Any news on the new Plustek 120 scanner?

[Honus]

I found a high res scan here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdruziak/8206303145/sizes/l/in/photostream/

The original scan is 4608 x 4608, or about a 2,000 dpi scan from a 6x6 negative. Looking good, I must say.

 

[splitimageview]

That flickr is the Plustek sales rep 🙂 in case that wasn't known.

 

[Honus]

That flickr is the Plustek sales rep 🙂 in case that wasn't known.

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).

 

[fventura]

new one, large file available too,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_df/8384219447/

I guess just a matter of days to hit B&H?

 

[newsgrunt]

I'm impressed but guess it can't scan 6x17 in one pass ?

 

[Art Vandalay]

Just ordered one from Adorama.

 

[Rogier]

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...

 

[SixSeven]

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...

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😀 So glad this damn thing is finally coming out. If it compares even remotely favorably to the 9000 then it is a must buy.

 

[cabbiinc]

I'm looking forward to the price of Coolscans to drop... a little.

 

[mdruziak]

That flickr is the Plustek sales rep 🙂 in case that wasn't known.

MARKETING and Business Development, not sales! Our sales rep gets the orders and the huge bonus, I get the problems! 🙂

 

[splitimageview]

Heh 🙂 we know you do all the real work!

 

[Pete B]

MARKETING and Business Development, not sales! Our sales rep gets the orders and the huge bonus, I get the problems! 🙂

Mark, you need to turn this anticlockwise so the crater is at the bottom 🙂
http://mdruziak.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/photo-day-831.html

and is there a story behind this
http://mdruziak.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/photo-day-96-special-edition.html
or is it coincidence?

Pete

 

[Pete B]

The price is already tumbling in the UK. Park cameras have slashed the price
http://www.parkcameras.com/24450/Plustek-Opticfilm-120.html?gclid=CLaEpNrn8rQCFXHLtAodW1sAmA

Pete

 

[joeswe]

The price is already tumbling in the UK. Park cameras have slashed the price
http://www.parkcameras.com/24450/Plustek-Opticfilm-120.html?gclid=CLaEpNrn8rQCFXHLtAodW1sAmA

Pete

Tumbling, yes, slashed, well, err, sort of ... from a RRP £2,000.00 to £1,999.00 🙄
The street price in Germany is indeed cheaper at around 1.800 € (with SF Ai Studio 8)...

 

[BOD]

The price is already tumbling in the UK. Park cameras have slashed the price
http://www.parkcameras.com/24450/Plustek-Opticfilm-120.html?gclid=CLaEpNrn8rQCFXHLtAodW1sAmA

Pete

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! 😀

 

[Pete B]

Tumbling, yes, slashed, well, err, sort of ... from a RRP £2,000.00 to £1,999.00 🙄
The street price in Germany is indeed cheaper at around 1.800 € (with SF Ai Studio 8)...

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! 😀

LOL, 😀
Pete

 

[nightfire]

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)? 🙄

 

[bwcolor]

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?

 

[BOD]

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)? 🙄

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

 

[mszargar]

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?

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.