Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Good As Gold Guarantee

2001-07-11 Thread Ray Amos
gt; trickle down to me and I should be able to take a little longer if > needed. Is this correct? > > Thanks. > > Paul Wilson > Paul, How many dealers are going to give you your money back or give you a replacement pending Polaroid's Bankruptcy? Ray Amos

filmscanners: Polariod's financial difficulties

2001-07-11 Thread Ray Amos
For your information. Copied from a post to the EOS usergroup from B&H Photo. Enjoy. Ray Amos *** Read http://public.wsj.com/news/businessbox/article1.html from the Wall Street Journal about Polaroid's financial difficulties. The article says

Re: filmscanners: Nikon LS IV/Nikoscan 3.0

2001-07-06 Thread Ray Amos
r, which included the software. That's like saying that your dishes are not yours because you did not make them. Or your vacuum cleaner is not yours because you did not make it. 'Nuf said by me. No more word games. I'll not respond to any public replies. If you want to e-mail me personally, fine. Ray Amos

Re: filmscanners: Nikon LS IV/Nikoscan 3.0

2001-07-06 Thread Ray Amos
you calling it garbage either. Nothing I can do about that though. If you live within 100 miles of Greensboro, NC I would be willing to drive to your home or office and try to help you solve your problems. Ray Amos

filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1 upgrade question

2001-06-16 Thread Ray Amos
river or should I have a newer version for 3.1? If I should be using an updated driver, where can I find it? Thanks. Ray Amos

filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1 upgrade, where?

2001-06-16 Thread Ray Amos
Friends, I have searched the Nikon USA website and cannot find the upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1. Can anyone tell me where to find the upgrade? Thanks. Ray Amos

Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan

2001-06-07 Thread Ray Amos
will they do that NikonScan 3.1 won't do? Thanks. Ray Amos

filmscanners: LS4000 slide removed from mount

2001-05-30 Thread Ray Amos
aking mostly for images already taken that cannot be recomposed. I now try to allow for the loss of edges. Ray Amos

Re: filmscanners: What is 4,000 scanner quality like in practice.

2001-05-24 Thread Ray Amos
edient in the overall image". The down side is the size doubles. PS converts it from 14-bits to 16-bits. My scans are a little over 100 MB and if you try to compress them using Photoshop's LZW compression, the size actually increases. Instead of a 30 MB compressed file you end up with a 110 MB non-compressed file. Ray Amos

Re: filmscanners: What is 4,000 scanner quality like in practice. (time)

2001-05-24 Thread Ray Amos
Paul Chefurka wrote: > > If I got a 4000 desktop scanner of my own it would need to produce > > about ten fully finished scans per hour to be worth considering. Is > > this possible considering the amount of time that dust busting might > > take? > > IME with the Polaroid 4000, absolutely not. I

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 - Peppery scans with Fuji chromes

2001-05-20 Thread Ray Amos
Every scan from the first to the last has been perfect. BTW, you won't believe the colors when using the 14-bit mode. It doubles your file size but triples your pleasure. Ray Amos

Re: filmscanners: OT: anyone else sick of this? [was Re: Anyone using Win2K? Does is manage color like W98SE?]

2001-03-11 Thread Ray Amos
It seems that Vuescan has taken over this usergroup. Maybe it should be renamed Vuescan instead of filmscanners. Ray Amos

Re: filmscanners: PS v.6.01

2001-02-27 Thread Ray Amos
te file to me. I've installed it but have no idea what it does. Ray Amos

filmscanners: Canon vs. Nikon Dynamic Range

2001-02-12 Thread Ray Amos
The new Canon FS4000US has a dynamic range of 3.4. The Nikon 4000 ED has a dynamic range of 4.2. Wonder if they measure the same way? Ray Amos

Re: filmscanners: SS4000 and LS-2000 real value?

2001-01-23 Thread Ray Amos
rs of printing unless immediately placed behind glass in > frames or under Mylar in albums. Laurie, I'll bet you can't speak the above sentence without taking a breath. Ray Amos

Re: filmscanners: SS4000 and LS-2000 real value?

2001-01-21 Thread Ray Amos
more computing power, you're right again. No reason to > run out and plop down money just to make good 8x10's, but I want to see how > large I can print without using my view camera. So I'm the exception. I'll > spend a few thousand bucks to see what it will do for me. > > Bob Kehl I couldn't have said it better. Ray Amos

Re: filmscanners: Re: So it's the bits?

2001-01-11 Thread Ray Amos
point is - NOTHING CHANGES. > > Won't the 12bit a/d converter allow the information between 4mv and the 1mv noise >level to be resolved? > > Colin Maddock Is there anyone out there other than the participants who has any idea what they are saying? Ray Amos