Photos: Will Dolan

Knokke 135

£200 deposit. Ships beginning of December.

36 frames in under three minutes. 4k DPI. 48-bit depth. Knokke turns your negatives into high-resolution digital files.

A deposit reserves a place in the first batch.

£799 Inc. UK VAT. Ships worldwide.

£200 deposit today. The balance is due before your Knokke ships.
UK orders: £799 including VAT, so the balance is £599.
Orders outside the UK: no UK VAT is charged, so the price is £665.83 and the balance is £465.83. Import VAT, duty and any other local charges are set by your country's customs and are yours to pay.
Orders ship in batches, in the order they are placed.
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Resolution

4k DPI

Bit Depth

48 bit colour

Scan Time

<3 mins

Format

135

Technical Specifications

Knokke 135, in detail

Film format: 135 (35 mm) film strips: colour and B&W, negative and positive. No mounted slides.
Resolution: 4k DPI, around 22 megapixels per frame.
Maximum frame size: 5,760 × 3,840 px.
Sensor: Stacked back-side-illuminated (BSI) CMOS.
Bit depth: 48-bit colour, 16 bits per channel.
Capture: RGB trichrome. Every frame is exposed three times, once under each of the red, green and blue channels, so each pixel is measured in every channel rather than interpolated from a colour filter array.
Dynamic range: Captures the full density range of colour negative film, exceeding the recordable range of stocks like Portra 160.
Scan speed: A full, unbroken 36-exposure roll in under three minutes at full resolution, with infrared dust removal adding no scan time.
Dust & scratch removal: A dedicated 940 nm infrared pass produces a defect map, which is handed to Korova with the scan and filled in from the surrounding pixels. Grain is untouched. On black-and-white film, where infrared does not work, Linter in Korova detects dust and scratches from the image itself.
Light source: Four-channel LED array: 680 nm red, 550 nm green, 450 nm blue and 940 nm infrared.
Film transport: Automated stepper-driven transport, advanced under firmware control between exposures.
Lens: High-performance 4-element lens, designed in Rochester, New York.
Output formats: TIFF, JPEG and PNG at 4k, 2k or 1k DPI.
Interface: USB 3.0 SuperSpeed (5 Gbps), vendor class. No driver install; no hub recommended.
Host software: Korova, included. Inversion rendered through a curve modelled on RA-4 paper response, with the film base measured from each roll's own inter-frame gaps; C/M/Y/D and paper-grade printing corrections that save as recipes; automatic frame detection and orientation; and export to 16-bit TIFF, PNG or JPEG. System requirements.
Enclosure: Precision-machined solid aluminium.
In the box: Knokke scanner, USB cable, power supply, travel case and manual.
Warranty: 1-year warranty, in addition to your statutory rights.

Included Software

Korova

Every Knokke ships with Korova, scanning software written from scratch for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It handles the full workflow: calibration, capture, colour correction, and export. It runs natively and updates itself automatically.

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