Any news on the new Plustek 120 scanner?

digitalintrigue said:
That flickr is the Plustek sales rep :) in case that wasn't known.
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Thanks. Sorry if it had already been posted. I haven't read every page of this thread. It has taken so long that I was starting to think it was vaporware and I had all but given up. Now that it is starting to be available and the results look promising I'm getting very interested in it.

I also note that he mentions that this was scanned at 2650 dpi, which is half of the spec output dpi (5300).
 
Just received email from B&H that the Plustek 120 is available!

Looking forward to read the reviews before ordering myself. Might be just in time since I have 55 rolls of 120 film to scan...
 
Rogier said:
Just received email from B&H that the Plustek 120 is available!

Looking forward to read the reviews before ordering myself. Might be just in time since I have 55 rolls of 120 film to scan...
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I don't see it as in-stock on either B&H or Adorama, nor did I get an in-stock notification email from B&H that its stock status had changed.

I'm refreshing the pages hourly:D So glad this damn thing is finally coming out. If it compares even remotely favorably to the 9000 then it is a must buy.
 
joeswe said:
Tumbling, yes, slashed, well, err, sort of ... from a RRP £2,000.00 to £1,999.00 :rolleyes:
The street price in Germany is indeed cheaper at around 1.800 € (with SF Ai Studio 8)...
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BOD said:
Hehe... yeah, I wasn't going to pick one up until I had some more cash, but since they've knocked that 1GBP off, I might actually be able to convince the wife it's a good investment! :D
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LOL, :D
Pete
 
Sorry, but I just don't see any of the crisp definition and detail of a CS 9000 or similar high-end scan in any of the Opticfilm 120 samples floating around on the net so far. (I've owned a Flextight 646 myself years ago in addition to my current V750, so I think I have an idea of how an unsharpened raw scan at >4000dpi should look like) Am I the only one here who sees an awkward similarity to what comes out of the V750 in terms of image detail (or lack thereof)? :rolleyes:
 
I've been looking for full resolution scans. Are there any posted?

The images (lower resolution) that I've seen made me wonder if there will be a glass mount option.

Will there be an optional glass mount holder for 35mm and/or MF?
 
nightfire said:
Sorry, but I just don't see any of the crisp definition and detail of a CS 9000 or similar high-end scan in any of the Opticfilm 120 samples floating around on the net so far. (I've owned a Flextight 646 myself years ago in addition to my current V750, so I think I have an idea of how an unsharpened raw scan at >4000dpi should look like) Am I the only one here who sees an awkward similarity to what comes out of the V750 in terms of image detail (or lack thereof)? :rolleyes:
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I tend to agree with you, but I'm still on the fence a little.
The larger image files that are posted are higher ISO and appear to have been somewhat sharpened with a big-ish radius.

We really won't know for sure until we actually have the same negs scanned across different scanners for a direct comparrisson.
Bren
 
bwcolor said:
I've been looking for full resolution scans. Are there any posted?

The images (lower resolution) that I've seen made me wonder if there will be a glass mount option.

Will there be an optional glass mount holder for 35mm and/or MF?
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I guess full resolution samples are just too big to share, but here are some huge scans:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_df/

What astonishes me more than the sharpness, is the color balance, although I don't know how much pp has gone into these.

I saw Mark saying on another forum that OpticFilm will be looking into the possibility of releasing glass mounts after the initial release of the scanner. I guess they are still busy with the initial release.
 
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