Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread IronWorks
I never use the "long pass" setting. Instead, I use 2-4 passes in "Number of Passes" and it works perfectly - no misalignment at all. I've got the LS-30 so it should work on the LS-2000 I assume. Maris - Original Message - From: "shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread Rob Geraghty
"shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realized for my LS-2000 Coolscan, the 2nd pass would not properly register with the 1st ... bummer!! ... Huh? How come, Michael?? I've *never* had registration problems with my LS30. :-7 Rob

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread Joel Nisson
I'm using a SS4000 which definitely suffers from misalignment on long passes. Why do you never use "long pass?" - Original Message - From: "IronWorks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 1:52 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical

filmscanners: Vuescan Mac memory

2001-03-04 Thread Joel Nisson
Using VS on a Mac, is there any advantage to allocating more than the minimum memory of 91614 kb? Joel Nisson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread IronWorks
I never thought to try it. How does it benefit the scan? I had assumed that the normal pass would gather sufficient information, especially when it passes multiple times picking up missed or bad data and then averaging them out. Maris - Original Message - From: "Joel Nisson" [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan Mac memory

2001-03-04 Thread IronWorks
Not an answer but maybe a clue - on my PC it seems to be a heavier user of RAM than Corel PhotoPaint does to which it exports the scan. Maris - Original Message - From: "Joel Nisson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 6:50 AM Subject: filmscanners:

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread shAf
IronWorks writes ... I never thought to try it. [long exposure pass] How does it benefit the scan? I had assumed that the normal pass would gather sufficient information, especially when it passes multiple times picking up missed or bad data and then averaging them out. VS's "long

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan Mac memory

2001-03-04 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/4/2001 7:53:20 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using VS on a Mac, is there any advantage to allocating more than the minimum memory of 91614 kb? It actually hurts performance to do this, since it takes away memory from the system that VueScan uses to store the scans.

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread Joel Nisson
I assumed that LEP is one pass at a slower-than-normal speed. If so, it shouldnl't be subject to mis-registration that MP can cause on some scanners (SS4000). --Joel Nisson - Original Message - From: "shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] . After I saw the mis-registration for LEP, I scanned

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread shAf
Joel writes... I assumed that LEP is one pass at a slower-than-normal speed. If so, it shouldnl't be subject to mis-registration that MP can cause on some scanners (SS4000). ... For a Nikon LS-2000, a 16x MP is a single pass operation ... better described, it "multi-samples" rather

Re: filmscanners: Where to buy a LS-4000

2001-03-04 Thread tom
Hi, In Japan it will be in shops on 24.03.2001, my local shop will sale it on this day at the following prices: LS4000 158,000Yen (~1338USD) LS4 78,000Yen (~670USD) The price seems to be good so probably I will buy one of them. The problem is that it will be with Japanese software and it will

Re: filmscanners: OT but interesting - Interview with Jay Maisel

2001-03-04 Thread Larry Berman
Colin, I haven't been following the 1270/orange shift issue and never thought to bring it up to Jay. I assume he would have mentioned it had he felt it was a problem. He was very free with his feelings about all the issues we spoke of. Larry Larry Berman wrote: We've just finished an

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread IronWorks
I agree, and I have some new questions: Is the scan in Vuescan's memory the same as the "raw scan"? And do any of the settings on the Color Tab or the Media tab affect the scan in memory and/or the raw scan? Finally, if you know (or if it's not a trade secret for Ed), what type of color

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan Mac memory

2001-03-04 Thread IronWorks
I am in error - it only seemed so because the image Vuescan makes in memory uses the RAM. Maris - Original Message - From: "IronWorks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 9:35 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan Mac memory | Not an answer but maybe a

RE: filmscanners: OT but interesting - Interview with Jay Maisel

2001-03-04 Thread Laurie Solomon
Unless, of course, he - like many other big name photographers - is getting endorsement money or free ownership, leasing, or use of equipment from Epson. In so far as Epson did not openly or widely acknowledge the problem, it is also possible that he has not suffered from the problem and is (a)

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread shAf
IronWorks writes ... ... I have some new questions: Is the scan in Vuescan's memory the same as the "raw scan"? Yes ... I have come to respect VS's "raw scan" ... scan it once ... save if you want to archive ... or 'scan memory' with any variety of "crop" settings until the cropped TIFF

Re: filmscanners: pc monitors

2001-03-04 Thread Nick Taylor
I haven't been following this thread, but in regards to reliability I have the following anecdotal info: My Hitachi CM741 has been on for 12 to 16 hours a day for five years without a single glitch. My Mag MX17F/S has been on and off for a couple of hours a day for five years, and on for 12-16

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread shAf
shAf (me) writes ... IronWorks writes ... ... Finally, ... I scanned a Q-60 without [restore color] and the colors were off - Blue was about 10 points too low. With the Restore Color option checked the result was fairly accurate. ... Hmmm ... interesting ... as if 'restore

Re: filmscanners: Where to buy a LS-4000

2001-03-04 Thread Robert Kehl
Tom, Ed Hamrick mentioned that he will be upgrading Vuescan to operate the new Nikon scanners. I would recommend using Vuescan over Nikon scanner software, English or Japanese versions. If you haven't tried it you will be pleasantly surprised. Regards, Bob - Original Message -

Re: filmscanners: OT but interesting - Interview with Jay Maisel

2001-03-04 Thread Michael Moore
From what I know of Jay Maisel, and I am sure Larry will concur... Jay doesn't suffer fools or less than the best equipment for one minute (and a New York minute at that)... Jay's quest for perfection and zero tolerance of less than the best manifests itself in his work (his ratio of rejects to

Re: filmscanners: OT but interesting - Interview with Jay Maisel

2001-03-04 Thread Larry Berman
Thank you Mike. I couldn't have said it better. In all the years that I've been involved in photography, I've never read anything that would indicate that he would settle for anything less than the what he considered to be the best. As you've been able to read in the interview, he's not the

filmscanners: vuescan questions (different ones)

2001-03-04 Thread Jules
i have an LS-2000 and VueScan 6.7.5 i finally learned how to use it (VS) after a few weeks of experimention and man does it kick NikonScan's butt. but i have some questions: 1. cropping seems to be off, i lose about 1% of the image on the long side. that's with everything on auto. if i select