[filmscanners] Re: ADMIN: was RE: Density vs Dynamic rangeAUSTIN(2a) - ...

2002-06-23 Thread Don Marcotte
Oh no! Let's not start a long debate about whether it was On or Off topic! Can we not let this item rest in peace? Don At 06:58 PM 23/06/2002 -0400, you wrote: I have to say, I have been following this 'debate' from afar. Very afar, because after the first few posts I, frankly, lost interest.

[filmscanners] Re: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-13 Thread Don Marcotte
If this thread continues any longer, I will put all of the participants in my killfile. That would be a shame because I think you all appear to be the kind of people that I would normally like to read the comments of. This isn't like a Usenet group where I can easily ignore a thread. Instead my

[filmscanners] Re: Color spaces for different purposes

2002-06-09 Thread Don Marcotte
I support Ken. I'm currently scanning a large number of rolls of negative film. They are just 10x.6.67 inch by 72 ppi images for screen display. I'm keeping them in an electronic catalog of my images. Unless something has changed in Photo Shop 7, which I recently acquired, sharpening is much more

[filmscanners] Re: Onboard Graphics and Filmscanning

2002-06-09 Thread Don Marcotte
I use an onboard video card (8MB?) in an 800MHz Pentium 3, 512MB RAM PC. I can't compare speeds to a 32MB video card but the speed of my editing is fine. Maybe I don't appreciate the speed of a 32MB video card but I can't imagine a huge difference when I manipulating 27MB (8 bit) or 55MB (16 bit)

[filmscanners] Re: Sharpening and JPEG/TIFF (was: Color spaces fordifferent purposes)

2002-06-09 Thread Don Marcotte
a technical explanation of why sharpening has so much more visible effect on jpegs as opposed to TIFFs? At 10:22 AM 09/06/2002 +0200, Anthony wrote: It doesn't. On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 07:46 AM, Don Marcotte wrote: I support Ken. I'm currently scanning a large number of rolls of negative film