[filmscanners] Re: Oh no! Not another which one should I buy question

2004-02-21 Thread Sam McCandless
I have a Polaroid 4000 (not Plus), Ed, and it seems to scan my old slides, Fujichrome as well as Kodachrome, well, at least with the LaserSoft SilverFast software. No bulk loader, though, at least not as far as I know, and I wouldn't say it's fast either. -- Sam I've been lurking in the group

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Sam McCandless
At 4:03 AM -0800 12/9/04, Arthur Entlich wrote: [snip] A small bit of technological information to perhaps clarify some issues. [big snip] A nice explication, Art. Did you not deal with DVD because you agree with Brad? [snip] I've been considering DVD's, but reading about the problems they

[filmscanners] Re: LCD vs CRT for imageediting

2005-08-17 Thread Sam McCandless
[snip] For the same reason as most on this forum I'd always steered clear of LCD's until recently, when it became necessary to find something lighter to transport (getting old arthritic.) After a lot of research, I settled on Dell's FP1905 and was quite surprised how good it is (I'd been using a

[filmscanners] Re: ADMIN : trim your posts please!

2006-01-31 Thread Sam McCandless
At 1:31 AM + 2/1/06, Tony Sleep wrote: [snip] Or use a mail client that allows you to quote selectively in the first place, eg Thunderbird with the Quickquote extension. [snip] I'm guessing Thunderbird is Windows-only. I'm on a Mac and still use Eudora. It lets me quote selectively, and I

[filmscanners] OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner availability)

2006-02-26 Thread Sam McCandless
At 10:36 PM -0800 2/25/06, lists wrote: I used Moniserv in Hayward Ca to get the CRT going again. Most of their business is (don't laugh) CCFT replacement in LCD displays. I've never seen so many Apple Cinema displays in one place. I'm curious to know what CCFT stands for even though the

[filmscanners] Re: CRT and flat panel thoughts

2006-02-27 Thread Sam McCandless
At 2:57 PM -0500 2/26/06, Unspecified [in this case, Paul S. Nielsen] wrote: CCFT = Cold Cathode Flourescent Tube. Basically use a long (width of display) flourescent tube (or 2, one at top and one at bottom) and then use a funky shaped piece of plastic to distribute the light across the full

[filmscanners] MR's show at Pikto (was Re: New Ilford products)

2006-02-27 Thread Sam McCandless
Since Paul Segal is also from Toronto, Paul, might you see him at Pikto and be able to pick his brains about the scanner(s) with which his near-digital-quality workflow might begin? I'm curious to know whether he's concerned about the type of light source. And which scanner he would substitute

[filmscanners] financing an Imacon (was RE: slide scanner - Plustek OpticFilm 7200i)

2006-03-18 Thread Sam McCandless
Has anyone tried financing an Imacon by using it to scan others' film, presumably mostly medium-format? Where I live, I don't think I'd get much business, but it wouldn't take much to encourage me to try. Yes, right the Plustek OpticFilm 7200 series has 7200dpi true optical resolution at

[filmscanners] Re: financing an Imacon (was RE: slide scanner -Plustek OpticFilm 7200i)

2006-03-18 Thread Sam McCandless
Sam, 1) where do you live? In Northern California, Brad, north of San Francisco - in the North Bay - whereas Lists and CanToo.com are in the East Bay. I'm guessing there's a quite small film-scanner market much more local to me. And how much would you charge per 6X7 transparency or neg? I

[filmscanners] Re: financing an Imacon (was RE: slide scanner - Plustek OpticFilm 7200i)

2006-03-18 Thread Sam McCandless
Yikes! Maybe instead I'll sell photo tours of Utah's canyon country with the first stop at BH in New York. 8) -- Sam At 9:23 PM + 3/18/06, Paul Roberts wrote: Did you mean to say 5000 dollars, instead of pounds, Chris, or is that just here in the States? I haven't looked hard, but I

[filmscanners] Re: ADMIN: IMPORTANT! ADVANCE WARNING OF LIST SUSPENSION

2006-05-31 Thread Sam McCandless
Thanks, congratulations, and good luck, Tony. We need your list, and it's good you saved it. I'm looking forward to seeing it on the other side. -- Sam On May 31, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Tony Sleep wrote: [snip]

[filmscanners] Re: film and scanning vs digital photography

2007-06-17 Thread Sam McCandless
On Jun 17, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Henk de Jong wrote: Hi Tony, They misinformed you! I have one here and the front does not rotate on the EF 50mm f1.4 USM, it simply extends and retracts a little. You are sure? That is good news! With kind regards, Henk de Jong -- http://www.hsdejong.nl/

[filmscanners] Re: film and scanning vs digital photography

2007-07-04 Thread Sam McCandless
On Jul 3, 2007, at 11:47 PM, R. Jackson wrote: On Jul 1, 2007, at 6:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ... At 4800 dpi a 35mm scan is 6255x4079. That's over 25 megapixels. I can't really tell the difference between a 4800 dpi scan and a 6400 dpi scan, so I never go higher than 4800

[filmscanners] Re: film and scanning vs digital photography

2007-07-04 Thread Sam McCandless
couple of months and been very happy with the results, even though it's not a dedicated film scanner. -Rob On Jul 4, 2007, at 5:36 AM, Sam McCandless wrote: I need a new film scanner, Robert, so I'm curious to know how - with what - you've been scanning at 4800 6400 and whether it's still

[filmscanners] Re: spam magnet

2008-03-31 Thread Sam McCandless
Thanks, Tony, for doing what you can about the spam problem. And please feel free to suggest what we might do to help make it less of a problem. It's actually only a very minor nuisance for me, but I have no idea why that is, unless it's because I've been on Mac's and done what I can to help