:-(
Still having problems with this. Most of the films I've tried seem to
scan fine now, after playing around with the frame offset and cropping
settings. However, I've got a particular set of negative strips which
seem to have non-standard frame spacing (it's slightly wider than the
In a message dated 12/3/2001 4:32:12 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I notice there's a frame spacing option mentioned in the help file, but
that option doesn't appear when I run Vuescan. Does the LS-40 not
support this setting?
I regret to say that it doesn't.
Is there any other way I
In a message dated 12/2/2001 5:59:41 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anybody knows some kind of filter to apply during scanning or in Photoshop
that parcially corrects for greenish color of daylight slides taken with
artificial light? (I would like to recover a slide collection that I
In a message dated 12/2/2001 12:45:22 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Vuescan Users' Guide mentions that the SS4000 often has registration
problems between passes and that a future version of Vuescan will fix
this.
I have experienced this myself, resulting in somewhat fuzzy images.
At 09:25 03/12/01 +, Mark Otway wrote:
However, I've got a particular set of negative strips which
seem to have non-standard frame spacing (it's slightly wider than the
frame-spacing on the Fuji film I usually use).
Surely, the frame spacing has no relationship to the make of film. It
Finally I've installed Vuescan 7.2.7 on my pc, both in Windows 98 and in
Linux Mandrake 8.0
The pc is a P166MMX, 128 Mb RAM, scanner is the Acer 2720s and the scsi
controller is the one which came with the scanner.
In Windows Vuescan work good, and I think to purchase the software, but I
want to
In a message dated 12/3/2001 7:11:41 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is someone on the list who may suggest something?
Try a different scsi card. It's probably something wrong in
the Acard scsi driver.
Maybe the problem is that the Vuescan for Linux doesn't work without reg
code?
Surely, the frame spacing has no relationship to the make of
film. It should be a standard 8 sprocket holes. Any variance
has to come from the camera. Some very cheap ones don't even
register the sprocket holes and vary spacing throughout a film.
Both rolls were shot on a Canon EOS300
Regarding ccd and camera back
The new Sinar. Light Phase, Imacon and Kodak are all from now , using Kodak
4040 ccd in their camera back. All are functional but with different
results.
I got this message from a friend who have been testing all of them except
the Kodak back. Imacon + Sinar
If the color is greenish from fluorescent lighting, tray adding magenta
until the green hue is gone, if that isn't totally successful, you may
need to add some yellow or red to counteract the blue/cyan lighting.
Art
Mário Teixeira wrote:
Anybody knows some kind of filter to apply during
Glad to hear the suggestions worked. I've not used Fantastik, as I
believe it has some lye (Sodium Hydroxide) in it, which makes me a
little nervous, especially if there are any aluminum components in the
heads. The alcohol/ammoniated window cleaner mix has worked well for
me, but I am not
Steven writes ...
...
The general advice is to scan at the optical resolution -
am I just wasting storage space by going for 3200dpi ?
...
You are correct about this being the consensus of advice ... but
understand such advice does not take into account the quality and algoritmic
methods
Mark Otway wrote:
Surely, the frame spacing has no relationship to the make of
film. It should be a standard 8 sprocket holes. Any variance
has to come from the camera. Some very cheap ones don't even
register the sprocket holes and vary spacing throughout a film.
Both rolls were
Surely, the frame spacing has no relationship to the make of
film. It should be a standard 8 sprocket holes. Any variance
has to come from the camera. Some very cheap ones don't even
register the sprocket holes and vary spacing throughout a film.
Both rolls were shot on a Canon
I have just started using my new Sprintscan 4000. before I invest a lot of
time in the learning curve, can anyone recommend which scanner software is
best for which users? Insight and Silversoft are included with the scanner,
and I could easily get Vuescan.
I am an amateur photographer
Try out Vuescan and compare the 3 for yourself. Personally I prefer Vuescan, but many
others prefer Insight or Silversoft.
The download is free and will leave a watermark on the scan but other than that is
fully functional.
Maris
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Update November 30, 2001
Download Service for the XP compliant versions of
Nikon Scan 3, NikonView 4 and Nikon Capture 2 are planned to begin
On December 20th, 2001
http://www.nikontechusa.com/XP.htm
I just released VueScan 7.2.11 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 7.2.11
* Added support for Acer 620UT
* Added support for 36mm x 36mm mode on SprintScan 35+
* Increased size of transparency scan
fwiw,
the guys at FLAAR (http://wide-format-printers.org/) dont have a single nice
word to say about the Howtek. They recommend the ICG drum scanner which has
a very clever vertical drum system and thus requires no mounting time/ mess/
tape etc.
paul
At 9:48 PM +0530 12/2/01, Shunith Dutt wrote:
I have seen new scratches in the film surface made by the motor unit in
my
2 Nikon scanners LS2000 and 4000..
Maybe bad handling? Otherwise it's impossible as no part of the Scanner,
except for the film holders, are directly in touch with the
I am currently scanning monochrome negatives MF 6x6 using an Epson
Expression 1680 Pro using Vuescan. Until recently I scanned at
the optical
resolution of 1600 dpi. I have recently tried scanning at 3200dpi which I
assume is true in the line of scan due to the half step from the stepper
Anybody knows some kind of filter to apply during scanning or in
Photoshop
that parcially corrects for greenish color of daylight slides taken with
artificial light? (I would like to recover a slide collection that I made
almost thirty years ago in the assyrian rooms of the British Museum).
Paul Graham wrote:
fwiw,
the guys at FLAAR (http://wide-format-printers.org/) dont have a single nice
word to say about the Howtek. They recommend the ICG drum scanner which has
a very clever vertical drum system and thus requires no mounting time/ mess/
tape etc.
paul
Isn't FLARR
At 12:55 PM + 12/3/01, Steven Chambers wrote:
I am currently scanning monochrome negatives MF 6x6 using an Epson
Expression 1680 Pro using Vuescan. ...I have found the 3200dpi scans
are easier to sharpen (less sensitive to oversharpening - I can use
a larger radius on USM in PS).
The
Can anyone recommend a good 19 monitor? I'm currently using a 17 NEC
XV17+ which is a very good monitor that I'm happy with but I have a 2nd
system that needs a monitor and I'd like something bigger.
One of the things I like about the NEC is that it seems to hold detail in
shadows a lot better
On 12/3/01 11:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:
What's new in version 7.2.11
* Changed Nikon focus point from center of scanned area
to 1/3 of the way from upper left corner (works better
for bowed film)
Good idea. Thanks.
(In the spirit of give 'em an inch and
I have had discussions with the FLARR' people. Lets just say they have a
very unique business model!
David
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From: SKID Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: filmscanners: Howtek
Here are a few tips from 2 months with the SS4000 a laptop Hopefully
they'll be of use. I've been using Win2000 on a Dell Latitude CPx,
PIII-500, 512 MB, Adaptec 1480B SCSI.:
1) If PolaColor Insight VueScan are installed, Insight may crash on scan
after the curves tab is used. This can
I am glad Ed said that! And last week he said the same of the Sprintscan
120. One of my pet peeves is that multiscanning has taken on a life of its
own with people thinking multiscanning is good. Multiscanning is necessary
to cover up other inadequacies. I ain't no badge of honor
All that
In a message dated 12/3/2001 3:13:58 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How hard would it be to provide a way to manually specify the focus point?
It wouldn't be at all hard - probably a half hour's work. However,
it would further clutter up the user interface.
One of my main goals is to
Thanks Art and all the others that helped. In fact, trying to correct with
levels in PS was beeing truely difficult -- I don't remember very well the
true color, reproductions in books that I have doesn't seem very true and
I was not liking the results. Happily, I ended remembering that I read
Hello Ed
Did a comparison between 7.2.10 and 7.2.11 with my test slide.
Much better results with normal curved slide film and Nikon LS 4000.
Improved sharpness from middle out to the corner
Picture 1 Vuescan used on Canon and LS4000
Much better results from Nikon with 7.2.11, closer and
One of my main goals is to simplify things in VueScan, so I'd
like to see if changing the focus point in 7.2.11 to 1/3 of
the way from the upper left corner satisfies most of the
need for specifying a focus point.
How about providing a choice of two points; center, and 1/3 from edge? That
Ed,
Is there a problem accessing your webiste to download Vuescan? I cannot seem
to get it to come up on my browser..
Thanks
Eric
Ed wrote:
I've been thinking about working on this, but it never bubbles up
to the top of my list. The SprintScan 4000 has so little noise in
the dark parts of scans that there's no real need for multi-pass
scanning. This keeps this feature from bubbling up to the top
of my list.
Would
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:01:12 -0500 , Wilson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good 19 monitor? I'm currently using a 17 NEC
XV17+ which is a very good monitor that I'm happy with but I have a 2nd
system that needs a monitor and I'd like something bigger.
I'm using a
In a message dated 12/3/2001 5:56:59 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
How 'bout if you could specify the area with a small crop region ...
enable manual focus, and then device=focus(?) It would be nice if the
manual focus number updated itself ...
I understand what you (and others) are
Ed wrote:
VueScan's Filter|Restore fading option does this
automatically.
Ed, does this make the Fluorescent colour option in Vuescan obsolete?
And while I'm asking - at some point in the past you said that the Autolevels
option in the colour settings was broken - is it still broken?
I don't
Ed writes ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How hard would it be to provide a way to manually specify the
focus point?
It wouldn't be at all hard - probably a half hour's work.
However, it would further clutter up the user interface.
...
How 'bout if you could specify the area with a
On 12/3/01 4:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:
In a message dated 12/3/2001 3:13:58 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How hard would it be to provide a way to manually specify the focus point?
It wouldn't be at all hard - probably a half hour's work. However,
it would
1- Pick the color of a white structure (I choose a ceiling near a
fluorescent light); 2 - Aplly an overlay layer with the inverse of this
color.
Try changing the blend mode of the overlay layer to color and adjusting
the opacity to taste (maybe 50%).
Bob
This makes a filter that I can apply
I would think Silverfast probably does already for the Nikon scanners but
have no first hand experience. When I scan with my Nikon's I use Nikonscan.
David
-Original Message-
From: Al Bond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 5:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Al,
Registration of the SS4000 isn't consistent between scans therefore multi
scanning produces less than ideal results for real world images. The SS120
is slightly better in terms of registration but still not good enough. That
said I tend to agree with Ed and David there really are not the big
If you are happy with Insight, stay with it. There's no point in punishing yourself by being forced to learn how a new piece of software works. The ability to remove the orange mask from negatives is something that some software can have problems with. Insight has been improved and if it does a
Mikael,
Is there some reason why you must persist in posting attachments as part of
your messages? I'm sure the info is useful but can it not be put somewhere
for folk to go and look at (by chosie0 rather than have it shoved own our
throats?
Ian Lyons
http://www.computer-darkroom.com
- Original Message -
From: Paul Chefurka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:01:12 -0500 , Wilson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good 19 monitor? I'm currently using a 17 NEC
XV17+ which is a very good monitor that I'm happy with but I have a 2nd
system
- Original Message -
From: SKID Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Graham wrote:
the guys at FLAAR (http://wide-format-printers.org/) dont have a single
nice
word to say about the Howtek. They recommend the ICG drum scanner which
has
a very clever vertical drum system and thus
Going to be away for 10 days and want to suspend list mail. What is the list
administrators address to suspend?
Thanks
At 03:44 04/12/01, Ed wrote:
* Changed Nikon focus point from center of scanned area
to 1/3 of the way from upper left corner (works better
for bowed film)
This is a very good idea!
For people using the motorised feeder this may cause a different problem
though, bec the strip
Registration of the SS4000 isn't consistent between scans therefore multi
scanning produces less than ideal results for real world images. The SS120
is slightly better in terms of registration but still not good enough.
That
said I tend to agree with Ed and David there really are not the big
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have just started using my new Sprintscan 4000. before I invest a lot of
time in the learning curve, can anyone recommend which scanner software is
best for which users? Insight and Silversoft are included with the
scanner,
and I could easily get Vuescan.
I have used
I thank Ed for his excellent input. I downloaded his references and will
read them carefully soon. In fact, for a moment, I have been remembering a
very happy momemt of my life (including two complete mornings in the
assyrian rooms :-) ).
Now I am so delighted with the results of the
I have another reason to support a manually chosen focus point (or at least, the
option of selecting one of several predetermined points). I have found a number of
images where the focus point is such that the image will not autofocus in an LS4000
(usually a dark, low contrast area such as a
I'm having problems with grain with the Polaroid SS120. This can be seen
in the sample at:
http://www.spirer.com/images/grain.jpg
This is from a 6x7 neg scanned at 2880, unsharpened. I get far less grain
with my Epson 1640 and am wondering what is going on. The original neg is
Tri-X in
Julian wrote:
I can't see any actual advantage in putting the focus point towards a
corner rather than just near the top or bottom edge.
Because the main headache with focussing has been bowed slides which form
a kind of dome shape? A sensible average point would be halfway along a
diagonal
The Minolta Multi pro has a Point AF available.What doesa this mean then?
Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/3/2001 3:13:58 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How hard would it be to provide a way to manually specify the focus point?
It wouldn't be at all hard -
I must not have explained myself well. I understand that the problem is
bowed film - I have a web page devoted to the issue. I am only saying that
while it seems intuitively that a diagonal offset from the centre should be
best, I think that in practice an offset along the y axis, not far
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