Hi Alex,
Sorry but I am a little busy, so I am not able to prepare some real tests of
FS4000.
If you like take a look at my home page
http://ket5.tuniv.szczecin.pl/tc_www/photo/index.html
Under hyperlink TEST FS4000 you will find some tiff files with full
resolution (Provia 100F, FILMGET v1.0,
Hi Alex,
Sorry but I am a little busy, so I am not able to prepare some real tests of
FS4000.
If you like take a look at my home page
http://ket5.tuniv.szczecin.pl/tc_www/photo/index.html
Under hyperlink TEST FS4000 you will find some tiff files with full resolution
(FILMGET). The only one
Its not only old slides as mention below, all negative or positive film who
are litle bit curved show the same problem with overall sharpness regarding
LS2000 and LS 4000.
The problem is lack of depth of field in the lens construction .
Mikael Risedal
From: Bill Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Bill, appreciate your help.
Regards, Alex
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Fernandez
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 23:12
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Israel Shapiro
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Canon's
Just to clarify:
The only 35mm Minolta with IR channel is the Elite (and I suppose the
new Elite II).
I'm pretty sure the Polaroids do not have an IR channel, they certainly
don't use it for scratch repair, if there is one.
Art
Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote:
I would look at scanners with
Looking to upgrade our current system and would appreciate specifications
from the list. Need typical PC based business machine (Microsoft Products)
and the strongest possible system to support our scanning and photography
habit. Would greatly appreciate input on specifications.
Will use
I just released VueScan 7.1.19 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 7.1.19
* Added USB support for Microtek X12USL, 4700, 8700
* Added FireWire support for Microtek and Polaroid scanners
* Fixed bugs
In a message dated 10/1/2001 8:34:17 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Will you bring the brightness option back, please?
I've modified VueScan 7.1.19 so the Gamma option works like
the old brightness option. For instance, if you used to set
gamma to 2.2 and brightness to 1.5, set gamma to
SS4000 doesn't offer any hardware-related ICE feature what is probably his
major difference from CoolScans, FS4000US or Elite/Elite II.
BTW, I searched the net for Minolta Elite II reviews/opinions, nothing has
been found
so far...
Alex
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Thanks Tom.
I would appreciate any of your comments in this regard in the future (when
you will have some free time ...)
Alex
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Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:37
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE:
Mikael Risedal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
are litle bit curved show the same problem with overall sharpness
regarding
LS2000 and LS 4000.
The problem is lack of depth of field in the lens construction .
I thought it was that the low light intensity from the LED light source
resulted in an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looking to upgrade our current system and would appreciate specifications
from the list. Need typical PC based business machine (Microsoft
Products)
and the strongest possible system to support our scanning and photography
habit. Would greatly appreciate input on
Hi Ed.
Do you support Minolta Elite II and Scan Speed models in your new version ?
Regards, Alex
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Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:22
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Subject: filmscanners:
Hi Alex,
As it was pointed by the others, FS4000 is good machine. The only problem is
probably lower DMAX. In case of dark (underexposed) slides I am using Exposure
+1 and the results are satisfactory (properly exposed slides are giving always
proper results with auto gain). I hope that it will
I have an unusual setup, but it works well for me. I use two machines,
networked together, as my scanning platform.
The scanner is attached to the first machine. It's a modestly equipped
older machine with a P3-500 and 512MB memory, running Windows 2000. I start
a scan and it saves the scan
Title: Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.19
Available
Hello Ed,
Hello everyone,
I have a Mac Silver G4 733Mhz with Microtek 8700 and OS 9.2.1; I
have installed the latest version of VueScan, just out today
(7.1.19);
I look in the preferences, BUT I did not see the Microtek 8700
listed; also after
Thanks Tom for your suggestions, but I'm not tempted by digital cameras yet.
I from those hard-die filmers, preferring good camera + high-quality optics
to
shoot on quality film (besides of the fact that high quality digital gear
still costs unbelievable amount of money).
I would still prefer
I was unable to place the profile in that file getting the error Bad
Command or File Name
Please advise. Thank you
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hemingway, David
J
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 6:08 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
I agree with the other comments you received, though a dual computer system might be
more than you need for your circumstances.
Make sure you have a lot of disc space for image storage. I use two 80 gb drives.
Also, you'll want to partition a drive so that Photoshop can have it's own
I ment to say that Windows Me would NOT be my first choice for an operating system.
Sorry for that.
Larry suggested and Maris wrote
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
I downloaded Irfanview, installed it and voila - it opens the file with
Does anyone have a 'rule of thumb' for a starting point on conventional
silver BW film speeds development times when the negatives are intended
for scanning? Do scanned negatives need a different dmin for usable
density compared to enlarged negatives? Do highlights block-up more easily
or
From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Curved film and Nikon scannersfilm
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:19:10 +1000
Mikael Risedal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
are litle bit curved show the same problem with overall sharpness
I know this is OT, but I was wondering if anyone has yet worked with the
Epson C-80 printer?
Back at Comdex here last March, Epson asked me for a list of things I
was looking for in a printer.
I told them my wish list was a 4 color, 3 picolitre printer which used
pigmented inks and separate
Its not only old slides as mention below, all negative or positive film who
are litle bit curved show the same problem with overall sharpness regarding
LS2000 and LS 4000.
The problem is lack of depth of field in the lens construction .
Mikael Risedal
But my focus free Minolta Dual (2400 dp,
To extend highlight detail in negatives with NikonScan, use curves. Leave
the 255 point alone. You need to bend the curve downward a little at 230
input to approx. 215 output and optionally raise 128 input near to the
straight line level (~114). With a gray scale color negative this greatly
Well, Adobes cure-all cured my problem, too. The TIFF now opens without
problems. Even though PS did not really deinstall. I manually deleted a ton
of folders and then went through the registry removing any left-over
reference to either ImageReady or Photoshop.
Even the inconsistency for color
Glenn--
(1) Gobs of RAM. Photoshop needs 3 (or was it 5?) times the amount
of RAM available to it as the size of the image you are editing.
This is for the history, etc. buffers. A full-frame, 4,000 DPI 35mm
scan will be about 120MB, so you'll need at least 360MB available to
Photoshop
Greetings scanners--
I've done more than 30 experiments with my new Nikon LS4000ED trying
to get the most shadow detail and best color from some very contrasty
Kodachrome slides. Here is what I've learned. Note that I'm using
NikonScan 3.1, Photoshop 6, MacOS 8.6 and a calibrated/profiled
David, I gave the Color Slide2 profile a try and found in a well exposed
shot that it significantly desaturates shadows and shifted midtone color
towards the green very slightly; not a color cast, but a change. It raised
shadow levels somewhat in a low-key landscape image. But less so than the
Hello everyone,
I have a Polaroid SS4000 which I've had for 10 months. It came bundled with
Silverfast Ai version 5 and Silverfast HDR version 5. With all of the press
recently about how much better the product was I went to the website on
Sunday and paid $45 for the download. What was not clear
So Ed, the regular Elite doesn't supported either ?
Alex
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Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 15:04
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.19 Available
In a message
I have had one for about 3-4 weeks and I am impressed with it (and I just
bought another for my son). Colors are very good with Epson's stock
profile. Prints are excellent on Red River Matte, very good on Epson Photo
Paper S041141, but faded on my Red River Premium High Gloss (I had bought it
Hi.
I see that a lot of people have been reporting that NikonScan
is very buggy and crashes a lot. I am having similar problems.
Has anyone actually got this software to work under W2K/dual CPUs?
There don't seem to be any reports of solutions that I can find
(but lots of reports of problems).
Mike Duncan schrieb:
To extend highlight detail in negatives with NikonScan, use curves. Leave
the 255 point alone. You need to bend the curve downward a little at 230
input to approx. 215 output and optionally raise 128 input near to the
straight line level (~114). With a gray scale
In a message dated 10/4/2001 8:39:46 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a Mac Silver G4 733Mhz with Microtek 8700 and OS 9.2.1; I have
installed the latest version of VueScan, just out today (7.1.19);
You need Mac OS X 10.1 to use VueScan with FireWire scanners.
You might try hooking
For Tom,
How does the FS4000 perform with print film (Fuji 400), with/without using Vuescan?
Thanks, John.
tom wrote:
Hi Alex,
As it was pointed by the others, FS4000 is good machine. The only problem is
probably lower DMAX. In case of dark (underexposed) slides I am using Exposure
+1
So does this mean that we should whine to Germany for $45 updates?
The U.S. and Germany companies had better get their stories straight on this
one. The internet is too small a world to give preferential treatment to
one customer and not offer the deal to others. Didn't they think that he
Wire
The purpose of the new profile is that it should be more robust and give
cleaner (less noise) results when you have a very dark image and you are
trying to pull detail out of the shadows. The previous profile accentuated
noise in the shadow regions. This showed up as a greenish haze. The
I just got confirmation from someone with a SprintScan 4000+
that VueScan 7.1.19 works perfectly (his words) with it.
Is there anyone with a SprintScan 120 who could do a test
with VueScan 7.1.19? I have a hunch that the same fix I
made for the SprintScan 4000+ will make it work with the
I have had several inquiries to the Sprintscan 4000 pricing in Canada. It
has be lowered significantly but not to the level here in the US. Here is a
link of one supplier which I think is representative.
http://www.vistek.ca/digital/digresults.asp?Level1=SCANNERSLevel2=FLIM+SCAN
In a message dated 10/4/2001 1:51:23 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So Ed, the regular Elite doesn't supported either ?
VueScan works nicely with the regular Minolta Scan Elite.
I can probably get VueScan working with the Elite II with
a few hours work, but I'd need to either have a loaner
Hi Ralf,
Just to clarify your technique: what do you mean by: use the auto adjust
(which button is that? is it the contrast black/white one?)
and what do you have your balck/ white points set to in Preferences? at the
default 0.5?
otherwise thanks for your technique - its useful
also: what
David,
Thanks for contributing to the list.
I have certainly noticed the green haze and am pleased--as I'm sure other
users will be--to see the profile adjustments. However, the Color Slide2
profile is not an overall improvement, in my opinion. If you can give back
the shadow color, the
You will have the shadow color back, hopefully within the hour. :)
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From: Wire Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 5:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: filmscanners: FW: New PolaColor Insight Color Slide
profile f or
At 11:46 04-10-01 +0100, you wrote:
I see that a lot of people have been reporting that NikonScan
is very buggy and crashes a lot. I am having similar problems.
Has anyone actually got this software to work under W2K/dual CPUs?
There don't seem to be any reports of solutions that I can find
(but
Paul,
No, it was Silverfast USA. In fact, your message jogged my memory. In fact,
I spoke with Annie during both calls. Perhaps they had not yet formulated
their firm policy. I later read here that there was a dispute between
Germany and USA regarding this issue. I don't remember which had which
Is there a way to get 12 bits out of this scanner? The histogram looks not
very smooth. Also did anybody else had problem with the ofocusing of this
scanner? My negatives stored in sleeves is pretty flat, but still i get
softscans. What is your methodology for getting sharp scans with this
I have put both Mac and PC versions of the ColorSlide Profile labeled 2b on
my ftp site as before. This newer profile restores the saturation in the
shadow area. Mac users should put this in the IQA profiles folder.
David
ftp.polaroid.com/pub/imaging/input/ss4000/NewColorSlideProfile
Got the new profile (2b) and gave it a spin. I think it is clearly superior
the the stock Color Slide profile and recommend anyone using chromes with
SS4000 give it a try.
Thank you David.
Wire Moore
on 10/4/01 3:08 PM, Hemingway, David J at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You will have the shadow
David
Does this profile also work on Silverfast?
Martin
on 10/4/01 7:15 PM, Hemingway, David J at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have put both Mac and PC versions of the ColorSlide Profile labeled 2b on
my ftp site as before. This newer profile restores the saturation in the
shadow area. Mac
David you hurried the address and it doesn't work like this:
ftp.polaroid.com/pub/imaging/input/ss4000/NewColorSlideProfile
but it works from yesterday like this:
ftp://ftp.polaroid.com/pub/imaging/input/SS4000/NewColorSlideProfile/
Hope this helps,
Owen
Owen P. Evans
Osgoode, Ontario. Canada
Hi David,
I tried the fix this evening and it works quite well! Thanks for the quick
fix. It definitely looks better than the regular Slide profile and last
night's disappointment.
Owen
Owen P. Evans
Osgoode, Ontario. Canada
(near our Nation's Capital; Ottawa)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
J.33-3
I ran your 577kb SCAN into 7.1.16 and came up with a gorgeous photo without tweaking
anything out of the normal.
Generic Color Negative
Gamma 1.3
White point .05
black point .1
Auto Levels
If you want to email a couple of other scans you are having trouble with, be happy to
work them over.
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