RE: filmscanners: Grain Aliasing Noise, revisited

2001-04-10 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

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

2001-04-10 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

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

2001-04-10 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
The manual is also available for separate download at Silverfast's website http://www.silverfast.com/english/download/pdfs.html Maris - Original Message - From: "Bud" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:24 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Insight,

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

2001-04-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
Julian wrote: 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

filmscanners: Jaggies in passing

2001-04-10 Thread Julian Robinson
I agree entirely, and of course Maxwell's service people said they had never heard of the problem when I phoned them. So I suspect "interesting" will be the main outcome of this exercise! I think my jaggies has got significantly worse with time, which is not surprising if it is a resonance

Re: filmscanners: ColorSteps?

2001-04-10 Thread Arthur Entlich
Richard, I ran into a problem with Photoshop 4.01 on the PC where it posterized badly when I did levels adjustments in 16 bit. The problem did not occur if I worked in 8 bit. It usually happened in midtones going quite dark blue-black. I never printed these so, I have no idea what they

Re: filmscanners: Re: OT Endless Posts

2001-04-10 Thread Arthur Entlich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't have said it better. It seems many posters like to hear themselves talk and opine. Or debate endlessly like "Well said Joe, but you know, back in 1969 when I worked for Jet Propulsion Labs, we experimented with a coating for an airplane wing

Re: filmscanners: Jaggies in passing

2001-04-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Julian Robinson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree entirely, and of course Maxwell's service people said they had never heard of the problem when I phoned them. So I suspect "interesting" will be the main outcome of this exercise! I look forward to hearing if they can fix the design fault.

Re: filmscanners: Grain Aliasing at 2700pppi

2001-04-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
Does anyone have any idea why the list seems to periodically repeat posts? :-7 - Original Message - From: "Arthur Entlich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 10:42 AM

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

2001-04-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Dave King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean jaggies are all through the image, or along the edges? The jaggies are through the entire image but are most noticeable on high contrast edges within the image. By "edge" I presume you mean the outer boundary of the entire image. The jaggies

RE: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD

2001-04-10 Thread Stuart
At 21:13 09-04-01 -0400, you wrote: 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) - Below is a quote from the Silvefast website and what confuses me is it

filmscanners: Blue noise - suggestions for removal?

2001-04-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
My apologies in advance to digest readers for the attached image. I've cut it down to 6K to minimise the uuencoded text. The attached photo is the result of a really icky combination of film and light. The film is Kodak 320T tungsten balanced slide film, and I've taken the photo by flash -

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

2001-04-10 Thread Dave King
"Dave King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean jaggies are all through the image, or along the edges? The jaggies are through the entire image but are most noticeable on high contrast edges within the image. By "edge" I presume you mean the outer boundary of the entire image. The

Re: filmscanners: Re: OT Endless Posts

2001-04-10 Thread Bigboy9955
In a message dated 04/10/2001 5:11:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Further, you have been quite dismissive of sometimes interesting, sometimes useful contributions that come from people with longer or wider experience than your own. Those who are ignorant of their

RE: filmscanners: Grain Aliasing Noise, revisited

2001-04-10 Thread Lynn Allen
Rob wrote: FWIW another technique which I have tried is resampling the image to twice the original size, using the median filter on the area I want to smooth, then resampling back to the original size. This will lose detail, but is very effective with things like the sky. Your're right, that

Re: filmscanners: Brief review of LS-4000

2001-04-10 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
Thank you for a very thorough, very detailed review. Maris Lidaka - Original Message - From: "Dieder Bylsma" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:19 AM Subject: filmscanners: Brief review of LS-4000 | Just thought I'd pipe in with my own two

Re: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD

2001-04-10 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
I just went to http://www.silverfast.com/english/silverfast/se/ where it reads: Currently available versions: DC-SE for digital cameras, SE for Epson , Hewlett Packard, LaCie, Microtek, Nikon, Umax scanners. Maris - Original Message - From: "Stuart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: ColorSteps?

2001-04-10 Thread James L. Sims
These are the symptoms that I had experienced with scans from my Epson Perfection 1200U Photo - midtone gradients in steps with a blue-gray to blue-black cast and very pale greens (that should have been rich green). There was also a substantial loss of detail in these areas of pale green. I had

Re: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD

2001-04-10 Thread Edwin Eleazer
Supported Nikon scanners. LS 20 LS 1000 AX 110 AX 210 AX 1200 - Original Message - From: "Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:28 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: SilverFast SE 49USD I just went to

filmscanners: Vuescan 7.0.12

2001-04-10 Thread Yuri
Hamrick Software - http://www.hamrick.com/ VueScan 7.0.12 Release Notes April 6, 2001 What's new in version 7.0.12 * Fixed problem with using transparency adapter on newer Microtek flatbed scanners * Fixed problem with 24-bit scans on Nikon LS-4000

Re: filmscanners: Blue noise - suggestions for removal?

2001-04-10 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
I could deal with the blue of the fringe but not the darkness of the fringe: (Using Corel PhotoPaint) I changed to LAB mode, then adjusted the tone curve of channel B (the blue-yellow continuum channel): I raised the middle of the curve from 0-0 coordinates to about 0-+2 or 3 on a scale of

RE: filmscanners: Grain Aliasing Noise, revisited

2001-04-10 Thread Chuck Skinner
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: Grain Aliasing Noise, revisited snip Does Photoshop have the ability to "feather" the edges of

filmscanners: Kodak Q60 Calibration

2001-04-10 Thread Software City
Anyone know of a link to a tutorial on using the Kodak Q60 slide for the creation of a scanner curve to calibrate a scanner? Thanks. Ken Jaskot

Re: filmscanners: Kodak Q60 Calibration

2001-04-10 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
I'll draw some flack from this you I can point you to, without recommending or disparaging the site, http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/calibration/kodak_q60/index.htm I haven't had the time to go through his method or try it but if you do please let me know whether it's good, bad or indifferent. Maris