RE: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread laurie
Thanks, Of course you have a significant point. I realized the point of the one liner only after I had responded to Walter's response to me wherein I actually underlined the fact that his contribution was the one liner but did not realize what I had said until I sent the post. I guess I owe an

filmscanners: A GOOD nikon 8000 scan...

2001-06-25 Thread Lawrence Smith
All, I regularly post images to a critique page on my site. The current image is one that I did using the new 8000. This particular scan does not have visible banding (well that you can see on the screen anyway). If anyone wants to take a look it's at http:www.lwsphoto.com Click on the Critiq

RE: filmscanners: Banding Problem with Nikon 8000ED Scanners

2001-06-25 Thread rafeb
At 12:15 PM 6/24/01 -0400, Lawrence wrote: >Peter, > >I got mine from State Street Direct Online. As for jumping in, I'd wait >till this issue is understood. It is a growing concern at Nikon. Pehaps >Rafe could jump in here and offer his experience. Rafe, are you on a Mac or >PC? Are you seei

Re: filmscanners: ScanWit Yellow stain

2001-06-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
Dear Jerry, I just took a look at your attachment in Photoshop. Of course, it is heavily artifacted due to the downsampling and Jpegging. The first thing I always do when I look at defects is to go into channels and look at each channel as a separate entity. In this case, all the problems I a

Re: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
Silly me, I used almost exclusively Kodachrome back in the 60's 70's and 80's. I only really moved to E-6 films after they convinced me I could trust them (in the 1990's), (other than Afga slides which used some weird process (CF??) which has failed completely on me, and will need to be dealt

Re: filmscanners: LED Illumination for Film Scanners

2001-06-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
Just two days ago, I was at a local retailer who showed me the new HP scanner/copier (which is basically an inkjet printer and a scanner on top). It was only $399 CAN, and they have reduced the footprint to that of a small inkjet printer. Pretty amazing. The part that relates to this discuss

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
Sorry Lynn, you are several months (which in this biz is centuries) out of date. Epson (the printer people) with Cambridge Institute (I believe this is in Boston) have developed a method for using inkjet technology to spray some type of transistors onto substrates, to make a color panel which

RE: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread Derek Clarke
Look at the end... One liners can make serious points, and his was that double-shooting can make you miss the action. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (laurie) wrote: > For the life of me, I fail to understand why Walter Bushell would post a > message to the list repeating what Karl and Tony said on the list

RE: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.3 Available

2001-06-25 Thread Tim Atherton
Bloody hell Ed - I only just got around to installing 7.1! :) Tim A > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: June 25, 2001 3:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.3 Available > > > I

Re: filmscanners: Does CMM work on Win2000?

2001-06-25 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
I use Windows 98SE so I'm not sure what the settings would be in Win2000, but it depends on your Windows "Display" settings. The default Windows color space setting is sRGB, so that would explain why your wallpaper looks the same as Windows wallpaper and in AcdSee as (I assume) AcdSee is using th

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Infrared dust removal accuracy

2001-06-25 Thread Rob Geraghty
Darrell wrote: >I have some vague idea of how infrared scanning is used to remove dust and >scratches from film scans on scanners that have this capability. Is there >any possibility that this method could mistake elements of the actual image >on the film for the undesirable dust or scratch and th

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.2 Available

2001-06-25 Thread Rob Geraghty
Stephen wrote: > Is there no longer a 'Clean' feature for the > Sprintscan4000? I see only 'Grain Reduction.' Presumably grain reduction is all that has ever worked, since the SS4000 has no IR channel. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread Derek Clarke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Bushell) wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Tony Sleep wrote: > > > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:15:00 -0700 Karl Schulmeisters > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Respectfully, many pros are switching to digital. > > > > For newspaper use it's standard now. But I was rec

Re: filmscanners: Infrared dust removal accuracy

2001-06-25 Thread RogerMillerPhoto
In a message dated 6/25/2001 3:11:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have some vague idea of how infrared scanning is used to remove dust and scratches from film scans on scanners that have this capability. Is there any possibility that this method could mistake elements of

filmscanners: Infrared dust removal accuracy

2001-06-25 Thread Darrell Wilks
I have some vague idea of how infrared scanning is used to remove dust and scratches from film scans on scanners that have this capability. Is there any possibility that this method could mistake elements of the actual image on the film for the undesirable dust or scratch and thereby "remove" part

filmscanners: Does CMM work on Win2000?

2001-06-25 Thread Ramesh Kumar_C
Hi I know this questioon has been asked in this list for N'number of times, but I am forced to ask again. I scanned the negative in VS, using "ProPhoto" as colour space. Scanned output had profile embedded in it. I edited this image in Adobe PS6.0 and saved on to disk. I set this image as

Re: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread Hersch Nitikman
Thanks, Isaac! It's always nice to get an endorsement. Hersch At 10:10 AM 06/25/2001, you wrote: Hersch Nitikman wrote: > > For all the concern about the lifetime of CDs, I have been scanning my > personal archives of slides and color negatives ranging mostly from > the past 30 years, with a fe

filmscanners: NikonUSA warranty service

2001-06-25 Thread Hersch Nitikman
After all the complaints about Nikon service, I thought I should add a note on the other side. For the past several months, the LS-30 I bought last July 6 had a maddening intermittent set of failure modes, including severe banding, and severe gamut compression. I kept waiting for it to fail pe

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.2 Available

2001-06-25 Thread Stephen Jennings
Is there no longer a 'Clean' feature for the Sprintscan4000? I see only 'Grain Reduction.' STEPHENJENNINGS P h o t o g r a p h e r Cambridge, MA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Earlier versions basically limited the size of the largest dust spot based > on wither the cleaning was set to ligh

RE: filmscanners: Scanner resolution (was: BWP seeks scanner)

2001-06-25 Thread Shough, Dean
> > printed at a resolution of 2 microns per pixel > > Just as a matter of interest, how the hell do you do this!? > I believe they use some sort of scanning laser device. "They" being some other part of my company - I don't even know who or where as someone else took care of the details after

Re: filmscanners: Scanner resolution &File Sizes (& workflow)

2001-06-25 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
I scan to the hard drive, and when done with a roll transfer to CD-ROM. I use Irfanview (freeware) from http://www.ryansimmons.com/users/irfanview/english.htm to make a thumbnails sheet which I then print out on inkjet to stick in with the CD, save a copy with the images on the CD, and save a cop

Re: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread Isaac Crawford
Tony Sleep wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:15:00 -0700 Karl Schulmeisters > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Respectfully, many pros are switching to digital. > > For newspaper use it's standard now. But I was recently speaking to an AP > photographer who was grumbling that he has to try and

Re: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread Isaac Crawford
Hersch Nitikman wrote: > > For all the concern about the lifetime of CDs, I have been scanning my > personal archives of slides and color negatives ranging mostly from > the past 30 years, with a few older. I have to say that most of my > 30-year old slides and negatives need Digital ROC (Restora

RE: filmscanners: LED Illumination for Film Scanners

2001-06-25 Thread Clark Guy
Hi, all! I'm a little behind in my reading of this list, but I thought I'd respond to this one. One thing that hasn't been mentioned (that I noticed) is that this spec from Stanley gives the operating life as 1000 hrs at IF=max. Usually, we power an LED with something on the order of 20mA cur

RE: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread laurie
For the life of me, I fail to understand why Walter Bushell would post a message to the list repeating what Karl and Tony said on the list already without making any further contribution. Did Mr Bushell forget to put in his own comments and response? That would be the only explanation I can thin

Re: filmscanners: Scanner resolution &File Sizes (& workflow)

2001-06-25 Thread Lynn Allen
Thanks, Roger, for that work-flow description. I've also found that anotating a proof-sheet is very labor-intensive, which is what prompted my comments. Seems like there ought to be an easier way, but I haven't found one, either--despite the claims of the software packages. Keeping a tidy shop

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-25 Thread Lynn Allen
Hi, Steve-- Yes, this is sort of what I was talking about, on a lesser scale--I had the idea back in the 80's, Ray Bradbury had it back in the 40's. :-) It's a little bit "Star Trek," but the concept is valid. Thanks for passing on the web site. As of now, the technology is too expensive and t

Re: filmscanners: cd making question (1/1)

2001-06-25 Thread cjcronin
At 02:46 AM 6/23/01, you wrote: >If you want it to be cross-platform, you can do exactly this as web pages >(ie with HTML). Anyone can then look at it in a browser. Cool, I'll give it a try. Thanks Tony. Jules_C

Re: filmscanners: cd making question

2001-06-25 Thread cjcronin
At 03:50 PM 6/22/01, you wrote: >Are these CD's for archiving purposes, or just to run a slide show? archiving >Do you want the thumbnails to open the full size images when clicked on? yes >It sounds like you want to create a web site that will run off a CD. It can be >activated through autor

Re: filmscanners: Digital vs Conventional Chemical Darkroom

2001-06-25 Thread Lynn Allen
Karl and Art's points are (and should be) well taken. Film is an excellent archival medium (less so prints). But the thing overlooked is the posibility of disaster; fire and floods have taken a devastating toll on archives of all types (and they're not very good for PCs, scanners or cameras, ei

Re: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread Walter Bushell
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Tony Sleep wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:15:00 -0700 Karl Schulmeisters > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Respectfully, many pros are switching to digital. > > For newspaper use it's standard now. But I was recently speaking to an AP > photographer who was grumbling that

RE: filmscanners: ScanWit Yellow stain

2001-06-25 Thread Oostrom, Jerry
Hi Alan, I recently received my scanner back from Acer, but it still showed the same problems. Here I have an example of an overexposed negative, which gave a perfect fine grained print, but scanning with the Scanwit 2720S is useless for such overexposed negatives as the negative is too dark for

Re: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:15:00 -0700 Karl Schulmeisters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Respectfully, many pros are switching to digital. For newspaper use it's standard now. But I was recently speaking to an AP photographer who was grumbling that he has to try and shoot everything twice now - on

Re: filmscanners: Polaroid 120 Recall?

2001-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
David, Thanks, Ian - Original Message - From: "Hemingway, David J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 7:05 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Polaroid 120 Recall? > Ian, > There has not been a recall on the SS120 on a worldwide basis.I do know we > had a

Re: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a related note, I read in one of my electronic trade publications ( > E. E. > Times) that a company has develop a chip to work with ultraviolet lasers. > The article stated that the UV lasers could be used in CD writers to write > the data more densely and that

Re: filmscanners: Digital vs Conventional Chemical Darkroom

2001-06-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
Since I was quoted on the bottom of this (I've edited it out), I want to make it quite clear that on many occasions I have stated that I find the number one problem with digital is the poor archival nature of storage, so I am in total agreement with Karl. The problem of change of format, no easy

Re: filmscanners: Best film for scanning with FS 2710

2001-06-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
I want to thank the people who provided extra info regarding Elite Chrome 200/ E200 film. I think it is time for me to write Kodak and get some explanations from the "K-horse's mouth". Art Herm wrote: > just ask the lab to extend developing time (in the first developer), here are > the numbe