[filmscanners] Re: Digital ICE

2002-02-08 Thread ThomasH
Jack Phipps wrote: Hello Bob! I checked out your site. It has some great work on it! I'd like to meet Sidney some time. I've always been fond of birds. ONE patent is US6195161. There are many other patents pending (well over 100). I recommend you search on Applied Science Fiction or

[filmscanners] RE: JPEG Lossless mirror?

2002-02-08 Thread Mark Otway
Just to follow this post up, I've found that the Independent JPEG Group have developed a utility called 'jpegtran' which performs lossless transformations on JPEG images. This webpage: http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/losslessapps.html contains a very long list of the various apps which support

[filmscanners] Re: Lazy Sensor

2002-02-08 Thread Arthur Entlich
I just spent a half an hour writing a reply to this, and Netscape crashed on my when I went to send it... Poof! Gone! One more time (this is going to be much more abridged!) I think I coined this usage, so I will try to explain... CCD scanners use a chip which contains one or more lines of

[filmscanners] Re: Digital ICE

2002-02-08 Thread Preben S. Kristensen
and Digital PIC our new process for scanning exposed undeveloped film. Jack, This sounds interesting, but how will it work?? Preben Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan 7.5 beta 15 Available

2002-02-08 Thread Larry Berman
Just installed beta 13. Are we scanning at dots per inch or pixels per inch? Larry *** Larry Berman http://BermanGraphics.com ***

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan 7.5 beta 15 Available

2002-02-08 Thread
Just installed beta 13. Are we scanning at dots per inch or pixels per inch? Larry Regardless of the verbiage used, you're scanning at pixels per inch (ppi). I've always thought that ppi should be used in any scanner interface, but many software writers disagree, and not just Ed. I just

[filmscanners] VueScan 7.5 Available

2002-02-08 Thread
I just released VueScan 7.5 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan 7.4 can also be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/files/old/ What's new in version 7.5 * Added support for Scan Elite II, including multi-sampling *

[filmscanners] Re: JPEG Lossless mirror?

2002-02-08 Thread Pat Cullinan, jr.
Mark Otway wrote: This isn't so, Mark. While you're editing an image is PS, no jpeg processing is performed. Your'e perfectly safe. The jpeg processing occurs only when you save the image to a jpg file, and even then virtually no further degradation takes place, believe it or not

[filmscanners] Re: JPEG Lossless mirror?

2002-02-08 Thread TonySleep
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:54:22 - Mark Otway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I know the encoding only takes place when the image is saved in PS (as opposed to when it's manipulated). But since the act of re-encoding results in some data loss, if I can perform these simple tranformations (flip)

[filmscanners] RE: Digital ICE

2002-02-08 Thread Austin Franklin
Hi Jack, Okay Austin, I've got the Doctor looking over my shoulder right now. He says that with MOST scanners (especially ccd) because of the pixels sensor density, there is light piping between sensors causing a loss of sharpness. I don't believe it's light piping, but electronic

[filmscanners] Re: JPEG Lossless mirror?

2002-02-08 Thread Robert Meier
--- Pat Cullinan, jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had been a believer in the proposition that multiple jpeg saves would degrade an image, but after reading a notice to the contrary in one of the trade mags, I did my own trials and now I save and resave jpegs which aren't even maximum

[filmscanners] Re: Digital ICE

2002-02-08 Thread Arthur Entlich
I'm sure he isn't going to tell you (if he did he'd probably have to kill you ;-)) You might take the time to read the info from the link Jack supplied. It goes through the process, as much as they are going to release. The process is fascinating, and I'm very impressed with the results they

[filmscanners] ADMIN: List charter alterations

2002-02-08 Thread TonySleep
Naturally I have received a complaint about my summary blockage of the Hard Disk Speed thread. I concede it may have been a misjudgement on my part that summarily deprived a large number of readers of invaluable information. I therefore propose a few revisions to the list charter. (1)On