Hasselblad 949 manual Scanning Individual Slides

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As you work with the 3f images in the light table, you can load each image into FlexColor to make settings and then save the settings back in the history for the 3f image. When you have finished making settings for an entire batch, you can then batch-process all images to save them as TIFF or JPEG files with your settings applied.

In a production environment, you might choose to store your 3f images on a shared network drive, allowing any computer that has FlexColor installed to open and export images for use even while the scan workstation is busy scanning. Even at sites where there is only one Flextight scanner in use, the FlexColor license agreement permits your organization to install FlexColor on any number of computers at the site.

Scanning Individual Slides

As mentioned above, we usually recommend that you use the 3f workflow when working with the Slide Feeder to scan large numbers of slides

for general use. However, when you just need to scan a few slides for a specific purpose, you might find it more convenient to use the standard preview/scan workflow, which generates a standard TIFF file right away without saving a 3f file. You might also use the standard FlexColor batch-scan feature, which can make final scans on several different slides and/or with several different setups, again by saving directly to TIFF files rather than 3f.

The standard preview/scan and batch-scan workflows are fully described in the FlexColor User’s Guide. An example of how to use these features when you have the Slide Feeder attached is given below, which includes some specific advice for using the Feeder.