on 10/2/01 4:30 PM, Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Excellent objective review:
http://www.creativepro.com/printerfriendly/story/14539.html
It's like most reviews, the critical tone is overly neutral so as not to
offend purveyors, and so doesn't properly
Wire, I like your review better than Bruce's!!! And I haven't even read Bruce's!
I guess I'm a born skeptic and have never completely trusted any review in any publication that accepts advertising for the products being reviewed. There's too much conflict of interest.
In a message dated
I've read both his comments and Wire Moores, and the truth is somewhere in
between. his are written for a major magazine readership, yours, if you will
excuse me, seem quite hostile to the 4000.
Bruce says If ICE is cool, GEM
is nothing short of amazing. Blah, blah. What he doesn't say is that
Hello list,
I finally got an SS4000 and (after some SCSI trouble) did the first scan.
For the life of me, I cannot get the TIFF saved by Insight to open in
Photoshop.
The file is 108MB big. I have 1GB of RAM. Photoshop 5.5 can use 75%, which
amounts to 690M. I have two scratch disks defined,
Barbara,
Not knowing what your problem is, I can say that my TIF files are between
55 and 60 megs on scanning at 4000 PPI. I don't have my scanner turned on
but are there TIF saving options in the software? Might you have set it for
200% scaling, which would make the file size twice what it
Thank you.
Following those reviews this scanner gains more points in my eyes against
his close rivals
like Polaroid SS4000 and CoolScan 4000ED (actually I doubt I will be able to
gain enough funds for this Nikon in prospective future either).
The view things I'm still concerning about thinking
Alex--
Last night I compared scans of the face on Kodak's Q-60 Ektachrome
transparency targets from the LS4000, SS4000, FS4000 and a Howtek
drum scanner and a ScanMaker 8700 flatbed Scanner and felt that:
o Of the 35mm film scanners the Canon had the finest grain pattern,
very much like the
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:25:32 -0500, Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote:
I would look at scanners with Digital ICE or other dust and scratch
removal features - e.g. the Nikons, some of the Minoltas, the Acer 2740, and
I have been considering the Acer - have you used one?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A shot in the dark - is Insight saving the TIFF as a compressed TIFF?
Maris
- Original Message -
From: Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 8:00 AM
Subject: filmscanners: Cannot open scanned TIFF in Photoshop
| Hello list,
|
| I
There is new Minolta's Elite II scanner being announced some time ago.
Does anybody found online reviews/opinions about this unit so far ?
Sincerely,
Alex Zabrovsky
Hardware applications design support
Personal Media Division
Zoran Microelectronics Corp.
MATAM, Advanced Technology Center
P.O.B
As for the color profile being out of wack, now *that* is a major issue in
my opinion. I have just discovered how much better profiled Vuescan's
results are than Nikonscans for Nikon scanners. (though there is an annoying
VS bug with the 8000 that I've reported to Ed) Nikon seems to have pumped
Polaroid has announced a $300 rebate on the Sprintscan 120 Plus. The coupon
will be posted on the web site soon and in the meantime I would be happy to
forward a copy, pdf file, to anyone needing it.
This rebate is for the Plus configuration only!!!
Regards
David
At 03:32 03-10-01 -0400, you wrote:
Wire, I like your review better than Bruce's!!! And I haven't even read
Bruce's!
I guess I'm a born skeptic and have never completely trusted any review in
any publication that accepts advertising for the products being
reviewed. There's too much
I've been using the Acer ScanWit 2740S for a couple of months now,
with a great deal of enjoyment. To put things in perspective-- I'm
definitely a non-expert amateur, with zilch previous experience in
scanning or photo printing. I was persuaded to get the Acer after the
flurry of positive
Oh, yes-- I forgot to mention. The Digital ICE was a major selling
point for me, on the Acer. Having used it for a while, my experience
has been that clean negatives, most of the time, eliminate the need.
I use a local photofinisher who does clean work (so far), I use a
Staticmaster brush on
Thanks Bill, appreciate your efforts.
The bottom line from your review taking three (FS4000US, SS4000 and CoolScan
4000ED)
1. Shadow details (apparently reflects dynamic range) winner: Nikon CoolScan
4000ED
Runner-up: SS4000
FS4000US takes third place.
2. Sharpness winner: FS4000US
In a message dated 10/3/2001 1:11:44 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://schmode.net/vuescan.jpg is a 337 dpi Vuescan scan of a tiger in
Hagenbeck Zoo, Hamburg (Germany) using the settings to be seen in
http://schmode.net/settings.jpg; most important amongst them are white
balance as
Larry Berman wrote:
Not knowing what your problem is, I can say that my TIF files are between
55 and 60 megs on scanning at 4000 PPI. I don't have my scanner turned on
but are there TIF saving options in the software? Might you have set it
for
200% scaling, which would make the file size
Have you tried opening them in any other graphics programs, or image
viewing programs.
Try Irfanview, it's free:
http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/
Larry
I used Insight for scanning, and the 55/60 MB size is for scanning 8bit. Raw
scanning and scanning 12bit produce twice the file size -
Hi everybody,
as you may know, I have written a couple of times about my problems in
getting correctly exposed and naturally colored negative scans out of my
Nikon Coolscan III LS-30 using Ed Hamrick's Vuescan. A couple of days
ago, Ed addressed me via e-mail about the new 7.1.18 version and its
No - I have the (old) Nikon LS-30
Maris
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From: Paul Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: New film scanner - buying suggestions?
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:25:32 -0500, Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
It's a stumper. Have you tried opening the file in any other graphics
program? Try Irfanview - freeware ( worth getting anyway) at
http://www.ryansimmons.com/users/irfanview/english.htm
Maris
- Original Message -
From: Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
I have put on my ftp site a new pre-release color slide profile for the
Sprintscan 4000 4000 Plus and PolaColor Insight. This new profile greatly
improves performance in shadow area. It will show up as ColorSlide2 in the
Insight profile box.
Please let me know how you like it.
Well, the files do have the tif extension. Even renaming to TIF does not
help. The 'magic' size for opening is somewhere between 42,457 (opens) and
43,393 (does not open) KB.
Do you have enough RAM allocated to PS? It probably needs 130MB to open a
file that expands to 110MB. This means your
At 8:15 PM +0200 3-10-01, Alex Z wrote:
I've heard and read in various reviews about LS4000ED's focusing
problems at the frame edges...can you confirm that ?
BF: Yes. Many of my slides are 20 year old Kodachromes with visible
curvature. Some (but not all) have a pronounced depth of focus
On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:57:22 -0500, Matt Prastein wrote:
I've been using the Acer ScanWit 2740S for a couple of months now,
Grand, Thanks for the info.
Paul.
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Hi David,
I was able to copy the file from your ftp site but I don't know where to
place it in my Insight directory so that it works. I tried to double click
it and was denied access to opening it?? I work in Windows 98SE?
Any word on the release of Insight 5.5?
Thanks for the help.
Owen P.
Forgot to say where it goes on PC's. If Insight is installed on your C
drive. As follows.
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Polaroid Imaging\Profiles
Sorry for the omission
David
-Original Message-
From: Hemingway, David J
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 4:01 PM
To: '[EMAIL
Ralf wrote:
color negative film even with ICE on. As to the colors, Vuescan seems to
*extremely* give away in the highlights part of the histogram and clip
the shadows at that, plus putting a blueish/magenta cast on everything.
I can get better use of the highlights by setting the white point to
Roger
Thanks so very much. I was vaguely familiar with what you said, but, never
has it been stated so clearly. In the past, I'd used Photo Cds, then
Nikon's LS400, which enables one to set an output size in inches. I've been
doing it all wrong, checking the Resample box in Photoshop
David
Will this file work on a Mac G4? I tried downloading it, but, after I did,
was unable to open it. Could you help me?
Martin
on 10/3/01 4:01 PM, Hemingway, David J at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have put on my ftp site a new pre-release color slide profile for the
Sprintscan 4000 4000
No! Not any more so than anyone else in the industry. I read a quick post
claiming that the review was good and *objective*. I read it and thought:
this is the same sort of pay-the-bills purveyor-centered review that
typifies the industry reviewing of *everything* from cars to hi-fis, to
sporting
Hi Martin,
I think it's an *.icm file for the Mac.
Larry
Will this file work on a Mac G4? I tried downloading it, but, after I did,
was unable to open it. Could you help me?
***
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
***
I'm not at all hostile to the 4000 ED. It's just a piece of gear.
I used a LS-2000 for a few years and found it to be very effective. I'm sure
the 4000 ED is an improvement. Bruce likes it; I think... ? I couldn't tell
from his review!
My intention was primarily to challenge someone else's
To those on Mac who want to use this new SS4000 profile you need to do two
things:
1) Place the profile in the folder
System Folder:Preferences:Polaroid IQA Profiles
2) change the creator/type information on the file using a utility like
Snitch or BatchTyper to be the same as the other profiles
I have checked your images - I frankly don't see the problem. I opened the
Vuescan scan on Photoshop and applied Auto Levels and the image was close to
the one scanned with Nikonscan - some curve adjustments brought it into an
identical image.
There was no clipping in the Vuescan scan - check
David:
Has Polaroid solved the problem of the film holders for this scanner
that supposedly don't hold the film flat? Thanks.
Barbara White
Barbara White/Architectural Photography
http://www.barbarawhitephoto.com
Wire - I enjoyed your review of a review - some meaty kiblets for
thought. I too become totally frustrated by reviewers who play it safe to
the extent that you can't tell whether it is a good bit of gear or bad. I
think more often it is because they are not sure enough of their own ground
I never sharpen when scanning. I only sharpen just before printing. The reason is that sharpening destroys the original content of the pixels to some degree and you can never back up and recover exactly what you had before you sharpened. And after some processes, resampling for example, you may
Barbara,
There has been some speculation that the holder may have issue's holding the
film flat, in practice it has been a non-issue. The lens system has enough
depth of field to accommodate almost every film. To the best of my knowledge
I know of only one or two incidents that the film,
Hi David,
I loaded the profile; previewed a slide I know very well (it's a bit
underexposed with extremely rich red coloured flowers)and the preview was
a rendition of the slide; I could tell it was in the ballpark. Then I
scanned a 12bit 4000dpi scan and viewed it in Photoshop as well as in
Larry
Thanks for the information. Do you know how Ican find that *.icm file?
When I use the address David gave, I do not see it.
Martin
on 10/3/01 8:54 PM, Larry Berman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Martin,
I think it's an *.icm file for the Mac.
Larry
Will this file work on a
In a message dated 10/3/2001 11:15:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 03:32 03-10-01 -0400, you wrote:
Wire, I like your review better than Bruce's!!! And I haven't even read
Bruce's!
I guess I'm a born skeptic and have never completely trusted any review in
any
In a message dated 10/3/2001 11:11:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Polaroid has announced a $300 rebate on the Sprintscan 120 Plus. The coupon
will be posted on the web site soon and in the meantime I would be happy to
forward a copy, pdf file, to anyone needing it.
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