[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanners on Mac

2004-12-11 Thread Berry Ives
Hi Bill, Thanks for responding to my enquiry. However, I am afraid it is the sordid details that I am lacking. I have not been scanning Kodachrome, although at some point I will want to do that, as I have many, if you include the Agfachrome, which may fall into the same class (?). For my

[filmscanners] Re: scanning at less than optical res

2004-12-10 Thread Bob Frost
Laurie, I sent that reply to someone on another list who was using large-format film but then scanning it at one-quarter of the optical resolution of his scanner since he didn't want large files. There was some doubt as to whether I was correct, so I thought I would see what this filmscanners

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-10 Thread Arthur Entlich
Sam McCandless wrote: At 4:03 AM -0800 12/9/04, Arthur Entlich wrote: [snip] A small bit of technological information to perhaps clarify some issues. [big snip] A nice explication, Art. Did you not deal with DVD because you agree with Brad? No, I left out DVD because I haven't bought

[filmscanners] Canon 8000F 48 bit output...

2004-12-10 Thread Navjot Marwaha
Fellow filmscanners, I have a Canon 8000F which boasts a 48bit output, but I have not yet been able to figure out how to use it. I have the 48/16 bit output option checked in the preferences dialog box and use it via Photoshop CS. However, on scanning the image, Photoshop claims that the image is

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanners on Mac

2004-12-10 Thread Bill Fernandez
HI Berry-- I bought a Nikon SC4000ED filmscanner a couple of years ago and have used it with Macs running MacOS 9 and MacOS X. In neither case did I have any real trouble getting it to attach a ColorSync profile to scans and have the scans look right in Photoshop or in print. Although I did

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-10 Thread Dieter Henkel
Hello, I believe the functionality of the disks in terms of DVD-+R verses DVD-+RW is similar. DVD-RAM is based upon Phase change also, in fact it's precursor was PD, also invented by Panasonic, and PD disks are readable on many DVD-RAM drives. Concerning the differences between DVD+R and

[filmscanners] Re: Canon 8000F 48 bit output...

2004-12-10 Thread Dieter Henkel
Hello Navjot, Friday, December 10, 2004, 3:32:48 PM, you wrote: Fellow filmscanners, I have a Canon 8000F which boasts a 48bit output, but I have not yet been able to figure out how to use it. I have the 48/16 bit output option checked in the preferences dialog box and use it via Photoshop

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-10 Thread Mike Kersenbrock
Arthur Entlich wrote: And even if a neg was to get scratched or damaged, that is repairable. However, a slight scratch on a CD may make it completely unreadable. Note that there are software utilities for reading CD's that have errors to extract the files anyway. One I've seen (can if

[filmscanners] Re: scanning at less than optical res

2004-12-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
Yes, I did understand that; but I did not think that too many scanners out there used this approach except to produce low resolution preview scans. But I could be wrong. What I did not get and may have been a terminological confusion was his reference to large format scanning with respect to the

[filmscanners] Re: scanning at less than optical res

2004-12-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
Thanks, that clarifies things a great deal. - Original Message - From: Bob Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 4:40 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: scanning at less than optical res Laurie, I sent that reply to someone on another list who was

[filmscanners] RE: BW from Color

2004-12-10 Thread Lucans, Gunars
Take a look at Fred Miranda's B/W Workflow Pro at http://www.fredmiranda.com/software. It's a Photoshop plugin for ver. 6, 7 and CS (Win and Mac). Also, here's a link to several threads on b/w conversion on the DPreview forum:

[filmscanners] RE: BW from Color

2004-12-10 Thread Stan Schwartz
There are several good techniques with Photoshop. Here are two advanced techniques that are my favorites: http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/ps_pro_primers.html This is John Paul Caponigro's technique of creating individual layers from each color channel. This works well. He has an action

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-10 Thread Brad Davis
What's PD? Brad On 10/12/04 2:50, Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam McCandless wrote: At 4:03 AM -0800 12/9/04, Arthur Entlich wrote: [snip] A small bit of technological information to perhaps clarify some issues. [big snip] A nice explication, Art. Did you not deal

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-10 Thread Brad Davis
What software are you referring to Mike? And what limitations are there - e.g. Which OS, interface (SCSI Vs. USB 1.1 Vs. 2.0). I have both PC (windows 2000) and Mac (Mac OS X) available to me. Brad On 10/12/04 8:33, Mike Kersenbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arthur Entlich wrote: And even

[filmscanners] BW from Color

2004-12-10 Thread
Is anyone on the list using any special tools for converting color images to black and white? I've heard of work flows where you convert to LAB space and throw away the A and B. I'm looking for a plug-in or stand alone program that converts the image in a specific way. Any ideas are appreciated!

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Hank Hanacek
I sell CDs on the internet and have used several burners and numerous software programs to burn them. Have to admit that I have just about given up trying to burn at the optimum speed if I want full data fidelity, and have resigned myself to burning at 2X or perhaps 4X to get valid data transfer.

[filmscanners] RE: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Chris Aitken
Most big banks use tapes as backup medium. I am not sure if that is because they are more reliable, or just cheaper. DDS tapes (essentially a data version of DAT) are about £2.50 each in the UK. Ebay yeilds a fair few DDS tape units for sale (SCSI). DDS units have 2 capacities - the first

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Arthur Entlich
Hi Brad, Interesting posting, and something most of us can certainly relate to. A small bit of technological information to perhaps clarify some issues. The CDs you get which are pre-written with things like software (and music or images, for that matter) are not at al the same process as the

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Arthur Entlich
Arthur Entlich wrote: Misumi and Kodak gold sputtered disks are some of the better types for archival storage. That was supposed to read: Mitsui and Kodak gold sputtered disks are some of the better types for archival storage. Art

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Brad Davis
Art, Thanks for the info, especially on the CD-RW disk, Your comment that they should be more reliable fits your description well. I'm going to look into purchasing them - are you aware of any that are considered better. It would seem that all of these are subject to how well the coatings are

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Sam McCandless
At 4:03 AM -0800 12/9/04, Arthur Entlich wrote: [snip] A small bit of technological information to perhaps clarify some issues. [big snip] A nice explication, Art. Did you not deal with DVD because you agree with Brad? [snip] I've been considering DVD's, but reading about the problems they

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Jim Couch
Art, Thanks for your post. That is some of the best info I have seen on the subject. I learned a lot! Jim Couch Arthur Entlich wrote: Hi Brad, Interesting posting, and something most of us can certainly relate to. A small bit of technological information to perhaps clarify some issues. ...

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Jim Couch
Brad and others, Your expereince points to a tip I have heard elsewhere - keep your older CD drive on hand to read old discs. I did so and am very thankful I did. I have about 20 archived discs at work that our new computers will not read. I am in the process of recopying them to new discs. I

[filmscanners] RE: scanning at less than optical res

2004-12-09 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
If you scan at 1200dpi, the scanner usually either samples all the 4800 possible data points per inch and throws three out of every four away, or only samples every fourth possible point. So you are only getting one quarter of the possible data from the film. So why scan at large format if you are

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanners on Mac

2004-12-09 Thread Dieder Bylsma
Hi folks, My problem persists. I am wondering if others who use Nikon scanners on Mac (assuming there are some) are using Colorsync. hm. I let Nikon use its own colour management and generate an AdobeRGB-profiled/embedded file and take it from there with other apps. Seems to work fine.

[filmscanners] Vuescan - scan to a specific size

2004-12-09 Thread
Hi . . . I seem unable to figure out how to scan a slide and achieve a specific size and dpi (or spi). Specifically, I would like to end up with pixel dimensions of 2040X1530 at 180 dpi. I am using Vuescan 7.6.50 and a Polaroid SS4000. I have no problem scanning and can produce results, more or

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-08 Thread Navjot Marwaha
Hello Brad, I haven't been archiving on this media personally (I still have everything on a huge internal HDD), but do have some idea from forums etc. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/hd-back.shtml points out that putting lables or writing on CD can cause the data to be lost. There are

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-08 Thread Jim Couch
Mike Johnston addressesd the issue of CD quality just recently. Here is a link: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-05-09-04.shtml I have run into the same problem with some data files from work. A couple of tips, good quality CDs do seem to help. Burn AT LEAST two CDs and check them to

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-08 Thread Ed Verkaik
From: Brad Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someone must have a solution, must have found way to reduce the losses. The only way I can see to reduce my losses is to write everything on my old HP burner and make multiple copies - perhaps 4 copies each. That seems a bit much as it reduces the effective

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-08 Thread ?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E5kon_T_S=F8nderland?=
Ed Verkaik wrote: From: Brad Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someone must have a solution, must have found way to reduce the losses. The only way I can see to reduce my losses is to write everything on my old HP burner and make multiple copies - perhaps 4 copies each. That seems a bit much as it

[filmscanners] RE: Sprintscan Died...Replace it with Plustek OpticFilm 7200?

2004-12-08 Thread Chris Street
Polaroid have exited the scanner business. For 13x19 you will need min. 3600dpi. Consider the 7200dpi (optical resolution) dedicated 35mm scanner Plustek OpticFilm 7200. magazine reviews summarised here: http://tinyurl.com/6k76b You can crop 35mm by 3/4 and still get 13x19 at 7200dpi Chris

[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-08 Thread
Brad Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] But, as I try to access older CD's, I consistently find files that I can't open - [snip] I'm sure books have been written on this subject, but I'll put in my 2 cents: You didn't say which 'name brands' you used. I would only use Mitsui Gold CDRs.

[filmscanners] Sprintscan Died...Replace it with What?

2004-12-07 Thread Brad Smith
My Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 Plus has died. Polaroid has quoted up to $650 to repair it. I'm strongly considering buying a new scanner but don't know what the prime contenders are (non-flatbed). Seems that I've not paid any attention to prior posts for 35mm scanners since I got this one when it

[filmscanners] Re: List membership ... please

2004-12-01 Thread Tony Sleep
Frank K-F wrote: Tony . is this list still active? I lost contact when my new Thinkpad arrived .. have been mostly a lurker .. and wish to add my name to the daily summaries. Active, but no msgs for a while. I see you've moved yourself to the digest OK, but obviously don't expect any

[filmscanners] Re: Flatbed vs film scanner

2004-12-01 Thread Francis Tang
Thomas Maugham wrote: There seem to be many flatbed scanners on the market that offer very high resolution, in the 4000dpi range. The Epson Perfection 4180 is representative. Can anyone offer an opinion as to how well they scan 35mm slides and negs versus dedicated film scanners? TIA,

[filmscanners] List membership ... please

2004-11-28 Thread Frank K-F
Tony . is this list still active? I lost contact when my new Thinkpad arrived .. have been mostly a lurker .. and wish to add my name to the daily summaries. Frank K-F Brighton, MI/USA Unsubscribe by mail

[filmscanners] archiving scanned images to DVDs

2004-11-27 Thread
It's time to archive about 10 gb of images from the hard drive. I mistakenly purchased a box of DVD+RW discs rather than the DVD+R discs. I recall there was an issue with CD-RW media not being as durable as CD-R media. How about rewriteable DVD media? Does the same difference hold for DVD?

[filmscanners] Re: archiving scanned images to DVDs

2004-11-27 Thread Tony Sleep
wrote: I mistakenly purchased a box of DVD+RW discs rather than the DVD+R discs. I recall there was an issue with CD-RW media not being as durable as CD-R media. How about rewriteable DVD media? Does the same difference hold for DVD? AIUI CD-RW media are actually slightly _more_ stable,

[filmscanners] Re: archiving scanned images to DVDs

2004-11-27 Thread Arthur Entlich
The view on RW media has flip flopped several times. I have always believed the technology use din RW media is superior to that of the R media., and some agree with me. Here's how they differ: R (write once) media has a dyes layer which is burned off by the laser to crete on or off bits. The

[filmscanners] RE: Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-25 Thread Jawed Ashraf
Sadly the big problem with Luminosity channel in LAB is it is a very coarse control. Incredibly, in Adobe's infinite wisdom (similar to the fashion that PSCS is the first product to fully support 16-bit operation throughout, as far as I understand it) the L channel operates on a scale of 100,

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread Myles
Date sent: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:12:13 -0600 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Laurie Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals? I use the program frequently; and

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Well, I do not own that camera and am not familiar with it; but I assume that if you look in the manual you will find that you can capture your images at around 300 dpi and save them to a tiff format; but capturing them at a high resolution around 300 dpi as a RAW file would also be good, as long

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread Jawed Ashraf
The dpi setting of a digital camera file is utterly irrelevant here. Different cameras output their files (no matter their format) at fixed dpi settings. Different manufacturers of digital cameras have different norms for dpi, but it has no impact whatsoever on resolution or print size. A

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread Preston Earle
LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: Well, I do not own that camera and am not familiar with it; but I assume that if you look in the manual you will find that you can capture your images at around 300 dpi and save them to a tiff format; but capturing them at a high resolution around 300 dpi as a RAW file would

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I beg to differ with you; but I am not going to get into a food fight with you over it. In the case of RAW, you are correct the dpi is somewhat irrelevant in that raw files do not contain any reference to resolution per se only to the size of the image X x Y pixels; however, if you save to a

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Preston, technically you are correct in saying failes do not have resolution and even in saying that their contents do not either; but standard non-RAW file formats do contain metadata which furnish rendering instructions which tell the program to render the 3000x2100 pixels or what have you in a

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread Jawed Ashraf
Put simply, you're confused by the way that certain software applications (e.g. Photoshop or scanner software such as Nikon View) allow the user to specify the pixel-dimensions of a destination image by specifying dpi and linear dimensions (in units that are not pixels - e.g. by requesting an 8

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: LAURIE SOLOMON Preston, technically you are correct in saying failes do not have resolution and even in saying that their contents do not either; but standard non-RAW file formats do contain metadata which furnish rendering instructions which tell the program to render the 3000x2100

[filmscanners] RE: Flatbed vs film scanner

2004-11-24 Thread Chris Aitken
The difference is noticable. The Minolta delivers sharper pictures with more contrast and more details. If you want I can upload a test picture to my homepage to show the difference. Yes please. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-24 Thread Al Bond
Bill Fernandez wrote: My Nikon LS4000 has analog gain controls accessible through the Nikon scanner driver. I can sometimes turn down the anaalog gain to get more detail in light areas. Does your software and scanner have such a feature? Don't remember exactly the options on VueScan (have

[filmscanners] RE: Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-24 Thread Preston Earle
Al Bond wrote: Unfortunately, as I am still using PS6, I don't have the luxury of the Shadow/Highlight tool in PS CS. Because the images need a lot of adjustment, it really has to be done in 16 bit so I am limited to the 16 bit tools in PS6. - Dan Margulis has been writing

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-24 Thread Bill Fernandez
Well, if there ARE details in the highlights captured with VueScan, then you can use masks in Photoshop that let you apply one set of curves to the highlights and other curves to the rest of the image. If you search the web or your Photoshop for photographer-type books I'm sure you'll find

[filmscanners] Flatbed vs film scanner

2004-11-23 Thread Thomas Maugham
There seem to be many flatbed scanners on the market that offer very high resolution, in the 4000dpi range. The Epson Perfection 4180 is representative. Can anyone offer an opinion as to how well they scan 35mm slides and negs versus dedicated film scanners? TIA, Tom

[filmscanners] Re: Flatbed vs film scanner

2004-11-23 Thread Dieter Henkel
Hello Thomas, Tuesday, November 23, 2004, 10:45:01 PM, you wrote: There seem to be many flatbed scanners on the market that offer very high resolution, in the 4000dpi range. The Epson Perfection 4180 is representative. Can anyone offer an opinion as to how well they scan 35mm slides and

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
Sorry, the two images are: http://www.pbase.com/pderocco/image/36593399 http://www.pbase.com/pderocco/image/36593400 -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: Paul D. DeRocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've posted a pair of examples, both involving blowing up by 10x a small piece of an image that had some architectural edges as well as some non-edge detail. You can see what I mean: http://www.pbase.com/pderocco/image/36593399

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread Stan Schwartz
Paul, Help me with the math here. What would be the final dimension of the image whose snippet you are displaying here? And for reference, your 10D captures an image of about 3K pixels on the long dimension, right? Stan Schwartz Paul wrote: I've posted a pair of examples, both involving

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Coolscan V vs Minolta Elite 5400

2004-11-21 Thread Berry Ives
on 11/18/04 9:41 PM, Dieter Henkel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday, November 19, 2004, 3:43:29 AM, Mike K. wrote: Dieter Henkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : The main downside is the extremly slow speed if ICE is turned on. You can't turn off the grain dissolver which might add to this.

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Paul, Again I have no complaint with your description of the differences between GF and Bicubic and potential artifacts and byproducts of each. I looked at your two examples and for the life of me I cannot see any differnces between them and do not see the artificial elements in the foreground

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: LAURIE SOLOMON Again I have no complaint with your description of the differences between GF and Bicubic and potential artifacts and byproducts of each. I looked at your two examples and for the life of me I cannot see any differnces between them and do not see the artificial

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Stan Schwartz Help me with the math here. What would be the final dimension of the image whose snippet you are displaying here? And for reference, your 10D captures an image of about 3K pixels on the long dimension, right? The 10D is 3072x2048. The magnification in both those test

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
My Nikon LS4000 has analog gain controls accessible through the Nikon scanner driver. I can sometimes turn down the anaalog gain to get more detail in light areas. Does your software and scanner have such a feature? Don't remember exactly the options on VueScan (have it and use it...) but isn't

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-21 Thread Ed Verkaik
From: Bill Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Nikon LS4000 has analog gain controls accessible through the Nikon scanner driver. I can sometimes turn down the anaalog gain to get more detail in light areas. Does your software and scanner have such a feature? I use gain changes now and then to push

[filmscanners] Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Brad Davis
Anybody using Genuine Fractals as a way to up sample images? My scanner provides very high resolution compared to my (current) digital camera, but there are times when I have taken an image with the digital camera that I would like to enlarge. I've had some success with Photoshop's BiCubic - it

[filmscanners] Polaroid Sprintscan Problem - Fixes or new scanner?

2004-11-20 Thread Brad Smith
I have a Polaroid Sprintscan 4000+ . It has become invisible to my computer. My Mac (G-4, OS 10.2.8 running Photoshop 7) can't recognize that it is connected, either to firewire which I've always used or to USB. I've contacted Polaroid tech support and their things for me to try haven't come up

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Laurie Solomon
I use the program frequently; and find that for most upsampling within the normal ranges, it is not all that much different from Photoshop's Bicubic methods. It is in the extreme ranges of upsampling that the difference may begin to appe arandGFmaybegintoshine. What I do not understand is,

[filmscanners] Cleaning my Polaroid SprintScan 4000

2004-11-20 Thread Brad Davis
Hi, Sometime ago some one here was kind enough to get the instructions for cleaning a Polaroid SprintScan 4000 - it was probably Tony. The instructions were originally posted by Thomas Maugham about 2 years ago and they are excellent. Two things surprised me when I got into the scanner. First,

[filmscanners] Nikon LS 5000 and slide feeder question

2004-11-20 Thread Guido Grassel
Hello, I have about 1000 - 2000 framed slides that I like to archive in digital form. Plastic frames, no glass. Partly Agpha amateur slide film partly Koda Ektachrom, partly Fuji. Quality of the scanned slides should be good enough for A3 prints. I have tried this already a few years ago with an

[filmscanners] Re: Polaroid Sprintscan Problem - Fixes or new scanner?

2004-11-20 Thread Bard Martin
I had the same problem with my Sprintscan 120 for quite a while and while it lasted it was maddening. Often I could get the computer to recognize the scanner by disconnecting and reconnecting the Firewire attachment. Sometimes starting and restarting the computer did the trick. Finally a tech

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Brad Davis
On 20/11/04 13:12, Laurie Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the program frequently; and find that for most upsampling within the normal ranges, it is not all that much different from Photoshop's Bicubic methods. It is in the extreme ranges of upsampling that the difference may begin to

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Laurie Solomon
As it happens, I can get a pretty good 8X10 from such a file, but then I go to 12X18 (if I can live with no cropping), Well, I did a commercial job using as an experiemnt a point and shoot 4.3Mp Nikon Coolpix camera captured at maximium resolution of 240ppi into a TIFF format just to see what

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Brad Davis Anybody using Genuine Fractals as a way to up sample images? My scanner provides very high resolution compared to my (current) digital camera, but there are times when I have taken an image with the digital camera that I would like to enlarge. I've had some success with

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Brad Davis
Paul, thanks, that's a useful piece of information. Brad On 20/11/04 17:44, Paul D. DeRocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Brad Davis Anybody using Genuine Fractals as a way to up sample images? My scanner provides very high resolution compared to my (current) digital camera, but there

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Paul, If you overuse it, say beyond 4X in each dimension, it starts to look artificial I think if you overuse any tool, it starts to look artificial; but that being said, I think that your 4x guideline needs to be qualified by the proviso that it depends on the type and content of the image. As

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Ed Verkaik
From: LAURIE SOLOMON [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have even seen comparisions of sections of 35mm images blown up to billboard size by GF and Photoshop where GF has come out ahead in terms of lower numbers of artifacts and averaging errors. Just to clarify, though... this refers to pre-CS versions of PS

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Laurie Solomon
Yes, the tests were done prior to PSCS and I know of none done since. I am not sure if Adobe made significant improvements to the basic Bicubic formulation as much as they made its implementation more sophisticated by furnishing two subtle variations on the basic formulation. As in the past, it

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Laurie Solomon Yes, the tests were done prior to PSCS and I know of none done since. I am not sure if Adobe made significant improvements to the basic Bicubic formulation as much as they made its implementation more sophisticated by furnishing two subtle variations on the basic

[filmscanners] Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-19 Thread Al Bond
Hi, When my wife went on a trip to Spain, a problem with her camera meant that most of her slides were 1-2 stops overexposed. I have been trying to scan in and recover some of the shots but with limited success. Although the slides are very thin, there is still some detail in the highlights,

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-19 Thread Julian Vrieslander
On 11/19/04 3:03 PM, Al Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When my wife went on a trip to Spain, a problem with her camera meant that most of her slides were 1-2 stops overexposed. I have been trying to scan in and recover some of the shots but with limited success. Although the slides are very

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-19 Thread Berry Ives
on 11/19/04 4:03 PM, Al Bond at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When my wife went on a trip to Spain, a problem with her camera meant that most of her slides were 1-2 stops overexposed. I have been trying to scan in and recover some of the shots but with limited success. Although the slides

[filmscanners] Re: Canon 5200F and 8400F

2004-11-16 Thread
While the Plustek has a very cheap price, it DOES NOT have infrared defect correction. I have not used the software version of dust and scratch removal that comes with this scanner, but I doubt it works as well as infrared. While infrared surface defect correction is critical, the unique way

[filmscanners] Re: Canon 5200F and 8400F

2004-11-16 Thread Dieter Henkel
Hello jphipps, Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 11:37:22 PM, you wrote: While the Plustek has a very cheap price, it DOES NOT have infrared defect correction. I have not used the software version of dust and scratch removal that comes with this scanner, but I doubt it works as well as infrared.

[filmscanners] Canon 5200F and 8400F

2004-11-14 Thread Dieter Henkel
Hello, Since my old Dimage Scan Elite is pushing the daisies I have to look for a replacement. Unfortunately my budget is quite limited and doesn't allow a Minolta Dimage Elite 5400 of a comparable Nikon which would be my first choice. I was searching the internet for a solution that provides

[filmscanners] RE: Canon 5200F and 8400F

2004-11-14 Thread Chris Street
Consider the Plustek OpticFilm 7200dpi dedicated film scanner £170. http://tinyurl.com/6k76b AP raves about it and PP compares to scan elite 5400 etc. Opticfilm has SilverFast SE with SRD scratch and dust removal. Chris Street DataMind   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[filmscanners] Re: Software dust removal

2004-11-11 Thread
Dieder-- Have you tried the same experiment with Digital ICE set in the Normal setting rather than Fine? I find virtually no image information when I do a difference between a No Digital ICE scan and a Normal Digital ICE scan. I have been looking for some Nikon documentation on when to use Normal

[filmscanners] Re: Software dust removal

2004-11-10 Thread Arthur Entlich
Although I'm not a big fan of some versions of dICE (due to the fact that it can tend to soften the whole image due to residual silver removal (which it infers is dust or dirt)), or if the IR is not exactly tuned to the dye spectrum frequencies, it does work on most E-6 developed slides, and some

[filmscanners] Re: Neat Image with Nikon scanners?

2004-11-10 Thread Alex Z
I found NI to be a tad more effective then GEM in terms of smoothign teh grain and preserving a little bit more details. The difference is ceratinly subjective and often hard to tell, but nevertheless it is what I noticed. Bear in mind I have yet learnt all the great capabilites of NI to treat

[filmscanners] Re: Software dust removal

2004-11-10 Thread Berry Ives
on 11/10/04 1:32 AM, Arthur Entlich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I'm not a big fan of some versions of dICE (due to the fact that it can tend to soften the whole image due to residual silver removal (which it infers is dust or dirt)), or if the IR is not exactly tuned to the dye

[filmscanners] Re: Neat Image with Nikon scanners?

2004-11-10 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might want to try Digital GEM Professional. It works as a Photoshop plug-in and you can make several adjustments, including controlling the grain in the shadows and highlights. It also contains an excellent sharpening/softening algorithm that is very useful. Yow!

[filmscanners] Re: Software dust removal

2004-11-10 Thread Dieder Bylsma
I suggest you look for any detail removed with Digital ICE because there will probably not be any detail removed. The reason the image may look less sharp is because the eye is being tricked by the surface defects (dust, scratches, etc.). There shouldn't be any residual silver in C-41 processed

[filmscanners] Software dust removal

2004-11-09 Thread Chris Aitken
Hi All, Further to my previous messages I have obtained a Scan Dual I on trial. I have tried it with the Vuescan trial version (and also the Minolta drivers - so this must be a later model that works on XP). Although my negatives were clean and visually dist free, there must be a fair amount of

[filmscanners] Re: Software dust removal

2004-11-09 Thread Berry Ives
on 11/9/04 2:46 AM, Chris Aitken at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Further to my previous messages I have obtained a Scan Dual I on trial. I have tried it with the Vuescan trial version (and also the Minolta drivers - so this must be a later model that works on XP). Although my negatives

[filmscanners] Re: Software dust removal

2004-11-09 Thread Mike Kersenbrock
Chris Aitken wrote: Hi All, Further to my previous messages I have obtained a Scan Dual I on trial. I have tried it with the Vuescan trial version (and also the Minolta drivers - so this must be a later model that works on XP). As an alternative to blasting air at the negative before

[filmscanners] RE: Software dust removal

2004-11-09 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Two points need to be made. One deals with one of your comments concerning getting ICE. ICE only works with color negtives or chromgenic black white films. It does not work with silver halide films like true bw films. The second point, which is not one that addresses anything that you have

[filmscanners] Re: Software dust removal

2004-11-09 Thread Brad Davis
May I also recommend Edwal anti-static film cleaner. My computer store sells very soft disposable material for cleaning CD's/DVDs, and combined with Edwal's anti-static cleaner, it is easy to reduce the amount of dust to a minimum - near zero. I've been using Edwal in tandem with the

[filmscanners] Re: Neat Image with Nikon scanners?

2004-11-09 Thread Ed Verkaik
From: David J. Littleboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] My basic take is that high-res film scans need noise reduction, and NeatImage does a good job. How does it compare with using GEM in Nikonscan? I find GEM at 2 to be very effective for current E200 films,. and GEM at 3 for Provia400. What would

[filmscanners] RE: Neat Image with Nikon scanners?

2004-11-09 Thread Les Berkley
NI allows you to create profiles for devices, emulsions, etc, and gives you controls over color noise, luminance etc. Les -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Verkaik Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[filmscanners] Re: Neat Image with Nikon scanners?

2004-11-09 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: Les Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] NI allows you to create profiles for devices, emulsions, etc, and gives you controls over color noise, luminance etc. Another advantage of NeatImage is that (since you store the unmodified scan) you get to try again if you don't like the results. GEM

[filmscanners] Re: Scan Dual IV vs Elite

2004-11-04 Thread Berry Ives
on 11/2/04 4:40 AM, Al Bond at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Berry Ives wrote: It seems like I have heard of grain aliasing issues, or somesuch. I am printing at 1440 dpi on watercolor paper with an Epson 2200. A couple of points. Firstly, the Elite 5400 has a grain disolver feature which

[filmscanners] Neat Image with Nikon scanners?

2004-11-04 Thread Julian Vrieslander
Since there is now a Mac version of the Neat Image plugin, I have been looking at their product info page http://www.neatimage.com/mac/index.html They don't provide a noise profile for the Nikon film scanners. I would be interested in reading comments from any Wintel users who have tried Neat

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