Native Pakon colour
The OEM colour engine, rebuilt and frame-matched.
Pakon F‑135 · F‑135 Plus — 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.
Free trial — 10 rolls of Lab · macOS 14+ · no subscription
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything it does
Built like a lab tool, not a plugin.
Everything the minilab did — and a few things it never could.
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. In Pakon Scan Lab.
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.
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01
Scan
Feed the roll. PakonScan speaks the scanner's native USB protocol — cold start, calibration and wind-out handled for you.
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02
Decode
The raw sensor ribbon is decoded, frames are found and cut, and dust is healed with the infrared channel.
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03
Develop
Native Pakon colour by default, or your own look — every slider real-time, the preview identical to the export.
Pricing
Two licences. No subscription.
Pakon Scan Standard
Perpetual licence · all 1.x updates
$99 one-time
- Scan, develop and export — the whole darkroom
- 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
Pakon Scan Lab
Everything in Standard, plus batch
$149 one-time
- Everything in Standard
- Batch scanning — roll after roll into one folder, numbered for you
- Hot start between rolls — about 22 s saved on every roll after the first
- Auto-export — each roll exported as it finishes (coming in 1.2.1, a free update)
Own Standard? Upgrade to Lab from inside the app for $74.99. Digital ICE dust removal and DX decoding require a Pakon scanner with the infrared / barcode sensors.
Questions
Before you download.
- Which scanners are supported?
- The Pakon F-135 and F-135 Plus. The F-235 and F-335 are not supported.
- Is there a subscription?
- No. Two one-time licences: Standard ($99) and Lab ($149, which adds Batch scanning). Both activate on up to two Macs and include all 1.x updates, and Standard upgrades to Lab from inside the app for $74.99.
- 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. No Windows.
- F‑135
- F‑135 Plus
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- 35mm full
- Half-frame
- XPan pano
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- Digital ICE
- DX codes