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nickmt

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Photophase back: which computer/OS?
« on: May 14, 2012, 09:42:39 am »

Hi all.  I was just given an old Photophase and I'm wondering how to get it up and running.  One basic question is shall I use my old G4.  I'll need to find an old OS.  I think I read here that 9 will work or 10.2  (I guess it's a matter of supporting SCSI only ???).  Or does it actually work better with another OS, mac or pc.  Any advice is very much appreciated.  thanks - Nick.  
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Re: Photophase back: which computer/OS?
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2012, 03:35:25 pm »

Hi Nick

I was using a photophase running on Mac OS9 for some years in the late 90ties and until 2002. It was pretty stable as long there were not too many extensions starting up on that machine so you better kept it clean. As you already said there was an OSX version but I am not sure if this will run on any todays (10.5  10.6 or 10.7 ) OSX.
So your chance is probably better with a windows version maybe on XP.

here is the manual of the Photophase as pdf

http://80.237.159.100/files/manual/photophase_manual.pdf

and here is the link to Imagecapture for both Mac+PC as well several more documents

http://www.phaseone.com/de-de/Downloads/Software-Archive/ScanBack.aspx

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Stefan


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Re: Photophase back: which computer/OS?
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2012, 04:37:04 pm »

Ain't it great to have people like Stefan around?

Looks like a fun device. One thing I noticed was missing from the manual - how long is the scan time?

Ray
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Re: Photophase back: which computer/OS?
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2012, 05:39:02 pm »

 :)

I had nearly forgotten about it - you could set the line times and according to this it ran from under a minute to several minutes - read more here

http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/large-format-cameras/14228-powerphase-fx-scanback-field.html

Greetings from beautiful Allgäu
Stefan
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