[filmscanners] Re: Silverfast Color Management
Yes it is. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:15 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Silverfast Color Management I had the thought that perhaps my difficulty with the Silverfast IT-8 calibration might be the gamma setting. I had set it to 2.2 since I am on a PC and my Spyder/PhotoCal setting is 2.2 Is this correct, is this setting to be the typical 2.2 that one would use for a Windows PC or am I misunderstaniding that setting? Howard Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Silverfast Color Management
Yes you do. Monitor gamma has noting to do with scanning originals and the settings required so to do. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:53 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Silverfast Color Management In a message dated 5/16/2002 9:24:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had the thought that perhaps my difficulty with the Silverfast IT-8 calibration might be the gamma setting. I had set it to 2.2 since I am on a PC and my Spyder/PhotoCal setting is 2.2 Is this correct, is this setting to be the typical 2.2 that one would use for a Windows PC or am I misunderstaniding that setting? Howard Why is it that I feel like I am having a conversation with myself about color management in Silverfast. Sure enough, I finally found the reference to gamma gradation in the Silverfast manual (not the easiest instruction manual in the world) and it refers to midtone gamma as opposed to monitor gamma. It says that correct setting is 1.8-2.0 for slides and 1.6-1.8 for negatives...so it should not be set to monitor gamma (like you do in Filmget gamma setting in the software). So I will need to go back and recalibrate using a different setting to see how it affects the calibrated scan. Howard Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] SCSI Cable problem
A thousand humble apologies to all scsi cable manufacturers. Grovel, grovel. Further investigation makes me think that my 'noise' comes from the scsi card and/or card drivers. I put the allegedly noisy scsi cable back in place of the new scsi cable and I did not get my noisy scan. Oh dear, thinks I. Any way , to cut the chase, my re-evaluation is as follows (subject to any further ideas) :- PC 1, with flatbed scanner 1, Tekram scsi card - either cable = noise PC 2, with flatbed scanner 1, Domex scsi card - either cable = no noise PC 3, with flatbed scanner 2, other scsi card - old scsi = noise, usb no noise Sadly PC 3 and flatbed 2 and the other scsi card were stolen. So not sure what the other scsi card was. In the case of PC 1 and 2 the operating system is w98, the flatbed has no drivers loaded in windows, it's a yellow question mark in the device manager. Vuescan 7.4.2 used whatever scsi stuff it needs. The motherboards are different. So there we go. Look before you leap and all that. Yours suitably chastised Dave. Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Polaroid SS4000
Hi Ed, To my knowledge, you will be hard pressed finding this scanner new. Polaroid sold off the stock in their warehouse just prior to the SS4000+ coming out. They also were liquidating them to bring in some money during their Chapter 11 proceeding. At that time, the SS4000 scanners were selling mainly via on-line dealers for, as I recall, between $700-750 US, and Polaroid was offering a $200 US rebate at that time off of that. I don't know if there are any new units left in the channel, and I rarely even see them used on ebay. But you might be able to find some new Microtek 4000t models, which are very similar, but I don't know what the price is. There aren't specifically any bad SS4000 models. There were three problems I know of. The very early units has a problem with a wiring harness which sometimes pulled loose, but these were all fixed under warranty. The other problem is there is a sensor on the scanner which determines the position of the film carrier. If this sensor gets too much dust build up over it, the scanner gets confused and gives an error. Polaroid resolved this problem by providing a small brush that attaches to the carrier and can be used every so often to keep the sensor clean. In some cases, prior to this brush fix, some scanners had a large enough build up that the brush wasn't enough to clean the sensor or the carrier wouldn't move properly, due to the dust in on the sensor. The last situation was a problem with some of the slide carriers. There was a problem with the molding process on some which cased the small plastic springs to break. The carriers sell for about $12 from Polaroid, if you need to replace one, or buy extras. Other than these three situations and perhaps doing a firmware upgrade, which you can do via a download, I know of no other specific problems with these models. They've been quite reliable, overall. Art Edward F. VanderBush wrote: I think I have finally settled on the SS4000 (non plus) as the scanner to purchase. I am still tempted to just get a slightly cheaper Minolta scan elite II or something but it seems like there is an abundance of satisfied ss4000 users on here. Is there any version of this first scanner that I need to look for? Also, can anyone recommend the cheapest place to purchase one? (US only) Also any word on an upcoming rebate. Thank you all! Regards, ED Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: vuescan problem
PC, Win98 original edition, 128MB Ram, latest Vuescan, it occurs usually after a number, though not a definite number, of scans. The memory theory is quite attractive for me given that in two weeks or so I'll be getting delivery on a new computer with 1.5GB of RAM. This happens on relatively small (20MB) files but I don't release memory after every scan so I guess that could be an issue. But if it's apt to be a computer problem not a software problem at others are having I guess it's best just to hang in for a couple of weeks. Thomas B. Maugham wrote: John: You haven't provided a great deal of information so it's hard to diagnose. Are you using a Mac or a PC? What version of the operating system are you using? How much memory do you have? How large is the swap file on the disk? What version of VueScan are you using? How often does this occur (i.e. once in a strip of 6 negs), when does it occur (i.e. the fifth neg in the strip), etc. On the surface it sounds to me like a memory problem in that you may not have enough memory to store all the scanned images and when it tries to write or read the information to or from the swap file on the disk it fails. I offer this as I use VueScan for both negs and slides and haven't seen this but I have 256mb of memory and a huge swap file on my disk so that may be the solution. Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Matturri Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] vuescan problem Ever since I started to scan color negatives with vuescan (on SS4000) I periodically get scans that differ greatly from the preview. Usually with a much narrower range of values and odd casts, often a bright, almost solarized blue cast in white highlights and more recently an overall green cast. This makes batch scanning impossible because somewhere in the strip the scans eventually start having these properties. The only way to get rid of this behavior is to close down the program and rescan. I've raised the problem with Ed once or twice over the past few years but never got a solution. Except for these cases I like the scans I am getting so I put up with this but it is frustrating and time-wasting. Anyone else have this problem, or even better, have a solution to it. -- John Matturri words and images: http://home.earthlink.net/~jmatturr/ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body -- John Matturri words and images: http://home.earthlink.net/~jmatturr/ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
