[filmscanners] Blue Screen of Death--Reading Messages

2006-06-03 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! If you can't read the BSOD error message, you need to set your machine NOT to reboot after crashing. Control Panel-System-Advanced-Startup/Recovery-Settings. UNCHECK Automatically Restart and hit OK a lot. Les -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version:

[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: Vuescan/scanners/windows XP

2004-10-19 Thread Les Berkley
AFAIK, VueScan works by using low-level calls to the scanner's interface, and is independent of the OEM driver software. Ancient SCSI scanners work perfectly on my XP box (with the ASPI layer installed). Les -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[filmscanners] RE: Cheapo scanner for contact prints

2004-10-19 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! I use an Epson 1600 for MF work. The supplied carriers don't permit making a contact sheet for a full 35mm roll, but they are beautifully made and produce good film flatness. For a contact sheet, you could just lay the negs on the copyboard. I have read of people doing that with excellent

[filmscanners] RE: Nikon LS4000 alignment - Scan multipro?

2004-08-09 Thread Les Berkley
I got a Dmax-Dmin of about 3.4 with my LS-2000; I would expect better from the 4000. Les -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W Shumaker Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Nikon

[filmscanners] RE: Device interface and Windows 2000

2004-02-19 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! Not sure about Win 2K, but under XP, there is a Safely Remove Hardware icon that shows up in the Taskbar. You select the piece of hardware you want to remove, and a few seconds later, it tells you it is OK to remove it. Les -Original Message- Subject: [filmscanners] Device

[filmscanners] RE: Scanning 8X10 negs

2004-01-17 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! Sounds like you need the tranny head for your Expression 800! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2779702807category=44977 Have a look-- if you can pick this up, your problem is solved. If not this one, others show up all the time on ebay, and in used equipment stores.

[filmscanners] RE: Kodak dropping 35mm and APS cameras in N.A.

2004-01-16 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! You know, back when Great Yellow Father was a (virtual) monopoly, they were a wonderful company. They actually CARED about their professional customers, and made wonderful products like the Electric Brush, which I wish I could still find. It makes dust fall off film. And they maintained

[filmscanners] SS 4000 Questions

2003-12-02 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! After my LS-2000 went west, I managed to pick up a refurb Polaroid SS-4000 on ebay for $300 US. It is working very well, but I have a few questions. First, does the lamp have an auto shut off feature, or should I be very careful to shut the scanner off so as to conserve the lamp? It appears

[filmscanners] RE: LS2000 dead

2003-09-02 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! Don't know about things in your wombat-haunted lands, but you can get the NK Coolscan IV (with slightly better res than the 2000) for $440 US online. That's tempting, and probably not much over the repair costs...! Les Les Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know what the repair

[filmscanners] RE: Carriers for Epson 2450

2003-02-16 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! Unless you can find oversize ones, they won't do for 8x10-- width is only 8. There are (I believe) larger magnetic sheets available for commercial purposes such as mass production of magnetic business cards. Don't know a source... Les -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[filmscanners] RE: Carriers for Epson 2450

2003-02-15 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! By chance, I happen to be heading off to Home Despot (sic) today. Will look for these covers. Sounds like an excellent idea. Les Hi Les: Here's a little secret-I didn't invent the idea, but it works very well with the 1680. Buy the heavy magnetic register covers at home depot.

[filmscanners] RE: Cleaning slides and negs prior to scanning

2002-12-25 Thread Les Berkley
-Original Message- Hi! Back in my wet darkroom days, we used the Kodak Electric Brush. Expensive, but the dust positively FELL OFF! Les Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe

[filmscanners] RE: LS2000 Coolscan shadow noise issues getting worse?

2002-05-03 Thread Les Berkley
-Original Message- Also a general loss in vibrancy of images if a general and even haze on it. The symptom I've seen of a dirty mirror on a LS-2000 is a sort of mystic glow around everything, particularly bright areas in the image. It happens so slowly that you don't notice

[filmscanners] Supra for scanning?

2002-02-24 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! On their site, and in their literature, Kodak extols the virtues of Supra for scanning. Does anyone have experience with this film? I like Fuji Superia a lot, but I do get some grain aliasing problems with the 400 ISO, and VueScan doesn't have a profile for it g! I will shoot a few rolls

[filmscanners] Supra for scanning?

2002-02-24 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! On their site, and in their literature, Kodak extols the virtues of Supra for scanning. Does anyone have experience with this film? I like Fuji Superia a lot, but I do get some grain aliasing problems with the 400 ISO, and VueScan doesn't have a profile for it g! I will shoot a few rolls

[filmscanners] RE: Supra for scanning?

2002-02-24 Thread Les Berkley
Apologize for this repost. Seem to have been unsubscribed somehow, and don't know if my original post made it. Les Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe

[filmscanners] RE: Multi-coloured lines in images...

2002-02-11 Thread Les Berkley
-Original Message- Good evening from Italy. I'm experiencing between one and four thin lines in almost half my images. The length, position and orientation seems completely random. The colour is dependent of the background colour (it is the complimentary colour more or less)

[filmscanners] Orange Micro SCSI + 1394 cards

2002-01-11 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! Is anyone using one of these bears on Win XP? I'm down to my last slot, need SCSI for my Nikon LS-2000, flatbeds, Zip, etc and would also like to have 1394 for all of the wonderful gadgets I will no doubt acquire. Price is very right on this card right now, so I hope I get some positive

[filmscanners] Re: Fwd: Anyone Have Experience WithGrainSurgerySoftware?

2001-12-29 Thread Les Berkley
On 12/27/01 3:28 PM, William Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Grain Surgery for a couple of months now. There is a noticeable and pleasing effect on image quality. I now use it on all images. Found this software on the web the other day and gave it a try. Tried the demo

Re: filmscanners: Rescans and archiving

2001-12-11 Thread Les Berkley
On 12/11/01 9:25 AM, Mário Teixeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Personally, I trust my film to maintain most of its integrity for many | years to come, so I'm not panicking to get everything on CD-R. | | Art Me too, I trust my color slides

filmscanners: Serious SilverFast Frustration

2001-10-23 Thread Les Berkley
Hello all! I simply cannot make SilverFast work well. (Version 5.5.0r14, NK LS-2000, Mac OS 9.1, PS 6.0.1) Negatives scan with a nasty green cast and are usually too dark and muddy. I have set up color management correctly in PS; I believe I have also done so in SF (the manual is gibberish, but

Re: filmscanners: Genuine Fractals Help?

2001-09-20 Thread Les Berkley
On 9/20/01 6:07 PM, Mike Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are outside the United States, and you have purchased the Nikon 4000, can you please tell me if your scanner came bundled with Genuine Fractals? I can tell you that the Nikon scanners sold in Canada do not come with Genuine

Re: filmscanners: NikSharpener Pro

2001-09-10 Thread Les Berkley
On 9/10/01 6:59 AM, Ron Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Les, I looked but couldn't find it. Where on Katrin's web site did you find it. Regards Ron Hi! It's in the Tutorial Files section under one of the later chapters (I forget which). It is called smartsharpen.atn or something very

Re: filmscanners: NikSharpener Pro

2001-09-09 Thread Les Berkley
On 9/9/01 9:35 PM, Brian D. Plikaytis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, I find your comments intriguing. Could I ask a few questions? I find that when I sharpen using Photoshop tools, there is oftentimes an artificial dark or light line (sharpening artifact) that appears at the juxtaposition