[filmscanners] OT/Canon D60
Everything you wanted to know (except the price): http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/D60/D60P.HTM Cary Enoch R... aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] RE: Nikon D100
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Julian Vrieslander Subject: [filmscanners] Nikon D100 Nikon announces its prosumer 6MP digital SLR. Price rumored to be under $2k. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02022105nikond100.asp I wonder why Canon is lagging so far behind other major manufacturers in this area (price/performance, etc.)? Those of us who want to use our Canon lenses on an affordable high-res digital body are left out in the cold. Anyone dreaming of a Canon digital body with a Foveon chip? Cary Enoch R... aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] RE: The weakest link
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Kent I concur... Definitely do not skimp on the scanner. While a high end scanner cannot guarantee the best output, it should give you the best image to start with. Just make sure that every piece of equipment in your workflow is correctly color managed, and you should be fine. I find in my own case that the weakest link is the scanner operator. Cary Enoch R... aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] OT: Outlook WAS: THIS LIST NOW REFUSES HTML MAIL
A few of you seem to have not noticed the earlier admin msg. Mails must be sent in plain text only. Thank you a thousand times:-) For those of you who detest HTML mail as I do there's good news if you use Outlook (not Outlook Express) as your email client. This article describes a new feature that is added to Outlook 2002 in Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 1 (SP-1). This feature allows individual users to set Microsoft Outlook to read all non-digitally-signed e-mail or nonencrypted e-mail in plain text format. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307594 On December 4, I [Paul Thurott--http://www.secadministrator.com] wrote a news story about Russ Cooper's NoHTML tool (first URL below) for Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2000 clients. The new functionality in SP1 goes beyond the capability Cooper introduced; however, SP1 contains no such feature for Outlook 2000 clients, so Cooper's tool is a great way to introduce more security into those products. You can find the tool by going to the second URL below. http://www.secadministrator.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=23391 http://ntbugtraq.ntadvice.com/default.asp?sid=1pid=55did=38 Cary Enoch R... aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell --- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe' in the title or body
RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan V3.1.2 For Windows and MAC
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Shunith Dutt From: Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) environments. Having worked at Microsoft for six years I know enough to be cynical about everything that they do. Thought you folks might enjoy these: 2/ 'Think of this as a partnership,' Gates said. 'Like the ones and zeroes of the binary code itself, we must all work together to make the promise of the computer revolution a reality. As the world's richest, most powerful software company, Microsoft is number one. And you, the millions of consumers who use our products, are the zeroes.' --The Onion Ah, yes! I often use The Onion quotation in place of my normal sig line. Like most good satire there's a grain of truth in it;-) Cary Enoch R... aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: Upgrading from NikonScan 2.5 to NikonScan 3.1
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Julian Robinson In this case as Nikon advise, you do have to uninstall 2.5 first and run regsweep before installing ver 3. I did this with Win98-nearly-SE (Win98 non-SE with all service packs) and had no probs. In the case of a minor incremental upgrade such as 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 it doesn't matter. However, when going up from one major version number to another it's probably a good idea to uninstall the earlier version. That will ensure that there are no conflicting registry entries or other dross that might affect NikonScan. I would certainly run the regsweep utility in this case. Cary Enoch R... aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan V3.1.2 For Windows and MAC
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Shunith Dutt Sent: Wednesday, 19 December, 2001 01:52 James/Enoch You know, i must have spent an hour hunting for it on the Nikon sites... going in thru www.nikon.com and then following links... on the us site (it's a black and white effect) couldn't even find a link to support... on the uk site it was still 3.1.1... they're really strange and they still haven't done anything about their stability you say? oh well It's there. Honest it is: http://www.nikontechusa.com/Scan3_12.htm I just checked again, 7:45 EST -- I kid you not. I clicking on the link even as I write this and it's asking me to save the file. I got it and installed it last night. Works fine so far (Win2K/SP2). I scanned three slides last night and NS 3.12 didn't crash (yet). Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan V3.1.2 For Windows and MAC IMPORTANT
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James Grove You should always uninstall the Windows versions and also run the regsweep utilitity in the Utils folder of that versions download, then install the new version after reboot. I made registry snapshots before and after installing NS version 3.12 with ConfigSafe Complete Recovery 4.0. Examination of the keys that NS uses shows no compelling reason to do that with this version. As I'm very likely the only person on this list who's written an entire book on the NT registry I think I can say that with some authority;-) If I recall correctly prior NS versions prompted users to uninstall earlier versions. However, this version no longer does that so it's just a waste of time. I was able to use NS 3.12 immediately after running setup without any problems at all. If it makes anyone feel better then go ahead and run regsweep. It won't hurt anything. Cary (formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED], Senior Technical Writer on Windows NT Server Resource Kit team at Microsoft 1991-97) Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan V3.1.2 For Windows and MAC
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brian D. Plikaytis The site http://www.nikontechusa.com says this is for Windows XP. Did you find that it improved your Win2K version's performance? It's only been 24 hours since I installed NikonScan NS) 3.12 so there's not enough mileage on it yet to judge its performance. After I find all the tweaks to rid WinXP of its annoying middleware, goofy user interface, Passport prompts and MSN Messenger I'll install it in a dual-boot scenario with Win2K and give NS a good test in both environments. Having worked at Microsoft for six years I know enough to be cynical about everything that they do. Cary Enoch R... aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan V3.1.2 For Windows and MAC
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James Grove V3.1.2 has been available in Japan for a week. The Driver file for XP is the same as in previous versions but the Scan software is different. Today it appeared without warning in English on the Nikon USA Tech site. Specifically: http://www.nikontechusa.com/Scan3_12.htm Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: VueScan 7.3 Available
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.3 Available Ed would you change the file name as well please as Gozilla didn't like it as being the same as in 7.2 and I wasn't sure that 7.3 was coming down. I've updated my web page. Ed, would you consider making the Windows version of VueScan also available as a .zip file? That makes it easier to extract to a folder and drive of one's choice. I use the NTFS filesystem on Win2K with 8.3 filenames disabled (performance tweak). So when I install new versions of VueScan there are always extra steps involved. Aside from moving the files there's also a hitch because the installer is a 16-bit application. Thanks for considering this option, Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: GIMP for Windows
At 02:29 22-11-01 +, Jawed Ashraf wrote: [Justification for filmscanners posting: GIMP functionality for editing photos as compared with Photoshop] K, people, I'm curious if anyone here is using GIMP for Windows and whether it's any good and whether it handles all of our common tasks with the comprehensiveness of Photoshop. What about ease of use? That would be lacking. Just curious about this as I'm wondering if it is worth recommending to friends that they try GIMP instead of Photoshop, or Paint Shop Pro. Not if you want to keep them as friends. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Firewire IEEE1394
At 13:03 30-10-01 +, you wrote: Svante, Thats the problem. it isnt! To be supported out of the box in Win2K your firewire card must be listed as: Texas Instruments (refers specifically to the chipset not the OEM) OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller. That applies to the majority of recent cards. Some cards made by Pinnacle and others are specifically designed for video capture and don't work well for other applications. For best performance get an Adaptec IEEE 1394 card. It's plug-and-play and will be instantly and silently recognized. Since IEEE 1394 is provided by Windows 2000 out-of-the-box, I expect that the same is valid for XP. Svante Kleist, NEMESIS systemDesign, Stockholm Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Nikonscan and dual processors
At 20:18 05-10-01 -0700, you wrote: Just got this back from Nikon: It is known by Nikon that there are problems with Dual Processor PC's, both Windows and Mac. Although the Product Brochures do not specifically say the 2CPU machines will not work, neither do they say it does. That's a bunch of weasel-worded crap. No application states anything like that. Dual Processors are good but only for applications that are designed for them like Photoshop. Ours is not and probably will not be for the foreseeable future. Best performance with our products is achieved (currently) on single processor P4 machines running lots of RDRAM Excuse me? Nikon is implying that NS won't work properly on AMD systems or P2's. Because only high-end P3 and to-date all P4 machines have RDRAM. Perhaps Nikon development doesn't even know what that means. so the forums guesses were right, dual processors and nikonscan dont work very well. (I get one scan in four or so) funny thing is I'm not asking for NS to *utilise* dual processors, just not to crash with them. In Win2K it's simple to set an application to use just one processor by using Task Manager. Right-click on the application name in the process list and select Processor Affinity. However, I've done this with NS 3.1 and it makes no difference whatsoever. All that the message from Nikon tells me is that they're clueless or that they vaguely suspect that their application's multithreading is less than optimal. They really need to hire professional development people instead of those high school interns they're using. Perhaps they should make an offer to Ed Hamrick that he can't refuse;-) Everyone knows that NS crashes just as readily on a single CPU as it does on an SMP system. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Constant crashes with Nikonscan 3.1/Coolscan 4000ED/W2K/Dual CPUs. Anyone got this combo to work?
At 11:46 04-10-01 +0100, you wrote: I see that a lot of people have been reporting that NikonScan is very buggy and crashes a lot. I am having similar problems. Has anyone actually got this software to work under W2K/dual CPUs? There don't seem to be any reports of solutions that I can find (but lots of reports of problems). In addition to checking comp.periphs.scanners, I am trying to get a feeling for how common this problem is (and any solutions) so I can harass Nikon. I use NS 3.1 on a Dell Precision 420 Workstation with dual 933 P3's and 768 MB RDRAM with three IBM HD's of 27, 60 and 75 GB capacity respectively. NS 3.1 does work but it can crash unexpectedly. The usual scenario is that it crashes after four or five 16-bit scans and takes PShop 6.1 with it. I figure that about ten minutes out of every hour is wasted because of the crashes. It makes no difference whatsoever which background tasks, services, etc. are running. I can count on periodic NS crashes. Bashing my head against the wall would be more fun and yield about the same results. Getting help from Nikon support is futile. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Bruce Fraser Reviews Nikon 4000ED
At 03:32 03-10-01 -0400, you wrote: Wire, I like your review better than Bruce's!!! And I haven't even read Bruce's! I guess I'm a born skeptic and have never completely trusted any review in any publication that accepts advertising for the products being reviewed. There's too much conflict of interest. So then you're both of the opinion that Bruce Fraser prostituted his considerable reputation because the website has to pander to its advertisers? Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
filmscanners: Bruce Fraser Reviews Nikon 4000ED
Excellent objective review: http://www.creativepro.com/printerfriendly/story/14539.html Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: The Nikon 4000 and Genuine Fractals
At 01:34 21-09-01 -0500, LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: Does the license allow me to do that? Usually OEM software bundled with hardware doesn't allow that so I'm not sure in this case. Usually all software (bundled or not) allow one to give away the software, or in some cases even resell it, as long as certain conditions are met. The main provision being that you cannot retain possession of a copy on your computer or on a hard copy media like, floppy, tape or CD of the supplied program other than copies that have been purchased and registered independent of the one being given away or sold. All I want to do is give it to my son for use on his laptop with Pshop. He's in the US Air Force on active duty and most definitely cannot have unlicensed software on his computer. I'll just send him the entire disk and packaging. Seeing as the CD also contains NikonScan 3.0 it is pretty much useless to me anyway. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: The Nikon 4000 and Genuine Fractals
At 07:57 21-09-01 -0500, you wrote: I think you want to be careful. I disagree with this position. Most bundled OEM software is licensed to the computer that has the equipment attached. I would carefully read the license agreement before sending it to your son. It's not worth risking his career over this piece of software. I don't know about the military, but at the company I work at, it is a 'fireable' offense. You're absolutely right. I'll ask him to find out from his CO exactly what is permitted and what isn't and meanwhile research the EULA more carefully myself. He is just beginning his career in the Air Force as a computer programmer. Contacting relatives and friends in the USAF is very difficult right now but I'm sure that this software is the farthest thing from his mind anyway. Tom At 01:34 21-09-01 -0500, LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: Does the license allow me to do that? Usually OEM software bundled with hardware doesn't allow that so I'm not sure in this case. Usually all software (bundled or not) allow one to give away the software, or in some cases even resell it, as long as certain conditions are met. The main provision being that you cannot retain possession of a copy on your computer or on a hard copy media like, floppy, tape or CD of the supplied program other than copies that have been purchased and registered independent of the one being given away or sold. All I want to do is give it to my son for use on his laptop with Pshop. He's in the US Air Force on active duty and most definitely cannot have unlicensed software on his computer. I'll just send him the entire disk and packaging. Seeing as the CD also contains NikonScan 3.0 it is pretty much useless to me anyway. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: The Nikon 4000 and Genuine Fractals
I think you want to be careful. I disagree with this position. Most bundled OEM software is licensed to the computer that has the equipment attached. I would carefully read the license agreement before sending it to your son. It's not worth risking his career over this piece of software. I don't know about the military, but at the company I work at, it is a 'fireable' offense. You're absolutely right. I'll ask him to find out from his CO exactly what is permitted and what isn't and meanwhile research the EULA more carefully myself. At 10:06 21-09-01 -0400, Austin Franklin wrote: These software EULAs can say/claim anything they want, but the law can be entirely different than what they claim! I do not know your specific situation, and I am in no way endorsing software piracy. Let's not inadvertently misdirect the issue here. There is no question of piracy and frankly I don't know why you'd even bring it up. I will either give the entire package to a relative or discard it because I don't have any need for it personally. Ownership transfer will occur only when and if I find out that it is legal to do it. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: The Nikon 4000 and Genuine Fractals
At 14:22 21-09-01 -0400, you wrote: At 10:06 21-09-01 -0400, Austin Franklin wrote: These software EULAs can say/claim anything they want, but the law can be entirely different than what they claim! I do not know your specific situation, and I am in no way endorsing software piracy. Let's not inadvertently misdirect the issue here. There is no question of piracy and frankly I don't know why you'd even bring it up. I did not mention piracy at all in relation to your specific issue, and as far as you were concerned there was no question of piracy. I only mentioned piracy in relation to my statement of possibly ignoring (certain clauses in) EULAs. I never believed your situation could be characterized in any sense as piracy! Please accept my sincerest apologies for overreacting and being so touchy. I have no acceptable excuse for it:-( I'm just jittery because my son is in the USAF and I want to see him safe and don't want to inadvertently create a problem for him. My opinion is also that any software you have original disks etc. for is yours to give to anyone you want to, providing you didn't keep any copies/backups...once you give it away, you have no more rights to use it. This is what sounds to me like your situation. If I understand correctly, you have the original disks, aren't using them, and just want to give them away. Yes that's true. EULA's must be the most arcane (deliberately?) obfuscated documents in computerdom. I figure that I wrote a lot of crap during the years that I was a technical writer at Microsoft but never anything as bad as a EULA! That level of drivel is reserved strictly for legal departments. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: The Nikon 4000 and Genuine Fractals
At 18:45 20-09-01 -0400, you wrote: Joe I bought the Nikon 4000 from Ritz Camera and it came with Genuine Fractals. I think that it is only the grey market products that don't come with it. I bought my LS4000 retail at KEH Cameras in Atlanta. It came with Genuine Fractals though it wasn't mentioned anywhere and I had to hunt around the CD to find it. I already have a licensed copy of GF installed so I wouldn't mind giving the one that came with the Nikon away. Does the license allow me to do that? Usually OEM software bundled with hardware doesn't allow that so I'm not sure in this case. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
filmscanners: Moving Photo
In case you haven't seen it, this incredible side-by-side photo comparison: http://www.wsbradio.com/about_us/scottsladesfootnotes.html Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
smart_sharpen.atn WAS: Re: filmscanners: NikSharpener Pro
At 23:59 09-09-01 -0700, Ron Carlson wrote: Hi Les, I looked but couldn't find it. Where on Katrin's web site did you find it. Regards Ron http://www.digitalretouch.org/download2.html#ch678_images Scroll down to smart_sharpen.atn PS Actions that creates a custom edge mask for you image before you apply USM. I forget the URL for Johnny's versions, but there is also a very good one from Katrin Eismann at www.digitalretouch.org. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: NikSharpener Pro
At 19:24 09-09-01 +, you wrote: I find Nik Sharpener utterly useless-- it ALWAYS oversharpens, no matter what settings I use. Agreed. I've seen it in action and think it's grossly overpriced for what little it does as opposed to custom Photoshop actions or packages like UltraSharpenPro. I can do a better job with careful settings on PS's USM tool, sharpening individual channels, etc. The BEST way is to use one of the PS Actions that creates a custom edge mask for you image before you apply USM. I forget the URL for Johnny's versions, but there is also a very good one from Katrin Eismann at www.digitalretouch.org. See ftp://ftp.pinkheadedbug.com and http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/links.html Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Re: Nikon Super coolscan problems
At 23:40 31-08-01 -0400, you wrote: Cary Can you tell me in detail how vuescan might help to remove crud and improve sharpness in the Nikon Super coolscan 4000. Download a trial copy and see if you're pleased with the results. It doesn't cost anything to try it. All the film that I've scanned has been 30 years old or more. For Ektachromes I use NikonScan and am pleased with the results. For Kodachromes only Vuescan works and it does a very fine job of it. I'd use it for everything but am still much more comfortable with a fully WYSIWYHYG (What You See Is What You Hope You Get) interface. There's some trial and error and fine tuning involved with Vuescan unless you become quite expert with it (which I'm not). Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: OT: LCD monitors for photo editing
At 06:08 30-08-01 -0400, you wrote: At 23:44 29-08-01 -0700, Henning Wulff wrote: In general LCD's are quite useless for photoediting as they color/contrast shift when you move your head. This also means that even if you don't move your head relative to the LCD, all the corners will display the same image range with different values. CRT's are still the way to go. Everyone is switching to flat panel and I mean everyone! g http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/08/26/stidordor02007.html Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: OT: LCD monitors for photo editing
At 23:44 29-08-01 -0700, Henning Wulff wrote: In general LCD's are quite useless for photoediting as they color/contrast shift when you move your head. This also means that even if you don't move your head relative to the LCD, all the corners will display the same image range with different values. CRT's are still the way to go. That doesn't jibe with my experience. Have you looked at the latest crop of 18.1-inch LCD monitors? I've been working with a Philips Brilliance 180P monitor for the past two months and would never go back to a CRT. First of all, the color and contrast do *not* shift during normal head movements even if I move to the very edges of the screen. Sharpness and contrast are equal to any equivalent-sized CRT that I have ever seen. It took a little effort to adjust the color neutrality because the factory-supplied profile was faulty but now the color is outstanding. Also, there is a lot to be said for less eyestrain as compared to working on a CRT. Try one; you might like it. Check out the latest Philips and Sony offerings in particular. Why do you suppose Apple is moving away from CRT's? It's not because they want to risk ditching all their graphics industry customers. I'm on a Windows 2000 PC, btw. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: (Linux)
At 11:21 29-08-01 +0200, you wrote: Check http://www.vmware.com :-) I use Vuescan (http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html) for scanning from Linux), VMWare is pretty useful for running Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000 under Linux. I have yet to find a distribution of Linux that recognizes a firewire scanner within VMware--or in Win4Lin either. The latter is a better performer. Any ideas on how to enable firewire and specifically the Nikon LS-4000 in VMware would be greatly appreciated. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/ 'Think of this as a partnership,' Gates said. 'Like the ones and zeroes of the binary code itself, we must all work together to make the promise of the computer revolution a reality. As the world's richest, most powerful software company, Microsoft is number one. And you, the millions of consumers who use our products, are the zeroes.' --The Onion
Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?
At 06:07 19-08-01 +0200, Thys wrote: - Original Message - From: Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you actually worked with a Nikon LS-4000? It's a very fine piece of machinery that is easily worth its price. I definitely wouldn't buy on the basis of their name as I've had beefs with Nikon in the past. A few years ago I ditched my Nikon cameras and lenses and replaced them with a couple of Canon EOS1n's and Canon lenses and never looked back. Names don't impress me. Only performance matters. I've never seen a single post on this I haven't used it yet, but will get my hands on one soon, since a friend of mine bought one. I don't think the issue to me is that it is not a good scanner, but whether it is worth paying almost double to some very capable machines that the competition is offering. I agree that's a valid issue. It would all depend on how much you needed Nikon's ICE^3 features and how well you felt they were implemented as opposed to Vuescan, for example, on a competitive scanner. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?
- Original Message - True; but tests I've seen so far indicates that the Polaroid SS4000 and Canon 4000 are on par with the Nikon LS4000 (some rate them actually better than the Nikon in some respects) IMO the Nikon is overpriced and people buy the name more than anything else. Have you actually worked with a Nikon LS-4000? It's a very fine piece of machinery that is easily worth its price. I definitely wouldn't buy on the basis of their name as I've had beefs with Nikon in the past. A few years ago I ditched my Nikon cameras and lenses and replaced them with a couple of Canon EOS1n's and Canon lenses and never looked back. Names don't impress me. Only performance matters. I've never seen a single post on this list by anyone who bought a Nikon scanner simply for its nameplate. Its competitors have excellent quality also but if you need ICE^3, like the Nikon's film handling and modularity and their software interface then it's worth the bucks. I bought my Nikon LS-4000 because of it's superior film handling capabilities. I fail to understand how this feature can be continually overlooked in a day and age where everyone in the world (at least on this forum) seems to be pressed for time. I don't care who made them or what brand name is on them, the Nikon strip and roll film adapters are hassle-free time savers. What is your time worth to you? to your loved ones? If it had Mickey Mouse on its nameplate and performed as good as it does I'd still have bought one. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Image management software
I'm looking for some recommendations on what image management software folks are using. The size of my image collection, both scanned and unscanned is growing past my normal haphazard filing systems capabilities. Given the amount of images being scanned, anyone have any recommendations? Take a look at ACDSee http://www.acdsystems.com/english/products/acdsee/ Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Silverfast vs Nikon Software?
At 13:17 14-08-01 +, you wrote: Cary wrote: This technique can help many balky applications to run correctly on Win2K. This (below) sounds like a good answer to a bad problem. Before I try it on my next install, though, has anyone here tried this type of custom installation on Win98? The technique probably won't work on Windows 98 or NT either because it takes advantage of a feature of Windows 2000's System File Protection. It may work on X-pee and possibly on Windows Me but I haven't seen any documentation to that effect. http://windows2000.about.com/compute/windows2000/library/tips/bltip228.htm This technique can help many balky applications to run correctly on Win2K. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: SilverFast Upgrade Disaster
At 00:53 13-08-01 +0100, Steve Greenbank wrote: Not wishing to sound to gloomy, but the advice sounds like a we have no idea - but it might work if we re-install everything. The good news is that it often does - the bad news is IME it more often doesn't. Slightly OT but this brings to mind a piece that I just read on BBSpot, a humor site. Excerpt: Gator, an insidious, ubiquitous software program that helps users surf the Internet by storing passwords and popping up banner ads has come under fire for its annoying and allegedly deceptive features. Beyond the pop-up ads and difficult uninstalls, there have been reports of even more annoying features of the software. . . . [Gator marketing representative] continued, We also take exception to the reports that Gator is difficult to install. We list in our readme.txt file the simple steps required to remove the program. The first step requires a program called fdisk which every user has on their computer system. http://bbspot.com/News/2001/08/gator.html Seems like typical technical support these days, doesn't it? w Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Silverfast vs Nikon Software?
At 19:11 12-08-01 +0100, David Gordon wrote: rlb [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote on Sun, 12 Aug 2001 07:31:43 -0400 I would appreciate some thoughts from those that use Silverfast. It has a very steep learning curve. It is hard to use. It is unintuitive. It has a very poor user interface. It make fantastic scans in two minutes. Get the IT-8 calibration, try the demo first! Been there. Did that. On my Win2K system the SIlverfast demo made NikonScan inoperative. I had to uninstall Silverfast and reinstall NikonScan before it would work again. Not sure about the fantastic scans part but you nailed it in other areas. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: RE: Custom PC spec
At 21:24 01-08-01 +0100, Jawed Ashraf wrote: The Athlon/RAM combination is very good value at the moment (actually that combination is silly money). If you buy as a complete system you should have no trouble - though it is fair to say that W2K and some varieties of Athlon motherboard do not get on. I personally wouldn't use W2K, as it is the most incompatible operating system MS has produced in years. I have one friend with it who reports all kinds of grief with software, drivers, hardware - he has re-installed operating system at least 5 times - he's not incompetent, he's just dealing with poorly written software and unlucky combinations. Then I must be dealing with only 'lucky' combinations on my Win2K system because the four USB devices (Wacom tablet, Garmin GPS programmer, cordless mouse, and USB2IDE thingamajig), two firewire devices (Nikon LS-4000 and Canon DV camera), Pinnacle video capture board, Epson SCSI scanner, Promise ATA100 controller, DVD-RAM, SCSI tape, etc etc. all worked immediately and smoothly as soon as they were installed. No conflicts, no reinstalls, no BSOD's. The system is a dual-933 MHz Dell workstation with an i840 chipset and 768 MB PC800 RDRAM. If someone has to continually reinstall their OS then they are overlooking some fundamental incompatibility such as the m/b itself, the system BIOS or intermittent problems with a hard disk. It's also possible that they're running an upatched system without the latest Service Packs and the like. By the time that Microsoft gets an OS to be totally smooth they make it obsolete, for example, NT 4.0 or Windows 98SE. I have local copies of the text versions of the Windows Hardware Compatibility Lists. If you go by their size which closely correlates to the number of compatible devices that they list the order of *decreasing* compatibility and hardware support is as follows: NT 4.0 = 5.4 MB list (best) Win98 = 4.6 MB list Win 2000 = 3.4 MB list Win Me = 1.9 MB list (worst) so a lot of fast RAM is important. Can anyone see any problems with this spec. No, 512MB would be my recommendation. Unfortunately Photoshop has some kind of bug in it that means you have to re-start it every few hours of editing as it doesn't seem to want to free-up all memory when an image is closed. (Version 6.0.1) Use a Memory manager such as the one from AnalogX or MemTurbo. NikonScan 3.1 causes Photoshop to quit unexpectedly now and then but otherwise I've never seen the memory problem that you mentioned. I've seen tests that show Photoshop improves quite nicely with dual processors Unfortunately, the same test shows you are far better off buying a 30%-faster single processor PC! It will cost less and work better. If I were buying today I'd go for a dual Athlon m/b with DDR RAM as the most bang for the buck. Conventional RAM is dirt cheap but it's a serious bottleneck when compared to DDR or RDRAM. The latter, however, is greatly overpriced. In my opinion the worst combination would be a new P4 machine at any speed with SDRAM. That would be like putting the engine of an old VW bug in a new Lamborghini. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: Vuescan question
At 12:51 24-07-01 +1000, Julian Robinson wrote: I am one of those who has not found the problems that others report with Nikonscan; I have found it to do what it should do, quickly and with great control. In general I agree with that and especially appreciate the control that NS gives me. There are, however, difficult slides especially old Kodachromes where Vuescan does a better job so it's good to have both of them. The bottom line for me is that I have both, and I actually use Nikonscan. There are plenty of others for whom the opposite will apply. I will say that for most people there is nothing wrong with Nikonscan, and it is one of the most powerful OEM scanning softwares around. Agreed. Version 3.1 of NS still crashes on my system from time to time but I've learned to live with it. I just wish that Nikon's programmers were even remotely as clever as Ed Hamrick because Vuescan is much faster than NS in all its functions. It's frustrating that NS performs file operations so glacially. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Which Buggy Software?
At 19:29 15-07-01 +0100, Tony Sleep wrote: The other major issue for system stability is MS COM components. Registry entries for these get routinely messed up on every machine here, but are easily fixed again via Norton Utilities Windoctor|Repair All. This is the first place I look now if I get any untoward behaviour. That's true but be careful using Norton's repair procedure in automatic mode because it's overly enthusiastic it can remove perfectly good registry keys. Always backup your registry before using Norton or any other repair tool. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: LS-30 and Windows 2000
At 15:58 15-07-01 -0500, Kerry Thompson wrote: I recently installed a LS-30 on a new Win 2000 professional system. The computer recognizes the scanner at startup but does not seem to install a driver for it. Each startup the computer again recognizes the scanner and begins the new hardware wizard. Is there a Win 2000 compatibility problem? The scanner seems to work ok with either Vuescan or Nikonscan 3.1 which I downloaded from the web. My scsi card is an Adaptec 2903b. Thanks for the help. That behavior probably occurs because the Adaptec 2903 isn't fully supported in Win2K. It's not listed on the Hardware Compatibility List. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/professional/howtobuy/upgrading/compat/default.asp whenever you want to look for a device. Keep a local copy in text format for reference. Connect by ftp to ftp.microsoft.com. The local directory is /services/whql/hcl. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: Which Buggy Software?
At 23:23 15-07-01 +0100, Jawed Ashraf wrote: NS 3.1 can be observed in Task Manager while it's running. While it doesn't impact both CPUs very much it does claim practically all available RAM and virtual memory (99%!). Before I start the application there is approximately 670 MB of free RAM and over nearly 1 GB free unfragmented swapfile available to it. During the scan only a few hundred KB remain free. NS eats all the rest. That's just lousy software engineering. Lousy install/W2K more like. It's not a lousy installation on my system. I know what I'm doing. W2K only does one thing properly: run SQL Server... (smile) So you disagree with Microsoft's ad campaign touting the greater reliability of Win2K over Win98? Haven't you seen Microsoft's print ads? See: http://212.113.5.84/content/4/16069.html and http://2kad.net/disp006.html A two-page spread in the 6 Feb 2001 issue of PC Magazine illustrates this (p36-37). It features a picture of a BSOD captioned If you find yourself missing the downtime, cut out and tape to monitor. The text includes the statement NSTL test results show that Windows 2000 Professional is 13 times more reliable than Windows 98. Which means users will need far less support. Who am I to argue with Microsoft? w Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Which Buggy Software?
At 14:30 14-07-01 +0100, Tony Sleep wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:19:28 -0700 Pat Perez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: the most infamous being 3rd party manufacturer video drivers Yup! Absolutely (one reason why I conservatively stick to Matrox is that - eventually anyhow - their drivers usually get to be well behaved). It may be useful if people suffering Nikonscan crashes could identify their graphics cards and drivers. nVidia GeForce2 GTS 32 MB DDR, Dell OEM version, adapter BIOS 3.15.0013 using nVidia's Detonator drivers current officially released version (WHQL) 1.2.4.1 dated 16-May-01 The only background program that I have running during scan operations is Tiny Personal Firewall (3252 KB footprint in memory) which presents no conflicts whatsoever and is essentially inactive at the time anyway (ISDN connection rather than always-on). The computer isn't on a network either. No background copy programs, no defraggers and I don't run real-time antivirus either. NS 3.1 can be observed in Task Manager while it's running. While it doesn't impact both CPUs very much it does claim practically all available RAM and virtual memory (99%!). Before I start the application there is approximately 670 MB of free RAM and over nearly 1 GB free unfragmented swapfile available to it. During the scan only a few hundred KB remain free. NS eats all the rest. That's just lousy software engineering. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
filmscanners: OT? Kodak Gold Media WAS: Re: CD from Scanner
At 18:10 12-07-01 +, you wrote: Steve wrote: Most of the information I have seenis via http://www.cdmediaworld.com and links from there. My own personal experience is that CD-RW is more temperamental. Out of 20 Kodak Gold CD-Rs distributed, I've had no reports of problems. Unfortunately, Gold discs are no longer available. http://www.cyberguys.com http://cyberguys.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.exe?UID=2001071307194095GEN5=icomGEN6=00GEN9=5CG01FNM=18T1=154+0525UREQA=1UREQB=2UREQC=3UREQD=4 If that url is broken then go to their home page, click on media and then click through to the page with Kodak media. Look for Item# 154 0525. It's listed as in stock. I haven't bought media from cyberguys.com yet but three months ago I bought 200 Kodak Ultima Gold CDR's from PC Connection. That should hold me for a little while. I write them at 8X although my recorder can go twice that fast. They'll accept data at 16X speed but I've read that may not be a good idea for the sake of reliability. A site search at www.pcconnection.com turns up Kodak Ultima but it doesn't specify gold so they may have exhausted their supply. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: LS 1000 Windows 2000?
At 12:15 11-07-01 +1200, Paul Hillier wrote: I haven't been on this list for a long time, so I hope this question hasn't been asked recently. I am trying to set up a Nikon LS-1000 slide scanner with Windows 2000, is this possible? There aren't any drivers for the LS1000 in Win2K. You might try the NT4 drivers to see if they work but it's a long shot. Here's where to get them: http://www.nikon-euro.com/nikoneuro2/download/Download_101.htm Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Profiling a Scanner -- Was Polaroid S printScan 120
At 10:15 11-07-01 +1000, you wrote: Ian wrote: It is and so is CompassProfile Scanner and ColorSynergy, etc. [snip] Dan and Franz from ColorBlind fame and all their products are real cool and quite reasonably priced. Ian, do you have some URLs for these products? http://www.splashofcolor.com/pages/praxisoft/compassprofile.html http://www.picto.com/colorsynergyA.html Google hasn't gotten so good these days that you can find product names like this immediately. I wanted to check them out also. Enter ColorBlind or ColorSynergy in Google's search box and you've got it. Unfortunately, they're both Mac products. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: SS120 first impressions and a few questions.
At 20:30 10-07-01 -0400, rafeb wrote: Your complaint regarding NikonScan 3.1 being buggy is surprising to me. I had some initial problems getting NS installed, but it has not been remotely buggy since then. The installation issues turned out to be due to device conflicts. Which leads me to suspect that a good number of reported bugs in NS are in fact due to device conflicts. This info is of no use to you at the moment, but others reading this may care. Since I installed NikonScan 3.1 I haven't had any problems with its TWAIN module. When used stand-alone it may have memory problems. The integrated curves and histograms dialog is the best I've ever seen in any graphics application. The version at Nikon's European site is more complete than the one at their US site. It includes a utility named regsweeper.exe which should be used before installing ver. 3.1. I didn't use Nikon's throwaway IEEE1394 board because I already had an Adaptec 1394 card installed for DV capture. The Adaptec card is much more robust and I'm guessing that it won't cause any conflicts. I suspect that some reported conflicts are due to the Nikon card. The Adaptec doesn't need any drivers or installation routine because Windows 2000 recognizes it automatically, probably the same for Win9x also. Re: Photoshop Books: Even if you don't do much retouching work the following book will be invaluable for unraveling Photoshop and all its features in a practical and very complete way: Photoshop Restoration and Retouching by Katrin Eismann, QUE Books www.digitalretouch.org Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: CD from Scanner
At 20:43 10-07-01 -0700, you wrote: It's best generally to use CD-R as they are generally more reliable than CD-RW and they are cheaper too. Can you supply me with any references for this statement, in terms of reliability? This concerns me since I use CD-RW for most of my CD file storage. http://www.cdrfaq.org/ and http://www.mscience.com/faq.html#CDR Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED
At 22:31 10-07-01 -0700, you wrote: Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) wrote: On 10-04-98 I posted the following to this list: Let's not forget the corollary to that expression is with Nikon you don't get what you pay for. By that I mean customer support. I learned that unhappy lesson with my first film scanner, a Nikon LS1000 when I encountered nothing but arrogance, stalling, and ignorance from Nikon support. It's quite the opposite with Polaroid and probably would be with Canon also. Naturally I'll be looking forward to evaluations of the Canon unit by Ed and Tony but I'm quite sure that I'd never buy from Nikon again. Your last sentence sound pretty unequivocal. I guess my question to you would be this: What is it that changed in terms of your perception of Nikon customer service in the last 3 years that leads you to believe things have improved with them? Or have you decided instead to allow the product niche the LS-4000 offers to outstrip whatever concerns you have about dealing with Nikon customer service? Yes, basically the latter was my reasoning. I've been following the list discussions about 4000dpi scanners for a long time. There hasn't been a host of reports about LS4000 hardware problems. Having worked in the software industry for a long time I basically expected that version point.zero of NikonScan would be buggy. Ultimately my decision was based on how well ICE, ROC and GEM worked because I needed all three features. And I always had Vuescan as a fallback if NikonScan was a complete bust which it wasn't. It was admittedly difficult for me to be objective because of prior bad experiences with an LS4000 and Nikon technical support. From list feedback it seems that times have changed for the better to some degree. I'd have bought a Polaroid SS4000 in the blink of an eye if it had the same functionality. It sounds to me that this is a heads up to companies like Polaroid and others that it might well me worthwhile to consider production of at least one scanner line with D-ICE or equivalent type products with an infrared channel. Last month, I bought the Nikon LS-4000 for its ICE, GEM and ROC features, all of which I needed badly for the restoration work that I do on contract. I just can't spend so many hours spotting crappy old neglected film that customers expect me to rescue when the Nikon does most of it automatically. Those features are fantastic time savers because they work so well. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Profiling a Scanner -- Was Polaroid S printScan 120
At 06:36 11-07-01 -0400, Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) wrote: http://www.splashofcolor.com/pages/praxisoft/compassprofile.html http://www.picto.com/colorsynergyA.html Google hasn't gotten so good these days that you can find product names like this immediately. I wanted to check them out also. Enter ColorBlind or ColorSynergy in Google's search box and you've got it. Unfortunately, they're both Mac products. Of course, I meant to type has gotten so good. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED
At 07:09 11-07-01 -0400, I wrote: It was admittedly difficult for me to be objective because of prior bad experiences with an LS4000 and Nikon technical support. From list feedback it seems that times have changed for the better to some degree. I'd have bought a Polaroid SS4000 in the blink of an eye if it had the same functionality. I can't type today at all:-( I meant to type prior bad experiences with an LS1000 which changes the entire meaning of the statement. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Nikon 4000ed on mac
At 14:25 11-07-01 -0400, Raphael Bustin wrote: Vuescan recognized my 8000, over Firewire, although it didn't get much farther than that. In a couple of back-and-forths with Ed, there was no indication that the Firewire connectivity was an issue. Vuescan recognizes my LS4000/firewire but its dust removal feature seems to be broken. It makes no difference whether the feature is turned on or off--no effect. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED
At 02:04 09-07-01 -0700, Arthur Entlich wrote: Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) wrote: The SS120 produces superior 35mm scans to the SS4000 and wipes the floor with the 4000ED. If the 8000 scans anything like the 4000ED then I'm real sorry for you Nikon users. The SS120 comes mighty close to Imacon quality Comments like the one quoted above don't really add anything useful to the list's dialog. I'm musing whether Nikon has a factory in the deep south of the US. I'm noting a very strong allegiance to the company coming from those environs... Is my residence in the Deep South some sort of problem for you? I've been in Georgia for three years and lived in the Pacific NW before that--right near you. I neither know nor care where Nikon makes its hardware. I don't use their cameras either as I prefer Canon. Let's keep regional biases out of this diverse international list and keep the level of discussion on a professional level. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Nikon LS IV/Nikoscan 3.0
At 20:23 09-07-01 +, Lynn Allen wrote: The main point is that regardless of how *monolithic* sofware companies believe themselves to be (Microsoft and Adobe come to mind), and how *infallable* some engineers occasionally consider themselves to be (no present company included or excluded), the fact remains that it's you and I who are down here in the trenches, working with these machines and this software. I'm happy to say that at least a few members on this list are one or both of the above, and *do* pay attention. But the vast majority are more concerned with their blocks of code and their stock-sharing contracts than they are with the users. snip I remain an Equal Oportunity Cynic, like Art. I should probably make more noise when I see a good program (like Vuescan), or good hardware (like Dell). But as far as I see it, we users are largely oversupplied, oversold, and underserved by the industry. The Industry *does* in fact need a good, swift, kick in the butt. :-) Of course it does but the US-DOJ apparently wasn't up to the job. That leaves us consumers. Sidebar// nobody can truly detest and disrespect Microsoft as much as someone who was on the inside for six years as I was [former Senior Technical Writer--Windows NT Server Resource Kit 91-97]. I was at enough company meetings to know how they really think and it's not pretty. http://www.enochsvision.com/bluescreen/bluescreen.html http://www.enochsvision.com/bluescreen/BlueScreen.PDF (not linked from intro page) Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED
At 15:15 09-07-01 -0700, Arthur Entlich wrote: Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) wrote: I'm musing whether Nikon has a factory in the deep south of the US. I'm noting a very strong allegiance to the company coming from those environs... Is my residence in the Deep South some sort of problem for you? I've been in Georgia for three years and lived in the Pacific NW before that--right near you. I neither know nor care where Nikon makes its hardware. I don't use their cameras either as I prefer Canon. Let's keep regional biases out of this diverse international list and keep the level of discussion on a professional level. My musing was based upon two posts, yours, and the one a few days earlier by Ray (Greensboro, NC) who was very concerned that Nikon not be slandered by Claudiu when he called Nikonscan garbage software. As I stated before, there is something about Nikon film scanner owners that makes them guard their reputation like a mother bear does her cubs. Other than some Leaf owners, I haven't seen the owners of any other brand have the need or desire to be so defensive of the scanners they are using. On 10-04-98 I posted the following to this list: Let's not forget the corollary to that expression is with Nikon you don't get what you pay for. By that I mean customer support. I learned that unhappy lesson with my first film scanner, a Nikon LS1000 when I encountered nothing but arrogance, stalling, and ignorance from Nikon support. It's quite the opposite with Polaroid and probably would be with Canon also. Naturally I'll be looking forward to evaluations of the Canon unit by Ed and Tony but I'm quite sure that I'd never buy from Nikon again. I dunno. Does that seem defensive to you? Last month, I bought the Nikon LS-4000 for its ICE, GEM and ROC features, all of which I needed badly for the restoration work that I do on contract. I just can't spend so many hours spotting crappy old neglected film that customers expect me to rescue when the Nikon does most of it automatically. Those features are fantastic time savers because they work so well. I'm obviously not attached to a brand name and try to overcome any biases *including* my own as the above quote illustrates. NikonScan is rather slow compared to Vuescan but it has a beautiful interface, great functionality and is easy to use. This doesn't mean that there's anything *wrong* with any competitive brand--just that the Nikon happens to fit *my* particular needs. My last scanner was a Polaroid SS35+. But it was time to upgrade and important to be objective and unbiased when doing a needs analysis. I read the posts about various 4000 dpi products here, looked at the samples, made some live tests in Atlanta and made a good unhurried decision based on that. Jerking people around because of where they choose to live is unproductive and ridiculous. I bought five acres of paradise here in rural Georgia that would have cost me way more than ten times as much back home in Washington state. Finally, you wrote My musing was based upon two posts. That's not much of a statistical sampling, is it? Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED
The SS120 produces superior 35mm scans to the SS4000 and wipes the floor with the 4000ED. If the 8000 scans anything like the 4000ED then I'm real sorry for you Nikon users. The SS120 comes mighty close to Imacon quality Comments like the one quoted above don't really add anything useful to the list's dialog. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: linux Nikon LS 2000
At 20:16 29-06-01 +0600, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: Yo gang, Anyone using linux (SUSE 7.2) with a Nikon LS 2000??? Drivers? I'd like to know also re: LS4000. Until then I won't be able to wean myself away from Windows even with Win4Lin (runs Photoshop in Linux). Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell Just Say No: META name=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing content=TRUE
Re: filmscanners: Film base deterioration (was Digital Shortcomings)
At 15:25 29-06-01 -0500, Robert Kehl wrote: BTW, all this discussion on longevity brings me to the same conclusion as last time we had a prolonged archiving discussion here - we need as much of *both* careful neg storage *and* systematic digital archiving rearchiving as we can be bothered with. I agree with you here Alan, with emphasis being on rearchiving your digital files. BUT keep hat neg or slide archived as best you can because when you're ready to make a new super duper print on whatever whiz bang is available in 15-20 years, you may get a much better image by rescanning the original if it is intact. If not, you've got your currently rearchived digital media to fall back on. This discussion has led me to one conclusion that seems inescapable. Clearly it's important to refresh our media assets every few years to keep pace with technology. Perhaps the archival method with the greatest longevity and 'universality' today is a high quality archival print probably made on an Epson 2000P and stored under optimal conditions. In another generation or two the images will still be there but the software and old file formats won't be. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell Just Say No: META name=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing content=TRUE
Re: filmscanners: Film base deterioration (was Digital Shortcomings)
At 19:29 29-06-01 -0500, you wrote: This discussion has led me to one conclusion that seems inescapable. Clearly it's important to refresh our media assets every few years to keep pace with technology. Perhaps the archival method with the greatest longevity and 'universality' today is a high quality archival print probably made on an Epson 2000P and stored under optimal conditions. In another generation or two the images will still be there but the software and old file formats won't be. Yes, the Epson 2000P prints would be universal. BUT, we don't really know how long they will last. We only have laboratory simulations that say they have archival qualities. I don't see them as any more accurate than the laboratory analysis that assured us that film had archival qualities. Nope, for my buck ($US) digital storage that is rearchived forward to the latest media and lossless file types seems the most reliable and it's getting cheaper every day. But keeping the original neg or an archived photo as backup sure makes sense. That sounds like a practical approach to me and the one that I'm about to implement. You have a good point about the 2000P tests. I'm using an Epson 3000 now with Lysonic inks and want to upgrade soon. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell Just Say No: META name=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing content=TRUE
Re: filmscanners: Matrox G400 vs G450
At 16:02 20-06-01 -0500, Robert Kehl wrote: I've been thinking about buying a Matrox G450 with the dual head feature due to recommendations on this list. I just bought a workstation that will come with a Matrox G400. For scanning and tweaking in PS6 is this card going to do as well as the G450 or should I upgrade. What is the difference between these two cards? Looking at the Matrox web site, it does not seem apparent to me. Any help? Wait a couple of weeks and buy a Matrox 550 for the same price as you'd pay now for a 400/450. The difference between a 400 and a 450 is a slight performance increment but the 550 offers many new and improved features. Ref: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q2/010619/index.html Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/ http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell Just Say No: META name=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing content=TRUE
Re: filmscanners: Frustrating NikonScan 3.1 Problem
At 13:05 16-06-01 +1000, Rob Geraghty wrote: Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any problems with NikonScan 3.1 in Windows 2000? Sounds like Nikonscan 3.1 is worse than 3.0 at least on W2K. Does anyone know whether 3.1 attempts to fix the jaggies problem, or is it still reading data in 64K blocks? Nikonscan 3.0 showed no difference; still jaggies galore. To date, I haven't observed any jaggies in scans that I've done on the LS-4000 regardless of which software I've used. My only problem has been with Nikon-provided software though I very impressed with their functionality and user interface. Frankly, I'd use Vuescan exclusively but I can't seem to master it. Are there any web-based tutorials on advanced Vuescan techniques? At my present level of knowledge I need either raw scan data for PShop or visual curve manipulations to get good scan data. I tried the Silverfast demo for the LS-4000. It's speedier than NikonScan but underwhelming otherwise. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/ http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: LS4000 stepper motor noise
At 07:23 16-06-01 -0700, you wrote: When performing a scan on the LS4000 using Nikonscan 3.1, two motor noises are heard: 1) a deep humming sound, and 2)a stepping noise that sounds a bit like a cheap plastic metronome. This second noise changes cadence depending upon the resolution chosen - the higher the resolution, the slower the tick-tock. Interestingly, when using Vuescan, the humming noise is the same but the metronome noise is either greatly reduced or gone altogether. Are any of you LS4000 owners experiencing this? Thanks, John Aside from a nearly inaudible whirr during focusing I just hear the second noise that you describe but am not sure what causes it. Vuescan operates the scanner more quietly and quickly. On my LS4000 the noise sounds like an early 1960's era Kharmann-Ghia trying to climb a steep hill. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/ http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
filmscanners: Frustrating NikonScan 3.1 Problem
Has anyone had any problems with NikonScan 3.1 in Windows 2000? NikonScan 3.1 only worked correctly for me for the first two days. After that it always displayed the message No active devices found. I looked in TWAIN.LOG to see if there were any debug messages (you can usually find this file in your TEMP folder) and read: TWAIN_32.DLL - MESSAGE - CTwunk ::AppInitialize - Reset Log TWAIN_32.DLL - MESSAGE - CTwunk ::OpenServer - Starting Thunker TWAIN_32.DLL - MESSAGE - CTwunk ::CloseServer - Why Can't We Find The Thunker Window? Despite NikonScan's inability to find the thunker the scanner was listed in Device Manager as working properly and Vuescan operated it perfectly. Specifically this occurred with my Nikon LS-4000 in Windows 2000/SP1. I've temporarily solved the problem--though I don't know why this worked--by uninstalling NikonScan 3.1 and reinstalling version 3.0. So now all the instability and memory bugs are back but NikonScan recognizes the scanner again. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I wrote with specifics to Nikon technical support but if my past experience is any guide they won't respond and if they do their answer will be vague if not outright irrelevant. I used Sysinternal's Regmon and Filemon in addition to a Registry before and after tool to try and troubleshoot the problem but found nothing. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/ http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: New Nikon and ICE feature
At 16:38 09-06-01 +0100, James Grove wrote: Er it shouldn`t at least it doesn't on mine (V3.1) -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of AR Studio Just discovered with Nikon IV that ICE (normal setting, at least) will act as ROC (color restoration) if you have an image that has a dominating color, let's say a green forest or a field of yellow flowers. It will try to equalize the image so there's more than just than green, but also magentas etc. Otherwise, on multi-color images, ICE works as it's supposed to. Andrew + Helen It doesn't literally do that on mine either but it does go haywire from time to time. I've found that after processing several images NikonScan can unexpectedly lose its mind and badly distort the colors. This only occurs when post-processing is enabled. When that occurs I close both NS and Photoshop and restart them and all is back to normal. I assume that it's a bug of some kind. Just an hour ago one pre-scan displayed in monochromatic lime green. After I restarted NS the colors appeared normal again. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/ http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Infrared scan
At 08:27 09-06-01 -0700, shAf wrote: Rob writes ... I just tried scanning a slide and outputting a colour TIFF and an IR one. It was very educational. Any sort of mark, scratch or dust spot is utterly black in the IR scan. Some of the image is also visible as is some of the grain, which probably explains why the image is softened by ICE. Exactly ... and the softening can be obvious with the Nikonscan version of ICE. Vuescan's algorithm, on the other hand, turned on dust removal only in the region of what the IR image indicated as total opacity (black). I remember being amazed with Ed's algorithm in the later versions of v.6 ... BUT, it seems to me someone complained about Vuescan's clean function again softening in early versions of v.7. I believe Ed admitted as much and promised a fix. Just curious but is any of Nikon's ICE code in firmware or is it all contained in NikonScan? Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/ http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: Infrared scan
At 17:37 09-06-01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/9/2001 4:27:15 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just curious but is any of Nikon's ICE code in firmware or is it all contained in NikonScan? It's a software algorithm in NikonScan. The scanner itself just returns infrared data along with rgb data. Well that explains at least one thing to me already. I've tried six different Kodachrome slides so far on the LS-4000 both on Vuescan and on NikonScan. In all cases Vuescan removed more defects than NikonScan did. NS added halos around deep shadow areas and other artifacts where there were none to be seen on the film. Vuescan added neither artifacts or noise. Now I'm curious about Silverfast's implementation of ICE too. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/ http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: LS-40 Available at BH
At 14:14 24-03-01 -0500, Marc S. Fogel wrote: BH Photo has the LS-40 in stock. I'm waiting for a bunch of reports on this list stating that the Nikon mechanism is mechanically sound, free of jaggies, etc. Only then will I buy one. I was an early adapter of the LS-1000 which ended up as a door-stop. I'll not make that mistake again. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/ http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell
Re: filmscanners: This might help with writing CDs
At 18:19 15-03-01 -0600, Henry Richardson wrote: Recently there have been lots of messages concerning writing to CDs and some people have had occasional problems getting a good CD made. For the last couple of years I have been using a freeware program called Cacheman that has a graphical interface that you can use to adjust several internal Windows 95/98/ME parameters that control the disk cache. In addition, it has some optimal preset values you can use for several different types of PC usage. snip NT4 and Win2K users can try this highly effective technique: 1) Right-click the Windows taskbar to select Task Manager. 2) Next, right-click the task that corresponds to your CD-burning application, Adaptec/Roxio, Nero, or whatever. 3) Change the task priority from Normal to High. Now your application will get all the CPU time it needs without shutting down other tasks though they will slowdown noticeably. You can also set your burner application to Real-Time so that no unseen or background task, for example, Diskkeeper or whatnot will get any CPU time. This should prevent the creation of coasters. HTH Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/ http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty Austin wrote: The right tools for the job. Having a 'resolution' of at least 1280x1024 is not untypical for most people who do image editing. In fact, I'd bet most on this list have 1600 x 1200. Geeze, Austin. Several people have already responded saying they are editing files at resolutions as low as 640x480. I've yet to hear a response from anyone else who uses 1280x1024 let alone 1600x1200. I'd be very suprised if "most" people regularly use 1280x1024 let alone anything higher. Well, here's your response. I bought a ViewSonic 19-inch monitor for $275USD (including $50 rebate) two months ago and run it at 1280x1024 @85 Hz. I set the desktop to large fonts and 48px icons and everything looks beautiful. Video card: nVidia Geforce2 GTS 32MB-DDR. Even with the 17" monitor I had before this I ran at 1280x1024 with a Matrox G400. For a couple of years actually. More pixels makes editing much easier. I run the same high screen resolution in RedHat Linux in a dual-boot setup. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com; http://www.bahaivision.com -- "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell
filmscanners: PS with dual CPUs, WAS: Re: Need feedback on VueScan Idea
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty "Quoton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: down any more. However, Photoshop (5.5) is noticeably slower on Win2K than Win98. That's highly abnormal and indicative that something is not right with your Win2K installation. It could be any of a number of things including a virus, excessive fragmentation, too little RAM or too many background programs, inefficient swapfile settings for either PS or the operating system itself, etc. Win2K is inherently faster than Win98 in everything. My guess is that PS is a 16 bit program optimized under 16 bit OS such as Win98. But Win2K is a 32 bit OS. Odd. I thought PS5.5 and later were optimised for dual processors out of the box. :-7 Maybe there's a config setting somewhere? PS has been optimized for dual processors at least since v4.0 and possibly earlier. There's nothing to configure. PS Setup recognizes an SMP system and installs the Multiprocessor Support Extension automatically. Click Help/About Plug In. If it shows an entry for Multiprocessor Support then everything was setup okay. If not then the system itself was misconfigured and is using the wrong Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com; http://www.bahaivision.com -- "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: Anyone using Win2K? Does is manage color like W98SE?
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ALLM Rose I am considering whether to reload Win98SE, WinMe or Win2000 Professional on my Athlon 700 (256MB SDRAM) system. I am currently using Win98SE, Adobe Photoshop 6.0, printing with an Epson 870 through WiziWYG color profiles, and scanning images through my Nikon LS-30 with Vuescan. Does anyone see any potential conflict that would make Win2000 a bad choice? Win2K is faster and much more reliable than Win9x. No contest at all. I use Win2K with a Polaroid SS35+ scanner, Epson 3000 printer, DV capture board, Wacom Intuos tablet, Vuescan, AdobePS 6, etc. Everything works smoothly. But before making a decision it's a good idea to check hardware and system compatibility: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/ Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com; http://www.bahaivision.com -- "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: PS v.6.01
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of IronWorks Sent: Monday, 26 February, 2001 13:57 Posted today on comp.graphics.apps.photoshop: " c r a b" [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:97ck27$2gn9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/photoshop/win/6.x/photoshop601up.exe 550 /pub/adobe/magic/photoshop/win/6.x/photoshop601up.exe: No such file or directory. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com; http://www.bahaivision.com -- "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: SS4000 on Windows 2000 problem
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Berman Some very timely issues here. I'm looking at getting a new system within the next month for scanning and Photoshop. I have a SS4000 and am thinking seriously of Win2K Professional, or another Win98 SE computer. Therefore I'm waiting with baited breath for the answer to your questions. Maybe it's time to summarize the scanning and Photoshop issues of the different operating systems used on the forum. Win98 and Win98SE have been orphaned by MSFT. New computers come with WinMe (which is crap) or Win2000 preinstalled. Win2000 has all the drivers and hardware support that you'll need. Its Hardware Compatibility List is literally 4X the size of the one for WinMe. I've been using Win2000 for the past 10 months and have found that it practically never crashes as opposed to other flavors of Windows. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com; http://www.bahaivision.com -- "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: CANON INTRODUCES CANOSCAN FS4000US
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shAf The Kodak scanner, so well received because of hype, underscored the old buyer beware clich "you get what you pay for!" ... and should warn us this Canon scanner should be welcomed only with some caution and only after testing. I'll look forward to Ed's return and his result of working with this scanner ... and of course, Tony's evaluation as well. Let's not forget the corollary to that expression is "with Nikon you don't get what you pay for." By that I mean customer support. I learned that unhappy lesson with my first film scanner, a Nikon LS1000 when I encountered nothing but arrogance, stalling, and ignorance from Nikon "support." It's quite the opposite with Polaroid and probably would be with Canon also. Naturally I'll be looking forward to evaluations of the Canon unit by Ed and Tony but I'm quite sure that I'd never buy from Nikon again. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com; http://www.bahaivision.com -- "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: OT - Software for image correction
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tom I am not sure is it possible, but I am looking for software/algorithms which enable me to correct photos taken with wrong angle. I mean the film plane and object are not parallel. Do you hear about something like this ? Andromeda's LensDoc filter is designed for this type of thing: http://www.andromeda.com/ Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com; http://www.bahaivision.com -- "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell
