--- product_id: 68242512 title: "Plustek OpticFilm 120 Slide and Negative Scanner" brand: "plustek" price: "88849 DH" currency: MAD in_stock: true reviews_count: 4 url: https://www.desertcart.ma/products/68242512-plustek-opticfilm-120-slide-and-negative-scanner store_origin: MA region: Morocco --- # Motorised automatic film transport 5300 dpi optical resolution Built-in infrared dust & scratch detection Plustek OpticFilm 120 Slide and Negative Scanner **Brand:** plustek **Price:** 88849 DH **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🎥 Elevate your analog archive with precision and speed — don’t let your memories fade! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Plustek OpticFilm 120 Slide and Negative Scanner by plustek - **How much does it cost?** 88849 DH with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ma](https://www.desertcart.ma/products/68242512-plustek-opticfilm-120-slide-and-negative-scanner) ## Best For - plustek enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted plustek brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Pro-Level Software Included:** SilverFast Ai Studio 8 delivers advanced color calibration and multi-exposure HDR. - • **Versatile Film Compatibility:** Scan 35mm up to 120/220mm film sizes including 6x4.5 to 6x12 frames. - • **Unmatched Clarity at 5300 dpi:** Capture every grain and detail with professional-grade optical resolution. - • **Flawless Images via Infrared Dust Removal:** Say goodbye to dust and scratches with smart infrared detection. - • **Effortless Workflow with Motorised Transport:** Speed through your scanning projects with automated film feeding. ## Overview The Plustek OpticFilm 120 is a professional-grade film scanner designed for photographers and enthusiasts seeking ultra-high resolution scans up to 5300 dpi optical and 10,600 dpi input. Featuring motorised automatic film transport and built-in infrared dust and scratch detection, it supports a wide range of film formats from 35mm to 120/220mm. Bundled with SilverFast Ai Studio 8 software, it offers advanced color calibration, multi-exposure HDR scanning, and dust removal, making it a top choice for digitizing film with exceptional image quality and workflow efficiency. ## Description Product Description The OpticFilm 120 delivers professional image quality results from 35mm film strips, slides, and 120/220mm film from 6x4.5cm up to 6x12cm size. It is designed for professional photographers, advanced amateur photographers, film photo enthusiasts, photography schools and clubs. The OpticFilm 120 satisfies the film scanning requirements of advanced amateurs or professionals that require the ultimate in image quality and an ICC profiled scanning system. During the OpticFilm 120 development phase, LaserSoft Imaging with its more than 25 years of experience in digital imaging has significantly contributed to achieve the OpticFilm 120's superior quality.The outstanding image quality is assured by state of the art optical and electronic systems including an 8-element glass lens with 5,300 dpi optical resolution, high-sensitivity colour CCD with 10,600 dpi resolution, and stable light sources. Delivering an effective usable Dynamic Range of 4,01 (with SilverFast Multi-Exposure/ according to ISO 21550:2004) and a theoretically penetrable maximum density of 4.8, guaranteeing accurate colour and all highlight and shadow details. These features are what allow the OpticFilm 120 to reach a level that is so far only achieved by drum scanners.The OpticFilm 120 includes patent-pending, adjustable pitch 120mm film holders that ensure flat film for in-focus scans. Users also do not need to cut 3-frame 6x7 120 film strips. In addition, the Opticfilm 120 uses an automatic motorised film transport system that greatly increases the speed of the scanning workflow.The OpticFilm 120’s metal case provides isolation and stability for the lens, CCD and automatic transport assemblies. The rear cover design reduces the scanners overall dimensions and prevents dust from entering the scanner, which contributes to the OpticFilm 120 as being one of the most compact 120 film scanners on the market.Software plays as important role as hardware to deliver a brilliant image. The OpticFilm 120 comes with the world recognised professional film scanning software, SilverFast Ai Studio 8, with full functionality. For example, SilverFast iSRD helps dust and scratch removal and optimises images. SilverFast Multi-Exposure increases the dynamic range and reduces noise, and Auto IT8 Calibration allows easy colour calibrating in just 2 minutes, ensuring correct colouration. All in all, SilverFast Ai Studio 8 meets the highest standards, and these SilverFast software features are well-combined and perfectly-integrated with the OpticFilm 120. Box Contains Plustek OpticFilm 120 Slide and Negative Scanner Review: Poor customer service - This is an expensive scanner. Over all it does give a good scan with sharp result (if you technical enough). My problem is not so much with the scanner but with the customer service which is none existence. You might want to check out first with the Plustek website and look up service & help page. You will find that there is no UK service phone number to call, only for sale (which always on a answer machine). You have to fill out their questionnaire and wait for them to contact you, which for me it never came. Three times I have problems with it and waited for some help, none came. I finally figured it out myself but to be honest after paying out this much you would want a little more security and re-assurance. So my message is that if you buy any of Plustek goods, expect to be your own engineer too. And a message for Plustek, you need to do much better then this. Review: Scanner 3 Stars & Software Zero Stars - This is a review of the OpticFilm 120 Scanner and the bundled SilverFast Software. We photographers know that these two things have to work together, rather like knowing that photography is one part science and one part art. Since I have five stars to work with, I’m going to allocate a potential three stars to the hardware and two stars to the software. The reason is alternative high-quality scanners are hard to come by, but alternative equally-effective software is readily available. First let’s consider the hardware. The OpticFilm 120 is well built and has impressively sturdy film carriers. If fact, this is the first scanner since the Nikon units that does not look like a toy. If I compare the OpticFilm 120 to either the Minolta Elite 5400 or the OpticFilm 7600i, the OpticFilm 120 is better. The Minolta Elite 5400 did not have an infrared channel, thus could not remove dust spots as effectively as the OpticFilm 120. The OpticFilm 7600i claimed a lot of resolution, but its lens was not nearly as good as the lens in the OpticFilm 120. As Nikon proved with its scanners and as we photographers know, the lens makes or breaks the image. If I scan the same slide with all three of my scanners, the OpticFilm 120 produces the best image because it has higher real resolution and more acutance by way of edge contrast. Although the OpticFilm is called a Flagship scanner and carries a high price, it is not yet “world class”, but could be when Plustek starts using “ED” glass elements in its lens. However, to recognize that the OpticFilm 120 is the best scanner currently available that can be used with a 64 bit operating system, I will give it three out of three stars. Now, let’s consider the software. The bundled SilverFast Ai Studio 8 software makes effective use of the infrared channel and removes most of the inevitable dust softs. The software also uses an HDR like technique that is strangely labeled Multiple Exposure to extract more information from the shadow areas. We photographers are familiar with how most of the available digital tonal information is allocated to the highlights and how little digital tonal information is allocated to the shadows. We are also familiar with using HDR techniques for some scenes to either bring down highlights that are too bright or open up shadows that are too dark. Thus, in an HDR like way, to compensate for the lack of shadow tonal information the software combines one scan for the mid-tones and highlights with a second “over exposed” scan for shadow information. This produces scans with sufficient tonal information for further image refinement. The bundled SilverFast software also has a lot of automatic correction and refinement options that could be applied to your scans. Ten years ago, these refinements would have been impressive and even necessary, because we didn’t have the impressively powerful Camera Raw or Lightroom software for endless post processing options. Today, these SilverFast correction and refinement “bells-and-whistles” could be the primrose path to limiting your post processing options. We photographers are familiar with both the benefits of shooting in Raw and the limitations of shooting Jpegs. Analogously, applying the SilverFast correction and refinement options to your scans is like shooting Jpegs, because whatever refinement options you now apply to your digital scans can neither be undone nor adjusted at some later time. The software implies through its workflow that you need for such “bells-and-whistles.” In reality, such “bells-and-whistles” are not only a misdirection of our efforts but may turn out to be our worst enemy. As I tell my students, we should expect and allow for the possibility that we will become smarter, see things in our images that we just had not seen before, and want to use not-yet-available or newly improved post processing software. Analogous to shooting in Raw and to allow for such future possibility, I would prefer that SilverFast software engineers concentrate their efforts on providing a neutral scan with a high Dmax. For this infraction, I will subtract one of the potential two stars. In the world of digital photography, we photographers are familiar with the necessity of calibrating and profiling each and every device that we use. We would not even think about making color-critical decisions for our images on a monitor that is not calibrated and profiled. Thus, for the film that we want to scan we understand the necessity of calibrating the scanner with an IT8 standard based on that film. In the days of shooting film, I and every other professional photographer that I knew used Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film. Almost every publishing photographer or camera-club competition level photographer also used Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film. Incomprehensibly, SilverFast does not offer an IT8 calibration standard for Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film. This omission is like thinking that the Berlin Wall had no importance in Germany, Baroque music was not important in Italy, the Louvre has no importance in Paris, or the Smithsonian has no importance in Washington DC. Moreover, to offer IT8 calibration standards for Kodachrome and Fuji Provia with the implication that these calibration standards are sufficient for all our needs is both disingenuous and a disservice to the photographic community. It is true that IT8 calibration standards are available from other sources, notably Coloraid.de. However, SilverFast seems to have gone out of its way to make it difficult to use such essential (but non-SilverFast) calibration standards by causing the software to ignore the reference file for IT8 standards without a barcode. Although a SilverFast representative says there currently is a known issue with getting their software to recognize such reference files and that a fix will be in the next version, the overall impression is that SilverFast wants to discourage use of non-SilverFast IT8 standards presumably because it wants to have a competitive market advantage. By any logic that you care to apply, until SilverFast either offers to sell a Fuji Velvia ISO 50 IT8 calibration standard or makes it easy to use such calibration standards from other vendors, they run the risk of changing a very expensive Flagship scanner into something that is of little use and has the value of a paper weight. To borrow a line from Sir Walter Raliegh, this infraction is “In folly ripe, in reason rotten.” For this infraction, I will subtract one more of the potential two stars. ## Features - Professional high resolution motorised film scanner - Built-in infrared channel for dust and scratch detection. - Up to 10,600 dpi input and 5,300 dpi output for film and slides provides extraordinary images. - Scans 35mm film and 120/220mm film. Supports 6x4.5, 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 and 6x12 frame sizes. - Includes the professional SilverFast Ai Studio 8 software package ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B0094YCP3I | | Best Sellers Rank | 23,187 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 26 in Film Scanners | | Brand | Plustek | | Brand Name | Plustek | | Color Depth | 48 NA | | Connectivity technology | USB | | Customer Reviews | 3.7 out of 5 stars 7 Reviews | | Global Trade Identification Number | 04042485365645 | | Greyscale Depth | 281474976710656 NA | | Item Dimensions D x W x H | 57D x 44W x 39H centimetres | | Item Weight | 5700 Grams | | Light Source Type | LED | | Manufacturer | Plustek | | Media Type | Photo, Slide | | Minimum System Requirements | Windows 7 | | Model Name | Plustek OpticFilm | | Model name | Plustek OpticFilm | | Network Connectivity Technology | USB | | Optical Sensor Technology | CCD | | Paper Size | A5 | | Product dimensions | 57D x 44W x 39H centimetres | | Resolution | 5300 | | Scanner Type | Film, Photo | | Scanner type | Film, Photo | | Unit Count | 1.0 Count | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Plustek - **Colour depth:** 48 NA - **Connectivity technology:** USB - **Greyscale depth:** 281474976710656 NA - **Item weight:** 5700 Grams - **Model name:** Plustek OpticFilm - **Optical sensor technology:** CCD - **Product dimensions:** 57D x 44W x 39H centimetres - **Resolution:** 5300 - **Scanner type:** Film, Photo ## Images ![Plustek OpticFilm 120 Slide and Negative Scanner - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51KVclMSSkL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Style** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: Does this scanner work with Apple Macs?** A: See http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/plustek_opticfilm_8100.html. According to the information I can find, the software provided does not work with the Apple Mac; however, Vuescan (whose software I use anyway because it's far superior to the software supplied) claims that the scanner can be used with a Mac. I suggest you explore the website and, if necessary, contact both maufacturers. **Q: Is the 8100, 8100 SE and 8100 iAi the same scanner but with different software? I can't make sense of this.** A: Yes, I believe that is correct. I have the 8100 Ai and it comes with Silverfast 8 Ai Studio software, which I think is the top of the range - it's certainly very competent. The other versions of the software (8 and SE) are, I think, less capable. Have a look at the Silverfast website for more info... **Q: Does anybody know what sensor this scanner ueed? Thanks** A: It has a CCD colour sensor and hardware resolution is 7200 dpi. I don't know who manufactures it but if you want more information try support@ plustek. com or the Plustek website. **Q: will it scan 2/14 x 2/14" positiveslides** A: NO However Plustek do have a scanner for medium format - although it costs over £1500! But if you are talking about standard slide mounts - which are 2" square - then the holder does accept them. But the film format is 135 (or less, eg 126 or half frame) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐ Poor customer service *by T***S on 26 August 2015* This is an expensive scanner. Over all it does give a good scan with sharp result (if you technical enough). My problem is not so much with the scanner but with the customer service which is none existence. You might want to check out first with the Plustek website and look up service & help page. You will find that there is no UK service phone number to call, only for sale (which always on a answer machine). You have to fill out their questionnaire and wait for them to contact you, which for me it never came. Three times I have problems with it and waited for some help, none came. I finally figured it out myself but to be honest after paying out this much you would want a little more security and re-assurance. So my message is that if you buy any of Plustek goods, expect to be your own engineer too. And a message for Plustek, you need to do much better then this. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Scanner 3 Stars & Software Zero Stars *by J***3 on 25 May 2013* This is a review of the OpticFilm 120 Scanner and the bundled SilverFast Software. We photographers know that these two things have to work together, rather like knowing that photography is one part science and one part art. Since I have five stars to work with, I’m going to allocate a potential three stars to the hardware and two stars to the software. The reason is alternative high-quality scanners are hard to come by, but alternative equally-effective software is readily available. First let’s consider the hardware. The OpticFilm 120 is well built and has impressively sturdy film carriers. If fact, this is the first scanner since the Nikon units that does not look like a toy. If I compare the OpticFilm 120 to either the Minolta Elite 5400 or the OpticFilm 7600i, the OpticFilm 120 is better. The Minolta Elite 5400 did not have an infrared channel, thus could not remove dust spots as effectively as the OpticFilm 120. The OpticFilm 7600i claimed a lot of resolution, but its lens was not nearly as good as the lens in the OpticFilm 120. As Nikon proved with its scanners and as we photographers know, the lens makes or breaks the image. If I scan the same slide with all three of my scanners, the OpticFilm 120 produces the best image because it has higher real resolution and more acutance by way of edge contrast. Although the OpticFilm is called a Flagship scanner and carries a high price, it is not yet “world class”, but could be when Plustek starts using “ED” glass elements in its lens. However, to recognize that the OpticFilm 120 is the best scanner currently available that can be used with a 64 bit operating system, I will give it three out of three stars. Now, let’s consider the software. The bundled SilverFast Ai Studio 8 software makes effective use of the infrared channel and removes most of the inevitable dust softs. The software also uses an HDR like technique that is strangely labeled Multiple Exposure to extract more information from the shadow areas. We photographers are familiar with how most of the available digital tonal information is allocated to the highlights and how little digital tonal information is allocated to the shadows. We are also familiar with using HDR techniques for some scenes to either bring down highlights that are too bright or open up shadows that are too dark. Thus, in an HDR like way, to compensate for the lack of shadow tonal information the software combines one scan for the mid-tones and highlights with a second “over exposed” scan for shadow information. This produces scans with sufficient tonal information for further image refinement. The bundled SilverFast software also has a lot of automatic correction and refinement options that could be applied to your scans. Ten years ago, these refinements would have been impressive and even necessary, because we didn’t have the impressively powerful Camera Raw or Lightroom software for endless post processing options. Today, these SilverFast correction and refinement “bells-and-whistles” could be the primrose path to limiting your post processing options. We photographers are familiar with both the benefits of shooting in Raw and the limitations of shooting Jpegs. Analogously, applying the SilverFast correction and refinement options to your scans is like shooting Jpegs, because whatever refinement options you now apply to your digital scans can neither be undone nor adjusted at some later time. The software implies through its workflow that you need for such “bells-and-whistles.” In reality, such “bells-and-whistles” are not only a misdirection of our efforts but may turn out to be our worst enemy. As I tell my students, we should expect and allow for the possibility that we will become smarter, see things in our images that we just had not seen before, and want to use not-yet-available or newly improved post processing software. Analogous to shooting in Raw and to allow for such future possibility, I would prefer that SilverFast software engineers concentrate their efforts on providing a neutral scan with a high Dmax. For this infraction, I will subtract one of the potential two stars. In the world of digital photography, we photographers are familiar with the necessity of calibrating and profiling each and every device that we use. We would not even think about making color-critical decisions for our images on a monitor that is not calibrated and profiled. Thus, for the film that we want to scan we understand the necessity of calibrating the scanner with an IT8 standard based on that film. In the days of shooting film, I and every other professional photographer that I knew used Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film. Almost every publishing photographer or camera-club competition level photographer also used Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film. Incomprehensibly, SilverFast does not offer an IT8 calibration standard for Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film. This omission is like thinking that the Berlin Wall had no importance in Germany, Baroque music was not important in Italy, the Louvre has no importance in Paris, or the Smithsonian has no importance in Washington DC. Moreover, to offer IT8 calibration standards for Kodachrome and Fuji Provia with the implication that these calibration standards are sufficient for all our needs is both disingenuous and a disservice to the photographic community. It is true that IT8 calibration standards are available from other sources, notably Coloraid.de. However, SilverFast seems to have gone out of its way to make it difficult to use such essential (but non-SilverFast) calibration standards by causing the software to ignore the reference file for IT8 standards without a barcode. Although a SilverFast representative says there currently is a known issue with getting their software to recognize such reference files and that a fix will be in the next version, the overall impression is that SilverFast wants to discourage use of non-SilverFast IT8 standards presumably because it wants to have a competitive market advantage. By any logic that you care to apply, until SilverFast either offers to sell a Fuji Velvia ISO 50 IT8 calibration standard or makes it easy to use such calibration standards from other vendors, they run the risk of changing a very expensive Flagship scanner into something that is of little use and has the value of a paper weight. To borrow a line from Sir Walter Raliegh, this infraction is “In folly ripe, in reason rotten.” For this infraction, I will subtract one more of the potential two stars. ### ⭐ A waste of money and time *by W***L on 4 April 2015* This scanner hasn't worked from day one. Amazon won't except a return and the manufacturer, Plustek, despite the unit being under warranty and registered make no effort to return my calls or emails, to replace, repair, return the unit. It's an expensive piece of kit, which you would expect to work. I can't voice my disappointment enough. Do yourself a favour and avoid this product. ## Frequently Bought Together - Plustek OpticFilm 120 Slide and Negative Scanner - Matin FILM PICKER 35mm 135 Film Leader Retriever Extractor Puller Release - 25 x Negative Filing Sheets for 35mm Film. Acid-Free, Archival Safe. 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