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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: nickmt on May 14, 2012, 09:42:39 am
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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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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
regards
Stefan
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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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:)
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