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Subject: [Leica] Hasselblad Imacon Flextight Precision II Scanner
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:03:52 -0400
References: <CA+yJO1D-E42jRSSdZremFzGY7k9j=UY=CzO4D61pUzOBQ0YOqw@mail.gmail.com> <0DBADFFC-E924-41BD-B155-D9075DA3040E@gmail.com> <9B6230D1-4459-4546-8284-34B494D95A4D@btinternet.com>

Thanks, Charlie, but I use Windows. The seller is including a CD with
software for Windows and I'm assuming I can download updates from the same
website.  I just hope I can get everything to work!

Tina


On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Charlie Chan <topoxforddoc at 
btinternet.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tina,
>
> I am downloading a copy of Flexcolor 4.0.4 for Mac from the Hassie
> website. It is the last version which supports SCSI cards on a Mac. I am
> registered as a Hassie user (from my DMR days!). Let me know if you need
> it. However, it will only work up to OS 10.5. You?ll also need to check
> that the SCSI card works on 10.5.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Charlie
>
> www.charlie-chan.co.uk
>
> On 21 Jul 2014, at 22:59, rgacpa at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi Tina,
> > Though I did not own this particular scanner, I do know that there is
> special software used for scanning with it. The files created are, I
> believe, .fff files; something I had never seen before. After a lot of
> research, I found that the .tif files created were considered to be the
> same as the .fff files and the .tifs are the raw file output.
> >
> > Not sure I'm making sense here, but at the time I owned it Adobe Raw did
> not recognize the .fff files so I used the Imacon software to output to
> .tif files that PS could work with. Imacon/Hasselblad confirmed with me
> directly that the .tif file had the same exact info as the .fff file.
> >
> > Good luck!
> > Bob (who may have an old SCSI card if you need one...)
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Jul 21, 2014, at 1:27 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> PESO:
> >>
> >> I know I'll never be able to afford the Flextight 5, so when this one
> came
> >> up on EBay, I bid on it, after reading reviews and doing lots of
> research
> >> about whether it would still work on today's computers.  Today, I won
> the
> >> bid and should have the scanner next week.  The sample scans that the
> guy
> >> posted looked very good and he is including all of the cables and film
> >> holders that I should need.
> >>
> >> My plan is to still use the Nikon LS5000 for cataloging and editing the
> >> vast majority of my slides with the batch loader.  The Hasselblad would
> be
> >> used for problem slides like the Velvia and some Kodachromes that I have
> >> posted lately.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
> >> Tina
> >> --
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> >> http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/
> >>
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Tina Manley
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