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Dock, a film scanning system by Lento

Film scanning.
Reimagined.

Dock...

An automated film scanning system built around your camera.

From 999,00 €

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Highlights

  • Automated transport.

    From the first frame to the last.

  • Under complete control.

    Dock scans with pure narrowband RGB light.

  • Dock Connect.

    Made for each other. Scan & edit. All in one place.

    Dock Connect, la app de escritorio para escanear y ajustar

Why Dock.

Your film. Your eye. Your decisions.

Colour

Faithful from the start.

Narrowband RGB light, tuned to the dyes of your film. Every tone the negative holds, captured. Ready for everything you want to make of it.

Control

Nothing is baked in.

Change your mind, rescan the frame. As many times as you want. The negative is always the original.

Your camera

Your lens. Your sensor. Your look.

Dock has no camera inside. It uses yours. Every scan carries the quality, and the character, you already own.

Scanned with Dock.

A selection of photographs scanned through a real Dock workflow. Explore colour, detail, grain and tonal range frame by frame.

From darkroom to desktop.

We imagined Dock as a way to bring the darkroom into the digital age. As photographers, we love the colour control of an enlarger and the speed and workflow of a minilab scanner. So we brought the best of both worlds together in a product you can keep on your desk. Fast, intuitive, and built to give you complete control over your negatives.

Feed your film in.

Dock gets to know your negatives the moment you feed them in. It senses the film, recognises the frame size, and finds every image across the roll. No cropping. No guessing.

The film opening of a Dock, seen head on in the dark

Narrowband RGB,
built for film.

Colour film stores each colour in its own dye layer. Cyan, magenta, yellow. White light hits all three at once, and the layers bleed into each other. That’s where muddy colour comes from.

Dock scans with three narrow wavelengths instead. Red, green and blue, each one tuned to a single dye layer. Every colour read on its own, exactly where the film put it.

Cleaner separation. Neutral whites. Colour as the film recorded it.

White light, negative
White light, positive
Narrowband, negative
Narrowband, positive

Drag to compare.

Same negative, same camera, same exposure. Straight scans: no colour correction, no adjustments of any kind. What changes is only the light.

Three ways to capture.

Live

Colour and exposure, in real time.

Continuous light, tethered to your screen. See every adjustment as you make it.

Blend

One capture. Balanced colour.

Red, green and blue, balanced in a single exposure. The fast way through a roll.

Split

Three channels. Maximum depth.

One pass per colour, combined into a single file. The most information Dock can pull from a negative.

Strips, welcome.

Full roll or cut into strips: feed them in and Dock scans everything as a single roll.

Strips, welcome.

Your camera, in perfect sync.

A shutter cable is all it takes. Dock holds your camera open in bulb mode and times the light itself, so every frame of the roll gets exactly the same exposure. Any camera.

Trichromy.

The process behind Split mode. Three captures, one per colour of light, summed into a single positive. How the first colour photographs were made. Automatic, in Dock.

Learn more
Dock Connect running on a Mac laptop

Dock Connect.

Dock Connect is where everything comes together. It gives you complete control over the scanning process, lets you shape colour and exposure, and keeps every roll organised from start to finish.

Scan.

The Scan Table: your entire roll as a contact sheet. Select a frame, adjust it, and Dock physically goes back and scans it again. Real light, not a filter.

Dock Connect · Scan.

Edit.

Your roll is scanned. Now finish it. Colour, exposure, contrast. A full editor built into Dock Connect. From first scan to final image, without leaving the app.

Dock Connect · Edit.

Organize.

Every roll, exactly where it belongs. Create projects, add your rolls, and manage everything from one place. The Roll Library keeps your entire archive at hand.

Dock Connect · Organize.

Every step, one app. From the roll going in to the photograph you keep, Dock Connect carries it all.

Dynamic scan.

The preview shows what the light is about to do. Press rescan, and Dock captures the frame again under it. The adjustment lives in the scan, not on top of it.

Try it: change a value, then rescan.

A frame on the Dock Connect Scan Table: a ski slope seen from inside a tunnel, with its colour and exposure dials and the Rescan button underneath
Original scanDigital previewLight-corrected scan
Ski-004.cr2
0
0
0
0

Base analysis.

Before the first frame, Dock reads the film base and anchors colour to it. Every stock starts from its own true neutral. Your adjustments build on the film, not against it.

The same Portra 400 frame split in half: the lower half as it comes in, with its orange film base, and the upper half with the base read and removed Corrected light Uncorrected light

Raw Developer.

A raw engine written for negatives. Sixteen bits, capture to export. The TIFF you save is exactly the image you saw on screen.

SmartColor & SmartLight.

Fine-tuning, not fixing. Each frame arrives already corrected by Dock's light. SmartColor clears the casts light alone can't remove, SmartLight keeps the film's full range. Every slider stays yours.

Flatfield.

Even light, corner to corner. Dock Connect captures a reference of your lens and your Dock, and cancels vignetting across the frame. Calibrate once.

Hot folder.

Every project watches a folder on your computer. Shoot with the software your camera came with. Dock Connect picks the files up as they land. Any camera, any brand.

Tethering.

Dock Connect talks to your camera directly. Frames land on the Scan Table on their own; settings and live view, without leaving the app. Mac only, for now.

Built to last.

An aluminium housing. Film guides machined from the same metal. And a design for the years ahead: firmware that updates, parts that replace.

Two bare aluminium Dock housings

Aluminium

Housing and film guides.

The parts that touch your negatives are machined metal: precise the day Dock arrives, and every day after.

Updatable

Better with age.

Firmware and Dock Connect evolve together. Improvements arrive on the Dock you already own.

Modular

Built to grow.

There are accessories on our bench right now, and Dock's body was designed from day one to take them. Inside, one part comes out: the LED light panel. The rest arrives sealed, calibrated, finished.

Two Docks. Built for different formats.

One for 35 mm. One for 120. Choose by the film you shoot.

Dock 35

Dock 35

Format
35 mm
Frame sizes
Half / full frame
Software
Dock Connect included
999,00 € Details
Dock 120

Dock 120

Format
120 medium format
Frame sizes
645 · 6×6 · 6×7 · 6×9
Software
Dock Connect included
1199,00 € Details
  • Handcrafted in Spain
  • Deliveries begin in September 2026
  • VAT included
  • 14-day returns

In the box: Dock, two USB-C cables, a quick-start guide and the warranty. The copy stand that holds the camera, the USB-C power supply (45 W or more) and the shutter release cable for your camera are not included.

If you scan for a living.

For a lab, a studio or an archive, the roll count is the job. Roll after roll: the hundredth handled exactly like the first.

It runs on its own.

Feed the film in and Dock takes it from there, frame by frame to the end of the roll. Load it and walk away.

The whole order, in one app.

A project holds the job: rolls, frames, adjustments, the final TIFF. Six months later, the client comes back: the order is still there.

It fits where you already work.

The larger Dock is 24 cm wide and 1.6 kg. It lives on a desk, next to the camera. Growing means adding a bench, not a room.

Dock for business

Tech specs

Dock 35 Dock 120
Film format 35 mm 120 medium format
Frame sizes Half frame · Full frame 645 · 6×6 · 6×7 · 6×9
Frame detection Automatic Automatic
Minimum strip length 123 mm, approx. 4 full frames or 7 half frames 178 mm: 4× 645, 3× 6×6 or 6×7, or 2× 6×9
Dimensions 188 × 142 × 57 mm 241 × 170 × 57 mm
Weight 1.2 kg 1.6 kg
Construction Aluminium housing · Machined aluminium film guides Aluminium housing · Machined aluminium film guides
Light source Narrowband RGB, individually factory-calibrated Narrowband RGB, individually factory-calibrated
Light matrix 6 × 6 · 36 RGB groups 11 × 12 · 132 RGB groups
Total emitters 108 396
Capture modes Live · Blend · Split Live · Blend · Split
Film types Colour negative · Black & white · Slide Colour negative · Black & white · Slide
Connections USB to computer · 3.5 mm shutter connection USB to computer · 3.5 mm shutter connection
Power USB-C Power Delivery · 45 W minimum USB-C Power Delivery · 45 W minimum
Firmware Updatable Updatable
Software Dock Connect for macOS and Windows · Included Dock Connect for macOS and Windows · Included
Tethering Optional shortcut · macOS only Optional shortcut · macOS only

Capture & camera control

Shutter control

3.5 mm shutter-release connection. Dock holds the camera shutter open in bulb mode and controls the exposure through its own light timing. Compatible with cameras that offer bulb mode and an electrical remote shutter socket (a mechanical cable-release thread won't do). Shutter cable not included.

Image ingest

Tethered over USB into a folder Dock Connect watches: images are imported automatically as they arrive. Use the free tethering app from your camera's maker (Canon EOS Utility, Nikon NX Tether, FUJIFILM X Acquire, Sony Imaging Edge). Any camera, any brand, macOS and Windows alike.

Tethering

A shortcut, not a requirement: on macOS Dock Connect can tether to the camera itself, so no other app has to be running. Camera settings and live view come with it. Supported bodies vary by model, so check the camera list in Support.

Capacity & speed

Roll or strips

Both models take a complete roll, or cut strips fed one after another, down to 123 mm on Dock 35 and 178 mm on Dock 120. Every strip keeps the same calibration and numbering, so a roll fed in pieces stays a single roll.

Speed

A 36-exposure roll of 35 mm takes approximately 1 min 40 s, and a 16-exposure roll of 645 on 120 approximately 1 min, including analysis, light and colour optimisation, and capture.

In the box

Dock · 2× USB-C cables · Quick-start guide · Warranty

Copy stand, power supply and shutter-release cable are not included.

Dock Connect is included for macOS and Windows. The software licence is tied to the Dock's serial number.

Every Dock is built by hand. Engraved on the back of each one: “Made for the analog souls, by Lento in Spain.”

Questions, answered.

Your camera

Which cameras work with Dock?

Any camera with a bulb mode and a wired remote socket. Dock fires the shutter itself through a 3.5 mm release cable and holds it open in bulb mode, so the brand and the model don't come into it, but the socket has to be electrical: the mechanical thread of a classic cable release, a Bluetooth-only remote or a body with nothing but USB-C won't do. The frames come in over USB, tethered. On a Mac, Dock Connect can tether to many cameras itself. For any other camera, and on Windows, you tether with the free app from your camera's maker (Canon's EOS Utility, Nikon's NX Tether, Fujifilm's X Acquire, Sony's Imaging Edge), saving into a folder Dock Connect watches. That's the only part that depends on which camera you have, and it changes nothing about the scan.

Check your camera

How do my photos get into Dock Connect?

Tethered over USB, one of two ways. Every project watches a folder: point your camera's own tethering app at it (EOS Utility, NX Tether, X Acquire, Imaging Edge) and the frames are picked up as they land. On a Mac, for the cameras on our list, Dock Connect does the tethering itself instead, and each frame arrives on the Scan Table with nothing else open.

Mac or Windows?

Both, with the same scanning, editing and export. The one difference is a shortcut: on macOS Dock Connect can tether to many cameras itself. On Windows you tether with your camera's own app (EOS Utility, NX Tether, X Acquire, Imaging Edge) into the watched folder, which is also what you do on a Mac for any camera we can't drive directly.

What resolution will my scans have?

The resolution of your camera. Dock has no sensor of its own: it uses yours. A 24-megapixel camera gives you 24-megapixel scans, and the day you change camera, your scans change with it.

Do I need a macro lens?

Yes. It is the one thing you may still need to buy. Dock holds, lights and moves the film; your camera and lens do the capture, so the lens has to fill your sensor with a negative. What decides that is magnification, not the badge: a 35 mm frame on a full-frame body needs a true 1:1 macro, while a 120 negative is already bigger than your sensor and needs less. Focal lengths around 100 mm sit comfortably away from the film with little distortion. The one on our bench is a Sigma 105 mm macro.

Scanning

Is Dock a film scanner?

Not in the traditional sense. Dock is an automated film scanning system built around your digital camera: it holds, lights and advances the film and fires the shutter, your camera does the capture, and Dock Connect turns it into finished scans. The sensor, the resolution and the image quality are your camera's, and they improve the day your camera does.

How long does a roll take?

About 1 minute 40 seconds for a 36-exposure roll of 35 mm, and about a minute for a 16-exposure roll of 645 on 120. That is the whole process: analysing the film, setting light and colour, and capturing every frame.

Does it work with black & white and slide film?

Yes. Dock Connect has dedicated modes for colour negative, black & white and slide film.

Can I scan film that's already cut into strips?

Yes. Feed each strip one after another and Dock keeps them together as a single roll, with the same calibration all the way through. The minimum length is 123 mm on Dock 35 (about 4 full frames) and 178 mm on Dock 120 (2 frames of 6×9, 3 of 6×6 or 6×7, 4 of 645). Standard lab-cut strips are always long enough.

Does Dock work with monochrome cameras?

Yes. In Split mode the colour is captured one channel at a time, so a monochrome sensor delivers full-resolution colour scans.

How Trichromy works

Does Dock 35 scan half-frame?

Yes. It detects half frame and full frame automatically, with nothing to set up.

Ordering

What's in the box?

Dock, two USB-C cables, a quick-start guide and the warranty. Dock Connect is a download, and the licence is tied to your Dock's serial number.

Is there anything I need to buy separately?

Three things, and you may own them all already. Your camera sits above Dock on a copy stand, the vertical column used for reproduction work, which isn't included. Dock runs on USB-C Power Delivery and needs a supply of 45 W or more, the kind that comes with a laptop, which isn't included either. Neither is the shutter release cable that connects Dock to your camera, because the plug at the camera end depends on the body you shoot. The USB-C cables themselves are in the box.

When will my order arrive?

Deliveries begin in September 2026. Orders leave our workshop in Spain in the order they come in, and you'll get an email the day yours ships.

Where do you ship, and what about taxes?

Across Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. Anywhere else, write to us and we'll see what we can do. Prices include VAT; shipping and any customs duties are worked out at checkout or on arrival, depending on where you are.

Still deciding? Talk to us before you order.