Lay the top layer of the holder down flat over the original. If your scans appear unfocused or are slightly the wrong size, then you may need to make a new focus calibration to adjust the zoom mechanism.
The focus calibration is stored in the scanners flash PROM, so it is retained when you move the scanner to a new computer. See Focus Calibration on page 12 for more information. During calibration, the scanner scans a white target to establish the white point along the full length of the scanners CCD. See White Calibration for Reflectives on page 13 for more information. Both of the calibration procedures are simple and are initiated from the FlexColor program.
Page Focus Calibration Focus calibration The Flextight scanner uses an adjustable zoom and focus mechanism to optimize its scanning resolution for each of the original formats it can handle. If you suspect your scans are not as sharp as they should be, then you may need to calibrate your scanner. Note that you must not calibrate the scanner every day. It is intended that the scanner is calibrated not more than once every three months.
In most cases, this procedure will never be necessary. Use procedure below to make Focus Calibration: 1. Locate the Focus sheet that came with your scanner. Mount the film into the 6 x 6 original holder with the text reading normally as shown. As the scanner ages, the properties of the light tubes may change slightly. Therefore, you must redo the white calibration every six months or so and immediately after changing the light tubes.
Use the procedure below to make a White Calibration: 1. Find the white calibration sheet that came with the scanner. It is a square white piece of paper x mm 8. If you have lost the white calibration sheet, then you can use a flat non-textured , perfectly white piece of paper of the same dimensions. Page The Light Tubes The light tubes The Flextight X5 contains two light tubes: one for illuminating reflective originals from above, the other for shining light through transparencies from below.
The Flextight X1 has only one light tube for transparency scanning. The two lamps are of different types and are not interchangeable. Replacing the light tubes If scans are suddenly coming out black or all white if you are scanning negatives , then one of your light tubes may be defective. Make a preview using both types of scans transparent and reflective to find out which tube is affected.
Follow the procedure below to replace a tube: See Figure on next page 1. Obtain the appropriate replacement lamp ask your Flextight dealer. Turn off and unplug the scanner from the primary power supply.
Page Cleaning The External Surface Of The Scanner Cleaning the external surface of the scanner The external surface of the scanner can be cleaned with a damp cloth. Be careful not to allow any moisture inside the scanner or on any of the connectors.
Do not use alcohol or other solvents. Disposal If you need to dispose of the scanner, it must be delivered to an authorized waste plant for electronics equipment. Flextight x5 scanner manual find the office and computer equipment manual you need at manualsonline.
Here is a link to their customer announcement, which also has further links to the downloadable software update and a pdf format manual.
Important warnings and restrictions read all of the included documentation before attempting to install and use the slide feeder. Utilizing the hasselblad h6dc ms, cpt provides images calibrated to 4 star fadgi guidelines, the gold standard for archival fine art photography. User group for people with interest in imacon hasselblad scanners. There is a hasselblad authorized repair shop in manhattan, nippon photo clinic, inc. Might also wanna look into finding a generic repair shop, the hasselblad specialists charge quite a premium.
I had a little bit of a problem setting up the scanner with mac os productivity naturally, the extraordinary scanning speed of the flextight x5 plays a key part in increasing your productivity. The user manual is intended to be the standard reference manual.
Repair parts for hasselblad stellar lens zoom unit new. Hasselblad service manual - repair manual owner manuals pdf on cd. They can be viewed and printed using any program that can open and print a pdf file. But what we can hope for is to extend as far as possible the flexibility of the scanned file, to increase its tolerance to manipulation.
First of all, resolution, and much more important, focus. The OpticFilm gets very maligned for its alleged suboptimal focus. It does not have autofocus, but rather fixed focus, with a lens depth of field which is designed, so they say, to ensure that all areas of the film are within the zone of sharp focus.
But geeks like to be in control. Of course, just because Plustek marketing tells us this works, this does not mean we have to believe it. The X5 does its own fully automated focus calibration. But anyway, lets take a look at some zooms. The X5 has some kind of diffuse light source which should give cleaner grain, but honestly, at any kind of sensible print size you will not see any difference at all in resolution.
And sharpness? And the X5 has an obsolete Firewire interface, and software which has had no meaningful update in about a decade. Ok, lets take a look at shadow detail. As I said above, this has been a big challenge with this slide. Here we can see where the X5 starts to earn its keep. It is extracting a lot more usable detail in the deepest shadows, which may end being usable for a print - although it is still going to require some careful post-processing. Of course, sarcasm aside, to an exhibiting photographer selling through galleries, this can actually be worthwhile.
By the way, the colour difference is a result of adding a curve on the OF version to try to match the highlights on the X5 version. This introduced a slight green shift in mid-blues which I need to dial out.
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