Film Scanning & Digitization Solutions
Fast and reliable solutions for the digitization of transparent film and glass plate negatives.
Why Phase One?
With a capture rate of 1 image per second, Phase One Film Scanning & Digitization Solutions are up to 400 times faster than flatbed, drum or virtual-drum scanners.
Regardless of the transparency or size of the original glass or film negative or transparency, Phase One solutions provide a consistent and reliable workflow, ensuring that the highest levels of image quality and accuracy are met.
Film Scanning & Digitization Solution
What does a solution contain?
Phase One’s Film Scanning Solutions are comprised of a copy stand, film capture stage, carriers, and a camera system.
Check out the full Phase One portfolio of scanning solutions in the Solution Guide.
Film capture stage
The Phase One Film Capture Stage provides an adjustable, geared support mechanism and is compatible with a range of carriers for glass plate negatives, as well as most popular film strip and sheet formats. It can be easily adjusted to position the object directly under the camera. Made of high-grade aluminum, the Phase One Film Capture Stage ensures longevity and reliability for many years.
With sensitive glass and film transparencies and negatives, material handling and safety are key, and the Phase One Film Capture Stage offers the ideal solution for a wide range of applications.
Specifications:
Dimensions (WxHxD) – 730x216x700 mm
Weight – approx. 13.5 kg
Film carriers
Phase One’s Film Carriers are designed to work with the Phase One Film Capture Stage, and maintain film flatness with a minimal amount of stress and easy mounting/dismounting. Made from milled high-grade aluminum and using an optically-optimized glass base, they maintain parallelism and flatness.
The Film Carriers work with specially-designed clamps that carefully stretch and flatten the film strips.
Supported film formats:
- 35mm strips
- 120mm strips
- 9 x 12 cm
- 13 x 18 cm
- 18 x 24 cm
- 4 x 5 in
- 8 x 10 in
- Mounted 35mm slides
Glass plate carriers
Phase One’s Glass Plate Carriers support most common and odd plate formats, and are equipped with an optically-optimized glass base. The Glass Plate Carriers are made of milled high-grade aluminum and are built to last. They provide an economical solution for almost all types and sizes of plates.
The Glass Plate Carriers work with specially-designed “top stop” which ensures accurate and quick positioning of glass plates of the same size.
Supported glass plate formats:
- 9 x 12 cm
- 13 x 18 cm
- 18 x 24 cm
- 24 x 30 cm
iXH Camera System
The Phase One iXH Camera System comes with a Schneider Kreuznach 120mm Macro RS lens. The lens is equipped with the Reliance Shutter – rated at 1 million actuations, and allows for reliable and consistent capture of the finest detail with minimum vibration.
The iXH Camera System is equipped with PPI-Assist, which accurately measures the distance to the object and records PPI, field-of-view and magnification, making it easy to position the iXH on any copy stand for a given scanning application. In combination with the Phase One AutoColumn copy stands and Capture One CH, the iXH Camera System delivers automated camera positioning for a specified PPI.
Capture One CH software
Capture One CH is a professional rapid capture solution dedicated to the Cultural Heritage community. Built on the renowned Capture One software, the Cultural Heritage edition offers a highly specialized feature set that delivers a significantly faster reprographic workflow during both capture and post-production.
The Slipstream mode – a simplified user interface front-end – allows for capturing to be handled by less-skilled operators, and speeds up the workflow, especially when working on large collections and large volumes of documents.
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