Professional mode will do that, but you have to know what you're doing to use Professional mode. In its Basic mode, it can be simple to use, too, but that won't let you tap into powerful options like profiling the scanner, applying negative profiles and using multiexposure to increase the dynamic range of the scan. VueScan, in contrast, does produce exceptionally good results with the OpticFilm 135. That's unfortunate because QuickScan Plus provides a very simple interface to the black art of scanning that should make it easy for even inexperienced users to digitize their film. Detail from OpticFilm 135 Plus-X scan at 3600 dpi using VueScan.
What we can confirm, however, is that it the Mac version does not produce usable results. We weren't able to test the scanner on a current Windows setup. Plustek insists the scans made by the Windows version of QuickScan Plus are acceptable. And on the other is the serious amateur who wants to turn film into digital files that make good prints. On the one hand is the amateur with a bunch of negatives and slides to digitize. So we're going to consider the OpticFilm 135 based on skill level. We've been doing it since the last century and we are still regularly frustrated (if often rewarded). There's a lot to learn before you are able to get consistently good results. But hardware alone does not a scanned image make. In fact, the scanner is capable of such high resolution that it picked up the RGB lines on our Polachrome slides. That's because on a hardware level the OpticFilm 135 delivers higher resolution scans than the typical flatbed scanner or all-in-one device. And we suggested it would behoove the company to cooperate with Hamrick on a version of VueScan compatible with the scanner. We've scanned a variety of films with it using both the company's new QuickScan Plus software and Ed Hamrick's VueScan, the only two products that can drive it.Īt their request, we've made a number of recommendations to Plustek on improving QuickScan Plus, which delivered unusable scans on Mac OS X.
We've been working with the Plustek OpticFilm 135 for five months now.
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