Working with Flexcolor
With this tutorial I would like to explain some peculiar attributes of the system that, in my opinion, make it far superior to other systems.
First of all forget all you know on scanners and scanning. Beside the quality that can be tested later, thanks to Flexcolor it is possible to become active users instead of passive.
Flexcolor allows photographers to take back an important phase of the image’s production flow that, until not too long ago, required involvement of external pros, whom often were not synchronized with the photographers’ work. The only alternative used to be the use of recreational scanners often defined professionals but that also had important limits.
Personally, before Hasselblad Flextight scanners I used to use drum scanners with its many limits.
In the last few years, I have replaced with 3F scannings the entirety of my old archive, greatly increasing the operational flexibility and the qualitity standard.

In 2000 Imacon, now Hasselblad, created a new proprietary format for the Imacon scanners, the Flexible File Format or fff. 3F has determined the biggest revolution in the field of original analog scanning since the introduction of the drum scanner.
First of all forgive us the word play, which might come off as presumptuous. However, we felt like we came up with something that perfectly summarizes our philosophy in this arena by uniting the concepts of high resolution and quality reproduction.