Plustek OpticFilm 7300 Scanner
The Plustek OpticFilm 7300 is a great negative and slide scanner for amateur photographers with plenty of features and great software.
Ease of Use, Performance: 18/25, Look & Feel: 20/25,
Features 23/25, How much I enjoy 20/25
Total: 81/100
The Plustek OpticFilm 7300 scanner is a great full featured scanner for negatives and slides that uses a compact scanner platform with slide and negative mounts. The OpticFilm 7300 comes with the full featured scanning program SilverFast SE for a great way to scan, correct and edit your scans before saving or opening in another program.
The Plustek OpticFilm 7300 comes with the scanner that is a nice compact 10.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 inches with two film mounts that are about 10.5 inches long. The negative film mount can hold negatives with up to six 35mm pictures on it and the slide mount holds 4 slides. The unit also comes with a power adapter and cable, USB cable and the software for running the scanner.
The Plustek OpticFilm 7300 comes with three separate programs for running the scanner including the scanner drivers. The first two programs are simple versions of an image manager and image editor from NewSoft called NewSoft Presto! Page Manager 7.10 and Presto! ImageFolio 4.5. These programs are pretty decent image handling software programs but not anything up to the par of Adobe’s more fully featured ones. They both do an adequate job of handling and editing your images but are not that fantastic.
The SilverFast SE program is a great and fully featured software program that integrates with the scanner and other programs such as Adobe’s Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Elements and Paint Shop Pro. The program does a great job of integrating and using TWAIN drivers to perform scanning functions and transferring images to the image editing programs. Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements worked flawlessly using the SilverFast interface and integration, I do not have Paint Shop Pro so cannot tell how that would work.