Palomino moves you through a big 3FR shoot in minutes.
Palomino is a fast, focused culling app for macOS. It reads the JPEG preview embedded in every Hasselblad 3FR and FFF file, so you move through thousands of frames without waiting on a single RAW to decode. Rate the keepers, skip the rest, and hand a tight selection to Phocus. Your photos never leave your Mac.
Palomino is in limited beta for high-volume Hasselblad shooters. It runs on macOS 15 Sequoia or later, on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Phocus is built to develop Hasselblad files, with HNCS color and HNNR detail. It was never meant to power through thousands of frames quickly, and Browse mode shows it. Palomino handles the step before Phocus, getting you from a full card down to your keepers.
Palomino opens Hasselblad 3FR and FFF files using the embedded JPEG preview, so there is no conversion step and no waiting. Capture One cannot open 3FR at all.
Press 1 to 5 to rate, P to pick, and X to reject. Each press moves you to the next frame, so you can work a whole shoot without touching the mouse.
Export your selects to a folder and open it in Phocus. You process the frames you kept instead of scrolling past the ones you did not.
Cull the whole card in Palomino, then send the keepers to Phocus to develop. Each tool does the part of the job it is best at.
Point Palomino at your shoot. Thumbnails and previews come from the embedded JPEGs, so a thousand 3FR files load fast.
Move through every frame with the keyboard, flagging keepers and rejecting the rest. Filters narrow the view to exactly what you want.
Palomino copies your selects into a folder by flag or star rating, optionally splitting high-ISO frames out for denoising.
Open that folder in Phocus and render with HNCS and HNNR. You only handle the frames worth your time.
← → move 1–5 rate P pick X reject G grid C compare E export
Palomino does its work on your machine. It ships in the macOS App Sandbox without the network entitlement, so it cannot upload your files. There are no accounts, no cloud, and no analytics. Your 3FR files, ratings, and folder names stay where they are. Ratings are written to standard XMP sidecar files, which XMP-aware editors like Lightroom read.
Yes. Palomino reads both formats directly, using the embedded JPEG preview for instant display. Capture One cannot open 3FR at all.
Open the folder in Palomino and rate from the keyboard. Press 1 to 5 for stars, P to pick, and X to reject. Palomino shows the embedded preview instead of decoding each RAW and loads the next shot ahead of you, so a big shoot stays fast.
No. Phocus is where you render Hasselblad files, with HNCS color and HNNR detail, and Palomino is the fast culler in front of it. Most photographers use both. If you are new to Phocus, the Phocus user guide and what you lose skipping Hasselblad's own software are good places to start.
In Palomino, export your keepers to a folder, then open that folder in Phocus. You process the handful you kept instead of scrolling past everything in Browse mode.
Palomino works with any camera that produces 3FR or FFF files, including the X2D, X1D, and 907X/CFV. For the difference between the two formats, see FFF vs 3FR.
Palomino is in limited beta for high-volume Hasselblad shooters. Tell me what you shoot and I will send you a build.