The AZTEK PREMIER Drum Scanner

Beneath its straightforward appearance, the NEW Advanced AZTEK® PREMIER™ DRUM SCANNER possesses capabilities unavailable in any other Scanner.  With its patented Photo Multiplier OptiVu™ Technology, the Premier automatically manages and focuses variable scan capture spot sizes down to 3 microns (3 thousandth of a millimeter) to match the grain of the film.  This function is performed completely independently of the resolution (or dpi) of the scanner's resolution. 

The AZTEK OptiVu technology uniquely results in literally flawless archival large format scanning, at any scale factor (even at 21,333% or 64,000 dpi) without any grain noise or other image artifacts.  With both the sensitivity of Photo Multiplier Sensors and OptiVu advantages.  The AZTEK Premier has proven itself in both photo lab production and industry standardized benchmarks to have greater density sensitivity, optical accuracy, image quality, speed and scaling capability than any other professional film scanner tested to date. The AZTEK Premier is the result of 15 years of Photo Imaging Industry research development and is the only OptiVu, density based, P.M.T. (Photo Multiplier), 48-Bit Drum Scanner.  Unlike other scanners without OptiVu Technology, most are limited to just a few physical spot sizes or true physical optical resolutions and perform only “Log Space" or "ICC Capture”. 

The AZTEK Premier is equipped with 18 physical optical spot sizes and truly can see or sample in the finest detail spot size of 3 microns (3 thousandth of a millimeter) and each scan is density calibrated!  All of which are under automatic software control, tailored to the media or film being scanned.  These capabilities allow for optimum grain management and unsurpassed optical enlargements without scanner noise un sharp masks or similar problems.