Though OpticFilm i SE is not a stand-alone scanner, it provides great option to scan film and slide and produce great result with its advanced technology. The resolution can go up to dpi and the output format is JPEG. The scanning speed is absolutely fast which takes up to 2 seconds while the preview speed can take only up to 0. Though it is not recommended for big project scanning, the features this scanner have is a great value for money. If you have a large number of 35mm slides and 35mm film negatives that you want to turn into digital photos, these are all great options that will provide what you need.
These slide and film scanner reviews should be a great way for you to determine the kind of machine that you want and that you are able to afford. Now you will be able to take all of those memoirs that you had stored in boxes and upload them to your computer, website or social media pages.
We recommend that you invest on the best quality you can find if you have a large collection of slides or films that need to be converted to a digital format. Please guide me to purchase a film scanner which can be used professionally without hampering the quality of the scanned output to even the slightest.
It should automatically remove the dust and scratches of the original and give a sharp and vivid output to the fullest satisfaction of the customer. I would like to use it for business purpose. Kindly also let me know the price of the same. The Epson have Digital Ice which is created to remove dust and scratches.
Use a drum scanner. Find a big room to put it in, and spend a lot of time learning how to use it. Used, expect to pay several thousand and make sure it works before purchase. Imacon are marketed as drum scanners. They are not. Epson V whatever, Nikon coolscan, Plustek are not professional devices. They barely get above optical dpi and 3. Fine for home use, not for professional results. Gosh Joe, we have All done with Nikon Coolscans. Everything in this list and your suggestions is utterly trash.
I sold my V3xx and bought the V, and boy was I ticked off when the images looked the same!! The Nikons were so good that they appreciated in value more than twice inflation.
You have a better chance of seeing God than finding one of these models, parts-complete in the original box. The reason why junk scanners sell is because almost no one alive remembers what a slide through a projector looks like compared to a JPEG on a monitor.
A 4K monitor? More like 4, times worse than seeing a real slide in person. Drum scanners? Thanks, Harold for the real life what scanner to buy tip! Some of these comments make my head spin. Would your suggestions of the Epson v or Epson v be the same for scanning old slides and negatives in museum collections? We have a large number of slides and negatives we need to scan to digital that are in our collections, several from long term archaeological projects done in the s to s.
Most of slide film used was Kodachrome. We will be scanning to a new iMac. The Epson v, V or V are great for scanning tons of old slides and film negatives. What I like about the Epson is its Digital Ice technology which automatically removes dust, hair, scratches or other obstructions.
The PowerSlide is also good option only for 35mm slide scanning. It can scan slide by batch up to 50 slides nonstop at a time. It depends on what you mean by large number. You will not get dust removal so you will need to unmount the slides and clean them. It might take a week to unmount and clean slides. Only silverfast studio AI has dust and scratch removal for kodachrome. Also Kodachrome images will come out blueish unless you use an IT8 target for color.
I would spend a week unmounting the slides and cleaning them and then use the dust and scratch removal in photoshop to fix the rest. I have already scanned multiple thousands of 35mm slide scans using a flatbed photo scanner no longer available HP Scanjet G that was many times faster than the work you describe and more than met the needs of my customers.
You might have to actually learn some stuff. Hi, I have the Epson v to scan my 35 mm negatives. Is there a device that does such a thing? Do you mean previewing the negatives? Try the Loupe Magnifiers. Hi, I use the V also. I guess it might be useful if you have hundreds of 35mm negs like I do. I just look with a loupe on my lightbox and then scan the strip on the V and keep the ones I like.
My job: present each family member a CD with pictures and history. Is there a scanner or process that would make this easier? Any thoughts on which scanner or software that would help me save our family history as Dad intended?
Thank you so much. It is actually the software that can append those captions. You can do the caption through Photoshop. I have a chance to pick up the Nikon at a fair price. Thank you. The Epson V is rather advanced than the Nikon Coolscan. The Epson V is not just a film and slide scanner but also a photo and document scanner. Though both use Digital Ice which is a great feature for fixing those scratches on images. Is there a special insert for metal slide jackets that I can order or do I have to remove each slide from the metal jacket?
I also have inherited thousands of slides in jackets and magazines. Above reply mentions removing the jackets which appears to be a tedious exercise. Any suggestions on how to do it? Whats the real difference in the V and the F? I mean money is not the issue however the resolutions seem about the same. I am going to do a family project of 1, of photos and want the best quality. I was thinking of the FF but that idea is blown out of the water because most photos are in a folder.
The Epson v and v have superb image quality output. What I like about these scanners is its digital ice features which detects and corrects scratches and removes dust on photos. However using the digital ice makes the scanning slow.
On the other hand, the F Mark II is also great scanner. It is simple and easy to use. However the scans are not that excellent but not bad either. In terms of energy efficiency, there is an Epson v which is Energy Star Certified. I have Windows 10 on my laptop. Any advice would be appreciated.
What I would recommend is to debug. Uninstall the drivers and try to install it one by one. I have no conflicts between two drivers installed on the same OS. Thanks for that. Maybe it was just a HP thing. I just tried and returned the Jumbl 22MP. I got it to replace an older Jumbl 5 MP, hoping for better resolution. The new Jumbl often got colors badly wrong — yellow or green in excess. The older Jumbl scanned the same negatives without problems.
The 5MP Jumbl is fast and easy. The Jumble 22MP was a disappointment — perhaps I just got a bad unit. I have an old Konica-Minolta Dimage scanner, however that software is no longer supported and does not work in Windows.
It is also a very slow slide scanner. Have you tried to clean the lens of Jumbl 22MP or the films you want to scan? You can preview the image first and adjust the color and exposure. Regarding with batch slide scanning, the PowerSlide is a good option while Wolverine F2D Mighty 20MP 7-in-1 or is a good for fast 35mm film scanning. I usually choose the autofeed scanners rather than flatbed when scanning hundreds of films. Is there another scanner that will do batch? You will be amazed by its scanning speed but the output is not good.
I use the autofeed scanners when scanning multiple films and slides. The PowerSlide is by far the best option for batch scanning. Can you recommend a stand alone scanner for photos? I am trying to digitize a photo collection for my hometown Historical Society and would like higher res stand alone photo scanning on site that I can clean up later on my computer.
Hi, I will be starting a project of scanning thousands of family 35mm negatives and slides. I am in the market for a high end scanner that has an output that allows for image manipulation in Adobe CC. Should I be looking for a scanner that produces RAW files?
What would you suggest? Do you need fast scanning method or just the typical flatbed or auto fed scanners? This limits you to a few options. Plustek makes OK scanners, the Pacific Image PrimeFilmXA is a few notches higher output—it deals with darker slides better and has adjustable focus. Upgrade to silverfast AI studio. It makes a difference in output as it allows focusing for the Pacific Image and also produces high bit raw files.
Get your negatives perfectly flat. Lay heavy books on top of them for several weeks to flatten the film. Sort your slides by type-kodachrome, ektachrome, fujichrome, etc.
Buy an IT8 target slide for better color-and use the auto calibrate function in Silverfast. Each particular scanner will produce slightly different color. DO not use infrared dust removal for kodachrome slides-it does not work properly.
Buy a fast computer with a large SSD drive. Silverfast produces very large RAW files mbmb a piece. I have , lots, maybe thousands of photos and negatives, and some slides that I want to digitize. I am not too concern about resolution. Enough for uploading to Facebook or view online. Speed is of the essence, or my key concern. I think I probably have negatives for my print photos. Hence, if I can get something that can scan negatives and slides quickly, that is good enough for me. Ideally something that can feed negative strips quickly.
If that can load on its own in batches without me watching over it, all the more better. I have read the above reviews quickly but am unsure which meets the above criteria. Thanks for any advice. Both are fast scanners. I would like to have a scanner which produces good colours and is fast, which one would you recommend? However, there is also options to adjust color and exposure like the Jumbl 22MP.
On the other hand, beautiful scanned images are not created just through scanning directly but there are software to optimize the color, saturation, exposure etc. So much choice and so many mixed reviews! I have Windows 10 now. The Epson v is a great choice if you want it to be connected to your computer. However, if you want a stand alone that requires no computer connection, the Jumbl 22MP or Wolverine F2D are the best, for entry to mid level at least.
It is brand new — never used. Do you know anything about it? I am using a 64mb SC card but it keeps telling me the memory card is full when the card is empty.
I even tried reformatting it. Also do you know where I can get technical support since it is an older product? Do you mean SD card? And where did you buy the scanner?
Go for the Epson V It has an excellent resolution and can accommodate for that size. If you have that much of negatives, I say scan at a time. The V requires that I snip the roll into short strips, scanning I guess 6 frames each time, and then have film strips instead of a roll. That is labor intensive, slow, and undesirable results of possibly having the strips out of order. Once you've got your scanner working, you may find yourself with the urge to start shooting film again; check out our guide to the best film to buy.
We've also got a guide to the best film cameras around too if you need a new SLR or large-format camera. There's a huge used camera market and a surprising amount of know-how and expertise around classic film cameras. So what's the best film scanner? Right now, we think it's the OpticFilm from film scanning expert Plustek: it extracts phenomenal levels of detail from your film, is backed up by excellent included scanning software, and it's sensibly priced.
We love it. If you're after something that'll scan multiple film frames automatically, though, and has the versatility to scan photo prints and documents, Epson's V Photo flatbed scanner is a great choice.
If you want something affordable and have a digital camera already, then check out the Pixl-latr. Available at a fraction of the cost of the other scanners, it provides a secure means of illuminating and holding your film so that you can scan it with a DSLR or mirrorless camera and ideally a macro lens. This is the baby of the OpticFilm range, yet it still boasts a respectable 7,dpi maximum scanning resolution.
This does however mean the is no speed demon. Even without messing with the settings, and scanning at 3,dpi, the is in a league of its own for scan quality, extracting bags of detail from our 35mm negs and transparencies.
It also lets you scan the entire film frame with no overzealous cropping. The can struggle to reveal every detail in the shadow areas of high-contrast 35mm slide positives, but this is our only nitpick. Apart from its black rather than blue finish, the OpticFilm i SE could be mistaken from its baby sibling. It's almost identical on this inside too, but that's no bad thing, as that means you're assured top-notch scanning quality, providing you're prepared to wait a while when using max dpi scanning resolution.
There's really only one key feature that separates the i SE from the , and that's its dedicated infra red scanning channel. Combined with the iSRD feature in the bundled SilverFast scanning software, any dust and scratches on your negs are automatically detected and then removed from the digital scan - clever stuff. The downside? But if you regularly scan multiple negs that are likely to need dust and scratch removal, then the i SE could be a real time-saver and worth the premium.
The price difference between the two scanners is smaller in the US, making the extra convenience of the i SE very tempting. There is also a Plustek OpticFilm i Ai available, a flagship model that adds color calibration software into the package - useful for color transparency scanning, albeit at a higher cost.
As you can see from a glance at this list, film scanning can be an expensive process. The PIxl-latr is one of the most recent devices aiming at disrupting the market; it's more a scanning-assistant device than a scanner, requiring a lightbox and a camera with a good lens in order to work. Essentially it holds your film flat against a translucent diffuser, allowing you to evenly distribute light across the film plane for a smooth, even scan.
As mentioned, a lightbox is the best choice for light source, though if you're in a tight spot pretty much anything will do, from a bedside lamp to a tablet with its screen brightness turned all the way up. Pixl-latr offers a number of 3D-printed parts for helping you get the most out of the product, such as holders designed specifically for certain sizes of slide.
You'll get best results from a macro lens, but again, if you don't have one, a decent mm will work. It's not the fastest way to scan film, and if you have a lot of rolls to process, you might want something a bit snappier. We couldn't have a list of the best film scanners without including Plustek's flagship 8-series model, the i Ai.
It looks identical to the cheaper i SE at 2 , and for the most part it is indeed the same scanner, which means you get the same clever infra-red dust detection and removal tech, as well as top-notch scanning qualiy. This packs pro-grade scanning customisation features like a bit histogram for a clearer, more true-to-life preview of scan quality. There's also an Expert Mode if you want to spend a little extra time fine tuning scan quality settings or apply protecting layers.
The Ai Studio software even includes an IT8 color calibration target to ensure colors in the digital scan preview, the scan itself and a print of that scan all match each other. Naturally, these extra features command a significant price premium over the i SE, so if you don't intend to delve into advanced scanning settings each time you wan to digitize some negs or slides, the extra outlay is tough to justify.
However, if you really want to ensure those cherished memories are scanned as perfectly as possible, and you've got the time to do the necessary fine tuning, the OpticFilm i AI could be for you. Flatbed scanners are traditionally thought of as a more versatile but less finessed alternative to a dedicated film scanner. However, the V is impressively designed to cater to film photographers. Scanning resolution can go as high as a whopping 12,dpi, but you'll likely find 3,dpi more than enough for your film stocks, producing a digitized image equivalent to around You might imagine that laying out up to a dozen 35mm film frames over the flatbed would result in fast scanning, but the V Photo still scans each frame individually — albeit automatically — and takes around one minute per frame at 3,dpi.
With such a big glass plate these devices can even handle documents and films upt to a size of DIN A3, which is 42 x 29,7 cm. The choice of large format scanners is pretty small. On our site about large format scanners we introduce such scanners and show their benefits and deficits. This site has been translated from German into English and serves for a better understanding for the English speaking visitors of our website.
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