Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CD-R is too slow. CD-RW is ten times worse.
So you're painted yourself into a corner again.
I have always heard that Polaroid scanners are not as good as Nikon
scanners. I
would not want to take a step backwards.
=8^o I've heard quite the
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you're painted yourself into a corner again.
How so? Everything works for me.
You can't upgrade.
I was thinking of the LS-2000, not the LS-30. The hardware is identical,
of
course, but the firmware is crippled in the LS-30, and one of the
for
sending the brush even though it didn't resolve the problem in this case
- they even sent a replacement when the first one took over a week to arrive.
Now I can bring in some slides tomorrow and try a comparison with the LS30.
:)
Rob
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Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've considered it--but how would I get the pictures back and forth
between the
two machines? I'd need to buy a router, at the very least, so add a few
hundred
more dollars.
Huh? Where did you get that idea? Worst case scenario you could use
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
don't get mad at nikon.
Why not? They could have just as easily included an SCSI interface and NT
drivers, as they did for previous scanners. I know I'm not alone in
running
configurations like this. I guess they didn't want our business. I hope
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't have USB, and Windows NT is not supported for the LS-40. So
scratch the
LS-40 as well.
Actually, scratch all the USB scanners since NT 4.0 doesn't support USB.
Even a PCI USB card wouldn't help without changing OS.
Rob
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay. What other options are there besides the LS-4000? It has to run
under
Windows NT, no later than SP4, and it has to be SCSI.
You forgot to mention ICE, which is the requirement that paints you into a
corner.
Either way your computer will be
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I currently have a continuous external Internet connection on the NIC.
Then you have a security issue, but you don't necessarily need a router.
A four port switch would do it, and that won't cost you thousands - for
that matter there are combined
hours per week.
Amen to that. I *always* use Infrared dust removal in Vuescan with my LS30
and it saves a huge amount of time scanning. It takes long enough to get
the curves, levls, colours, contrast etc right. I can do without spotting
as well!
Rob
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David Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, although the brush does work - I have seen it fix my problem on a
friends machine, you may have more serious trouble.
Good luck opening the box but I think you may be sending it to Polaroid.
Maybe, but it's worth at least giving cleaning a try before
to buy the Nikon 8000 REALLY for the ICE and ROC features
The problem described was about banding, not a problem with ICE, ROC or
GEM. ICE works just fine.
Rob
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cycles
continuously. Since it's three months out of warranty I'm going to try
opening the case and using a normal brush on the sensor.
Rob
(but first find a brush...)
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a refresh.
This isn't the case on my computer - Win98SE, LS30 connected through an
Adaptec SCSI adapter. If I don't switch on the scanner and do a refresh
in the device list, all I get from Vuescan is the scan from file option.
What OS are you using and how is the scanner connected?
Rob
Rob
Peter wrote:
Your presumption is correct. I have had Nikonscan (various versions) and
Vuescan (lots of versions) living happily together under Win 95, Win 98SE,
Win 2000.
Peter, did you have to load ASPI drivers to get the Nikon scanner working
in Win2K?
Rob
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Alan wrote:
Make sure you have your scanner on BEFORE you start vuescan, it does a
scsi
bus scan on startup.
Preferably switch the scanner on before you switch on the PC, or you'll
have to do a refresh in Device Manager before any software can see it.
Rob
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Does anyone use Photoshop Elements? What critical features are missing
(compared to the full PS6) for someone who does a lot of film scanning?
Rob
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Moreno wrote:
I've also had some banding issues, but if I scan 14 bit, at either 2000
or
4000 dpi, with 1x multisampling, the images are clean.
Don't shoot me, but I wonder if this is a new variant of the jaggies issue
from the earlier scanners?
Rob
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Rodrigo Amestica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. after getting a preview, why does the GREEN histogram change when I
modify the RED gain (after pressing redraw)?
Is it possible to adjust the gain of the colours separately? I seem to
recall Ed talking about different integration times for the
Alan Rew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone on the list had problems using the APS film adaptor for a
CanoScan FS2710 (or similar scanners)?
FWIW I've scanned about a dozen APS films with the APS adaptor for the
Nikon LS30 and I don't recall seeing any scratches.
Rob
I wrote:
Is the brush available in the land of Oz?
I just answered my own question; Polaroid in Sydney are send me a brush.
I hope it comes with instructions or at leas a diagram of where the sensor
is located! :)
Rob
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Dual II, Acer Scanwit and Nikon Coolscan IV.
There's probably someone on the list with each of those scanners, so hopefully
they can tell you how well the scanner behaves with films similar or the
same as those you'll use.
Rob
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Thanks to everyone who has responded about the SS4000 problem. Hopefully
the brush will arrive on monday (sunday US time) and the problem will be
solved. Then I can try scanning that annoying slide. :)
Rob
Rob wrote:
Is that from Maxwells - who service Polaroid? or what source?
I looked up Polaroid in www.whitepages.com.au and looked in Sydney where
their headquarters are. So the answer to your question is I rang Polaroid.
Maxwell Optics are the local agents for Nikon AFAIK.
Rob
Rob
I seem to be getting two and three copies of messages but not at the same
time-I just got a batch that I recall getting earlier today
Can anyone please contact Tony Sleep directly about the message duplication?
Rob
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Mike wrote:
Early tests using the Stouffer gray scale obtained with Vuescan (Slide
setting and BW=0.001) show exceptional linearity down
to an OD of 2.11, then an abrupt flattening of the curve above that.
Dumb question - are you using 48 bit output from vuescan?
Rob
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on the Polaroid website
or in the errata PDF for the SS4000. Is there any documentation describing
where the sensor is located and how to clean it?
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an image online somewhere, it's not very useful continuing the discussion
on the list since nobody else can see what I'm talking about!
I guess I was wondering if anyone else has had similar problems with similar
colours.
Rob
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Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Turquoise has a lot of yellow, cyan, and almost no red (other than
shadows,
ripples, etc), in terms of CMYK. It can be a bugger on a monitor, where
RGB
are your working colors.
I tried printing it, but the print looks like the screen - not like the
slide.
to want to mess around that much.
I'd love to buy a CIS, archival inks and papers, and a profiling system,
but I can't afford it. :(
Rob
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scanner, I can't
show you the colours for a comparison between what the slide actually looks
like and what the LS30 produces.
Rob
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comes up blue and dull. :(
I'll have to try one of the slides on the SS4000 at work and see if there's
a difference (other than ppi).
Rob
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It is hard to imagine this Sony monitor not having the ability to tweak
the individual guns (... is this some type of consumer model? ...).
Is this stuff necessary? I discovered that under Win98SE just about any
fully supported video card can do the required gamma adjustments. The
monitor
to represent a legitimate business.
Rob
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Lynn wrote:
I'm running Win98 with an NVidia TNT2 card, and don't see anything
in the monitor controls that resembles a tweak or gamma adjustment.
Lynn, are you running 98 or 98SE? I don't think the gamma adjustments came
until SE with its updated version of the CMS.
Rob
Rob Geraghty
generally works well if there is little variation in the pixels;
no grain means good compression and coarse grain means poor compression.
Rob
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broken
however. :)
Rob
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Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am very intrigued by the number of people on this list how have color
deficiency. Does anyone know how common this is in the general
population (or even just the male population)?
I'll have to look that one up. I *think* it's more common in men than
of reality anyway!
Rob
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. But
it may not take too long to get higher densities. Yes, you could lose a
lot of data - one of the things DVD-RAM has going for it is a case around
the disk akin to the case on a 3.5 floppy. Reducing the likelihood of
damage has to help.
Rob
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Colin wrote:
Rob Geraghty wrote:
I have had interuupt problems caused by the SCSI controller and
the graphics card insisting on sharing the same interrupt.
They are on the same interrupt (11) in my computer, but Windows just does
that. They are under the control of PCI IRQ Steering, so it may
shAF wrote:
You may want to check you mobo's manual with regard to which PCI
slots need share IRQs.
I should have mentioned that the SCSI device is on the motherboard. I can't
physically move it or the AGP slot.
Rob
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insisting on sharing the same interrupt.
I don't know anything specifically about ATI cards.
Again, the best resource for these issues is the gigabyte newsgroup.
Rob
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Ed wrote:
What's new in version 7.1.8
* Changing Filter|Infrared clean changes Device|Bits per pixel
Huh? Does this mean that setting Infra-red clean automatically sets the
input bits to RGBI?
Rob
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was fine, and the grain wasn't too
bad for 400ASA. Anyone expecting the lack of grain seen in 100F is being
unrealistic and will be disappointed.
Rob
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was in Ed's position I wouldn't find his reasons petty but then maybe
I'm not thick skinned enough. I suppose I was disappointed that Ed was
getting flack for stupidity on the part of Apple.
Rob
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David wrote:
Yeah, me too. I had expected rather more professional
commitment - just glad I was only taken for $40.
Presumably this is the sort of invective that made Ed want to drop support
for the Mac. I can't see how it helps the cause.
Rob
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of software
with free updates and support is a bargain IMO.
If it wasn't for Vuescan, I would have trashed my LS30 long ago.
Rob
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B.Rumary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
full, when the freezing starts again! Anyone any ideas on how to cure
this?
Try the gigabyte newsgroup since you have a GA motherboard, although
I suspect an ATI discussion group may be more productive.
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.giga-byte
PNP is a wonderful
Michael Greger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I rented an LS4000 today and I'm trying to use the SF-200 Slide
Autofeeder with VueScan. I do not remember seeing any information about
this feeder being supported or unsupported. In any case, I can't make
it work!
Vuescan's help file says this:
To
be significantly better still.
Loading and saving files is the no.1 timewaster for me when working with
film scans on my PC.
Rob
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Alessandro Pardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did. I experimented with various settings (long exposure pass, exposure,
gamma etc.) but it seems that the most dense parts of PAN-F are beyond
reach
for this scanner
I wonder if anyone has tried PAN-F with a SS4000 or other Polaroid scanner?
Rob
Dana Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A 25% faster drive won't necessarily get you 25% faster load/store
times. PhotoShop seems to be inordinately slow in dealing with
compressed TIFFs
Paintshop Pro is the same. Opening a film scan in PSP takes *far* longer
than in Irfanview.
BTW, Ed's
Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
of one upgrade. Some reporters are already giving Windows X glowing
reviews...but then, some give glowing reviews to everything just to keep
the
free stuff flowing.
XP aka Whistler looks OK, but Win2K is here and now and stable.
Rob
Steve Woolfenden wrote:
I seem to get odd effects when scanning BW negs using
ICE on my Nikon 4000 - like posterization . I vaguely
remember someone once telling me this happened - can
someone tell me why and if theirs a way around it other
than just not using ICE on BW negs?
You cannot use
when trying to set the white point. Is there a
way to set an area for the dropper to use rather than a pixel?
Rob
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Rafe wrote:
With white point, it's important *not* to use
a specular highlight -- eg., a reflection of
the sun off of a shiny surface.
But if that's the only area that could be described as white, what *should*
you use? :-7
Rob
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of the highlight and shadow detail is lost.
Rob
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Settings
Reduce the amount of memory that is installed in your computer to 512 MB
or less.
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Dave King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this has been described before on this forum. When trying to drag
either corners or sides of the crop box, the crop box doesn't obey and
flips back to some other position. It becomes quite impossible to select
the
entire image.
Same on my Windows system.
.
Rob
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by registered mail so that an official date
is established. A cheaper and possibly less legally watertight method would
be to send a copy to someone you trust and ask them to make sure they keep
it. You then have some sort of corroboration to your claim from another
party.
Rob
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scan
and walk away.
But I already have an SLR and a 35mm compact camera so what use would an
APS camera be?
Rob
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I note there's been some discussion of copyright lately. I just uploaded a
stack of new pictures to my website, and it's taken quite a while to process
them all. On the larger images I've put (c) Rob Geraghty 2001 where the
(c) is the proper copyright symbol. I've also marked each picture
Joanna wrote:
contrasty and underexposed slides. can i get by with LS-40 as i don't make
big prints or do i need to buy LS-4000.what is the difference?
The main differences are (AFAIK):
1) LS40 is 2900ppi and the LS4000 is 4000ppi
2) The LS4000 can do single pass multiscanning while the LS40
Stan McQueen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a little hard to tell from your post, but I'm assuming that you are
not arguing in opposition to registering the copyright on one's images.
What protection does registration with the *US* Copyright office offer if
the person who infringes your
Julian Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I rang them and complained bitterly, but the level of their insight and
dedication of the first line help desk is not sufficient to match the
nature of the problem. (IN Australia Nikon is sold and serviced by
Maxwell
Photo Optics who don't really have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone ever seen a case where the Device|Auto exposure
option doesn't work optimally?
Yes, but only on images which were generally hopelessly underexposed.
Autoexposure often fails on night photos. It works very well on normal
daylight exposures. To be fair, I'm
Dan Honemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an online tutorial/FAQ/glossary somewhere that shows image
samples
of various digital artifacts (e.g., banding, grain-aliasing, jaggies,
etc.)?
I should put some examples of jaggies on my web site. Thankfully, Nikon
finally
seems to have fixed
imporved in the last few versions.
Filenames and folders are certainly a little frustrating - it would be nice
to be able to select an input or output folder and file using something
like the common dialogue box. This would help especially with setting output
folders.
Rob
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provided the examples are appropriately
sized. I already have a page about scanning to explain the work which was
being done on looking at film types. It would be good to have examples
of things which are problematic about scanning.
Rob
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- it's your video card dithering the colours
down to what fits in your palette.
Rob
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.
Rob
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card when I went from Win
3.11 to Win95.
Rob
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hooking up a proper monitor. The LCD is probably very limited in
the number of colours it can display.
Rob
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PS. I have just recently returned to this list after a long break. Does
anybody know if Ed Hamrick still partakes?
Dunno.
If not does anybody have his
email address at hand?
I think it's [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob
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Steven Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What speed do you rate your T400CN ?
I've been rating mine at EI250. The lack of grain is astounding.
Rob
Lawrence wrote:
settings. Heres what I have discovered. If I make individual adjustments
to the RGB channels in Nikonscan the banding appears.
Does the banding occur in Vuescan output?
Rob
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I didn't think vuescan supports this scanner yet..
Pity - it would be a useful comparison. Maybe someone should send Ed a
SCSI command dump?
Rob
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technology.
Rob
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paper. I just
get the prints on colour paper, enjoy the tone and try to guess
what it will look like on real BW paper. :)
Rob
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time since going scuba diving... :)
Rob
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Derek Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I presume you mean security staff at the entrance to airside rather than
check in staff?
Correct.
Film must never be left in checked baggage these days, the X-ray machines
they use for that are guaranteed to fog your film.
It's a pity they don't warn
Derek Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could it be dust before the film was processed, leaving chemical spots on
the film? Those would be just as transparent to IR as the real image...
That's the only thing I can imagine it could be. But it still baffles me
that the
IR scan is blank. There
Norman Quinn wrote:
800 and 400ISO. two rolls of kodak film
Ouch. I can see why you had a problem especially given this;
Would have been 8-10 passes though scanners Jamaica,
Miami, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas and back.
Double ouch. Could you have processed the C41 somewhere locally?
I
.
I imagine there would be more image surviving the experience if the Xrays
were overexposing film with an existing latent image?
Anyone with more knowledge of chemistry care to comment?
Rob
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Norman Quinn wrote:
Using a Nikon 2000 scanner or a HP Photo smart scanner
and nikon and vuescan software, what would be the best
place to start to extract the images from the film.
I agree with Tony - scan with the LS2000 to 48bit files and use autolevels
in PS to get close to the most
Gandy Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to contact any Canon FS2710 users with Vuescan experience. I
installed Vuescan because of the good reports but have always experienced
scans with the default sttings to have very low contrast, with the values
in
levels bunched to the left.
Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
content, and like dust, they would be removed by dICE. More likely, junk
for other films that ended up in the chemistry and deposited on your
film.
Thanks, Art. I'm going to experiment further - fortunately I kept the raw
scan. :) It may have been an
FWIW I just tried printing a model's comp card on Epson Semi-gloss paper.
I'm using an Epson 1160 with OEM inks. I'd have to say it's the best result
I think I've seen out of the 1160 so far.
Obscanning: All but one of the photos were scanned on my LS30. The odd one
out was scanned on an Epson
Norman Unsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vuescan's ability to manually focus (actually, slightly out of focus) and
grain reduction to reduce what I'm calling grain but obviously there are
drawbacks in the form of reduction of sharpness, in either of these
solutions.
Out of interest, have you
Winsor Crosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
additional information. Since Nikon provides two software packages,
one for the Mac and one for Windows, it might be useful to know the
operating systems of those people who offer their experiences one way
of the other.
Nikonscan 3.1 seems to work fine
Frank Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am just starting out with both photography and scanning. I am on a very
limited budget, so I am using my wife's Canon EOS Rebel 2000 and an Acer
Scanwit 2720s.
[snip]
1. Should I be using cheap film/processing during this learning phase or
is
this a
Trap for unsuspecting players. The infrared filter doesn't appear in the
Filter tab of Vuescan 7.1.5 when the source is set to disk until *after* you
preview the file. If there is an IR channel, the infrared filter checkbox
will appear.
Rob
rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been making scans in 24-bit color for years, on
about 3 or 4 different film scanners. I don't use
the 48-bit color mode, ever, even on the 8000.
I know I would! :)
No posterization. I suspect there's another reason
for the posterization you're seeing.
OK, I'm confused. I have some Provia 100F slide film I shot on a scuba dive
on the Barrier Reef last week. I expected it to come out blue, and it has.
What I *didn't* expect is that Vuescan doesn't seem to be able to remove
dust from it. I'm thinking that the blue cast in the slides is acting
(the blue filter effect
seemed logical at the time) I am at a loss to explain the behaviour.
Rob
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differently from Vuescan. I thought
it might have been connected with multipass scanning, but a
single pass scan looked pretty much the same.
Rob
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of. If the spots are in the IR
channel they're not getting removed.
Thanks for the feedback!
Rob
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wrote:
Google hasn't gotten so good these days that you can find product names
like this immediately. I wanted to check them out also. Enter ColorBlind
or
ColorSynergy in Google's search box and you've got it. Unfortunately,
they're
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