Hi Rob! Again, I envy your opportunities for combining excitement and
photography!
You wouldn't envy my income from it! :)
He claims that suspending the camera by the tripod is much better
than using a fixed tripod that transmits the vibrations from the
airplane to the camera through the
Tom Scales wrote:
I am a neaderthal that shoots with Olympus OM equipment. It may be old but
the lens are excellent. I've owned a number of scanners, from an old
Minolta QS-35 to an Acer Scanwit to a Polaroid SS4000 to my current Nikon
LS-4000.
I also use Olympus OM cameras and the lens
I think this is not necessarily true any longer. The main point I'll
make is the better CCD scanners can cover the entire density range of
a color neg with adequate resolution to capture all the image detail
in most photographs, even those produced by expert photographers.
There are exceptions
Bruce can't post, so here are his comments. I guess an airplane is a good
application, you probably can't hear it over the roar of a window open at 80
knots!!!
Jack Phipps
Applied Science Fiction
Jack,
I sometimes use the ken-lab gyros for motion picture cameras. Be warned,
they can be loud.
Why do scans of color negatives appear grainier than those from slides?
I have always read and experienced myself that color negs are less grainy,
especially in high ISO emulsions and that in slides everything above ISO 100
shows pronounced grain (ok - naow we have Provia 400F).
But from what you
I use (as you may have seen by now) Fuji NHGII, and Superia is said to
be identical to Fuji Press 800, but Fuji reps have told me Superia is
more grainy with a bit more contrast. The published specs (I think,
not double checking) say equal grain however, and I've never done
critical comparisons.
Sorry, I don't want to introduce a lenghty off-topic thread but maybe you
could post some of your opinions (off-list?)
I want to create portfolios of my best work. Pictures of different motives
but having one thing in common - best of my work.
I'm in arrears with my enlargements. For several
I wonder that myself, and speculate it may have something to do with
the base mask dye layer and some kind of "stacking" phenomena of
similar color dyes. I've noticed that grain looks bigger (in scans
and looking directly at negs magnified on the light table) in the
areas where dye color is
Out of curiosity I called Fuji tech support and got the skinny on
grain and resolution in 800 speed films. NHGII has been replaced by
the next generation, NPZ 800 Professional, and Press 800 and Superia
800 continue as before. All of them have the same specification for
grain and res, RMS
I
wonder if this is due to some sort of stacking effect (Austin?),
You're over the extent of my knowledge here, but thanks for the thought ;-)
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:49:25 -0500, you wrote:
The tech person said Press and Superia are exactly the same
film,
Aha! I am vindicated! (not here, with someone else) And to think I
spent a few rolls of each just trying to tell the difference.
Needless to say, I couldn't.
So, the obvious
Ed should be congratulated for his implimentation of grain reduction in VS
7.2.3 (which, as I understand, is assisted by IR). With archived VS raw
scans (LS-2000), I can set GR to "heavy" and not see edge softening at
all!!!
Thank you Ed!!!
shAf :o)
My comments that follow are oriented towards commercial photography. You'll probably
find that sleeved portfolio cases are more common in 8x10 format rather than 8x12. If
you use 8x10, then you'll either have to crop or else do a custom elargment and print
a black band at two edges of the
Since I'm still a filmscanning theoretician :-) I have a basic question
about the conversion of negatives that is made by VueScan or SilverFast, for
example.
Negatives have different qualities, some render blues with slight magenta
cast, some give you a little reddish flash tones (Fuji), some
For the past decade my key images have been printed on Ilfochrome by Rob at
the Lightroom in Berkeley.
Just spent a few weeks there. Rob persuaded me to make a comparison,
printing one image on Ilfochrome and then scanning the same image on his
Imacon Flextight II (5600 dpi) with the print made
Brian and Tom,
The November, 1978 issue of Modern Photography heralds on the front cover,
Nikon vs. Olympus: Which is Sharper? Keppler's conclusion in the article
inside: Given two top cameras, Olympus and Nikon, with average, standard
lenses, you won't be able to pick out the pictures [actually
I'm only guessing, but I think with an accurate conversion and the
same basic process applied individual film qualities could be
preserved, more or less. Depends how itchy your Photoshop trigger
finger gets too:) I find that once I'm in Photoshop I'm just going
for the best overall correction I
Hi gang--
I have to correct some erroneous information I contributed a couple
of weeks ago.
It turns out that OptiCal and the monitor Spyder can only be used as
a colorimeter (to measure color temperature and light intensity) of
your monitor, NOT your room lights. ColorVision tech support
We shoot mostly celebrity portraits, but we bill ourselves as people/portrait
photographers. Our portfolio is 11x14, and currently we use Prat portfolio pages in
our custom made leather portfolio binder. It includes several different film formats.
We have 2 different sized images on 11x14
Thank you for the report, Bill. Frankly, I very much questioned what you had said but
had no solid information with which to dispute it.
I use PhotoCal myself (I'm an amateur) and I'm very satisfied with my Sony Trinitron
(Dell-branded) monitor.
I have a Solux desklamp and I find it provides
I just released VueScan 7.2.4 for Mac OS 8/9/X, Windows
and Linux. It can be downloaded from:
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
What's new in version 7.2.4
* Created icons for Windows and Mac OS 8/9/X
* Added additional scanning resolution on Canon flatbeds
* Fixed problem with lowest
John Straus wrote:
Yeah but what do they do to the scan before printing...a LOT of adjusting!
My last National Geographic was only 8 1/2 x 11 ...
on 11/6/01 9:51 PM, SKID Photography at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should tell that to National Geographic...They regularly do 8x10 *foot*
Tomasz wrote:
Why do scans of color negatives appear grainier
than those from slides?
From what I've read on this list, it's related to the exposure latitude
of colour negs. To get greater latitude, the grain in neg film varies in
size much more than in slide film. The very narrow exposure
Dave wrote:
is simply more grain in some areas of the negative than others. I
wonder if this is due to some sort of stacking effect (Austin?),
whereby areas with dyes closer to the color of the base appear
grainier.
Tony - are you around? Tony mentioned something about different grain being
Hi Maris--
I'm still learning like everyone else ;-).
I've been happily using PhotoCal for the past year but just upgraded
to OptiCal so that I could take my color management to the next
level of control.
The Solux bulbs send approx 4700K light out the front, which is much
closer to a
What number do you call to find out the status of your SS400 rebate? Been waiting two
months for mine.
--Evan Anderson
Chris Hargens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: filmscanners:
More Polaroid informationDate: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:17:33 -0700
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I have to
Ed:
In the stream of running updates, you swapped the location of the
Windows and MAC downloads with VueScan 7.2.4.
What are you trying to do, make us pay attention;-)
Keep up the good work. Thanks,
John
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Tomasz Zakrzewski wrote:
Since I'm still a filmscanning theoretician :-) I have a basic question
about the conversion of negatives that is made by VueScan or SilverFast, for
example.
Negatives have different qualities, some render blues with slight magenta
cast, some give you a little
Tomasz wrote:
Why do scans of color negatives appear grainier
than those from slides?
From what I've read on this list, it's related to the exposure latitude
of colour negs. To get greater latitude, the grain in neg film varies in
size much more than in slide film. The very narrow
My understanding is the court in the first day authorized all warrantee and
promotional programs to be supported. When that will actually happen I do
not know but am trying to find out.
David
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Ed.
I use the image setting and have downloaded the latest Vuescan. Still not a
match for ScanWizard. The main problem is a strong colour cast as per the
scan samples I sent you. There are also blown out highlights and lack of
shadow detail.
Mind you Vuescan is still well worth the money for
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