PakonScan Download beta

Pakon F‑135 · F‑235 · F‑335 — native on macOS

The legendary lab scanner, reborn on your Mac.

PakonScan drives your Pakon film scanner over USB on modern macOS — no Windows XP, no virtual machines. The minilab's original colour science, recovered and rebuilt for Apple Silicon.

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Free trial — 10 rolls · macOS 14+ · one-time $99, no subscription

PakonScan frame editor — a developed frame with the tone and colour sliders

Colour

The lab's colour, not a filter.

PakonScan rebuilds the original Pakon colour engine — recovered from the OEM software and checked frame-by-frame against the minilab's own renders. Open a roll and the negatives are already the colour the lab would have printed.

PakonScan colour grading — a frame rendered in native Pakon colour with the lab colour sliders

The roll

Your whole roll, at a glance.

Every frame the scanner found, laid out on one contact sheet — skim the roll, compare frames side by side, and jump straight to the one you want to grade. Digital ICE has already cleaned the dust and scratches on the way in.

PakonScan contact sheet — the whole roll as a grid of colour thumbnails

Framing

Every frame found. Every format known.

Full-frame, half-frame and XPan panoramas are detected and cut automatically. Misaligned rolls repair themselves with automatic line-phase correction — the whole roll lands square without a single manual crop.

PakonScan automatic frame detection — cutting an XPan panorama from the roll

Scanning

Feed a shoebox. Walk away.

PakonScan speaks the scanner's native USB protocol — cold start, calibration and wind-out handled for you. After the first roll the lamp and transport stay warm, so every following roll starts about 22 seconds sooner. DX film codes are read straight off the edge barcode.

PakonScan Scanner tab — scan settings, controls and the live activity log

Everything it does

Built like a lab tool, not a plugin.

Everything the minilab did — and a few things it never could.

Native Pakon colour

The OEM colour engine, rebuilt and frame-matched.

Digital ICE

Infrared dust & scratch removal, detail-safe.

DX film codes

Reads the edge barcode and identifies the stock.

Frame detection

Full, half and XPan, cut automatically.

Line-phase healing

Misaligned rolls square themselves.

Flat-field correction

Even light edge to edge, no gate lip.

Hot-start batching

~22 s saved on every roll after the first.

C‑41 · ECN‑2 · B&W

The right chemistry for every roll.

Per-zone grading

Push colour exactly where the frame needs it.

Preview = export

What you approve is the file you get.

16-bit output

TIFF or JPEG, full-depth colour.

Roll browser

The whole roll, every frame, one window.

Activity log

See exactly what the scanner is doing.

Native USB

No drivers, no Windows XP, no virtual machine.

Apple Silicon

Built for M-series Macs, fully native.

Local only

Your film never leaves the Mac.

Roll to render

Three steps, no darkroom.

  1. 01

    Scan

    Feed the roll. PakonScan speaks the scanner's native USB protocol — cold start, calibration and wind-out handled for you.

  2. 02

    Decode

    The raw sensor ribbon is decoded, frames are found and cut, and dust is healed with the infrared channel.

  3. 03

    Develop

    Native Pakon colour by default, or your own look — every slider real-time, the preview identical to the export.

Pricing

One price. The whole darkroom.

Pakon Scan

Perpetual licence · all 1.x updates

$99 one-time

  • The full app — scan, batch, develop and export
  • Native Pakon colour, Digital ICE and per-zone grading
  • 16-bit TIFF/JPEG, with the preview identical to the export
  • Activates on up to two Macs — no account required
  • Your scans are plain files. Yours forever, no subscription.
Buy Pakon Scan — $99 or start free — 10-roll trial

Beta download links land on this button soon. Digital ICE dust removal and DX decoding require a Pakon scanner with the infrared / barcode sensors.

Questions

Before you download.

Which scanners are supported?
Pakon F-135 and F-135 Plus today. The F-235 and F-335 share the protocol and are on the roadmap for validation.
Is there a subscription?
No. Pakon Scan is a one-time $99 purchase with every feature included. It activates on up to two Macs and includes all 1.x updates.
Do I need old drivers or Windows XP?
No. PakonScan talks to the scanner directly over USB on modern macOS — nothing else to install.
What Mac do I need?
macOS 14 Sonoma or newer. Apple Silicon is fully native; Intel Macs are supported too.
Where does my film data go?
Nowhere. Scanning and processing are entirely local; the network is touched only to activate your licence.
Can I keep using my scans elsewhere?
Always. Exports are ordinary 16-bit TIFF or JPEG files that open in any editor, on any Mac.

One driver. Every Pakon.