a cut above. I looked into purchasing a Noritsu or Frontier machine, but the fear of it breaking and the scarcity of parts was just too much for me to swallow.įortunately, James was able to get his hands on a Plustek OpticFilm 120 to demo. Do-it-all scanners like the Epson v800 produce decent results, but the v800 lacks the resolution I was yearning for (at least on 35mm). Sadly, this dumped me into a rather depressing category of film shooter I was shooting too much film to justify the cost of having a lab do it, but I needed a scanner that was going to scan both 35mm and medium format film (and here’s the important part) do so at lab quality.įlatbeds were out. It worked fine for sharing images on Instagram, or just simply digitally archiving old photos, but as my shooting volume and printing requirements increased, it became clear that I was going to need a more professional-level scanner. When I returned to shooting film a few years ago, I picked up an Epson v550. But if you’re the type of shooter that’s interested in more than just sharing photos on social media or the web, then a consistent and reliable scanner is of paramount importance. It’s time consuming, and confers the same level of enjoyment as things like yard work, dusting the house, or attempting to converse with your drunk uncle at a holiday gathering at least for me, anyway. My point is that I guess it is almost impossible to help via even if you could see the issue in 30 seconds in person.By the time I’d tested the Plustek OpticFilm 120 scanner, I’d tried plenty of scanners and was pretty worn out. It was just a matter of him following instructions carefully, but he couldn't do that for some reason. I remember helping my Dad with a computer he bought about 1984. I know it is so hard to help somebody in this kind of situation. When you save it, you get the messed up look.
It does the prescan, and it looks just fine, but right at the end when the scanner goes quiet, and the decent image has just materialized, it overlays or quickly changes to that messed up look. I want to emphasize something I said in the post. As I said in my response to Charles, are those off enough to anywhere nearly cause this effect. I couldn't try and adjust that because I had to go to work this morning, but I will play with that first thing. Please help.Ĭharles, the "first responder" noted some of my slide settings are off, but I think those might have been set their automatically. If I use the setting you see here, it looks like wierd neon, and if I tell the scanner it is a positive/slide even though it is indeed a negative, the result is a very dark scan. I've tried that setting under the "General" tab, and that didn't fix it. scientist joke or some such folly.THANK YOU.īy the way, this isn't just a problem of me setting the scanner for a slide/positive versus a negative. I am indeed a novice at this but I am a mechanical engineer, and by this I just mean that if you can perhaps tell me what I might be doing wrong, I can follow directions well at least.hee hee, that could be an engineer vs. I'm hoping I have simply overlooked some simple thing. I have tried saving the file anyway and indeed the saved file is weird like this. I should probably point out that when I do the pre-scan, the image comes up looking just fine until all of the suddent this poloarized weird neon color image comes up. This example would be simply a scan of a Kodak Gold 100 negative. I am going to attach a jped of what I think is the most relevant screen. It must always be hard to convince someone you are not an idiot when you know so much that you know what you don't know, so you feel like an idiot often. BTW, I use Leica M6, 35, 40 crons, FM Nikons etc.blah, blah, blah.I actually do. This is very much a newbie digital dark room kind of problem. I experimented with it and made some fine scans and was happy for the price, but perhaps I exited a window or palette or something a long year or more ago, and I have not been able to get it to properly scan negatives since then, and I don't know what I did. My wife gave me this scanner for Christmas 2011, so it is just 2 years old now.
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