Product Description

Filmscanner/ CCD/ Aufl. opt: 7200x7200 dpi/ Tiefe: 48 Bit/ Dichte: 3,3 d/ USB 2.0/ Win Vista, Win XP, Win 2000

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13734 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Plustek
• Model: 7500i SE
• Released on: 2008-02-10
• Dimensions: 4.69" h x 10.71" w x 4.72" l, 3.31 pounds

Features

• System: n. spezifiziert
• Sprache: D/E
• Garantie: 24

Customer Reviews

Great Value for Money
I spent a lot of time searching the web for a scanner specifically for negatives. The older models from plustek got good reviews, and Amazon seemed the obvious choice as they Amazon have never let me down. I must admit to being nervous about ordering electronic goods via the web, but the scanner arrived in one piece. Top marks also to plustek when my adaptor failed, and when I contacted the customer support they promptly sent a new one.

The scanner itself? It works a dream, the software does take some time to get used to but compensates really nicely for scratches and dust. I also had some light damaged negatives which gave reddish tints in the uncorrected prints. The colour correction was able to remove this effect very nicely. I also scanned in some very old slides, which is also a feature of the scanner, this transformed otherwise long forgotten slides into full colour photos from the 1960s. Even negatives from 110 catridges scanned nicely, with albeit a grainy texture. Some of these photos are on flickr.com for view.

A note of caution! Do not set the resolution to full, as this will crash you computer, besides, a 70 megapixel photo is really not practicle for most people. I settle with 10-15 megapixels for 35 mm photos.

Oh, and by the way, it can be addictive, trasnforming old forgotten negatives and posting them on facebook etc!

Fast and easy to use after a few experiments
Software all loaded effortlessly (to Vista) and quick to get started. Some of the functionality is really sparsely described in the quick start sheets, so its well worth going through the pdf manual online or on the CD, which describes functionality in better details without getting overly technical.

I'm scanning 400 ASA slides (some quite old), so the high resolution is overkill for me, and I was quickly able to establish that anything over 1800 dpi was pointless so the slides scan very quickly. Infra-red dust removal works very well (much better than normal image-based algorithms)though does make the scanning a bit slower. (Note infra-red not possible for Kodachrome slides).

(Obviously I can't attest for its performance at higher dpi).

I kept getting strange results with auto-cropping so crop by hand, but this works fine. Colours seem excellent with automatic settings. If I really zoom in I do see some colour variation / graininess within the sky, but this could well be on the slide itself also.

Not in terms of scan time, but total time (prescanning, cropping, setting parameters and final scan(s)), I was doing a slide per minute without IR dust removal, and somewhere between 3 and 5 minutes per slide with IR dust removal.

Happy now to put all my old slides to digital, though with two young kids around and little spare time, this could take some time........!

Great - it does what it says
My old slide scanner died and as I had another large number of slides to copy looked at the market. The plustek range looked good with mainly good reports so picked the 7500i SE complete with Silverfast software. A good choice and am very pleased with the results of my scanning, have not lost too much of the resolution or colour in the process. despite negative reports on the Silverfast software, I have found it efficient and reliable once I had got the first few slides copied. Wish i had got one of these the first time.