On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:
There was one sentence that had me wondering: So, for example, if you're an
Australian trying to assert a copyright against an infringer in the UK, you
go by UK rules; a US registration will probably not help you, unless the UK
has some odd
Thanks for the hint. Does that also bring the IV ED
into the picture; in other words what's the difference
between the LS-40 and the IV ED?
on 7/21/01 9:12 AM, Mike Duncan at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've just joined this maillist because I want to go
electronic with my slides and negatives.
I prefer to
fine-tune color, contrast and everything else in post-scan processing in
Photopaint or Photoshop or PSP or whatever your favorite program is.
Thanks Maris - is their any benefit to be had by doing things this way as
opposed to doing it up-front? Other than , I suppose , when
At 12:51 24-07-01 +1000, Julian Robinson wrote:
I am one of those who has not found the problems that others report with
Nikonscan; I have found it to do what it should do, quickly and with great
control.
In general I agree with that and especially appreciate the control that NS
gives me.
no honestly this is nuts. If I had a week to spare I could prototype a GUI
in RealBasic. There's nothing hard about it.
I agree - there's nothing hard about prototyping a GUI. The hard
part is making the subtle things work.
For instance, if I had two panes, I'd get dozens of e-mails a
day
Bob Kehl wrote:
ON a more serious note, maybe this is an item to incorporate into Vuescan
Pro, the $400 version. Some of us would pay for this version.
Unfortunately, doing that version would force Ed into becoming another
Adobe-type corporation, with employees, payrolls, IP issues, lawyers,
Other than personal preference, the only benefit I see is that you can see
the image better in Photopaint/PS and have more features available with
which to make various adjustments, including changing to different color
spaces, and have the information panel available.
Maris
- Original
Thanks Marc , didnt know you were here too! I'll
check this out.
Steve
Steve,
You
may want to check out http://www.scantips.com
Marc
Maris wrote (in answer to Tomasz' question):
| Do I need the same for bw prints?
I would suggest scanning and saving them in color, especially since you
mention below that the old paper is not showing a color cast. You may well
find that one or more of the channels have better detail,
Hi, Larry--
This was three years ago (seems like a lifetime) when I didn't know
anything about scanning or had never even installed Photoshop.
You've crammed a lot of scanning and learning into that 3 years, Larry. :-)
If I had it to do all over again I would save an uncompressed file of each
Todd won't find this particularly useful, but he wrote:
Could giving it a new SCSI ID help? A whack in the head, or a toss out the
window?
If their Customer Service isn't any better than HP's, any and all of the
above are worth trying. Or, I could buy it from you for $3.50 and add it to
the
Quietly, Frank, q-u-i-e-t-l-y. If it ain't broke, don't fix it; and the way
the Vuescan driver works with my Acer is *more* than very acceptable. :-)
Best regards--LRA
From: Frank Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Scanning multiple times
My daughter is a digital graphic artist, and designs GUIs. I mean, that's
what she *does*--full time. And she's always working (60-hour weeks aren't
uncommon).
A lot of people forget that Ed's a One-Man Band (orchestra?). It might be
*nice* if Vuescan had bells and whistles, GUIs, extensive
I would not normally do this, but the Sircam worm is causing such
widespread havoc a warning seems in order. I have received 3 copies in the
last 3 days (off list!), and none has been picked up by Norton AntiVirus
2001 running with current definitions. They have been deleted safely.
If any of
At 05:54 -0400 24/7/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the hard parts of a user interface is making
options appear only when the chosen scanner
supports these options, or if one option is chosen,
making other dependant options appear or disappear.
Actually I'd prefer them to stay on screen but
on 7/24/01 9:55 AM, Lynn Allen wrote:
Todd won't find this particularly useful, but he wrote:
Could giving it a new SCSI ID help? A whack in the head, or a toss out the
window?
If their Customer Service isn't any better than HP's, any and all of the
above are worth trying. Or, I could
on 7/13/01 1:39 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
It just strikes me as weird that nobody makes a scanner for doing
35mm/MF contacts a roll at a time. A purpose-built low-spec unit for
$300US-ish would sell well, I think. 3-400ppi would be plenty.
I have been using an Epson 836XL with
Julian Robinson wrote:
I am one of those who has not found the problems that others report with
Nikonscan; I have found it to do what it should do, quickly and with great
control.
Hi, Julian, Hi all,
I apologize for the subject change. The referenced message (and its
subject :-)) are
on 7/24/01 5:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recommend people keep their eye on the
ball - i.e. the quality of the images that VueScan
produces. I personally would be quite happy
using an MS-DOS user interface if this
produced better looking images.
Ed, this whole
--- Barbara White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Where does one find information on the LS40? It's
not on the Nikon website.
I think that was a typo. It's LS4000 vs. Coolscan IV.
The later has 'only' 2900dpi vs 4000dpi for the
LS4000. Also Nikon does not mention a Firewire
interface for the IV.
Thomaz:
Tungsten light is always warmer by several Kelvins than natural light, as
you know. If you can't buy film rated for tungsten light (and I'm not sure
you can), you can use a light blue filter, which unfortunately reduces the
incident light you're working with (I don't know the filter
on 7/24/01 1:16 AM, Bob Kehl - Kvernstoen, Kehl Assoc. at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ON a more serious note, maybe this is an item to incorporate into Vuescan
Pro, the $400 version.
nice going. great idea. Finally buy that home in Maui, Ed! I'll chip in.
--
John Brownlow
I was in the same boat as you, and of the same opinion, until I
downloaded a recent version of Vuescan. I'm very impressed with the
improvements Ed has made recently (I use an LS-30). There are still
occasions where Nikonscan seems to get the better range of colors with
chromes (after editing
I just released VueScan 7.1.7 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux.
It can be downloaded from:
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
What's new in version 7.1.7
* Improved white balance algorithm in scenes with
unnatural lighting or colors (i.e. sunsets or
scenes with mostly bright
Where does one find information on the LS40? It's not on the Nikon website.
Barbara White
Matthias Luthi wrote:
Thanks for the hint. Does that also bring the IV ED
into the picture; in other words what's the difference
between the LS-40 and the IV ED?
Barbara White/Architectural
In a message dated 7/24/2001 1:02:14 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ed, this whole thread started because I was complaining about BUGS in the
interface, not the design per se.
I'm quite happy to fix bugs, and I add every bug that's reported
to my list of things to fix. Most of the
I would not normally do this, but the Sircam worm is causing such
widespread havoc a warning seems in order. I have received 3 copies in the
last 3 days (off list!), and none has been picked up by Norton AntiVirus
2001 running with current definitions. They have been deleted safely.
Try
Apart from the test in Popular Photography, do you know any other
comparisons of those two sanners? I'm highly interested in such a test as
well as one of Canon's FS-4000. I don't expect Canon to have sufficient
Dmax, so in fact I can considers purchase of one of Nikon scanners.
How does
Mike Duncan wrote:
Does anyone know of a target with lower gray level steps (eg. 5% and 3%)
since the Polaroid Nikon scanners can't be fully tested with the Q60?
You can get Stouffer step tablets from www.darkroom-innovations.com. I just
got the 35mm step tablet with 21 steps, .15
on 7/23/01 6:36 PM, Stan McQueen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, and way back when I was using Macs, I could prototype a GUI in
HyperCard real quick, too. However, converting the prototype to actual Mac
code was often a big job--sometimes not even doable at all in any
reasonable time.
Hi, Tomasz:
I *thought* there might be others out there with the same type of project.
:-)
AFAICT, the programme you propose is the most truly archival way to
procede (although the most bit- and storage-space intensive). It has the
added benefit of forward-flexibility; that is to say, when
At 12:51 PM 7/24/01 +1000, Julian wrote:
Last time I tried Vuescan's IR dust removal I found it didn't work as well
for me as ICE, but this may have improved since then, or at least I should
say it definitely has improved going by what I have read here.
The bottom line for me is that I have
There are GUI tradeoffs that I need
to make in order to accomplish this, and this
drives some Mac OS GUI purists crazy.
True. If I had not heard (probably from this list) that VueScan did great
job of scanning I never would have gotten past the interface. This was long
ago when VueScan
I'm really happy with it. Sold a Nikon N70 on ebay for a great price, got a
great Internet price on the N80 - I'm a happy camper! I love the dials for
setting f stop shutter and the grid lines.
I'll tell you, though, it's a complicated little machine. Tough for my
feeble old mind to remember
I'm guessing that you don't like the way file names are
entered. I can't use standard file dialogs to enter file names
that have the letter + in them, but I suppose I could drop
this feature (specifying the plus after the digit(s) to be
incremented) and use standard file dialog boxes.
Julian Robinson wrote:
I am one of those who has not found the problems that others report with
Nikonscan; I have found it to do what it should do, quickly and with great
control.
Hi, Julian, Hi all,
same here :-)
I bought Vuescan after reading how much better it was, but have
not found
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 02:28:03 +0200 Tomasz Zakrzewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
How filmscanners get away with negatives exposed in tungsten halogen
light?
I do a lot of stage photography and during the printing process I get
quite
neutral prints but is this the case with filmscanners?
Terry, this is off-topic to the point of the ridiculous, but *what* is the
Baltimore Ravens v. Bouchat case-law you quote? As a Cleveland-area
native, I'm no big fan of Art (Take the Browns and Run) Modell, and I'm
curious as to what the case was, and why it was denied.
BTW, I'm not a lawyer
After the thread about 16 bits vs. 8 bits, I started thinking about another
golden rule (a few nights ago, victim of jet-lag :) The rule states that
it's much better to make the tweakings at scan phase, and to perform the
least possible afterwards. This is perfectly reasonable for my LS-30, which
Hi Tony,
I've received almost thirty instances of the virus in the last three days.
My Norton AntiVirus definitions dated July 18 picked up every one and
safely quarantined them. I've been wondering if any of the forums were
going to post this. We've had two clients catch the virus and almost
I'm guessing that you don't like the way file names are
entered. I can't use standard file dialogs to enter file names
that have the letter + in them, but I suppose I could drop
this feature (specifying the plus after the digit(s) to be
incremented) and use standard file dialog boxes.
I have 512MB RAM on a Win98 (not SE) Athlon 1.2GHz PC and my vcache section
is empty. Windows does its own thing which, with a large RAM PC, is
probably the best thing. My cache tends to range from 24MB to 180MB. (Use
the SYSMON program to draw a graph of your cache size.)
Jawed
Tomasz, I suggest you spend a month experimenting, getting to know the
process.
Read Margulis (buy a copy for version 4 of Photoshop - which I suppose is
cheaper than a current edition - as PS techniques haven't evolved too
rapidly recently. Browse a bookstore copy of the current edition to see
Thanks for the alternative view Julian! I suppose I really should try both
and see - ultimately I suspect that I might go for the easiest option in the
shortterm as I'm also trying to find my way round Photoshop and a new
printer all at the same time !
Steve
I am one of those who has not found
At 07:49 PM 7/23/01 -0700, Tim Halloran wrote:
Tomasz,
Don't buy the Nikon 8000ED unless you need the medium format capability.
I agree, though if you *do* need MF scanning capability,
there aren't that many choices at the moment, in the
$3K price range. Minolta's upcoming entry may be
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:06:20 -0500 Stan Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[vcache]
MaxFileCache=16384
MinFileCache=3144
The settings I had been using were min=0, max=131,000 (that was
approximate--it was a correct multiple) with chunk size specified as
4096.
Now I can finish a
Thanks for the hint. Does that also bring the IV ED
into the picture; in other words what's the difference
between the LS-40 and the IV ED?
They are the same model.
Mike Duncan
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Terry Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I hope I didn't stir up more questions than I answered,
and I apologize to Tony if this was a little too far off-topic.
Terry, thanks for an authoritative overview.
End of thread now please, folks. If you
on 7/24/01 5:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recommend people keep their eye on the
ball - i.e. the quality of the images that VueScan
produces. I personally would be quite happy
using an MS-DOS user interface if this
produced better looking images.
Very Good
Agreed. I'll try some experiments, too, when time allows.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: domenica 22 luglio 2001 13.11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Semi OT: 16-bits [was Which Buggy Software?]
On
Terry Carroll wrote:
it's unusual to have an opportunity to provide some signal that I believed
would be found useful, even if a little off-topic.
I, for one, am happy you chimed in, Terry. It sounds good, anyway.:-)
I'd like to mention, from both a producer's and user's point of view, that
Ed, you're a wonder. I've certainly seen lot's of software that is more
quirky than Vuescan, and not as effective. Your openness and willingness to
take gripes as suggestions to improve your product is, to say the least,
refreshing.
It's a great product and one of if not THE BEST software bang
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Lynn Allen wrote:
Terry, this is off-topic to the point of the ridiculous, but *what* is the
Baltimore Ravens v. Bouchat case-law you quote? As a Cleveland-area
native, I'm no big fan of Art (Take the Browns and Run) Modell, and I'm
curious as to what the case was,
on 7/24/01 2:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no idea what embedded backspace characters means.
it means that Vuescan creates a file with a name which includes a backspace
character. This is very hard to see until you scan the files with some
utility which renders
on 7/24/01 11:00 AM, Tony Sleep at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you receive an email with the first line:-
Hi! How are you?
BE SUSPICIOUS
I feel quite left out as I haven't got one of these yet.
--
John Brownlow
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
ICQ: 109343205
on 7/24/01 4:40 PM, Norman Unsworth at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm guessing that you don't like the way file names are
entered. I can't use standard file dialogs to enter file names
that have the letter + in them,
you certainly can on the mac
--
John Brownlow
What version of Nikon Scan are you using, Ralf ? Sounds like an old
version...
Jawed
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Terry
Carroll wrote:
That's my point; it doesn't at all. Someone earlier had suggested that a
US copyright registration would assist in the enforcement in other
countries. As far as I'maware, it does not. Now, there's nothing that
would prevent any country from
In a message dated 7/24/2001 2:46:23 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It would be nice to be able to use standard file dialog boxes to specify
both the directory and filename, but not at the expense of giving up auto
increment.
Now that I think of it, I could always count how many
The problem here is if you have more than 512 meg of RAM installed with any
version of WIN9X. In that case it may not start up as it gives to much
memory to the cache. Therefore with over 512 meg installed on a PC you would
have a statement in like this in system.ini .
[vcache]
--- Tony Sleep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
new flatbed I noticed that a
frame
exposed
in tungsten lighting is totally lemon yellow on the scan. Is it
coorrectable
as in standard photographic process?
Yes, only better. And flourescents. Wonderful! :)
The best thing is still to use
Tony Sleep wrote:
How filmscanners get away with negatives exposed in tungsten halogen
light?
Is it
coorrectable
as in standard photographic process?
Yes, only better. And flourescents. Wonderful! :)
Really good news! :-)
Tomasz Zakrzewski
Robert Meier wrote:
The best thing is still to use corresponding film or a correction
filter to do a rough correction. Otherwise, some of the film layers
will be underexposed.
Yes, I know that. But are there any ISO 800 tungsten negs on the market?
They would be great for my stage photography
I think the dialog that Nikon Scan uses is quite effective. It allows the
user to specify prefix and suffix, plus the number of digits and the
starting number.
Why stick to the concept of a + sign to indicate the counting part of a
filename, instead of using a checkbox for autoincrement? I
I cannot say I do use PS Auto Levels often. Will go off and try it quickly to see.
On the last couple of photos that I adjusted the white point up .05 for the blue
component, auto levels in Photoshop doesn't work out too well. Makes the colors even
more off, took the blue out though!
Alan
Notes below:
- Original Message -
From: Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Archiving Photos (a little off-topic)
| Maris wrote (in answer to Tomasz' question):
|
| | Do I need the same for bw prints?
|
|
Thomaz,
I don't know what your workflow is like, but picking up on Lynn's suggestion
if you can (maybe in post-processing?) convert to LAB you may be able to
deal with the yellow cast using the B channel.
Maris
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From: Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: Vuescan gripes
[snipped]
| I'm guessing that you don't like the way file names are
| entered. I can't use standard file dialogs to enter file names
|
I presume you are not having any freeze-ups. Have you used Insight 5.0?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: SS4000, Win98 and VCache settings
The new Insight 5.0 lamp auto-shut off is not working on my SS4000. I set it
for 5 minutes and the lamp was still on 30 minutes later. I presume it is
supposed to shut down the lamp after a scan if I leave Insight running.
Is there any firmware upgrade necessary to make this work with 5.0?
Is
Thanks. Good ideas here. Stan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Greenbank
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 10:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: SS4000, Win98 and VCache settings
Changing the VCache settings should
- Original Message -
From: Jawed Ashraf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:44 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Re: Vuescan gripes
I think the dialog that Nikon Scan uses is quite effective. It allows the
user to specify prefix and suffix, plus the
Mike Duncan wrote:
Does anyone know of a target with lower gray level steps (eg. 5% and 3%)
since the Polaroid Nikon scanners can't be fully tested with the Q60?
You can get Stouffer step tablets from www.darkroom-innovations.com. I just
got the 35mm step tablet with 21 steps, .15
Dave King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this has been described before on this forum. When trying to drag
either corners or sides of the crop box, the crop box doesn't obey and
flips back to some other position. It becomes quite impossible to select
the
entire image.
Same on my Windows system.
Use Levels - then try Auto Levels from within the window - at that point
you can readjust the Auto-Level setting manually.
Maris
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To: Majordomo leben.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:48 PM
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