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Scanning individual slides – Hasselblad 949 User Manual

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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.