Best downsampling is exactly half length ;for example 1800pixel wide down to
900pixels wide. Some scannerprograms, such as Agfa Color exact2.1, are far more
sophisticated then photoshop in unsharpmask and a correct sized correct
sharpened scan is best,you will then avoid additional use of unsharp
Colin wrote:
I use an old utility, CRT Align, for the job
Any idea where (or even if) this is available?
Al Bond
If I understand you aright, you need to create a frame of dashed lines
around the image in the preview. Just use the mouse and drag with button
depressed. Once you have one or more of these, you can select the one
you want by clicking inside it.
Tim M.
- Original Message -
From: Frank
Dear List,
I noticed big decline is speed of scanning since I purchased Canon FS2710
some two weeks ago, especialy notable in high-res scans. When I got the
scanner it was fairly fast, however, it now takes some time to scan full
frame @ 2720 dpi. I know my system is rather slow and misses an
Guy Prince wrote:
Art,
Point taken. But the bright orange blazers and pants with the
bright orange background kept me mesmerized. I was helpless.
Guy
I have to admit I haven't seen the show since we got a color TV...
(about 35 years ago??)
Come to think of it, is that the
Johnny Deadman wrote:
on 5/11/00 8:16 pm, Arthur Entlich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But when I want to be warm and comfy, I sit in the living room
(big enough for 5 people on two sofas) with my laptop and pretend
everything is rosey while watching Lawrence Welk. Tonight's show
Tony Sleep wrote:
Just a quick comment regarding monitor adjustment.
I don't disagree Art. It was just that it's something which should be got
out of the way at the outset, and mightn't have occurred to someone who is
new to all this.
Fair enough. My reason for making my comment is
Guy Prince wrote:
Pete,
You've brought up several good points. First, many times it is
the person behind the keyboard making the mistakes and not the
equipment. (my neighbor at this very moment is using a gas
powered leaf blower right outside my window, I can't
Austin Franklin wrote:
This is absolutely correct. You can send the printer driver any resolution
you want, and it has to interpolate the data into halftone screens anyway.
If you do leave the box checked, and resize, you will then be double
interpolating the data...once in PS and once
Stephen Irving wrote:
The Epson 1200 apparently prints best at an output dpi of 240 but what about
the best output dpi for the Epson 1270?
Why would you expect it to be different?
Art
Frank - Unless I am missing something this is actually very simple. Forgive
me if this is teaching you to suck eggs but let me have a go at resolving
your dilemma, based on my own months of confusion before finally working it
out - at least to my satisfaction...
1) In your Nikon software open
Guy Prince wrote:
Okay, I am back at work and able to use the filmscanner again.
Thank goodness.
I just scanned a mostly dark slide (supposed to be dark) at
1200 dpi and, in picture publisher, changed the dimensions to
7" x 4.66". The .tif file
First i want to thank everybody for comments and discussing this subject
Over here in europe umax powerlook III and other alternatives were $400-500
more expensive, and the new Agfa arcus 1200 which might be an interesting
scanner still isn't available. ( will be less than $900)
So i got for
Igor,
the FS2710 scanner will take in excess of three minutes to
scan a 35mm. Slide or Negative at 2700dpi. The advertising
information is economical with the truth. We use a couple of ordinary
400MHz. PIIs. with abput 13GByte hard discs and Win-98.
If you want a significant
Art,
Thanks for the info. I didn't know if the changes made in the 1270 would
include the optimal output dpi setting.
Steve
- Original Message -
From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 4:18 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: 4000 dpi
At 08:51 PM 06-11-00 -0800, you wrote:
I'm embarrassed to have to ask this question. I brought up SilverFast for
the first time and it is utterly beyond me how to select a specific frame,
or how to advance to the next frame. I tried every button in the interface
and I printed off the user manual
This is absolutely correct. You can send the printer driver any
resolution
you want, and it has to interpolate the data into halftone screens
anyway.
If you do leave the box checked, and resize, you will then be double
interpolating the data...once in PS and once in the printer
When a technical field takes an ordinary word from the language and gives it
a specialized meaning within its field, that's called jargon. Obviously, the
use of the word, decimation, is jargon within the signal processing field.
Frank Paris
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Julie, female Galah (3 1/2 years and
I have not yet calibrated my Cornerstone p1700 (it is fairly new, and my
getting serious about digital darkroom stuff is also fairly new) and I know
I could get closer to "reality" if I did it. How I get decent prints depends
on the image. If it has people in it, I adjust it to give good flesh
Art,
It was an original show with recent sketches with Bobby and his
adult son.
Cloning? Egads man, don't even ~think~ it.
Guy
I have to admit I haven't seen the show since we got a color X-Mozilla-Status: 0009
ago??)
Come to think of it, is that the original L. Welk, or
About a month ago I touched off a thread on the piezo list about banding going
away at certain dpi with piezo driver. But I was mistaken, it was extremely
sensitive to kind of paper, getting a good printer, image file(scan) quality,
and getting absolutely anal about nozzle and alignment checks. I
Jim...Could you or some other viewer of this list please explain to me
EXACTLY what you mean by banding?...ie...banding as it shows up in the Epson
1160/1200/1270 instruction books with definite , descrete lines, or a more
"subtle" type as I seem to be getting on only SOME of my prints...I'm
however what bothers me is that
despite more or less same amount of free space on HDD for Win or PS swap
scaning goes slower and slower.
Have you tried defragging your hard disk? And how much space have you got?
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; +
This is
what is happening to you when you stare too long at the screen. You
over saturate because your eyes have compensated for the colors in front
of you.
Fascinating, thanks! I know that when I spend a few hours in the darkroom,
emerging into bright sunlight is an extraordinary
(I guess I
should have tried changing the mode in Photoshop to 8 bit and then
doing the manipulation: in theory the histogram for that should then
look identical to driver manipulated scan.)
Actually, PS is a lot kinder to histograms than most scanner s/w. Better,
smarter, more
I've been confused by this for the last two years using the HP
PhotoSmart Scanner, and now my SS4000 software allows the same thing.
What I would like to see is a procedure to do the following (for
example): I
scan at 4000 DPI in a crop ratio 11:14. Then on A3 size paper I want to
print
Art,
You answered many questions. Thank you.
I work in a small glue factory and I am the computer person. My
needs for output vary widely. Our company likes to keep as much
work in-house as possible. We write and produce all of our own
product literature, labels,
I noticed big decline is speed of scanning since I purchased Canon FS2710
some two weeks ago, especialy notable in high-res scans. When I got the
scanner it was fairly fast, however, it now takes some time to scan full
frame @ 2720 dpi. I know my system is rather slow and misses an big
The replacement loaner scanner arrived Monday, 9:30am and is busily
scanning away.
The people at Polaroid have been responsive and helpful, but seem
overworked. It often takes 3-4 hours for them to return a call, and
sometimes that is well after their nominal quitting time (Polaroid
evidently
What I would like to see is a procedure to do the following (for
example): I
scan at 4000 DPI in a crop ratio 11:14. Then on A3 size paper I want to
print an image exactly 11"X14".
I can tell you how I do it:-
I do it slightly differently, and I'd be curious if you'd compare the
At 8:43 PM -0500 11/6/00, Austin Franklin wrote:
*All* Epson photo printers will print best at integer divisors of
1440dpi.
That is not universally true. Some people claim they see no difference at
some 'magic' number, but to just keep the DPI above 240 or so...
The driver has a dither
Hi!
Two out of three...
I use VueScan and Linux with Minolta Dimage Scan Multi
I have no fishes but my slides scans are just fine. Do you have the right
Device-MediaType, and Media selection?
Once you get it working:
Check out www.scarse.org for great color profiling software...
Regards
How are you getting the 16bit scan into photoshop?
I am having trouble getting this to happen.
If you take the 8bit scan, change it in photoshop to
16bit, and then do the manipulations, is it any better?
Also, if you used lasersoft or vuescan, would this also
manipulate the 8bit data and not
I use an old utility, CRT Align, for the job
Any idea where (or even if) this is available?
Al, this came off the W95 Secrets 4th Ed. CD. I can easily send you a zipped file of
it if you like. It's only about 300kB.
Colin Maddock
Hi Bob.
Bob Armstrong wrote:
Short update on scanning Pete's slide on the LS-30: Pete has been in touch
and is going to post the slide to me when he gets a few spare minutes. I
should be able to scan it quite soon after it arrives. I'm not sure if Pete
want's the slide to perform its own
At 11:48 AM -0800 11/7/00, shAf wrote:
It is a mystery to me why the Epson manuals do not provide this
information, and it is also interesting to point out this number has
remained the same since the very first Epson "Stylus Color" printer
(720x720), for which the user manual did suggest
With respect to your response, I would add in regard to question 2 that the
best Photoshop method of interpolation is the Bicubic method. As for other
programs handling this better, it is a controversial subject; but I would
suggest that Genuine Fractals, a Photoshop plugin, might be as good or
Gregory Golyshev wrote:
Not so long ago i bought a Scanwit to scan my film archive. And recently
had some color problem. I've uploaded a small webpage to illustrate a
problem. http://www.avallon.ru/~aspas/
Hi Gregory.
The Miraphoto scan of the truck has a mild blue cast, which makes
I examined the 3 prints using a high-quality 4x loupe. There
was a slight but visible improvement in quality from 240 to 360,
which didn't surprise me too much. What did surprise me was that
there was about the same degree of improvement from the 360 to the
non-resampled 367.9 print. It
shAF,
What this number stands for is equally ambiguous. It is unclear if this
represents the maximium number of raw dpi that the priont driver will or can
utilize as input before dithering or if it represents the maximum raw dpi x
the line screen the print driver will or can utilize as input
Has anyone had experience with the Epson 1640SU scanner? Similar specs to
the Epson 1600 except uses a cold cathode fluorescent lamp whereas the 1600
has a xenon gas cold cathode fluorescent tube. Does that make much
difference? Other than a smaller transparency area the specs seem to be
equal
I do agree with shAf .
I have also asked Epson directly and they refused to tell me wich was the
suggested resolution ... they insisted 1440x720.
Simply not even EPSON support has this ''magic number'' thus I prefer ... so
far ... 360 because my 750 seems to like it better.
Sincerely.
Ezio
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Erik Kaffehr wrote:
Hi!
Two out of three...
I use VueScan and Linux with Minolta Dimage Scan Multi
I have no fishes but my slides scans are just fine. Do you have the right
Device-MediaType, and Media selection?
Yes - aparently according to the man, it's a problem
Hi Pete,
The Miraphoto scan of the truck has a mild blue cast, which makes
comparison slightly difficult, but the most obvious thing is that
Miraphoto has screwed up the black level (as it does with Fuji
negative).
Pardon me, black level in RGB???
You can get a compromise between Vuescan
shAf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is a mystery to me why the Epson manuals do not provide this
information
I think one of the manuals that came with my Stylus 700 does say that 240dpi
is the best option when calculating the resolution to print at, but I would
have
to dig them out to check!
I
I could stretch my budget a little a get a used leafscan 45,
I'd wait to see what happens when the new wave of MF scanners hits the
street...it should bring the price of the Leaf down...unless you can find a
mint one with LeafSet for around $2k...which is a steal IMO... The
brochure for the
I recently scanned an ASA 400 negative with S4000 and Vuescan
6.3.9 using Windows 98. The outdoor scene is a two-year old child holding
her face in amazement at the sight of many very large pumpkins which dominate
the scene. When I use levels and curves, the final product is fairly good
A dealer told me the 1640 wasn't "industrial strength". I myself bought one
anyhow. Far cheaper. But I wonder if it really is a true 1600 DPI or whether
it is just "enhanced" to provide the equivalent performance? Didn't a thread
on this list come to that conclusion about the 1200U (that it was
Alas, it is my understanding that, unless you deliberately select halftoning
per se, the printer uses stochastic dithering rather than digital halftoning
proper, which if I am correct makes notions of halftone cell size and
pattern irrelevant. This is my understanding; but I could be wrong.
Every few months I am persuaded to try again to calibrate my
monitor, using the various tools from an assortment of
websites.
My monitor (Taxan Ergovision 735 TCO99) has software to
adjust its RGB curves individually to get the various
dithering patterns to match. The results from the various
'Bonusprint', a mass-market photoprocessor in the UK, got
top marks in a recent review in 'Which?' consumer magazine,
so I looked at their web site (http://www.bonusprint.com/).
It says their Agfa Dimax printing machines use a
computerised LCD mask to reduce local contrast...
"Our Dimax
Tomasz Chady wrote:
Hi Dan,
Sorry for disturbing you but I am going to buy RFS3600 (or SS4000) but I
still have some questions.
Could you please tell me :
is it possible to use manual focus
is it possible to upload somewhere manual and English driver
If it is not so difficult, could
Is stochastic dithering what Foley and van Dam call "random dithering"? They
don't explain it (in "Computer Graphics") but I can imagine.
Frank Paris
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Julie, female Galah (3 1/2 years and going strong at the moment)
Little Birdie, male Splendid Parakeet (13 years)
Snowflake,
Hi Laurie,
With mutual respect to your response.
Genuine Fractals has no current place in web image preparation. It's only
use is for upscaling data to print large images. We went through this same
discussion on another forum (Nikon CoolPix 990) about three weeks ago and
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