SCANNER IMACON MILANO – Station Rental
The scanner station rental is ideal for photographers who wish to manage their films while maintaining a total control of the creative process.
In this case, all the necessary tools are provided:
– a MacBook Pro 15” connected to the scanner
– an A4 light table as a viewer
– a loupe
– scissors for cutting the negatives
– antistatic gloves
– antistatic cloth, compressed air and a little pump for cleaning the negative.
Regarding the time that it takes to make the scans, an experienced user can make between 15 and 20 frames per hour.
Even in case you do not know how to perform the scan, it’s so easy to use that you can learn it in just 10 minutes. The explanation is free of charge.
There are different packages for scanner rental, depending on the time of use.
The packages are:
– 1 hour = 25 euros
– half day (4 hours) = 75 euros
– one day (8 hours) = 125 euros
– 40 hours = 500 euros
– other customized packages upon request
PLEASE NOTE
Since the Hasselblad scanners are no longer in production (since 2019), the Flexcolor software is no longer updated. Therefore, for Mac users with operating systems after Mojave, the software will not work.
I recommend exporting the 3F format (.fff), which is the Hasselblad format corresponding to a RAW file.
With 3F, images are scanned at a resolution of 16 bits. In this way the entire color gamut of the negative is extracted from the scan.
A 3F file, being very similar to a digital RAW file, can be processed multiple times without permanently affecting the file.
On the Hasselblad website you can download Flexcolor for free (after a free registration), which is the software to process the 3F file, at this link:
Scanning in 3F is an automatic scan, which saves on the actual scanning time. The file correction parameters will later be modified from home when converting the 3F into TIFF or JPEG, with the Flexcolor software.