Review on Plustek OpticFilm 8200i SE scanner black by Adam Woods ᠌

The build quality does not cause me any complaints, the buttons play, but this does not affect anything - it's more of a design feature, not a bad build. Everything else is good. The frames are excellent compared to the Epson tablet. Scanning quality in my comparison (in ascending order): Epson tablet -> minilabs -> Plustek 8200. Its disadvantages are the common disadvantages of most filmmakers: cut film in 6 frames; scratches on the film are very noticeable compared to a flatbed (IR scanning only works with color films). I was worried about the lack of focus, but so far this has not affected the quality of the scan, although the films were stored curled. About the price. I bought it for 3000 UAH, I have an archive of about 30 color and 50 b/w films of 36 frames. If color films can be taken to a minilab with a grating heart, then black and white only on a scanner for about 7 UAH / frame (and as a scanner, some "professionals" use a tablet of the level of my Epson and even worse - I saw it myself), total 50x36x7 = 12600 UAH, scanner pays off many times over! SilverFast crashed when saving to 64bit HDRi. Its interface is clumsy - windows run into buttons, there is no way to save all your settings. When using iSRD, it saves the image in 24-bit color only. A good alternative to it is VueScan (it works, by the way, faster), but its IR cleaning works worse, and for b/w films, VueScan is the best. Addendum: SilverFast has ated 2 times already. The glitch with saving to HDRi was gone, but the program began to frequently fly out of the iSRD preview.