[filmscanners] RE: Avoiding Newton rings

2002-09-26 Thread Laurie Solomon
One would be to replace the glass with anti-newtonian rings glass if it is not already that. Another would be to use an anti-newtonian ring powder on the glass between the negative and the glass. I suppose you could use the two in cnjunction with each other as well as separately. The powder has

[filmscanners] RE: dynamic range discussion

2002-09-02 Thread Laurie Solomon
Austin, >If someone's comments are NOT directly related to film scanners, then I >believe the comment should be off-list, but if it is directly related TO >film scanners, then I have no problem with the discussion being on-list. But there is the rub. Each and every commentator thinks that his o

[filmscanners] RE: dynamic range discussion

2002-09-02 Thread Laurie Solomon
The topics of density range and dynamic range are relevant and pertinant to scanners and scanning; unfortunately, the discussion has taken on a life of itsown and ranged away from what is relevant and pertinent to scanning and scanners to what is of interest to engineers and academics. This is ha

[filmscanners] RE: current Nikon bundle

2002-08-20 Thread Laurie Solomon
(Smile) I really would not know if they did or did not come with GF in the past or currently. I do not own a Nikon scanner. I just accepted the information that others posted that theirs had come with it but it was not the full version. My comments were on the various editions of GF and how in t

[filmscanners] RE: dpi - formerly PS sharpening

2002-08-18 Thread Laurie Solomon
Ops! This was suppose to be a private email and not addressed to the list; my error. Sorry if it inconvenienced anyone. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Laurie Solomon Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 10:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[filmscanners] RE: OT: Film processing costs (WAS: Re:Prints from scans ...are there reallydifferences any more?)

2002-08-18 Thread Laurie Solomon
My understanding is that Toronto, Canada, is and has been off and on the most expensive place in North America, followed by New York and, at one time, Vancouver (right after the Chinese flight from Hong Kong). Most of the large American cities are more expensive than the smaller ones in the count

[filmscanners] RE: dpi - formerly PS sharpening

2002-08-17 Thread Laurie Solomon
don't know better, and some that should know better, misuse technical terms, does not mean that we should all fall in and misuse them. Education is partly about learning the correct terms for things that need to be distinguished. I will say no more, but will continue to try to educate others to use termi

[filmscanners] RE: dpi - formerly PS sharpening

2002-08-15 Thread Laurie Solomon
Austin, Like it or not, DPI tends to be the common usage in the everyday world even if technically it is the wrong terminology and should in the case of scanning be PPI. I think that you may be being a little picky here; but more importantly, holding the wrong party accountible for the industrie

[filmscanners] RE: PS sharpening

2002-08-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
Maris, As this post came through, I am unsure which is your statement and which is the quoted statement you are responding to; but I assume it is the second one. I agree entirely with it, although I typically tend to refer to resolution in this situation as "effective resolution" rather than as

[filmscanners] RE: IV ED dynamic range... DYNAMIC RANGE!

2002-08-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
Austin, I really don't want to dance, so I am not going to get into the "he said, she said thing" I am going to stick by my interpretation of what was said and how each of you has interpreted it. For now, I am not concerned with the "maximum acceptable signal", given that I understand everyone's

[filmscanners] RE: Nikon Coolscan

2002-08-04 Thread Laurie Solomon
states it will upgrade to Genuine Fractals PrintPro which supports CMYK and CIE-Lab support. Brian -- respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMA

[filmscanners] RE: Linotype Saphir on a PC

2002-08-04 Thread Laurie Solomon
I experienced something very similar when trying to operate a Minolta Scan Multi and a Umax PowerLook II on the same SCSI chain along with some other devices. The flatbed Umax was very picky about where it came in the physical cable chain, insisting on being before the Minolta no matter what the

[filmscanners] RE: Disabling right-click, etc. (was: Webhomepage writing software)

2002-08-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
>I have to disagree with Laurie on this one and also to remark that I think >Anthony Atkielski *continuously* thumbs-his-nose at everything and everyone. >As for Laurie's alleged agreeing with Anthony on this one, I'm still >listening. You can agree or disagree with me and we can discuss

[filmscanners] RE: film departing soon

2002-08-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: film departing soon Are you saying that the Epson Matte Heavyweight paper, which is what they claim has the greatest longevity, isn't coated? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Laurie Solomon

[filmscanners] RE: Linotype Saphir on a PC

2002-08-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
>I have both this scanner and the other device on the chain fully >booted up before I start the computer. I have tried three different >SCSI ID numbers so far and two different slots for the host card. Ok, that eliminates those things as potential sources. >To my knowledge, these things are all

[filmscanners] RE: Nikon Coolscan

2002-08-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
>Not sure what you mean by the 'full' version of Genuine Fractals. Neither am I sure what Dorothy Cutter means. >the version of Genuine Fractals that was included in my package was also >not the 'full' version. It was a version that worked in RGB mode but not >CMYK mode. But I am also not sure

[filmscanners] RE: film departing soon

2002-08-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
val fiber-only papers were not designed to be used with inkjet inks, were they? Rarely can you have everything in life! Bob Frost. - Original Message - From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Most commercial photographic papers are RC (Resin Coated - i.e., plastic coa

[filmscanners] RE: Umax Powerlook III

2002-08-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
I have used the earlier PowerLook II to scan 4x5 negs and transparencies at 600 dpi and found that to be satisfactory for my purposes, which typically involved retouching of copy negatives or portfolio prints of commericial 4x5 transparencies from jobs I shot. I too just got a PowerLook III with

[filmscanners] RE: film departing soon

2002-08-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
Most commercial photographic papers are RC (Resin Coated - i.e., plastic coated) papers and not Fiber papers which do not have a resin coating. Similarly, most papers designated as being for inkjet printing (as opposed to various watercolor and fine art papers, linen and canvas type media) tend to

[filmscanners] RE: Disabling right-click, etc. (was: Web homepage writing software)

2002-08-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
>But it's not quite that easy nor as cut-and-dried as the above. For >example, you've just thumbed-your-nose at the state-of-the-art in >professional event photography. On-line proofing is currently all the rage >in that area...especially for out-of-town customers. Well actually it is. I have

[filmscanners] RE: Switch from Win98SE to XP?

2002-07-29 Thread Laurie Solomon
Mike, I have systems that run Win XP and some that run Win98. Unlike some, I have had some problems with my XP system. Some of the problems are the product of bad and/or obscure documentation of features other than the glitzy consumer features. Most of my other problems have been the result of

[filmscanners] RE: Is anybody there????

2002-07-07 Thread Laurie Solomon
Come on Anthony, you can do better than that. The very least you could do is cause Thomas to think by giving him the paradoxical response of "No." :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 2:35 AM To

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-15 Thread Laurie Solomon
Gentelmen, It appears that this is no longer an attempt to clarify things or come to some common conclusion as much as it is an attempt to WIN an argument. I think neither of you will convince the other to accept your terminologies and definitions - let alone agruments - as your own; nor do I thi

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-12 Thread Laurie Solomon
Here I go again. I understand what both of you are saying; and you are both right except you are approaching the topic from two different points of view and philosophies. It is almost like the tree that falls in the forest question at if it makes an noise if no one is there to hear it or not. I

[filmscanners] RE: Archiving and when to sharpen(was:Color spaces for differentpurposes)

2002-06-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
>Since JPEG is lossless and TIFF is not, this is to be expected. Don't you have this reversed? My understanding is that JPEG is lossy while TIFF with LZW is lossless. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Monday, June 10

[filmscanners] RE: JPG sharpening [was: Color spaces for different purposes]

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
Your clarification has helped; and I have no significant disagreement with the gist of your statements now that I understand what you are saying and what you are using as your reference criteria. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Atk

[filmscanners] RE: Archiving and when to sharpen (was:Color spaces for differentpurposes)

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
20 PM 6/9/02 -0500, Laurie Solomon wrote: >Although I concur with all you have said, I have to wonder if the publicist >and publisher are requesting jpeg files rather than lwz compressed TIFF >files out of force of habit, lack of knowledgabout the ability to compress >TIFFs using the

[filmscanners] RE: JPG sharpening [was: Color spaces for different purposes]

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
09, 2002 8:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: JPG sharpening [was: Color spaces for different purposes] "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >Scans do not contain more detail than a low-compressi

[filmscanners] RE: Color spaces for different purposes

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
We may have taken separate paths to get there; but I believe that we both reached the same conclusion for either different reasons or by using different means of expression. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Sunda

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
>Dynamic range is, in our case, (dMax - dMin) / noise. I guess I tend to want to stay away from that definition in part because I am not really able to visualize it very well; but I can visualize "Dynamic range is the number of discernable values within a density range (in our case)" much better s

[filmscanners] RE: Color spaces for different purposes

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
>All images are bitmaps at the time of sharpening. The format in which they >were or will be stored is irrelevant I have no problem with that. My reference was to the possibilities of separating the conversion process from the compression process when saving to JPG format and not with the state

[filmscanners] RE: JPG sharpening [was: Color spaces for different purposes]

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
>However, if you save an image as JPEG using the lowest (least) possible >compression, the saved version will be essentially identical to the original >scan. I agree with this; but in many if not most cases, the compression level used or required is greater then the lowest possible amount, rangin

[filmscanners] RE: Color spaces for different purposes

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
Of course, I hope you understand that my question was rhetorical. I hope that you were just using my rhetorical question as a vehicle for expressing your remarks rather than taking it seriously as a literal question in need of an answer. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

[filmscanners] RE: JPG sharpening [was: Color spaces for different purposes]

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
Really good answer Robert. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Meier Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: JPG sharpening [was: Color spaces for different purposes] > -Original Me

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
Peter, It must be the nature of the discussion or the topic; but just when I think I am beginning to get a handle on it something muddies the water. :-) The first point of confusion in your discussion with Austin appears to be that what you are referring to as "dynamic range" he is referring to

[filmscanners] RE: Archiving and when to sharpen (was: Color spaces for differentpurposes)

2002-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
>Another aspect of purposing, different for different destinations, is the file format. I've had more than one publicist and >publisher request that I provide (email, ftp) a jpeg in preference to a tiff because of the file size. (For this I use a >high/maximum quality in photoshop terms: 10 to 1

[filmscanners] RE: JPG sharpening [was: Color spaces for different purposes]

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
I agree that for web use Jpg may very well be a necessity and that sharpening just before converting to a given level of compression when converting to JPG may be the best way to go since in most case those downloading the web image will not be resizing the image for serious uses and/or then resav

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range - was: RE: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ?

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
ubject: [filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range - was: RE: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ? On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:43:00AM +0100, dickbo wrote: > Bits equals available grey levels per pixel > > - Original Message - > From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range - was: RE: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ?

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
> Density values are >absolute values, just like one foot is an absolute value. They have meaning >in and of them selves. Someone decided what the exact length of one foot is >(within a tolerance of course), as well as density values. Just as a point of levity did not Einstein's theory of relat

[filmscanners] RE: Color spaces for different purposes

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
t - conversion from TIFF to JPG reduces file size and apparently compresses, I would think to Maximum quality. Sharpening at that point was what I was suggesting, before saving as a more-compressed JPG. Maris - Original Message - From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[filmscanners] RE: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ?

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
for taking the time to respond. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dickbo Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ? - Original Message - From: &

[filmscanners] RE: Color spaces for different purposes

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
Ok, that makes more sense to me now. However, since the sharpened JPG file upon opening by an user may then need to be resized and sharpening is dependent on the image size, you have a problem. It will then need to be resharpened for it new size which may result in artfacts being produced since

[filmscanners] RE: Color spaces for different purposes

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
> re-open and recompress absent drastic sharpening artifacts in > the compressed > JPG. > > Maris > > - Original Message - > From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 11:56 AM &

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range - was: RE: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ?

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
scanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range - was: RE: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ? On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:43:00AM +0100, dickbo wrote: > Bits equals available grey levels per pixel > > - Original Message - > From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[filmscanners] RE: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ?

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
On Behalf Of dickbo Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 3:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ? Bits equals available grey levels per pixel - Original Message - From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range - was: RE: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ?

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
Hi Austin, Yes I am fully cognizant of the fact that we are talking about optimum conditions and limits under usually ideal conditions when we talk about capabilities or capacities and that we are not talking about certainties in practice under practical concrete empirical conditions. Thanks. I

[filmscanners] RE: Color spaces for different purposes

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
>One pre-press expert in my area recommends ColorMatchRGB instead of >Adobe98 for pre-press work. Is this a Mac vs. PC thing? Primarily, yes it is both a Mac thing and a preferrential prejudice. From what I understand, the two are very similar in terms of the gammut that they cover. Maris's com

[filmscanners] RE: Color spaces for different purposes

2002-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
>It would probably be better to convert to JPG first and then sharpen. Theoretically maybe; but out of curiosity, how does one do this in actuality when one would have to first decompress the JPG file before one could carry out the sharpening operations. Afterwhich, one would then recompress the

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range - was: RE: opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ?

2002-06-07 Thread Laurie Solomon
Austin, > That is correctproviding the system can actually take > advantage of those > bits. If you have a 24 bit converter, and 12 bits of it is > useless (noise), > then what good are the 24 bits? Yes, that is a given (I understand that and accept that as a limiting condition). As for the

[filmscanners] RE: Umax experience

2002-05-25 Thread Laurie Solomon
t; Magicscan and a > registry fix on the Umax site caused my scanner to be listed properly > without the new firmware. > > Lloyd > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Laurie Solomon > Sent: Saturday, May 25,

[filmscanners] RE: 3 year wait

2002-05-15 Thread Laurie Solomon
the time to engage me in this conversation and even to refute me when necessary. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Kersenbrock Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 1:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: 3 year wait Laurie

[filmscanners] RE: 3 year wait

2002-05-13 Thread Laurie Solomon
about it being primarily good for presentational graphics more than serious images. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Kersenbrock Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 8:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: 3 year wait Op's w

[filmscanners] RE: 3 year wait

2002-05-12 Thread Laurie Solomon
Austin, I am not familiar with the internal workings of film recorders to claim knowledge; but I have discovered that different 4K film recorders can have different size lights which effect the brightness and the amount of detail that the film recorder sensors can pick up - thus the actual effect

[filmscanners] RE: 3 year wait

2002-05-12 Thread Laurie Solomon
Arthur, I make no claims to expertise or to being even all that knowledgable with respect to film recorders. I recently picked up cheap on Ebay a Polaroid Digital Palette 5000s film recorder to play araound with and learn something about film recorders and recording. It is obsolete and 35mm; and

[filmscanners] RE: Re:Computer size: RAID

2002-05-11 Thread Laurie Solomon
The perfromance bargain right now seems to be the Western Digital WD1200JB, with performance benchmarks close to the 10K SCSI drives. Yes, SCSI drives are faster, but cost many times more for the same storage. Åke -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On B

[filmscanners] RE: 3 year wait

2002-05-11 Thread Laurie Solomon
: [filmscanners] Re: 3 year wait Laurie Solomon wrote: > >>"4K" simply means 4000 (and 96) pixels across the 36mm film chip. >>Actually, 2889.9ppi. >> > The problem above is the direction of the film being measured. A film recorder refers to the longer dimensio

[filmscanners] RE: Re:Computer size: RAID

2002-05-11 Thread Laurie Solomon
>How, also, does RAID interact with PS's desire for partitions? There should be no problems since you can partition a RAID array the same as you can any single individual hard drive in a single or multiple drive setup. If the RAID is a mirrored arrangment, the paritions on the mirrored drives in

[filmscanners] RE: Re:Computer size: RAID

2002-05-11 Thread Laurie Solomon
>I'm getting a system with 1.5 GB of RAM and 2 80MB 7200 > drives (CPU: Athlon 1800+). Aside from possible > video-editing, would there be a reason to set the drives up > as RAID-0 (which is supported on the motherboard I'm using > so doesn't add to the cost). If I am not mistaken, I believe that

[filmscanners] RE: Re:Computer size(New Topic)

2002-05-11 Thread Laurie Solomon
>Actually, Anthony, a "disk array" is external to the system and has cooling > designed for the hotter drives Actually, it does not have to be external to the system, although many - especially SCSI RAID arrays - are. My motherboard has an EIDE RAID array that is an integral part of the motherb

[filmscanners] RE: Re:Computer size(New Topic)

2002-05-11 Thread Laurie Solomon
> If you can afford and configure 10 GB of RAM, so much the better I know of no PC motherboard that will support that much RAM even if one could aford to buy it. What motherboards do you refer to in suggesting more than 2-3GB of physical RAM? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

[filmscanners] RE: 3 year wait

2002-05-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
Thank you. Yor remarks have help clear up a number of points of confusion for me. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: 3 year

[filmscanners] RE: Advice Please

2002-04-28 Thread Laurie Solomon
While others have given yo some very good answers, I would like to address three tangential issues that you hint at. First, as for the advice of distributors and retailers, remember that they are selling products and seek to push customers toward the products that they have in stock and which fur

[filmscanners] RE: Scanner profile

2002-04-25 Thread Laurie Solomon
rs] RE: Scanner profile In Photoshop I use Photoshop's own CM engine. I was told I will have to Assign Profile with the scanner's calibrated profile to the image brought into the Photoshop to do the thing. Regards, Alex Z -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[filmscanners] RE: Scanner calibration

2002-04-21 Thread Laurie Solomon
>The scans delivered to Photoshop seemed overexposed Completely speculative, what is the Photoshop working color space set for? Could it be that this working space is is the problem in that Photoshop is translating the scan input into its working space which is being displayed on the monitor whil

[filmscanners] RE: Tiresome Arguments Ad Infinitum

2002-04-17 Thread Laurie Solomon
ED]]On Behalf Of Todd Flashner Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Tiresome Arguments Ad Infinitum on 4/17/02 2:46 PM, Laurie Solomon wrote: > Todd, > >> On another list, in a thread similar to this one, (fed up with the >

[filmscanners] RE: Difficult scan problem

2002-04-15 Thread Laurie Solomon
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Difficult scan problem On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:30:13 -0500 Laurie Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Tony, what if the "constant colour temp lightsource" is a fluorescent > discontinuous light source such as what he has said was

[filmscanners] RE: Yahoo Automatic Spam Generator

2002-03-31 Thread Laurie Solomon
some people who get this mailing list sent to a Yahoo email address. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Laurie Solomon > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 3:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Ya

[filmscanners] RE: Yahoo Automatic Spam Generator

2002-03-31 Thread Laurie Solomon
: Saturday, March 30, 2002 11:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Yahoo Automatic Spam Generator I don't think he ever said that this was a Yahoo Group. i gather it's just a general warning and a solution:) - Original Message - From: "Laurie Solom

[filmscanners] RE: Yahoo Automatic Spam Generator

2002-03-30 Thread Laurie Solomon
Very interesting; but I believe that the Filmscanners list is not a Yahoo group. It is not owned or run by or through Yahoo (although Yahoo may very well have pirated the postings on the list and put them out as if the group was one of theirs, which constitutes both theft and copyright violation.

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Laurie Solomon
we even addressing the sa,me topic. - Original Message - From: "Tomek Zakrzewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:00 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future) > > Laurie Solomon

[filmscanners] RE: [film scanners] Re: Scanning old Lantern Slides

2002-02-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
> I started the copying to film suggestion and didn't mention a type >of film. It seemed to be just assumed somehow that it was color. Sorry, my mistake. While you may not have mentioned color film, it seems to have been taken that way by those involved in the discussion; and they just ran wit

[filmscanners] RE: Scanning old Lantern Slides

2002-02-05 Thread Laurie Solomon
02/05/02 5:24 PM, Laurie Solomon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the case of lantern slides, it is not how big are they as much as how > thick are they and how good is the emulsion that is painted on the glass in > an unprotected manner. Remember were are actually talking about small glas

[filmscanners] RE: Scanning chromogenic

2002-02-02 Thread Laurie Solomon
According to Ed Hamrick, in his software, all channels scan equally percentage wise for black and white. For chromogenic films, I do not know because it would seem you would not be setting the scanning software on grayscale or b&w when scanning it but on RBG even though it is suppose to produce g

[filmscanners] RE: OT: problems installing SCSI card

2002-01-14 Thread Laurie Solomon
It sounds like there is an IRQ conflict in the system where the SCSI card is conflicting with your video card. If your video card is an AGP card, then you can not change the location of it; but you can rearrange the location of the SCSI card vis-à-vis the other PCI cards in terms of the slot it i

[filmscanners] RE: Defective Minolta Dimage Scan Elite II: update :-((

2002-01-13 Thread Laurie Solomon
Ed is this the case for only that model of Minolta scanner or for all the models of Minolta scanners that you support? As an aside, I commend you on your software. I was unable to get Windows XP to recognize a Umax PowerLook II flatbed scanner connected to an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card (first in a d

[filmscanners] RE: Trashing Adobe Gamma

2001-12-26 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Try the "Add/Remove Software" section of the Control Panel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ezio c/o TIN Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 3:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Trashing Adobe Gamma Dears, in a Windows 98

[filmscanners] RE: Full frame scans

2001-12-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
bject: [filmscanners] Re: Full frame scans on 12/23/01 1:59 PM, LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: > It is possible for 35mm and maybe some of the smaller medium format sizes - > 645 and 6x6 - on the Minolta Scan Multi and Multi II (I do not know about > the Multi Pro, although I suspect it is possible

[filmscanners] RE: Full frame scans

2001-12-23 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
It is possible for 35mm and maybe some of the smaller medium format sizes - 645 and 6x6 - on the Minolta Scan Multi and Multi II (I do not know about the Multi Pro, although I suspect it is possible there too). However, I do not think you would like the process with respect to 35mm and 645 format

RE: filmscanners:minolta and med format (questions, questions)

2001-12-18 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Since it is my post that is cited below or to which this post has been attached, I will respond. With the introduction of the Scan Multi II, Minolta introduced a Universal Film Holder which was I holder with masks that you cut your self ( I do not know if it was glassless or not). The customized

RE: filmscanners:minolta and med format

2001-12-18 Thread Laurie Solomon
inolta and med format Actually, it looks like I'm at least partially wrong on this. I didn't know about this other film holder. Are there any pictures of it on the web? They have versions for both the Scan Multi and the Scan Multi Pro. Paul Wilson > -Original Message- > Fr

RE: filmscanners:minolta and med format

2001-12-18 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
imply, no stitching is needed to scan at 3200 dpi or 4800 dpi for medium format film up to 6x9. Paul Wilson > -Original Message- > From: LAURIE SOLOMON [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: filmscanners:min

RE: filmscanners:minolta and med format

2001-12-17 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I think some clarification is needed hear. The Minolta medium format film scanners which includes both the Scan Multi, Scan Multi II, and Scan Multi Pro do not require one to scan in sections and do post scan stitching for formats up to 6x9cm at the maximum optical resolutions for those formats (

RE: filmscanners:minolta and med format

2001-12-17 Thread Laurie Solomon
True and a good point that I did not mention, focusing more on the idea of scanning medium format at maximum optical resolutionjs without focusing on any particular model. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erik Kaffehr Sent: Monday, December

RE: filmscanners: OT (a bit) - Software for the colour-challenged

2001-12-15 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Roger, The way it works is that Digital River handles the financial and the ordering end of the operation for the software company.  If you order a hard version, they make the arrangements for the shipping of the software from the appropriate warehouse.  If you download the software, they fu

RE: filmscanners:minolta and med format

2001-12-15 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
First it is not the "Dimage Scan II" that scans medium format but the Dimage Scan Multi, the Dimage Scan Multi II, and the Dimage Scan Multi Pro which scan medium format films. Minolta's model naming system can get very confusing with like sounding and looking names. The Dimage Scan II, I believ

RE: filmscanners: Filmscanners: OT: E-mail virus

2001-12-13 Thread Laurie Solomon
I understanbd completely and was just pulling your leg. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Otway Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 3:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: Filmscanners: OT: E-mail virus >> While it inde

RE: filmscanners: Filmscanners: OT: E-mail virus

2001-12-12 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
While it indeed may be more sensible for the ISP to maintain a virus checking operation on all messages coming into and going out of their ISP, your ISP also, evidently, seems to work under the assumption that redundancy insures that the message will get through and sends out multiple copies of

RE: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-27 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>But they grumbled about how I should have a lead lined pouch. Sort of funny in a way. I fail to see how a lead lined bag would help matters since it would prevent the film from being x-rayed and would necessitate a hand check anyway. How would that be any different that putting the film in a b

RE: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
> Fed-X apparently no longer guarantees x-ray free travel for film, either. That maybe because Fed-X has an arrangement with the US Postal Service whereby it carries all the USPS's airmail (which is virtually all the USPS mail) from destination to destination; thus, they are obliged to impose the

RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images

2001-11-13 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
2/01 10:34 PM, LAURIE SOLOMON at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Actually, both must be set up on the same IDE channel as masters. > > How does one do that? I thought that you could only have one master device > per channel; and it was the one that was connected to the end of the ribbon &

RE: filmscanners: Kodak Grand Central Diorama (Was: the 10 foot print from 35mm...)

2001-11-13 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>What was truly astonishing was the fact that >the tiny 35mm transparency, though magnified an incredible 516 times, >retained sharpness. A very impressive testimonial to the quality of Leica >lenses and photographer Ernst Haas. The camera: Leicaflex SL with Summicron >50mm lens". Also quite poss

RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images

2001-11-12 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
and images on 11/12/01 12:22 AM, LAURIE SOLOMON at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To Preben: > > Thanks for your response and patience. The Abit board does permit JBOD; but > it does not provide RAID 5 as you have noted. When I asked about what > appeared to be a contradiction between

RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images

2001-11-11 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
al Message ----- From: "LAURIE SOLOMON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 7:53 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images > Preben, > Since you seem to be knowledgeable about IDE RAID matters, I wish to make >

RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images

2001-11-11 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Preben, Since you seem to be knowledgeable about IDE RAID matters, I wish to make use of your knowledge as a resource even if it is OT for this list. I recently bought an ABIT motherboard with RAID. The manual is not very clear as tot he difference between RAID 0 (striping) and what it does vers

RE: filmscanners: Recommendations for page scanning software

2001-10-19 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Caere Omnipage is a page scanning application using OCR where in text is rendered editable and uses on a PC the twain driver of one's scanning software to scan in a page of text; its cousin, Omniform, is a page scanning application for scanning in or designing forms which are capable of being fil

RE: filmscanners: scanned files open larger than indicated

2001-09-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
There could be a number of reasons.  First every time you open a file in Photoshop, a duplicate working file is opened in memory; if there were no such duplicate file one would not be able to have a "revert to" feature and maybe not even a history pallet.  All adjustments and changes are mad

RE: filmscanners: ReSize, ReSample or ReScan ?

2001-09-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Since in reality these are really very different operations, I fail to see first how any comparison between the two is possible at all (apples and oranges) and second what definition and criteria of "destructive" is being used and with respect to what objective. If one rescales without resampling

RE: filmscanners: The Nikon 4000 and Genuine Fractals

2001-09-21 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>Does the license allow me to do that? Usually OEM software bundled with hardware >doesn't allow that so I'm not sure in this case. Usually all software (bundled or not) allow one to give away the software, or in some cases even resell it, as long as certain conditions are met. The main provision

RE: filmscanners: Minolta Dimâge Scan Multi PRO info

2001-09-14 Thread Laurie Solomon
A recent issue of a Publisher Perfection catalog, which tends to be on the high side regarding prices, listed it at, I believe, around $2900 plus. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shough, Dean Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:28 PM To: '

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-11 Thread Laurie Solomon
>So why are the rules for artists different That is the point they are not different. The creation is the embodiment of the artists talent, skills, creative powers, knowledge, and services (or if you will the carrier of the artists conception). It is the conception which is an expression of tho

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