Re: aliasing was Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000

2001-04-09 Thread Julian Robinson
I also would like to put a word of support for Nikonscan here. I use LS2000 and Nikonscan 2.5.1. I have tried Vuescan but just can't get it to do anything better than Nikonscan (EXCEPT reduce jaggies) so I continue to use Nikonscan. There has been a lot of negative discussion about Nikonscan

RE: filmscanners: Grain Aliasing & Noise, revisited

2001-04-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
Lynn wrote: >Intuitively (using "non-linear logic," that is), I can see that a "Mix & >Match" approach will probably produce the best results for retouching, since >every "problem picture" has its own idiosyncrasies. FWIW another technique which I have tried is resampling the image to twice the o

Re: filmscanners: Insight, Silverfast, VS - was What's MFT

2001-04-09 Thread Bud
The Silverfast manual can be accessed from the preview window of Silverfast then click on the 'question mark.' The manual is a pdf file and is quite comprehensive. - Original Message - From: "Tony Sleep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 8:15 AM Subj

Re: aliasing was Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000

2001-04-09 Thread Dave King
> Dave wrote: > >Nikonscan's CM works as well as possible, with a near perfect match to > >the result in Photoshop. Also Nikonscan does the best color > >corrections out of the box of anything I've seen, on chromes and negs. > >And, as I noted previously, the sharpening algorithm it uses is very

filmscanners: Grain Aliasing & Noise, revisited

2001-04-09 Thread Lynn Allen
*For Mark, Rob, Maris, Pete, Cathy, and others who've shown interest and leadership in Grain-Aliasing & Noise: I'm in the process of experiments on one of two negs/pictures with *extreme* color noise, and reporting on same. I thought it would take a day or so, but that's probably what the Archite

RE: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD

2001-04-09 Thread Lynn Allen
Mikael wrote: >SilverFast SE . Scanner software . A light version of Silverfast Ai. Guides the novice user step by step to brilliant images. (Silverfast own text) Price 49 US$ Up date SE later on to full Ai version. You can read more about it at http://www.silverfast.com/silverfast/se A first l

RE: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000

2001-04-09 Thread Dave Buyens
Tony Sleep replied to Mark T.: > > Eeek. I thought grain-aliasing and film resolution was covered in > > either lesson 1 or 2 when you do Filmscanning 101..! :) > We agreed that the fundamental mechanism was aliasing arising > from grain pattern interference with the matrix of pixel geometry. > H

Re: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD

2001-04-09 Thread Dale & Gail
Larry, Try this URL: http://lasersoft-imaging.com/english/silverfast/se/ Dale - Original Message - From: "Larry Berman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:12 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD > Mikael, > > Have you been able

Re: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD

2001-04-09 Thread Mikael Risedal
You have all information at Silverfast site New scanners are added and more to come Mikael Risedal >From: "Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD >Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:14:25 -0500 > >It m

Re: aliasing was Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000

2001-04-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
Dave wrote: >Nikonscan's CM works as well as possible, with a near perfect match to >the result in Photoshop. Also Nikonscan does the best color >corrections out of the box of anything I've seen, on chromes and negs. >And, as I noted previously, the sharpening algorithm it uses is very >good. Er

Re: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD

2001-04-09 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
It must be a temporary situation because I downloaded Silverfast SE for my Epson flatbed about a month ago when it first came out. BTW that last time I checked the LE version worked only with a number of flatbed scanners as listed on their website but did not work with any filmscanners. Maris -

Re: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?

2001-04-09 Thread Sisk98
Thanks to all for the great advice!!   S.Sisk

Re: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD

2001-04-09 Thread Larry Berman
Mikael, Have you been able to download the program? I can't get either Epson PC version to download. And the page title is "Coming Soon". Larry >SilverFast SE . Scanner software . A light version of Silverfast Ai. >Guides the novice user step by step to brilliant images. (Silverfast own text

filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD

2001-04-09 Thread Mikael Risedal
SilverFast SE . Scanner software . A light version of Silverfast Ai. Guides the novice user step by step to brilliant images. (Silverfast own text) Price 49 US$ Up date SE later on to full Ai version. You can read more about it at http://www.silverfast.com/silverfast/se Mikael Risedal -- _

Re: aliasing was Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000

2001-04-09 Thread Dave King
Rob wrote: > The detail in the skies tend to "blow out" in Nikonscan with the LS30 since > it only works with 8 bit data - this has the side effect of reducing apparent > grain in the sky. Unfortunately Nikonscan is useless for me since I get > jaggies with it, so I have to use Vuescan. I may b

Re: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?

2001-04-09 Thread Stephen Jennings
This would depend upon your level of expertise with Photoshop. If you are a novice, stick with Insight; it's quick and easy and gives reasonably good results. If you are good at Photoshop, use Insight to output a raw 16bit file with profile embedded, and do the adjustments in Photoshop. Or you

Re: aliasing was Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000

2001-04-09 Thread Dave King
> Dave wrote: > >I don't see significant differences in grain at the print level > >between 100 speed negs and chromes, and print level is all I really > >care about. > > Really??! In the scans I see a huge difference between say Superia 100 > and Sensia II 100. There's a *much* bigger differenc

filmscanners: silverfast.ed4000

2001-04-09 Thread Mikael Risedal
Jeremy I phoned the Swedish Nikon today and they are chore that Silverfast will not come together with ED4000 in Europe. I told them that Polaroid SS4000 come together with Silverfast+ Binuscan + Insight and are 500USD cheaper. I think you can buy or upgrade Silverfast 5 soon, who support ED

filmscanners: AcerMacSupport

2001-04-09 Thread Richard Starr
Mr Honda replied to my plea for Mac support for the Scanwit. Turns out there is a Mac driver for the 2720S and they expect one for the 2740S soon. That's good news. Why don't they tell us in the specs on their web page? Rich

Re: filmscanners: ColorSteps?

2001-04-09 Thread Richard Starr
--- You wrote: You will be able to chack whether it is the file, or a problem with the display/graphics system, by viewing the histogram. Contouring shows up as missing bit values, leaving the histogram looking like a mangy dog's comb. What file type is this, and what processing has been done (

Re: filmscanners: film scanner software

2001-04-09 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
Mikael, I do believe you initiated this discussion. Maris - Original Message - From: "Mikael Risedal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 7:41 AM Subject: RE: filmscanners: film scanner software | | Lynn Allen | | I hope to have a relevant discuss

RE: filmscanners: SS4000 update

2001-04-09 Thread Hemingway, David J
:) -Original Message- From: Tom Scales [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:filmscanners: SS4000 update I have to praise Polaroid customer support. As most of you know, I'm having a problem with my SS4000 and the

filmscanners: SS4000 update

2001-04-09 Thread Tom Scales
I have to praise Polaroid customer support. As most of you know, I'm having a problem with my SS4000 and the cleaner gadget they sent me didn't help. Before I even got up this morning, I had an email from Tom in customer support asking about my problem. I assumed it was a followup to my call a c

filmscanners: Re: OT Endless Posts

2001-04-09 Thread Bigboy9955
In a message dated 04/08/2001 4:26:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << 33 to summarize ALL posts to date, then quote them (including all the headers and footers of course) and then add "Me too." 19 to quote the "Me toos" to say, "Me three." 52 to post to the list tha

Re: filmscanners: Coolscan 4000

2001-04-09 Thread Arthur Entlich
PAUL GRAHAM wrote: >> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 09:16:54 +0930 >> From: "Mark T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000 >> >> At 04:11 PM 7/04/01 +, you wrote: >> > >> Can I just add to this - *please* make sure that the test slide is a >> 'curve

RE: filmscanners: AcerScanwit

2001-04-09 Thread Honda Lo
Title: RE: filmscanners: AcerScanwit Dear Arthur,     yes, you're right. We use Cold-Cathode lamp to scan the normal and then use LED-IR to scan dust & scratch. And as I survey the market, we found only Nikon use all LED as light-source to do the scan.   Best Regards, Honda Lo Product Man

RE: filmscanners: film scanner software

2001-04-09 Thread Mikael Risedal
Lynn Allen I hope to have a relevant discussions about scanner subjects. I believe that some subject should have a own under group. Best regards Mikael -- >From: Lynn Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: filmscanners: film scanner so

Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000

2001-04-09 Thread Mark T.
I guess you've probably got a few replies already, but here's another! Try here: http://www.imaging-resource.com/IRNEWS/archive/current.htm#Nikf Regards, Mark T. At 07:40 PM 8/04/01 -0700, you wrote: >I just resubscribed to the list today after months of ISP problems. Would >someone please forw

Re: aliasing was Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000

2001-04-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
Dave wrote: >I don't see significant differences in grain at the print level >between 100 speed negs and chromes, and print level is all I really >care about. Really??! In the scans I see a huge difference between say Superia 100 and Sensia II 100. There's a *much* bigger difference when you go