and fuzzes the result. On the
LS2000 this may not happen as the multiscanning is single pass.
Rob
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. The files also won't be readable on someone else's
computer unless they have the same model ZIP drive. CDR is much
more universal.
Rob
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Ian wrote:
It is and so is CompassProfile Scanner and ColorSynergy, etc.
[snip]
Dan and Franz from ColorBlind fame and all their products are
real cool and quite reasonably priced.
Ian, do you have some URLs for these products?
Rob
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Paul wrote:
I am trying to set up a Nikon LS-1000 slide scanner with Windows 2000,
is this possible?
I haven't tried it, but you'll probably have to install ASPI SCSI drivers
for your SCSI card.
Rob
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which happens as a trial is that the
program puts lines across the scan.
I haven't used your particular scanner, so I can't comment specifically
about it. I think it's actually a USB device which may be the source of
the problem- afaik vuescan only supports USB in Windows?
Rob
Rob Geraghty
Richard Schreurs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this Primefilm scanner a good tool for my needs? How's the software
that
comes with it, and what is the difference between the 1800i and the
1800u??
From what I've read, the Primefilm isn't worth touching. You'd be better
off
with the Acer Scanwit.
S. Matthew Prastein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
content here, that PS, and in particular PS 6.0, is the Rosetta stone,
an essential professional tool for achieving image quality, and
uniformity, in publishing.
It has a really good colour management system, and that is the best thing
going for it
,
so it's worth getting your camera level! :)
Rob
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Rick Decker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Rob...it confirms my worst fears...but I have done two 11x16 prints
from
slides albeith bw and one looks real good and the other more than
adequate...although maybe I should look to the skills of the photographer
(me)
for the success of the print.
Mark T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[a bunch of stuff about printing]
FWIW I always scan from the film scanner at full resolution (2700ppi with
the LS30) and change the output (ie printed) resolution afterward. IMO it
makes more sense to get the maximum off the film, and then figure out how to
Rick Decker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 3 parameters on my 1640SU scanner - Source Size , Target Size
and DPI. The manual tells me to Increase Resolution as I increase
Target Size.
Anyone else have an Epson flatbed who can comment? Scanner manufacturers
seem to make things needlessly
Norman Quinn wrote:
What scanners come with GEM and ROC.
Is Nikon the only scanner with ICE?
If you use Vuescan, you can do grain reduction and restoration of colour
with all sorts of scanners. :)
Rob
Dave King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In other words, it's not really overexposing the film to rate it one
to two stops slower than the manufacture's recommendation.
Hm. OK.
LED scanners are different than enlargers however, and overexposure
more than two stops may build enough density to
rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a number of C41 films dating back from when I
was yearbook photographer in high school... in the
late 1960s. None of them are showing any significant
signs of deterioration.
And I have some negs from about 1982 where the emulsion has virtually
dissolved
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:06:18 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I have seen banding in a SS4000 scan when using layers to bring up dark
details. Under normal circumstances you would never see it though.
Hmm, well, I quite often do this, and still have never seen banding. Yours
Dan Honemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snippage]
possibility of 6 Megapixel CCDs that are the same size as a 35 mm frame, I
have to wonder if a $3k film scanner is a smart investment right now.
I for one have hundreds of images already on 35mm film I want to translate
to digital, so the film
rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also don't really believe in film-grain aliasing --
film grain is essentially non-periodic, or, more
accurately white noise -- ie, containing
an even distribution of frequency elements from
DC to infinity.
I don't see why that excludes aliasing of the CCD
Frank Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. With 200 film, is the grain large enough for the 2700 DPI to record
it?
If so could some one describe it (or email me a couple scan clips showing
examples?)
Colour neg films have a random mixture of different sized dye clouds. The
only C41 film I've
Tony Sleep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No banding problems here, ever, with a SS4000.
I have seen banding in a SS4000 scan when using layers to bring up dark
details. Under normal circumstances you would never see it though.
Rob
rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, indeed. I think digital cameras are closing fast
on 35 mm format. In another year or two there really
won't be any reason left to shoot 35 mm film.
Only if the prices also come down. I can't see the point in buying a 3Mpix
digicam when I can buy a good
Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Qualification first - I don't know for a fact that only colors strictly
within the sRGB gamut can be displayed, but that is generally the case.
According to what I've read on the Epson list, sRGB was a gamut designed
around an average computer
Tony wrote:
Generally, if you are seeing green-blue speckle in shadows from colour neg
(look like CCD noise, but can't be - CCD noise in negs afflicts
highlights, the densest part of the film, and manifests as yellow/magenta
speckle), giving a little more neg exposure will reduce this
about the preview - look at a final scan after adjusting the brightness.
Rob
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that, archival quality on Crystal Archive would be nice.
I don't have a CIS and pigmented inks.
Rob
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just want to get the
best out of the gear I have, and that's why I'm here on
this list. :)
Rob
PS I'll try to stay on topic Tony, honest!
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) will pass IR just as effectively as a scratch.
So as I said earlier, you can't tell what is image and what is
a scratch. The scratch could be real detail like a fine wire
across bright sky.
Rob
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checking that you're not talking about slide films. :)
(most labs I've spoken to claim that C41 can't be pushed or the equipment
doesn't allow it anyway, and that the latitude of most print films makes
it un-necessary)
Rob
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that the scratch *may* be a little more obvious. The main
problem is that the scratch might also be a fine line of
image detail...
Rob
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of the
problems I've had with colour matching between the screen
and the output on an Epson printer is that the printer
driver expects the user to be viewing an image in sRGB
not in Adobe RGB?
Rob
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rows?
Rob
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can a program like Photoshop ever display colours
outside the sRGB gamut?
Rob
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need to convert the image
to sRGB in Photoshop then save it as a different name before using the new
file for wallpaper. Otherwise Windows will interpret the RGB values as
sRGB and they will look flat.
Rob
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Mark wrote:
The software would recognise when the film carrier was inserted, however
when trying to scan, the film carrier would not move. The scanner just
made
a lot noise.
Is this similar to the problem with the SS4000 carrier detector getting
dusty?
Rob
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of the image overall.
I am currently stuck with an Artixscan 4000T which, of course,
does not have this capability as far as I know.
No, the Artixscan 4000T and the Polaroid SS4000 don't have an IR channel.
Rob
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Stewart wrote:
I have just started receiving the message that imgio.exe cannot be
found and I would appreciate being told where I can obtain the file.
Huh? Sure your computer hasn't got a virus?
Rob
Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I'm very pleased that you've separated the 'ice' and 'gem' features.
Seconded! I was intrigued to find that the ICE feature was a binary
option. Earlier versions of Vuescan gave me the impression that it
was a variable effect.
Rob
Guys, could we please take the LED discussions off the list? While they may
be interesting to the engineers amongst us, I don't think they're of much
interest to those who are subscribed to discuss filmscanning?
I think we can all agree that the mechanical components of a scanner are
more
I've just tried Nikonscan 3.1 on my LS30 with a slide and a frame of Fuji
Superia 100. Please bear in mind that's just two frames of film, so it's
hardly exhaustive. I scanned the same frames using Vuescan 7.1 to produce
48bit colour and 16bit IR files of the same frames. Here's what I
John Bradbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a raw scan file but its 74 meg at 2700 resolution!
I can reduce the res to give a smaller file. Is that OK?
You'd need to crop it down to a smaller area. You also need to enable
compression on the raw file.
Rob
it, the results are
poor when scanned. It's cool to be able to take photos at all with some
of the situations that Fuji 800 makes possible, but I generally find the
grain objectionable.
I just need to save up for that dedicated underwater camera. :)
Rob
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.
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material will determine a lot about the quality of the scanned result.
Choosing a scanner has a lot to do with what the buyer wants to do with
the results. There's no single answer that is right for everyone.
Rob
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take to produce the scan compare to the Nikon? How long from holding
the piece of film to having the TIFF file on the computer?
Rob
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John Anne Mahany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Win 98SE and SS4k. However, I don't think the scanner is relevant
because
the Illegal operations box comes up instantly I click on open.
I presume you have the scanner switched on before you boot the PC. Vuescan
should still start even with the
rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No problems over here with NikonScan 3.1.
Well, at least it works on the 8000. Has anyone tried it on the LS30 or
LS2000?
Are there jaggies?
Rob
John Anne Mahany wrote:
I am having trouble with all versions of Vuescan since
V7-0-27 and including V7-1 Opening, or rather, trying
to open the program gives a series of Illegal Operation
boxes in Vuescan.exe.
What scanner and OS are you using?
Rob
Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Has anyone had any problems with NikonScan 3.1 in Windows 2000?
Sounds like Nikonscan 3.1 is worse than 3.0 at least on W2K. Does anyone
know whether 3.1 attempts to fix the jaggies problem, or is it still reading
data
in 64K
Tony Sleep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IME film type preferences under discussion here are 90% interactions
between scanner and film, and the nice thing about 4000ppi is that an
awful lot of the problems seen at ~2700ppi suddenly cease to exist.
Which is useful to know but I for one can't
rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In terms of US $$, you have the same access to eBay
prices as everyone else, right?
The cost of shipping makes ebay pricing irrelevent.
I saw some unbelievable prices for Epson printers for
example, but by the time you ship it, pay GST on import,
and get a power
scanners. IMO
that's the only way you'll know whether you can get enough data out of the
film to reproduce the images you want. There may be people on the list
who could help out with providing access to a scanner or scanning a frame
or two for you.
Rob
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Marvin wrote:
At 04:43 AM 6/14/01, Rob Geraghty wrote in another thread (films for scanning):
Silver based BW films do not scan at all well with the LS30
Often, I believe we are too concerned with overkill in specs.
Rob's remark triggered a question in my mind. Assuming you
are satisfied
obvious. Clearly they are underexposed compared to
photos exposed in normal daylight.
Rob
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medium though. Kind of like making tape
backups.
But what's right for you is quite likely to what is
right for me.
Rob
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Raphael Bustin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First off, Supra is a C41 print film. Superia,
as I recall, as an E6 positive film. Fuji's
equivalent to Supra might be Reala, perhaps.
No. Superia is a C41 print film. At least in Australia, all the Fuji
retail (non pro) colour print films are
2700dpi if it's so
prone to aliasing? Or are they clueless and simply picked
it as a reasonable resolution to get an A4 print at 300dpi?
This could get expensive...
Rob
PS Any idea what is happening to your subject lines, Tony?
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the slide
of the AUD has affected the local cost though.
Anyway, I'll make the time soon to try a variety of films on the SS4000
at work and see how the results compare with the LS30. I'm particularly
interested to see what happens to the grain.
Rob
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I have no idea why, but Vuescan's crop box has gone loopy on me. I'm using
7.0.21. I've been attempting to scan some frames of 35mm colour neg film
using the motorised film strip adapter in my Nikon LS30. I've been using
the zoom function in Vuescan to adjust the edges to include the maximum
on 6/12/01 5:41 AM, Dan Honemann at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about the new Iomega Peerless portables (10 and 20GB, USB and
Firewire)?
Anyone tried these yet?
My only comment here is future proofing. It's more likely you'll have a
drive
which can read a CDR in 5 years time than an
true, there would
be a lot less types of film on the market.
I'd still like to post some more film comparisons on my web site, but I'd
probably need to figure out a more rigid and reproducible procedure for
taking the test images to avoid criticism of the methods.
Rob
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film.
Rob
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Re: filmscanners: Colour fix problemRichard N. Moyer wrote:
He uses PSP, which I have no knowledge about, so some adjustments
may not be easily accomplished, such as Selective Color, which was
used to take the yellow out of the white floor.
The colour correction tool in PSP 7 works very well.
Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the advantage of 2880dpi lengthwise compared to 1440dpi?
From what I've seen it means less visible dithering and the result is closer
to a photographic continuous tone.
Some people claim that you shouldn't send pictures to the printer using
AR Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just discovered with Nikon IV that ICE (normal setting, at least) will act
as ROC (color restoration) if you have an image that has a dominating
color,
let's say a green forest or a field of yellow flowers.
I've had a lot of trouble in the past with
As a followup, here's a basic comparison between several kinds of films and
their behaviour with the infrared (IR) channel. The thumbnails are tiny I
know, but they are big enough to show the important differences. In IR, the
K64 slide shows quite a bit of image detail, especially on high
Nick Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my order for the Epson 1280.
Does anyone know whether the 1280 in north america is the same as the 1290
elsewhere?
Rob
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My experience is that scanners with better focus show more dust
than scanners without good focus. For instance, take a SprintScan 4000
and a Nikon LS-4000 and compare the raw scans. They show exactly
the same dust spots if you use the same slide on both, and both
but the BIOS is different.
Anyway, there's no relationship I'm aware of with Acer.
Rob
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with IR is the same.
Rob
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for the new adaptor.
My LS30 does the same thing.
Rob
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Walter Nowotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
scanning unit. The turn round is made by some plastics parts which
probably
cause the scratches when the negatives are bent too much. I was satisfied
with that explanation and tried to smooth down the negatives before
scanning. However, processing the
James Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dont think that will work, as many SCSI devices have to be seen by the
SCSI BIOS on boot up.
It works with my LS30 and the Scanjet IIIc. Scanners shouldn't be a
problem. The most likely devices that would need to be seen at SCSI BIOS
load would be hard
Walter Bushell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it necessary to rescan with infrared every time, IOW, when doing
multiple scans of the same film is it necessary to do an IR scan every
time?
If you want to have the cleaning features in Vuescan work, you need
the IR channel. Bu there's no need to
of it, so I don't take the risk. But having taken photos the way you did,
I can see why you would want to scan the entirety of the image out to the
border.
Rob
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.
Rob
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or vertically.
There are feet fitted in two sides of the case. I'm using mine flat so
the film goes in vertically. This may also help to keep dust off the CCD.
Rob
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an APS camera. :) The LS40 would
presumably do it as well, with slightly better results. I don't know if
the Canon, Minolta or Acer scanners have APS adapters.
Rob
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John wrote:
Will it only overwrite a folder on the C drive if it is named C:\Vuescan?
Will it ignore any renamed folder ?
Vuescan always installs into c:\vuescan. It has no effect on other copies.
Rob
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ended up with circular marks from the chemistry beading in the sprocket
holes them drying away from them. The lab said that Kodak film did this,
but Fuji film didn't.
I'm sticking to Provia 100F. :)
Rob
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Joel Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yup, works for me. My Crop|Buffer setting is 2% (I think the default) and
that seems to work well for my full frame crops. A person could probably
increase this to 10% to make sure the black can't influence the auto
values.
The default 2% often doesn't
as the click and drag behaviour
in PSP. I'm not saying that to encourage a religious war about software.
Thanks for letting me know how it's done in PS - I'll have to try it out.
Rob
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an advantage of a fine grained film like Provia
which I hadn't realised before; that the higher resolution actually results
in smaller file sizes. This is perhaps counter-intuitive.
Rob
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more clarity.
Rob
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Am I the only one who has problems with the crop outline in Vuescan? I have
been wondering why it is so incredibly difficult to position correctly. I
*think* it's mostly due to one aspect of behaviour. Let's say I'm cropping
an image in Paintshop Pro. I click and drag to create a rough
Hi Ed!
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Try zooming into the image before dragging the crop outline.
This helps a bit, but the crop box still has a tendency to jump
around when releasing the mouse button after dragging.
I don't want to *have* to use the zoom, as each step slows things
down.
The
?
Try renaming the existing vuescan.ini and allowing the
program to create a new default one. Then try a
troublesome strip of film and see if it makes a
difference. Also, try using a different colour space
like Adobe RGB not sRGB.
Rob
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Sleep, since it has been sent
to the list and replicated from there.
Rob
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Edwin Eleazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Version 3.1 of NikonScan will be out in the next week
Hmm... I wonder if this might include some attempt at fixing the jaggies
problem?
Rob
Harry Lehto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I scan an image containing black sky and bright stellar images with a
Nikon Coolscan IVED (=LS40) , then close to the edge of the field every
bright (saturated) stellar image has a faint ghost image separated from
the main image (by 20- 40 pixels).
John Matturri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious how you, or others, store their cds.
I have some folders with CD slip-sheets which I'm storing them in.
Keeps them in a much more compact state than normal jewel cases.
Rob
Someone recently gave PSP a plug on the list, and I was trying to remember
the neatest features which PSP 7 has over Photoshop. Two which are
extremely useful are:
1) The ability to rotate an image a fraction of a degree
2) The redeye tool. It allows you to replace the red eye reflection with
Laurie wrote:
Image=rotate_canvas=arbitrary indicates the exact rotation
necessary to make the horizon horizontal ... to a hundredth of a
degree!
In which version? Is it true for PS4, PS5, LE? I don't
know. I am assuming that you are using PS6.
Rob
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Sorry, that was Michael's message I was referring to.
Rob
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Robert Smith wrote:
I an a newbie on this list and I need to know peoples
opinions on which is the best software for me to use
to scan negs with my sprintscan 35 plus
You could give Vuescan a try for starters. Go to
http://www.hamrick.com
Registration is only US$40.
Rob
Mark T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So if you know anyone who looks after IT equipment, ask 'em.. Your
average
business scanner user couldn't give a toss about how his/her scanner is
calibrated. :)
Hm. All our scanners at work are HP. No targets. I could ask another guy
who does tech support
Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In defense of the Japanese, I'd like to add the story about Corona and
Pinto: both cars had a bad tendency to explode and burn in a rear-end
collission.
Was it Cannonball Run that featured a car just giving a Pinto the
slightest
touch and it exploded? 8^D
DeVries wrote:
I'm in the market for a film scanner between US $500 and $1K.
Doesn't the Polaroid SS4000 fit intot he top end of that range?
Rob
Brian Bisset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And get yourself a proper Kodak target (Q-60 series or similar), and make
it
the first frame every time, *especially* if you're shooting interiors
under
mixed lighting conditions. Your scanner operator/printer will thank-you
for
it (so will the client).
people in other countries and Nikon's own management
have insulated the engineers from being able to resolve the
issue. Fixing it would result in a whole bunch of happier
users who would be more likely to buy future products.
As it is, I'll probably look to Polaroid next time.
Rob
Rob Geraghty
should be able to.
Rob
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emulsion rebadged?
As far as apparent grain in sky is concerned, I haven't found Supra 100
to have any advantage over Fuji Superia 100 and the Fuji film is LOTS cheaper.
Rob
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