Imacon Flextight Negative Scanner Start Price USD 1,300.00 Current Price USD 1,300.00 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, December 02, 2008 End Time Friday, December 12, 2008 Location Hot Springs, SD See more about 'Imacon Flextight Negative Scanner' Description I bought this scanner new & have taken great care with it. It hasn't had a whole lot of use. Mostly I scanned 6x7 negs. That negative holder is worn some. The magnet is torn off the stainless material. I put tape on it to keep it lined up & the magnetic action holds it in place. I have used this with a Apple computer (G4) only. I believe I paid $9000.00 originally. It's never had a repair or maintenance. I am also including a Kinetronics anti-static brush model SW-060. It is in perfect working order. I have been scanning old B&W negatives from the 50's as of late. The information below I copied from another sellers description so I hope it is accurate. That scanner was in Europe & it looked like this one I'm selling. The ebay number for that machine is 390006804638 & it sold for$2100.00 USD. The Imacon Flextight Photo was designed to provide the highest level of performance doing just one thing, scanning 35mm and 120 size film. By taking this sharply defined approach Imacon developed a unique design combining all of the attributes that accomplish this task most effectively. The first and most basic element that is unique to the Imacon Photo is the film holder and transport that provides a basis for the name Flextight. The base of each holder is a good-sized rectangle of thin stainless steel in which an aperture is cut the size of the film format to be scanned. On the top surface of this steel frame there is a cover also with a film format aperture cut out of it. This cover is made of a magnetized rubber-like material that adheres gently but firmly to the steel. The film frame to be scanned is placed between the steel base and rubber cover and is thereby held firmly in position. This composite film holder is then put into the start position and a magnet that's a part of the film transport mechanism secures the holder. When the scan is begun the transport pulls the holder onto a drum-shaped support. The flexible holder then keeps the film in a gently curved position across the width of the scanner assuring that the surface of the film is flat and even as it passes under the scanner lens and CCD array above. The Imacon Photo sensor scans with a dynamic range of 3.9 and a D-max of 4.1, well beyond the density range of film images. It also scans at a bit depth of 14 bits per RGB channel. Output bit depth can be selected between 24-bit RGB, 48-bit RGB, and 56-bit CMYK, as well as gray scale and line art. Conversion from the analog signal from the CCD to digital is done at 16,000 levels of color, and the output data is transferred to the host computer via SCSI 2 for Macintosh and PC Windows platforms. Imacon Colorflex Software. The Imacon Colorflex software supports Macintosh and MS Windows operating systems, providing a flexible and powerful set of tools easily customized to meet a variety of work input and output requirements. Colorflex can be used either as an automated color adjustment scanning procedure that is fully customizable to adjust the image dynamic range including the amount of gamut clipping and gamma output, as well as to turn on or off automatic color caste removal. The automated adjustment can also be used initially and then modified to accommodate differences in image subjects and photographic conditions, or to match the light balance over a selection of images that need to be matched in output. Colorflex also contains a full set of accessible manual image adjustment tools, including a new feature which enhances shadow detail more effectively than either adjusting gamma or shaping the characteristic curve. In addition to adjustment of the dynamic range, gamma, brightness, and contrast, as well as the characteristic curve, and adjustment of the color balance as well as hue and saturation, there is a very finely tunable unsharp mask filter window interface which allows precise adjustment of the sharpening effect, and including grain suppression. Technical Specifications Sensor: Single pass trilinear CCD array with 24,000 pixel elements Input: Photographic film images in all sizes from 35mm through 6x18cm Software: Colorflex stand-alone application supporting PC Windows and Macintosh platforms. Full Apple Colorsync compatibility and custom ICC profiles with profile editing. Scan Modes: 24 and 48-bit RGB, 32-bit CMYK, gray scale, and line art Optical Resolution: 3200dpi Color Depth: 14 bits per RGB channel or 42-bit RGB and 56-bit CMYK Interface: SCSI 2 Density Range: 3.9 with 4.1 D-max Dimensions: 9.4x10.2x11.8" Weight: 15.4 lbsOn Dec-12-08 at 06:31:29 PST, seller added the following information:I bought this scanner in Nov. 1999 & the SCSI cable is included. I do not have the original box. I ran this scanner on a Mac G4 both of which was purchased & installed by Desktop Darkroom. I am not sure if it can be converted to a firewire or USB connection. Here is a link that may help with that answer. http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/cables/cables/sas/ Hopefully this will help in your decision. Mike Place a Bid!