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Subject: [Leica] Hasselblad Imacon Flextight Precision II Scanner
From: topoxforddoc at btinternet.com (Charlie Chan)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:10:24 +0100
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Tina,

If you can?t get it to work, let me know. I can download the windows 
version. You can only access the downloads, if you are registered with a 
Hassie product.

Best wishes,

Charlie

Charlie Chan
www.charlie-chan.co.uk



On 22 Jul 2014, at 00:03, Tina Manley wrote:

> 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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