Yes. The digital backs for Hasselblad was made by a Danich company, that did merge with Hasselblad (Sweden) a few years back. I guess the scanners came from the very same company - which now is a part of the Hasselblad concern.
Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Jan 2, 2011 18:57 "AlunFoto" <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/1/2 Jens <[email protected]>: > > They still make imacon scanners (I believe they were Danish > > actually)? > > Jens > > The Imacon scanners are now sold as "Hasselblad Flextight" scanners. > They're more expensive than a Pentax 645D by good margin. > > I'm sure the Pentax 67 is a wonderful tool for acquiring images. I > frequently miss shooting with the 645Nii, but never get around to > actually loading it with film. I remember I tried to consider the > cost > of the Pentax *istD against my expenses for film an processing, and > concluded that I could buy a new digital SLR every third year for the > amount of money I spent on the gelatine. And that didn't include the > cost of scanning. > > I just did a quick look around the web for prices on film and > processing in Norway. I used to shoot Provia a lot, so that's what I > looked for. Assuming 10 exposures per 120mm film, I arrived at a cost > of NOK 14,70 per exposure (film and E6 processing), from > http://www.scandinavianphoto.no/ > > It was a bit more challenging to find services for scanning of 120mm > film, but what I found was pretty scary. NOK 230,- for a raw scan of > _one_ image. Price more than doubled for the "pro" treatment, > including digital dust removal: > http://www.farvelabben.no/filmscanning.html > > Excluding scanning, a Pentax 645D would break even with film cost at > roughly 5800 exposures. > > I hope for your sake the Danish market has less hostile prices... :-) > > Of course there are loads of other factors to consider, such as time > spent in workflow, cost of auxillary hardware (computers, archivning, > etc.) and expected time to obsolence, but It could be worth doing, > Jens. > > Jostein > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
