
Choosing the Right Scanner for Your Collection of Films and Slides
Choosing the Right Scanner for Your Collection of Films And Slides
Choosing the Right Scanner for Your Collection of Films And Slides
“I photograph the world I find myself in. That world changes every two or three years so I’m always starting again, discovering somewhere new, evolving my photographic style. I am a photographer of places, most often urban spaces.” This is how Olli Thomson describes himself. Olli has recently bought a Plustek OpticFilm 8200i SE 35mm film…
Plustek OpticFilm 8200i Ai film & slide scanner is named as “The Best Photo Scanners of 2018” by PC Magazine! We are thrilled to receive this honor, because that is four years (2015 – 2018) in a row for Plustek OpticFilm 8200i Ai to receive this prestigious award.
“Life is like a camera.
Focus on what’s important.
Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
– by Ziad K. Abdelnour from “Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics”.
“For its price, the Plustek OpticFilm 8100 is a very capable desktop film scanner. 3600ppi scans are sharp and detailed, printing well up to A3 size (depending on the quality of the originals, of course). … the Multi-Exposure feature does help you eek out a bit of extra detail from your most contrasty slides. … the OpticFilm 8100 is not the ideal tool for archiving truly large film collections but if you only need to digitise a moderate amount of slides and negatives, we have no reservations recommending it to you.”
– from the open box scanner review written by Zoltan Arva-Toth for Photography Blog.