Plustek OpticFilm8200iAi Film Scanner

Title : Plustek OpticFilm8200iAi Film Scanner
ASIN : B0074H6NTO
Description : Plustek OPTIC FILM 8200I AI IN 0227UK Scanners Scanners
Features :

• 0227

List Price : £439.99
Price : £347.99
Saved Price : £92.00

category: Products
brand: Plustek
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.4
Review : Plustek Good, Silverfast Bad
The scanner itself is fine. Does exactly what it says on the tin, and I have 30 years of kodachromes, velvias and negatives of various types to chomp onto the pooter. My missis doesn't quite know what my birthday present was letting her in for - middle-aged-bloke-with-a-computer-widow!

Silverfast Ai is frustrating to install. It took an hour of big-red-switches, reboots and retries before the software suddenly found the scanner. Persist with it. The interface is awful, the manual worse, but once mastered it delivers a rich set of features.

Important point to note. The colour profiles apply only to negatives - so your velvias will still contain red-faced people basking under purple-tinged skies.