At 12:15 AM 7/15/01 -0400, Austin wrote:
One article is online at http://www.ledet.com/margulis/Sharpen.pdf
I haven't read enough to know if this guy Margulis knows what he's talking
about or not, but to quote from one of his articles:
Anyone who thinks that if a fine screen is good, than a
Austin Franklin wrote:
Yes, this is in fact exactly what I am speaking of. Minolta does this
on a small scale with their Multi scanner line.
That's not zooming, it's changing the magnification. That is entirely
different.
I'm not sure I see a difference in this case. If the
Derek Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I presume you mean security staff at the entrance to airside rather than
check in staff?
Correct.
Film must never be left in checked baggage these days, the X-ray machines
they use for that are guaranteed to fog your film.
It's a pity they don't warn
Derek Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could it be dust before the film was processed, leaving chemical spots on
the film? Those would be just as transparent to IR as the real image...
That's the only thing I can imagine it could be. But it still baffles me
that the
IR scan is blank. There
Norman Quinn wrote:
800 and 400ISO. two rolls of kodak film
Ouch. I can see why you had a problem especially given this;
Would have been 8-10 passes though scanners Jamaica,
Miami, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas and back.
Double ouch. Could you have processed the C41 somewhere locally?
I
Methinks someone may have missed the point of Dan Margulis' style..
As a 'disabled' person myself (perhaps not moronic, but pretty close), I
find Dan a breath of fresh air, and what's more, he actually deals with my
problem...
Yes, I am R/G colorblind. :( A nasty affliction if you enjoy
on 7/14/01 3:28 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
How fast can it scan a 6x6 BW?
On a 700 MHz Athlon PC:
2 minutes, 10 seconds with Super Fine Scan OFF.
5 minutes, 15 seconds with Super Fine Scan ON.
FYI, the Leafscan is well under 4 minutes.
At 4000 DPI?
Todd
Austin,
You are doing yourself a great injustice to dismiss the work of Margulis
based upon his style. He is an iconoclast who bases his approach on what
works in the real world, as opposed to the theoretical, and is hell bent on
dismantling many of our conventional wisdoms, and the pundits who
The FAA has a regulation for the US (which is also usually honored in
Canada) that is a traveler requests hand inspection of camera and
film, that the carry-on luggage X-Ray security person is supposed to
grant you your request. That usually does not require opening the
camera back.
Sometime
Norman Quinn wrote:
No just the film. This is the 1st time I have had fogged film too.
The poor technican at the lab thought his machine had misdeveloped
them, but strips B4 and after mine were fine.
It must be X-ray. I had just returned from a trip.
Norman Quinn
Older machines in
Yes, the issue is not just the percentage. You will note, if you play
with USM, that all three settings are involved in the degree of USM
that's visible.
If you decrease the radius, let's say to under 1, you can boost the
percent to several hundred before you see any obvious artifacts from the
The Epson printer group is [EMAIL PROTECTED] BUT, be warned, it is very
active, very opinionated, and often very acrimonious!
It is (or was) on the e-group site, so you can check it out there. If
it is as it used to be, expect several hundred postings a day. I had to
give it up.
Art
Frank
There was some discussion on this list some time ago about calibrating
color settings between monitor and printer. Someone suggested a website
that explained theses issues thoroughly and I seem to have lost the link.
Can someone help me?
Thanks,
Jon
on 7/15/01 5:37 AM, Arthur Entlich wrote:
Lastly, I have found the amount of USM you can get away with depends
upon the scanner and the film in use. If the scanner or film tends to
exaggerate grain, defects, or noise, you can't go to far with USM,
because
these are indeed the types of
At 07:47 AM 7/15/01 -0400, Todd wrote:
on 7/14/01 3:28 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
How fast can it scan a 6x6 BW?
On a 700 MHz Athlon PC:
2 minutes, 10 seconds with Super Fine Scan OFF.
5 minutes, 15 seconds with Super Fine Scan ON.
FYI, the Leafscan is well under 4 minutes.
At
At 07:44 AM 7/15/01 -0400, Todd wrote:
Austin,
You are doing yourself a great injustice to dismiss the work of Margulis
based upon his style. He is an iconoclast who bases his approach on what
works in the real world, as opposed to the theoretical, and is hell bent on
dismantling many of our
At 02:37 AM 7/15/01 -0700, Art wrote:
Also, you should know that USM usually looks more intense on your screen
(for images to be printed) than it does during the actual printing
process, due to the nature of the dithering process. So it can look
a bit exaggerated on the image on the screen (at
A zoom (or variable focal length) lens narrows the field of view as the focal
length is increased - that's magnification.
Jim
Arthur Entlich wrote:
Austin Franklin wrote:
Yes, this is in fact exactly what I am speaking of. Minolta does this
on a small scale with their Multi
How fast can it scan a 6x6 BW?
On a 700 MHz Athlon PC:
2 minutes, 10 seconds with Super Fine Scan OFF.
5 minutes, 15 seconds with Super Fine Scan ON.
FYI, the Leafscan is well under 4 minutes.
At 4000 DPI?
Todd
Todd, don't you own a Leafscan? I do believe you're on the
Knowing what I know of Austin, I agree. I'd
proudly include Austin among my favorite high-
tech Luddites. Anyone that swears by and uses
a ten-year old film scanner is worthy of membership.
Well, Rafe, in my favor ;-) there isn't a scanner available for near the
price of the ten-year old
This weekend's circular from CompUSA shows
the 1640SU -- with transparency adapter --
going for $149.77, after rebate. Maybe it's
a misprint; I haven't called them to verify
this price.
If it's not, and you have any need at all
to scan MF media, this is one heck of a deal.
I paid $400
At 10:18 AM 7/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
Please don't let his arrogance turn you off - he knows what he's talking
about to the nth degree. His specialty is color correction, and I would
venture to suggest that the vast majority of graphics amateurs and
professionals have read his book and use what
I do mostly exclusively BW, but I'll keep that in mind if I ever start
doing color seriously.
Please don't let his arrogance turn you off - he knows what he's talking
about to the nth degree. His specialty is color correction, and I would
venture to suggest that the vast majority of
Art wrote:
Usually they won't even both[er]
to open the canisters, although sometimes they will.
It may (or may not) be worth mentioning that smugglers have been using film
canisters for quite some time. Occasionally, there's going to be an
overzealous customs inspector, especially when you
That's not being a Luddite, that's being a cheap bastard.
I think they are not mutually exclusive ;-)
As with your Leafscan, I've compared the output of this
lense to my newer and more expensive zooms, and found
the latter lacking by comparison. I am content to give
up auto-focus for the
I don't recall the discussion or the particular link, but the place to start
is at
http://plum.ia.polsl.gliwice.pl/~DIP/delphi/Library/Color.htm
Maris
- Original Message -
From: Jonathan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 7:01 AM
Subject:
on 7/15/01 11:11 AM, Austin Franklin wrote:
How fast can it scan a 6x6 BW?
On a 700 MHz Athlon PC:
2 minutes, 10 seconds with Super Fine Scan OFF.
5 minutes, 15 seconds with Super Fine Scan ON.
FYI, the Leafscan is well under 4 minutes.
At 4000 DPI?
Todd
Todd, don't you own
on 7/15/01 9:10 AM, rafeb wrote:
But, one thing you should know, his emphasis is on color work destined for
press. However, if you are interested in the architecture of Photoshop, in
my humble estimation, he's the Dean of the university.
.. but not necessarily the Color Management
I am primary scanning for a print on Epson printer.
Would you please check my settings and work flow?
=My monitor is "calibrated" through Adobe
Color Management Wizard
- Phosphors: Trinitron (I am using older
monitor)
- Gamma: 1.8
- Hardware White Point
6500
- Adjusted White Point: Same as
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 04:57:00 -0400 Dave Buyens ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
For black white film that is very dense, there is something called
farmer's reducer that chemically washes some of the denseness from the
film.
And the image too, if you aren't careful:)
Assuming you have color
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:12:21 -0400 rafeb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Maybe you're onto something here, Tony. I use
a Matrox G200 AGP board. But strangely enough,
its installation was rather messy (driver-wise)
and it still crashes during one of the more
obscure Wintune tests (though
2 minutes, 10 seconds with Super Fine Scan OFF.
5 minutes, 15 seconds with Super Fine Scan ON.
FYI, the Leafscan is well under 4 minutes.
At 4000 DPI?
Todd
Todd, don't you own a Leafscan? I do believe you're on the
Leafscan emaiil
list. I can send you the manual if you
He issued a challenge
(as he often
does) to these consultants to provide details of press shops who are using
color management, AKA profiles, for their press, and no consultant (if
anyone would know it would be they, as they'd be setting them up) could
offer any.
And you gave me a hard
At 01:10 PM 7/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
That's not being a Luddite, that's being a cheap bastard.
I think they are not mutually exclusive ;-)
As with your Leafscan, I've compared the output of this
lense to my newer and more expensive zooms, and found
the latter lacking by comparison. I am
Title: Re: filmscanners: Adobe/SilverFast Color Management
Peter,
I am primary scanning for a print on Epson printer. Would you please check my
settings and work flow?
For SilverFast read the tutorials at http://www.computer-darkroom.com/sf5_contents.htm
1) Should I do processing using
I recently installed a LS-30 on a new Win 2000 professional system. The
computer recognizes the scanner at startup but does not seem to install a
driver for it. Each startup the computer again recognizes the scanner and
begins the new hardware wizard. Is there a Win 2000 compatibility
problem?
At 19:29 15-07-01 +0100, Tony Sleep wrote:
The other major issue for system stability is MS COM components.
Registry entries for these get routinely messed up on every machine here,
but are easily fixed again via Norton Utilities Windoctor|Repair All. This
is the first place I look now if I get
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 07:14:41 -0400 rafeb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
And as it turns out, I am a big Dan Margulis
fan... hence my rotten attitude about ICC
color management, etc. I think, once you
start working in the Margulis mode, you're
probably spoiled forever from using these
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 22:32:55 +1000 Yuri J Sos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I struggled with trying to use a flatbed scanner for a whole roll
of 35mm (both neg and slide), but nowadays I use Vuescan's
index feature - a 16MB BMP file which prints up nicely on an A4
page for filing.
I can see
NVidia GeForce Detonator Driver ver. 12.41 is digitally signed by
Microsoft
and WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Lab) certified as well. I'm
not aware of
any stability issues. I use a GeForce card instead of a Matrox because I
need its OpenGL performance and features. It's not for games.
NS 3.1 can be observed in Task Manager while it's running. While
it doesn't
impact both CPUs very much it does claim practically all
available RAM and
virtual memory (99%!). Before I start the application there is
approximately 670 MB of free RAM and over nearly 1 GB free unfragmented
This has been brought up before, but I don't rememberr a solution. There
probably wasn't one. When I put a strip of 5 Pentax 645 negatives in the
carrier, the only one that can be scanned is the first one. My spacing
between negatives is apparently not what Polaroid decided the spacing should
Re: filmscanners: Adobe/SilverFast Color Management
- Original Message -
From: Ian Lyons
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Adobe/SilverFast Color Management
[snipped]
Editing an image in a wide gamut colour space is fraught with
Dan's response would be that most repro houses don't use embedded color
profiles anyway - they do it the old-fashioned way. If he's wrong, please
tell him ;)
There is a thread from his color theory list discussing this at
http://www.ledet.com/margulis/ACT_postings/ACT-PS6CM.txt
Maris
-
I'm a bit puzzled though. If you have one of these, why do you dislike it
so much, and continue to bring up only (what you perceive as) negative
things about it (or things that other scanners do better)? I've not
(certainly recently at least) heard you say one good thing that is has going
I had that same
issue. They are supposed to be coming out with new carriers
sometime. I could not wait. I sent mine back and got another 8000
that works perfectly andI get to scan 2-4 as well as the first one
;-)
Lawrence
This has been brought up before, but I don't
rememberr a
on 7/15/01 2:31 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
He issued a challenge
(as he often
does) to these consultants to provide details of press shops who are using
color management, AKA profiles, for their press, and no consultant (if
anyone would know it would be they, as they'd be setting them up)
No just the film. This is the 1st time I have had fogged film
too.Did the film travel as hand baggage, or in hold luggage?
Hand baggage, but it was checked about 8 times. I
did not expose the film on the trip. I was exposed when I returned to
Jamaica.
See http://www.ledet.com/margulis/ACT_postings/ACT-PS6CM.txt :
The ICC color management being used by such printers as have been even
peripherally identified with the concept has, in all the cases I'm aware
of, amounted to either a) They will, if asked, honor an embedded tag in an
incoming
He issued a challenge
(as he often
does) to these consultants to provide details of press shops
who are using
color management, AKA profiles, for their press, and no consultant (if
anyone would know it would be they, as they'd be setting them up) could
offer any.
And you gave me
I've told you before, I get
the sense that a lot of owners (not you, you are a special case altogether
;-)) don't want to discuss any negatives about the Leaf other than it's
weight.
I've never heard anyone have any complaints about it as you elude to
here...except for soft red channel,
At 15:58 15-07-01 -0500, Kerry Thompson wrote:
I recently installed a LS-30 on a new Win 2000 professional system. The
computer recognizes the scanner at startup but does not seem to install a
driver for it. Each startup the computer again recognizes the scanner and
begins the new hardware
At 07:29 PM 7/15/01 +0100, Tony Sleep wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 07:14:41 -0400 rafeb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
And as it turns out, I am a big Dan Margulis
fan... hence my rotten attitude about ICC
color management, etc. I think, once you
start working in the Margulis mode, you're
Norman Quinn wrote:
Hand baggage, but it was checked about 8 times.
I did not expose the film on the trip. It was
exposed when I returned to Jamaica.
I'd guess this could make the problem worse since taking the photos was
trying to add an image to a film that was already exposed by the Xrays.
At 23:23 15-07-01 +0100, Jawed Ashraf wrote:
NS 3.1 can be observed in Task Manager while it's running. While
it doesn't
impact both CPUs very much it does claim practically all
available RAM and
virtual memory (99%!). Before I start the application there is
approximately 670 MB of
Jim Sillars wrote:
When I put a strip of 5 Pentax 645 negatives in the
carrier, the only one that can be scanned is the first
one. My spacing between negatives is apparently not
what Polaroid decided the spacing should be. When
I specify negative 5 for a preview, I get half of
4 and half
on 7/15/01 10:27 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
I've told you before, I get
the sense that a lot of owners (not you, you are a special case altogether
;-)) don't want to discuss any negatives about the Leaf other than it's
weight.
I've never heard anyone have any complaints about it as you
To All:
About 2 to 3 weeks ago I sent a message asking for copies of
the back messages comparing the 4000 ppi 35mm scanners. Several were
kind enough to reply just before I left on a trip. I planned to
acknowledge the messages when I returned. But shortly after
returning, I was
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