Hasselblad Flextight X5, Flextight X1 User Manual

Flextight X1 and Flextight X5
The Flextight X5 is the top model in the Flextight scanner series providing the best of all worlds. Ease of use, incom­parable quality, unique, batch scanning facilities all packed in a classical and characteristic design.
Flextight X5
Key features:
- Up to 300MB/min.
- Optional feeders for maximum productivity
- Hardware and software based dust removal facility
- Simplified workflow with 3F Auto Scan button
Same, same, but different
The new generation of Hasselblad scan­ners, the Flextight X1 and X5, are both built around the same foundation. A vertical optical system allows the CCD to face downwards, creating a glass­free optical path between the original and the lens. The patented virtual drum solution produces optimal focusing across the entire original and the flex­ible holder guarantees easy mounting and safe and secure handling of your originals. The components used in both Flextight scanners are basically the same, meaning that whichever solution you choose, the quality level is virtually identical. Differences between the models are more a matter of features and capabilities, especially with regards to productivity.
Hasselblad scanners: freedom from choice
The freedom not to have to choose between digital or film, for instance. The freedom to use whatever capture medium works best for a particular shoot or situ­ation. And whether you choose to shoot film because the elements are against you or for creative reasons, with the new generation of Hasselblad scanners you know that you’ll be able to get your imag­es safely into the digital world – wherever they began – with ever y subtle detail embedded in your negs and chromes accurately reproduced.
Productivity
Naturally, the extraordinary scanning speed of the Flextight X5 plays a key part in increasing your productivity. The benefits don’t stop there, however. Various feeding devices, for example, can be attached; the Batch Feeder for mixed originals and the Slide Feeder for scanning of mounted slides. Using these devices together with the 3F workflow produces a throughput that has to be seen to be believed.
The Flextight X1 model should serve most photographers’ needs. Quality is unsurpassed, it is fast and it can take care of most kinds of originals. And, as with any other scanner in this family, it is easy to use.
Key features:
- 6300 maximum resolution of 6300dpi
- Up to 60 MB/min.
- Batch scanning capabilities
- Software based dust removal facility
- Simplified workflow with 3F Auto Scan button
Flextight X1
Even though you can find scanners with larger sensors you will not find better clarity and detail rendition when scan ­ning photographic film. That is due to the electronic handling of the sensor, the mechanical precision as well as the quality of filters and the resolving power of the Rodenstock lens. The Flextight scanners are not only a piece of art seen from the outside the entire machiner y is saturated with excellent solutions.
Keeping it cool
Heat reduction solutions are another example of features not found on lower range scanners. By removing the power supply outside the scanner and using a cold cathode light tube, which produces very little infrared waves, Hasselblad scanners eliminate two common sources of heat-related noise. Our X5 scanner even has active sensor cooling, which means that an electronic cooling device is placed directly on the CCD, which increases signal to noise ration by 1 to 2 bits.
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The Unique 3F WorkflowSharpness and resolution
When selecting the 3F file format in auto­matic scan mode, images are scanned at a specified resolution of 16 bits per color. In this way the full color range of the original is extracted from the scan. The 3F file is never altered but acts as a sort of "preview scan" when you open it later, enabling you to re- do all opera­tions or change any parameter you wish. Consider it like re-scanning, but without the film original present.
Furthermore – every time you save a file from the 3F format, your action his­tory is embedded in the 3F file, which enables you to repeat these actions whenever you like. The 3F workflow also allows you to produce final TIFF images, cropped and corrected, with a single click of a button.
The Flextight movie
Scanning, whether from transparencies, negatives or reflectives was once an occupation on its own. Nowadays more and more photographers are finding the need to include this activity in their workflow.
Maintaining control to maintain quality is an attractive concept to many photo­graphers wanted to deliver the optimum to their clients. That’s why Hasselblad offers professional-level scanners that are easy to use while still retaining the quality inherent in the original.
On ww w.hasselblad.com you can watch the Flextight movie and see for yourself why the Flextight Scanners are the professionals choice.
Scanners
Scanners
Flextight X1 Flextight X5
Max res
6300dpi 8000dpi
Technical specifications Flextight X1/Flextight X5
Optical sensor: CCD (3x80 00)
Original type: X 1: Neg /Pos X5: Neg/Pos/Prints
Color depth: 16 bit
Auto frame detection: Yes
Auto focu s: Yes
Batch sc anning: Ye s
Batch- and slide feeder compatibility: X1: No X5: Ye s
Interface: Firewire
Platform: PC/Ma c
Dmax: X1: 4,6 X5: 4,9
Max speed
60MB/min 300MB/min
Film format: 100x245mm
Reflection: X1: No X5: A4
Active cooling: X1: No X5: Ye s
Flextouch: Ye s
3F scan initiated directly on scanner: Yes
Light condensator: X1: No X5: Ye s
Dimensions: 230x390x650mm
Weight: 20,5k g
Dust removal
Soft ware based Hard- & software
Reection Scan
No Yes
Max optical res olution: 35mm 60 mm 4”x5”
X1: 6300dpi 3200dpi 2040dpi X5: 8000dpi 3200dpi 204 0dpi
Max file size: 35mm 60 mm 4”x5”
X1: 450MB 370MB 460MB X5: 580MB 370MB 460MB
Max scan speed: 35mm 60 mm 4”x5”
X1: 7.15 min 6.02 min 5.08 min X5: 1.55 min 1.10 min 1.23 min
Active Cooling
No Yes
Feeder
No Yes
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