RE: filmscanners: Vuescan and Kodak Infrared HIE BW colormask ?

2001-08-15 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I do not use Vuescan; but why would an infrared BLACK WHITE film have a color mask or need a special setting to remove one? I am unfamiliar with the film that you are referring to although I do have some familiarity with infrared BW film in general. Unless this Infrared BW film is a

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Nikon IV test results

2001-08-15 Thread Rob Geraghty
Mike wrote: Early tests using the Stouffer gray scale obtained with Vuescan (Slide setting and BW=0.001) show exceptional linearity down to an OD of 2.11, then an abrupt flattening of the curve above that. Dumb question - are you using 48 bit output from vuescan? Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-15 Thread Colin Maddock
Lynn allen asked: Isn't there also a way to select a color in Photoshop, either from the screen or from the palette, and tell it This is the reference color for *that* area? I mean, of course, without painting it all in one flat color? In Levels, double click the highlight eyedropper, which

Re: filmscanners: Scanner slide feeders for 35 mm scanners - likes and dislikes

2001-08-15 Thread Matthias Luthi
A feeder that uses standard trays would be great. Matthias on 8/10/01 11:20 AM, Hemingway, David J at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In preperation for the upcoming slide feeder for the Sprintscan 4000 I would like to hear what feature set customers would like both hardware and software. I would

Re: filmscanners: Scanner slide feeders for 35 mm scanners - likesand dislikes

2001-08-15 Thread David Gordon
Matthias Luthi [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote on Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:05:12 -0700 A feeder that uses standard trays would be great. You mean a feeder which used Carousel (spelling?) trays. Which would hold 80 tranies at a time. (Did David Hoffman suggest this here or elsewhere?) -- David Gordon

Re: filmscanners: Image management software

2001-08-15 Thread Arthur Entlich
Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) wrote: Take a look at ACDSee http://www.acdsystems.com/english/products/acdsee/ Always nice to see our homeboys promoted ;-) Art

Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?

2001-08-15 Thread Arthur Entlich
Karl Schulmeisters wrote: So for a 20 year archive, I would print to 2 CDRs and keep the original negs in a cool-dry place (in essence that is what Corbis is doing with the Betteman archive). From what I've read, Corbis actually throwing up their hands and accepting defeat. The vast

Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?

2001-08-15 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Arthur writes: Knowing Gates, it is all a money decision and they likely already scanned the best (most sellable) images ... It sounds like you don't know Gates at all. If he just wanted to make lots of money, buying something like a deteriorating archive of images would be a really poor

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan and Kodak Infrared HIE BW colormask ?

2001-08-15 Thread Stan McQueen
At 07:17 PM 8/14/2001 -0500, Laurie Solomon wrote: I do not use Vuescan; but why would an infrared BLACK WHITE film have a color mask or need a special setting to remove one? I am unfamiliar with the film that you are referring to although I do have some familiarity with infrared BW film in

Re: filmscanners: Scanning 4x5 under $500 US?

2001-08-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Dean, Or a used Minolta Scan Multi which are available for around £500 Ian - Original Message - From: Shough, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:06 PM Subject: filmscanners: Scanning 4x5 under $500 US? Not this question again! But

RE: filmscanners: Scanning 4x5 under $500 US?

2001-08-15 Thread Shough, Dean
Or a used Minolta Scan Multi which are available for around £500 But the scan Multi only goes up to 6 x 9 cm, not 4 x 5 inches. Are you thinking of either the Leaf, the Nikon LS-4500 or the Polaroid? I don't think any of them would be under $1,000US.

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan and Kodak Infrared HIE BW colormask ?

2001-08-15 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Vuescan has settings for contrast indices of various black and white films, not color masks. Ok, I can accept that. It is a little more sophisticated than many, if not most, film scanner applications which group all the various BW settings under the same single label and setting. However,

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-15 Thread Lynn Allen
Anthony wrote: I'm not sure ... what do you mean by reference color? OK, I'm probably not using the proper terminology here. I mean that if I select color R=0/G=181/B=145 (which may or may not approximate the general hue and brightness of Rob's turquoise slide--I'm working from color-memory

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-15 Thread Lynn Allen
Colin wrote: In Levels, double click the highlight eyedropper, which brings up the colour picker. Select the colour you want, and then click on the part of the picture you want to be that colour. Why so it does! Thanks, Colin. :-) OTOH, that isn't *quite* the effect I was looking for, since

Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?

2001-08-15 Thread Lynn Allen
Art wrote: Gates also owns several other collections from Europe, which unfortunately are also disintegrating. Which proves conclusively that even Money doesn't solve problems--unless, of course, you *use* it!!! ]:( Best regards--LRA From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Scanning 4x5 under $500 US?

2001-08-15 Thread Winsor Crosby
Not this question again! But scanners are coming way down in price, their resolution is going up, and now 12, 14, and even 16 bits per color are readily available. I have some 20 year old 4x5s (BW, negative, and slide) that I would like to play with again - I haven't worked with them or done

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-15 Thread Robert E. Wright
I don't think PS LE allows access to individual channels in the curves dialog. In the full version you can select the color channel in the curves dialog and control click(PC) on a point in the image, then change the output level to the desired amount. Do this to each of the color channels before

Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Nikon IV test results

2001-08-15 Thread Mike Duncan
Mike wrote: Early tests using the Stouffer gray scale obtained with Vuescan (Slide setting and BW=0.001) show exceptional linearity down to an OD of 2.11, then an abrupt flattening of the curve above that. Dumb question - are you using 48 bit output from vuescan? Yes. I'm going to mail my

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-15 Thread Lynn Allen
Robert wrote: I don't think PS LE allows access to individual channels in the curves dialog. It does--sort of--in Adjust/Curves. It does *not* allow individual separations into (BW) RGB channels. The lower-priced CorelDraw will, however. In the full version you can select the color channel

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-15 Thread Lynn Allen
Whoa! Ten minutes after I answered Robert's msg, it struck me that adjusting Green in *Levels* would move the blue in Bear more toward turquoise and yet leave the white snow relatively white. And it does. However, these settings can't be saved in PS-LE, AFAICT. Which makes me think that

Re: filmscanners: Scanning 4x5 under $500 US?

2001-08-15 Thread Brian D. Plikaytis
I'm using the Epson 1640 with it's transparency adapter to scan my 4x5 black and white negs. I find it is doing a fairly good job and I am getting output that surpasses my darkroom prints. However, I did find that for a given negative, I got much more out of the shadow areas with Vuescan as it

Re: filmscanners: Scanning 4x5 under $500 US?

2001-08-15 Thread Pat Perez
Is the Vuescan multi sample scanning on the Epson multiple pass or single pass? Pat - Original Message - From: Brian D. Plikaytis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using the Epson 1640 with it's transparency adapter to scan my 4x5 black and white negs. I find it is doing a fairly good job and

Re: filmscanners: Scanning 4x5 under $500 US?

2001-08-15 Thread Brian D. Plikaytis
Multi-pass. Brian -- respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Pat Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 6:40 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Scanning 4x5 under $500 US?

Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?

2001-08-15 Thread Karl Schulmeisters
As I understand it, the Betteman archive as been moved into conditioned storage, but the digitization still goes on (truth in advertising - I worked for Corbis when they were setting up their first scanning lab - but I no longer am in contact with them). I would suggest that the collapse of the

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-15 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Lynn writes: I mean that if I select color R=0/G=181/B=145 ... can I not then suggest to Photoshop in one of the color-correction adjustments that *this* is the color that I want at this certain point, and to key the entire picture or selection to that color point? Yes. You can redefine

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-15 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Lynn writes: ... it struck me that adjusting Green in *Levels* would move the blue in Bear more toward turquoise and yet leave the white snow relatively white. And it does. Curves are better than Levels for this sort of thing. Levels works kind of like curves, but with a fixed shape to

filmscanners: Digitizer for 35mm slides

2001-08-15 Thread Dale R. Reed
Sorry, I forgot to change the Subject for my questions.Dale --- $ [EMAIL PROTECTED]Seattle, Washington USA $

Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?

2001-08-15 Thread Dale R. Reed
Got question. I use a couple Leica M6 manual 35mm rangefinder cameras to take color and black and white slides. I use ISO/200 Kodachome and SCALA films that I buy along with mailers from BH in New York. My computer is 1.5 year old, Windows 98, 450Mz PIII, 256M RAM, and lots of free hard drive

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: SS4000 cycles continuously - sensor problem?

2001-08-15 Thread Rob Geraghty
David wrote: It sounds like the dirty sensor. Call and get the brush. Thanks for writing back, David! What's probably not obvious from my email address is that I'm in Australia. Is the brush available in the land of Oz? Rob PS I couldn't find any mention of the sensor or brush on the