![]() ![]() Then I tried Silverfast, a terrible experience for me, spent days tweaking all the settings to get colour balance correct in the shadows and highlights, I never managed to get a perfect result. The first scan was a 'QuickScan' using Plustek's own software, the colour balance and exposure was spot on but the QuickScan does not have IR dust removal which I really wanted to use. The software was easy to install and I had the scanner working in a few minutes. My slides were all shot on Fuji Velvia or Kodak Ektachrome. I especially wanted to scan my collection of 35 mm unmounted transparencies, and I needed some good quality results for printing up to A3 size. The infra red dust removal works really well but you do need software that can use the IR channel. At 7200 dpi file size is huge and I could see no more image detail than the 3600 dpi scan. ![]() The scanner is very well built, there is no warm up time, it was easy to position the film and slides in the holder, resolution is excellent, the optimum for me was 3600dpi scan, a sharp slide will give a fairly sharp image which really needs a little bit of extra sharpening in Photoshop. I spent a lot of time looking at reviews, I could have got a flatbed scanner but as most of my slides and negatives are 35mm I came to the conclusion that a dedicated 35 mm film/slide scanner would have the edge on quality. The Plustek 8200i is an excellent scanner, it came with Silverfast but I'll talk about that software later. Plustek 8200i with Silverfast and VueScan
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