Discounted Plustek ST64+ Film Negative and Photo Scanner - 48 bit Color
- 16 bit Grayscale - 3200 dpi - USB
Plustek ST64+ Film Negative and Photo Scanner - 48 bit Color - 16 bit Grayscale - 3200 dpi - USB Review
Equipped with a Transparency Adaptor, high optical scanning resolution of 3200 dpi and USB 2.0 High Speed connection, the OpticPro ST64 is the perfect solution for office and professional users who need fast, high-quality scanning results.
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Plustek ST64+ Film Negative and Photo Scanner - 48 bit Color - 16 bit Grayscale - 3200 dpi - USB Feature
- USB High Speed 2.0 connection
- 5 one-touch action buttons, Copy, OCR, Power Save, E-Mail, and Custom
- Flexibility for different sizes of media, 3 film holders included, holding various sizes of negatives/slides, from a 12 x 35 mm frames
- Includes Scanner base stand
- Automatic Lock /Unlock Mechanism gives you hands-free convenience while protecting the scanner's valuable optical systemSpecifications
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Mediocre software drags this scanner way down
By rickajho
I bought this scanner for two reasons, both regarding scanning transparencies.
First, not only can it scan 35mm slides and film it comes with a transparency adapter that holds 110/120 film as well. (As well as another adapter to hold 4x6" or 5x7" transparencies. I need to scan a lot of 35mm, but there's a huge pile of 120 negatives in my family photo albums. And a dedicated 35mm only scanner just wouldn't fit the bill.
I knew a flat bed scanner that also works with transparencies would be a compromise at best, but...
Where the Plustek 64+ really loses points - as a film scanner - is from the bundled software that comes with it. Other film scanners from Plustek come bundled with some version of SilverFast to process transparency scanning and provide scratch & dust fixes, color correction for old slides etc. This scanner DOES NOT come with SilverFast software or anything remotely close to it.
Plustek provides a very "rude and crude" TWAIN scanner interface. For example, the 35mm transparency adapter can hold up to six slides at a time. The TWAIN software does not come with any pre-defined template to scan those slides into your image editing software as six separate images. Nor does the TWAIN driver auto detect separate images and automatically mask those images as separate selections. (The limited software documentation seems to imply that the software should do this, but it doesn't.) Can you batch scan six slides transfer them as separate files into the editing software of your choice? You can, but you have to manually create a mask in the TWAIN software for each slide in the transparency adapter. And have all the masks end up as a slightly different size - there is no option to "drag and copy" a mask in the TWAIN interface either. I've seen those features provided in scanners that worked in Windows 3.11 Why on earth are they missing here?
But the worst part about the TWAIN software and the enclosed "suite" of various image editing, OCR & cataloging software is the lack of any real transparency support tools. No dust removal, scratch fix, multi-scan, pre-set transparency color corrections... nothing. Well, nothing beyond very basic image editing tools that you would find in any simple photo editing program. Look at what's available in the SilverFast program - none of that is provided with this scanner. The cheapest retail version of SilverFast that works with this scanner will set you back close to 80 bucks.
In theory, one of the programs provided "Presto! ImageFolio 4" can work with Adobe Photoshop plug-ins. But all the documentation says about this feature is to "enter the directory name where the Photoshop plug-ins reside." Which version of Photoshop plug-ins...? Documentation doesn't say.
This might be a good scanner. And it is for plain old paper documents. But is it a good scanner for transparencies? You will never know if you try to use it with the provided software. Only buy it if for transparencies if you already have good software at hand or plan on shelling out money for it. Otherwise you will only get mediocre transparency results, at best. Very disappointed with the software and the results.
What's the point in putting a film & slide scanner on the market if the software provided does such a lousy job with film & slides?
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Plustek disaster
By lwebo
I should have read some reviews on this before purchase, and Amazon ought to be ashamed to sell it, even the tech guys in CA said the machine was a mistake and that they do have others that work much better, I ended up pitching it because it was more trouble than it was worth.
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