I appreciate all the feedback I have received in regard to the lazy CCD
sensors and the implication of one Minolta staff that perhaps I should
move up to a more professional scanner if I had such high expectation
(of one which didn't suffer from this problem and severe green channel
noise). I
Austin
I am new to this list and have never heard of a Leafscan 45. Would you tell
me more about it. Where is it sold and what does it cost? What is the dpi
and its other features? Can I find a review of it?
Martin
From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is not necessarily that simple, though your suggestion is first and
foremost. The SS4k and other scanners like it, can have a dust problem,
no
matter how clean your film is going into the scanner.
FWIW I have my Nikon scanner on the bench on its
SKID Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With regards to labs scratching negs and not slides: Perhaps you are
using the wrong lab? Most high end E-6
machines are 'dip dunk', and that goes for high end C41 developing
machines as well. Most scratches (in
development) are caused by roller
David
Thanks for the information. I downloaded and tried Eddie Tapp's
suggestions, using the Photoshop dust removal filter. It appeared to me to
soften the image even more than ICE.
Martin
From: Hemingway, David J [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001
All,
For those of you who have been following my ongoing saga with banding issues
with my Coolscan 8000 here is an interesting update. I have tried the
latest version of vuescan and guess what? It appears after doing a few test
that the banding does not occur when using that software. This is
Thanks Ed
for getting
vuescan up and humming for us 8000 users :-) Although i prefer Nikon Scan
for slides, it still proves that the hardware most likely is not the
problem
Or, that Ed found a way around the problem (or does something differently)
in software. You might want to
Austin
I am new to this list and have never heard of a Leafscan 45.
Would you tell
me more about it. Where is it sold and what does it cost? What
is the dpi
and its other features? Can I find a review of it?
Martin
They are not available new, only used. They have been the high(est)
Harvey Ferdschneider wrote:
Jawed Ashraf wrote:
Just one point: negatives get scratched, seemingly routinely by labs. I
bought the LS40 for ICE, *specifically* because of scratches which were
driving me barmy. Dust, by comparison, was giving me little
problem. So I
don't fall into
Has anyone else experienced this?
The latest release of VueScan (7.1.12) is generating TIF files that can't
be read by ACDSee, my image management program. I even installed two
different releases of it to test.
Larry
***
Larry Berman
Wow, nice. Pity that you've been through so much grief with replacement and
sending the blighter off to get looked at.
Fingers crossed for NS 3.2... Anyone heard anything about it?
Maybe you should post a sample so that we can nit-pick it for you - just in
case there's still some banding in
Thanks I've always wondered what the big deal with glass carriers was
because I figured dust would be a hassle, and any glass between the negative
and the sensor (be it CCD or PhotoPaper) simply serves to decrease contrast.
- Original Message -
From: Tony Sleep [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Rob Geraghty wrote:
snip Also - please bear in mind that we don't all live in areas where
there's a wide choice of labs! There's lots of minilabs in my area, but
only one lab which does E6. Most of the minilabs are set up for the tourist
trade and IMO treat films very poorly. I'm just
However, there's one more thing to consider - all scanners
compensate for non-uniform light sources by doing a
shading correction. For instance, the light intensity at
the edges of the scan is almost always at least 20% dimmer
than at the center.
Even with the controllable light source of
Nope, not as yet, but I wouldn`t hold your breath!
James Grove
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.jamesgrove.co.uk
http://www.mountain-photos.co.uk
ICQ 99737573
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jawed Ashraf
Sent: 02 September 2001 15:27
To:
If you don't have a good lab near you, check the yellow pages phone directory
on the Internet and locate a lab that caters to commercial, portrait, and
wedding photographers. Call or write them for prices and procedures. Many
of them will pay shipping charges both ways for photographers who
Hi Larry,
I had a similar problem with PS6. I had to re-associate the files.
(Start-settings-folder options-file types).
Geoff
- Original Message -
From: Larry Berman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:30 AM
Subject: filmscanners: VueScan
All,
For those of you who have been following my ongoing saga with banding issues
with my Coolscan 8000 here is an interesting update. I have tried the
latest version of vuescan and guess what? It appears after doing a few test
that the banding does not occur when using that software. Thanks
Hi!
I use Vuescan with my Minolta Dimage Scan Multi. I'm very satisfied with
Vuescan. Still, I have some questions:
It seems to me that I get the best results with:
Media type: Image
Color balance: Neutral
I feel that White balance tends to a little yellowish highlights.
If I set Media
Hi Geoff,
It's not a question of file association. I have ACDSee set up on my second
monitor with the VueScan folder open and Auto Refresh enabled. There was
some kind of change in the TIF files that VueScan now outputs because
ACDSee reads it as an unknown format. I even tried opening the
I'm confused.
On my Nikon LS-4000 Ice at the Normal setting just barely softens the
images. Ice at the Fine setting seems to add noticeable softening, but at
Normal the effects are barely noticeable at 400% in Photoshop. I leave
Ice on all the time. Any softening effects are not noticeable at
Bob
When you state that Ice at the Normal setting just barely softens the
images or that the effects are barley noticeable, you are acknowledging
that there is a difference, no matter how slight that may be. I spend lots
of money on excellent lenses and work to perfect my technique in order to
Larry, check to see if the files being output by Vuescan are 48-bit instead
of 24. I don't know about ACDSee, but many graphics apps can't cope with
48-bit files.
Jawed
In a message dated 9/2/2001 3:57:22 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
check to see if the files being output by Vuescan are 48-bit instead
of 24. I don't know about ACDSee, but many graphics apps can't cope with
48-bit files.
Yes, try changing to 24 bit RGB as well as turning off the
At 10:15 PM +0200 9/2/01, Erik Kaffehr wrote:
I use Vuescan with my Minolta Dimage Scan Multi. I'm very satisfied with
Vuescan. Still, I have some questions:
It seems to me that I get the best results with:
Media type: Image
Color balance: Neutral
I feel that White balance tends to a little
Hi Ed,
Yes... That did it.
Thanks for pointing that out for me. I have always appreciated the fact
that I could depend upon the default settings to immediately acquire a high
quality scan. Unfortunately, when I was not able to open the scan in my
viewing program, ACDSee, I thought your
Now I wonder if Mike Duncan's gonna post SFR data for ICE Normal and ICE
Fine on film in the FH3 or slides in the MA20...
Jawed
The frequencies (cycles/in) at which SFR are 50% 10% with Kodak Max400 are:
50% 10%
___
Austin wrote:
I'm still hard pressed to believe that software, in
this case, can cause banding...mostly because some
of these scanners don't band with the exact same software!
Funny, this is exactly that same sort of thing that was
said about the jaggies on the LS30 and LS2000. And isn't
it
Larry wrote:
The latest release of VueScan (7.1.12) is generating TIF
files that can't be read by ACDSee, my image management
program. I even installed two different releases of it to test.
I don't know if Ed has changed the compression used, but the compression
settings in Vuescan since
Hi Rob,
I'm one of those users that try it straight out of the box. If it doesn't
work then I check the settings and try again. I haven't kept up on all the
releases, but I have downloaded them religiously. This is the first time
the default settings wouldn't open in ACDSee. But then I
Austin wrote:
I'm still hard pressed to believe that software, in
this case, can cause banding...mostly because some
of these scanners don't band with the exact same software!
Funny, this is exactly that same sort of thing that was
said about the jaggies on the LS30 and LS2000. And
Larry wrote:
This is the first time the default settings wouldn't open
in ACDSee. But then I haven't used VueScan in about two months or so.
I don't know if the compression settings have changed. Only Ed can answer
that one. PSP gives an error I think about not being able to use a predictor
on 9/1/01 8:23 AM, rlb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martin:
I learned the hard way early on. Yes, I did blow some of the propellant on
a few negatives until I concluded it was my carelessness and not the fault
of the canned air. I am now always careful that the can has not been shaken
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:49:47 -0400 , you wrote:
There is also a technique using the history palette in Photoshop. This or
similar technique is taught at trade shows by Imacom. Eddie Tapp of PMA has
a PDF of his version of the procedure on his web site.
www.eddietapp.com
Regards
David
Wow!
Sounds like I should pay more attention to the readme files. I still
consider myself a novice and expect the best for the least amount of work.
But if Ed's looking to bundle VueScan, it should work out of the box with
any scanner/computer/user.
Larry
This is the first time the default
Another reason why ACDSee doesn't deal with 48 bit files, where PSPro and
others do is that 48 bit TIFF is a format used for image editing, not
strictly viewing, which is what ACDSee is designed for.
That's just my guess, anyway.
Pat
- Original Message -
From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL
Austin wrote:
Because the scanning software gives different results
(appears to cure the problem), that doesn't mean it's
not hardware.
The jaggies problem is a design fault in the scanner hardware which fortunately
can be resolved in software. I didn't say that the hardware wasn't
Rob, I guess your dust 'cure' would help, but I think (I
'know'!) some of my dust problems come from static electricity. The
one-hour 'mini lab' that develops my negatives, sleeves them in
translucent plastic. When I remove the negative strips, I have a hard
time getting the plastic off my
The developer Ed Hamrick also suggests using Image for slide film.
Maris
- Original Message -
From: Erik Kaffehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: filmscanners: Vuescan Image or Slide film
Hi!
I use Vuescan with my Minolta
Austin wrote:
Because the scanning software gives different results
(appears to cure the problem), that doesn't mean it's
not hardware.
The jaggies problem is a design fault in the scanner hardware which
fortunately
can be resolved in software. I didn't say that the hardware wasn't
Maris wrote:
The developer Ed Hamrick also suggests using Image for slide film.
Under what circumstances should Image be used?
Rob
Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://wordweb.com
Hi Hersch,
I don't know if your reply was meant to go to the list, but I decided to
reply to the list since my comments below may be of interest to others.
Rob, I guess your dust 'cure' would help, but I think
(I 'know'!) some of my dust problems come from static
electricity.
Is the
Windsor wrote:
Since the banding problem has not turned up with the Polaroid
implementation I don't think that the three row CCD idea is something
that does not work in practice. It may or may not depending on how it
is implemented.
Absolutely. It's an engineering/design fault. I didn't
Just a quick note to point out that ACDSee will happily display 48 bit
images, and LZW compressed images, and the combination of those - 48 bit
LZW compressed TIFFs. I guess from what people have said that it will not
display images compressed with whatever compression scheme Ed has used.
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