The Plustek OpticFilm 8100 ($349) is Plustek's least expensive dedicated film and slide scanner . It's also the only one without hardware-based dust and scratch removal, offering a less robust, but still welcome, software-only version instead.

Rated at 7,200 pixels-per-inch (ppi) optical resolution; Comes with SilverFast SE Plus 8, a sophisticated scan utility

Scans only one slide or frame of film at a time; Little to no automation in software; No hardware-based dust and scratch removal

Two and a half years after release of the Plustek OpticFilm 7400 a follower by the name of OpticFilm 8100 was placed on the market in February 2012. With this the 7th series, which formerly started with an OpticFilm 7200, then was replaced by the OpticFilm 7300 and finally ended at the OpticFilm...

This scanner has wonderful resolution at full power, however it will yield a bit of an unsavory file size (100+ mb's at least) so it's best to resize to a workable level in a photoshop program of your choice.

Great product. Getting the Silverfast 8 to work with the latest Mac OS took a call to Plustek. They fixed my problem. Great service nice people. Now I am scanning my large collection of 50year old slides! Great fun .

I was creating a corporate video for a 90th anniversary. The owner of the company found about 300 slides from the late 50's to the mid 70's which were unknown and never seen. We had less than a week to get them into the presentation.

Plustek's latest film scanner is a mid-range model that costs around ￡200 offering resolutions of up to 7200dpi, an improved Dmax of 3.6, multy exposure support and advanced energy saving features.

High resolution scans; Good value for money; Multi exposure feature; Bundled software is easy to use; Padded carry case

No infrared dust removal; Frames can be difficult to align properly; Drivers can be tricky to install

Very good scanner. It's quite hard to beat quality. I've been also using Flextight and quality is a bit better of course but most of cases plustek will do the job. Much much better than flat bed skanners. Wish to have medium format plustek in a bit better price.

I've just finished digitizing some of my daughter's wedding photos on color negative film. The results are really great, and since I did them at maximum resolution loo really good at 16 X 22 inch prints. The film is really clean having been kept in the processor sleeves.

My husband has purchased other slide / negative scanners in the past and found them to be low quality and unsatisfactory. However, he is 100% satisfied with the Plustek OpticFilm 8100 scanner.

No IR dust reduction. $100 less than the next model up. Perfect for B&W negatives than cannot benefit from IR dust reduction. Be aware that if you want to do Kodachrome with any scanner, you really need a Kodachrome calibration slide, which is extra.

Very good quality; Pretty good price

This scanner has many; many controls if you are not inclined to use them get a scanner that is more automatic