Unclear information has been given to users in the past, when many of us pinged Hasselblad about the pressing issue of macOS 10.15 Catalina blocking 32bit applications. In fact, this is what you can read when logging in the private area of the Hasselblad website. We will continue to perform service for these scanners as long as we will have spare parts, therefore it is difficult to appreciate for how long.

The Flextight scanners are full service supported in our factory service in Gothenburg, Sweden and a selected number of regional scanner partners are able to perform local service and preventive maintenance.

The good news is that servicing will be available for the foreseeable future, as customer service wrote me: My best bet is that the 2017 acquisition of Hasselblad by DJI, a Chinese drone-making company, gave scanners the coup de grace. Flextight know-how and hardware were acquired in 2014 when the company merged with Imacon: reliable sources told me that the engineering team has always been quite small. It’s pointless to ask the reason why, scanners have always been a low priority asset to Hasselblad. No official announcement has been published, but a number of users around the world have had the news confirmed either from dealers or servicing shops. Heavens! Flextight scannersįlextight X1 and X5, the flagship (and only left) models in Hasselblad’s lineup have been discontinued: EOL, kaputt. No software updates are planned, plus I’ve run into problems dealing with fff files in Photoshop 2020. In case you missed it, Flextight scanners have vanished from the Hasselblad website around May 2019 and macOS Catalina doesn’t run FlexColor anymore.

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