Edwni wrote:
How cheap is the Fuji? I usually buy 36 exposure Supra 100ASA for about
$2.89 USD. And, once again, it may not be optimized for scanning, but Supra
100ASA scans very well.
I can get Fuji Superia 24 (not 36) for about US$1.50.
Rob
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the last frame). I ended up having to turn the
strip around and scan the frame as frame 1 rather than frame 5. No big
deal but it would be nice if Vuescan reported somewhere how many frames
were detected by the scanner.
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onto the end of the
strip. Hopefully I'll be able to remove the fingerprint with some careful
use of the cloning tool.
Rob
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size is 720pixels x 480pixels
regardless of whether you have a 16 or 32 TV. Best save the file as
an
RGB
flat PS file, Mac PICT or TIFF.
--
Regards
Richard
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Ed wrote:
the focus distance until the contrast is maximized. The only real
option is the position of the scan line.
But don't the Nikon scanners allow the user to choose an XY point on the
frame as the focussing point?
Rob
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/27/2001 7:43:30 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I found by accident that there is a huge difference between 48-bit 2700
ppi scans on
my LS-30 (where that should have been more than enough) and 64-bit,
2700
ppi settings.
As in 64bit is far
JF Mahony wrote:
i am very interested in negatives vs slides in contrasty situations. i
shoot
a lot of tennis in the middle of the day with provia 100, E200 or fugi
multy
speed. i have an LS-1000 and do have trouble losing the extreme
highlights.
i like the color of slide film better than
Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll have to get a Dual II 2820 DPI.
Vladislav Jurco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My experience with Supra 400 is very good. Very little grain-alliasing no
matter in which channel (skin, sky, greens) - especially absence in blue
channel surprised me
Tom Scales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to be able to load a roll of film, go to bed, and wake up to 36
properly exposed, properly focused scans. Why else have the roll film
adapter?
Possibly Ed could modify vuescan to focus on a specific offset in the frame.
Rob
Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since dust is always white on negs and always black on slides, while
noise is usually lighter and grain is usually darker than the
surrounding field of pixels, is this or can it be considered in the
cleaning
algorithms?
If you could characterise the noise
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It focuses in the center of the scan region. I'll look into this some
more
when I get a loaner LS-4000 from Nikon, hopefully in the next week or so.
Thanks Ed! I was thinking of all the Nikon scanners, which supposedly
have a capability to focus on a specific point -
Didier wrote:
That's it. I try batchscanning rawfiles to make crops (and to save time)
Hm. I'll have to try batch cropping from raw files. I wouldn't have
thought of it!
Rob
le 27/04/01 0:24, Rob Geraghty à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Didier wrote:
I spent a couple of hours and failed in batchscanning
disk rawfiles (Vs7.0/Mac/324MbRAM)
What scanner and what versio of Vuescan, Didier?
I'm scanning registered raw files from disk with Vuescan v7.015 on Mac
Alessandro Pardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the scene I chose for my test was a *bit* contrasty, still the slide was
well exposed, and details in the shadows were perfectly visible even by
holding up the slide against a window.
I expect that *all* the Nikon scanners will fall down in shadow
Moreno wrote
Use air to blow off the dust, and Pec 12 (which doesn't cause the emulsion
to swell) to clean any stains or fingerprints, and there's no drying time
involved. Just clean and 10 seconds later scan.
What do you use to apply the PEC-12 to the film?
Rob
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Didier wrote:
I spent a couple of hours and failed in batchscanning
disk rawfiles (Vs7.0/Mac/324MbRAM)
What scanner and what versio of Vuescan, Didier?
Rob
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. Also with Vuescan
you can get 10 bits per channel while Nikonscan only gives you 8.
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setting on Vuescan (any version)
makes the output slightly softer. The results may be different on other
scanners.
Rob
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a semantic boggle. :)
Rob
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Hi Ed! Welcome back!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Grain removal has nothing to do with the infrared channel.
[snip]
VueScan uses different (and I think better) algorithms for grain
reduction and color restoration than GEM and ROC.
So is there any chance you'll separate cleaning from grain
Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An excellent point. AFAIK, the vast realm of mathmatics has not yet been
co-opted as Intellectual Property. ;-)
Don't tell the US government who tried to hang onto encryption technology
for so long... ;)
Rob
Vladislav Juro wrote:
One of them is "before" the second is "after" - it is a
scan of empty (unexposed) part of Fuji Superia 400.
I would say return the scanner for repair with this as evidence.
Given that it's out of focus, my guess is that the light in the
scanner is not keeping a consistent
Oostrom, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If ICE would remove these spots, which are likely in the film itself, well
then that is all the more reason to buy the 2740s. It would be nice though
if you would have an ICE' algorithm (FROSTY?) in which you could specify
which pixel colors should be
then use the filter on it. That way you also
have a side by side comparison of the filter's effect.
Rob
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in the past that
the heat of the projector globe would cause the bow in the film to reverse
- I imagine the heat of a scanner could do that same, and if it happened
*after* the scanner did an autofocus, you have a fuzzy scan.
Just some things to consider, anyhow.
Rob
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the brightness of a dark
scan *really* hard by masking it with an inversion of itself.
Rob
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in the interface.
Rob
PS Also AFAIK all of the features similar to those by ASF are code written
by Ed, using the same kinds of mathematics and therefore not connected with
ASF's copyrights or patents.
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in resident (i.e., ASF code in
scanning application) software on the PCs, as if the
ROC and GEM were exposed like a plug-in to third party
developers.
No, it's all built into Vuescan. You don't need the
scanner manufacturer's software at all - other than
the basic OS drivers.
Rob
Rob Geraghty
Vlad wrote:
I send you the sample to look at.
If it's the attached jpeg you were talking about - what stripes? I can't
see any, not even with the monitor brightness turned all the way up?
Rob
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in the direction of the scan
to be caused by the scanner.
Rob
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Well, I've tried it and the jaggies haven't gone away. I'll have to
experiment some more with grainy or damaged pics to see if the improvements
in ICE etc make any difference on the LS30.
Example attached which demonstrates the jaggies - look at the flash
reflection in the sugar glider's eye.
"Dale Gail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.camerabits.com/
Thanks for the info Chris. IMO it is way over priced for what it actually
does. It is for the person that already has everything and buys the
program
just to say he/she has it:)
Considering I can buy an entire copy of
"Edwin Eleazer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh I assure you that it does work, and the improvements in the
interface are well worth the trouble to install it. You only must
un-install
2.5.1 before you install it.
Is it necessary to flash the scanner with a BIOS update before using
Nikonscan 3.0?
Steve wrote:
downloaded something called Getright from www.download.com .
I have net vampire which does the same thing. I am only using a 28K modem
which makes large downloads painful. Hopefully will pick up a 56K modem
in the next few days.
Rob
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Anyone else using 3.0 with the LS-30 or LS-2000?
I'll have to try it and see if it kills the jaggies.
Rob
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Lynn wrote:
so in reflective color. Result: another poorly-exposed slide that looks
fine on a projection screen, not-so-great on a 2700ppi scan.
Lynn, what scanner are you using? An Acer I think?
Rob
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"Michael Moore" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Minolta over the LS 2000 Nikon (which I was ready to buy and they sell
both)...
The Minolta scan software is user friendly, I use it to TWAIN 16 bit
linear
scans into PShop, where I do the adjustments No comment on the Acer,
since
I don't own one.
"Edwin Eleazer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Supported Nikon scanners.
LS 20
LS 1000
AX 110
AX 210
AX 1200
No LS30 or LS2000?? :-7
Rob
"Arthur Entlich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[suggestions snipped]
Thanks, Art. I'm still an egg in some respects with the finer art of
tweaking scans.
Just out of interest, in what program did you create this JPEG file. I
can't get it as small as you did in Photoshop, even at considerably
Davorin Palijan wrote in HTML (pease post in plain text!):
2. Why do I get some strange "double line" on one
side of the slide frame? It looks like black, unsharp line
running parallel to one of the longer sides of frame.
Sounds like a shadow of the slide mount.
5. I've been trying Vuescan and
Have a great easter everyone - I'm off to fly in and photograph some very
small planes. I just thought I should let you know in case anyone write a
response to something I said and wonders why I don't reply! :)
Rob
p
Pro? Using most effects on a selected area instead of the whole image usually
ends up highlighting the area that wasn't treated, and it tends to look
ugly.
Rob
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jaggy-free, I'll try this. :)
Rob
(about to travel south to Canberra)
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"Julian Robinson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree entirely, and of course Maxwell's service people said they had
never heard of the problem when I phoned them. So I suspect "interesting"
will be the main outcome of this exercise!
I look forward to hearing if they can fix the design fault.
Does anyone have any idea why the list seems to periodically repeat posts?
:-7
- Original Message -
From: "Arthur Entlich" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 10:42 AM
"Dave King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you mean jaggies are all through the image, or along the edges?
The jaggies are through the entire image but are most noticeable on high
contrast edges within the image. By "edge" I presume you mean the outer
boundary of the entire image. The jaggies
My apologies in advance to digest readers for the attached image. I've cut
it down to 6K to minimise the uuencoded text.
The attached photo is the result of a really icky combination of film and
light. The film is Kodak 320T tungsten balanced slide film, and I've taken
the photo by flash -
what program you use. :)
Rob
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, but as I noted previously, Nikonscan is *useless* for me as it produces
jaggies. Vuescan is my only option. Yes, I really like the colour adjustment
facilities in Nikonscan, but they're no good to me if the output is garbage
due to a bug.
Rob
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"Steve Greenbank" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
use photoshop with the digicam so now PS can do most operatioons with 48
bit
images why should I bother to learn how to process using the scanner
software ? (I use mostly slides - colour cast removal from negs could be
tricky in PS).
Hm, but Vuescan
brown discolouration caused by grain aliasing. The film
was either Fuji Superia 100 or Reala.
Generally however, the printer does tend to be more fogiving than the
monitor - the "grain" usually ends up less intense in a print.
Rob
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"Jeremy Brookfield" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The software (Nikon Scan 3.0) is so buggy as to render the scanner useless
to
all intents and purposes.
Have you tried Vuescan? Does it work?
Rob
"Arthur Entlich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Read my detailed discussion. CD-RW do not use dyes. They use a
amorphous crystal layer. Report from another subscriber is that they
last 30 years, while the best CD-Rs can last 100 years.
Point taken, nevertheless one is designed for
"Mikael Risedal" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VueScan are (also in my opinion for beginners) but if you are concern to
learn how to scan pictures try a "pro software" and see who much more
you can get out from your negative or slides.
That's a big assumption about how much money people have
Edwin wrote:
New version of Nikonscan, 2.5.1
http://www.nikon-euro.com/nikoneuro2/download/Download_107c.htm
But 2.51 has been around for quite a while. :-7
Rob
"Arthur Entlich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just wondering if you have heard anything that makes CD-RW less archival
than CD-R, if one is using it as an internal media (not for supplying to
others). I suspect it might be more stable than CD-R dyes, but haven't
read anything definitive.
"Larry Berman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Review of the new Nikon CoolScan 4000 at the Imaging Resource Newsletter:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/IRNEWS/
It reads more like a promotion than a review. The fact that they've never
looked
at the Polaroid 4000 or the Artix 4000 amazes me. To
"Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
spectrophotometer. You send him a print from his calibration file off
the website + $140 and he sends you a custom profile. I may try this as an
alternative to throwing the 1200 down the stairs.
Jon Cone's company www.inkjetmall.com and
"Larry Berman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VueScan 7.0.9 is available:
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
Thanks, Larry. There don't seem to have been any changes since 7.0 which
make any difference for me with an LS30.
Rob
- we're talking about *negatives*
where this problem is most evident, not transparencies, so the
colour the CCD sees isn't blue at all.
Does anyone know whether the grain sizes vary with the dye
colour?
Rob
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"Acer V" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
isn't the whole point of usb to be plug-n-play and also hot swappable?
USB, yes. But it depends on the OS and the drivers for the peripheral.
Rob
"Kurt Simpson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You know I've spent a lot of time lurking on this list and I wonder if the
experts could give a bit of a gift to those of us who are beginners but
want
to put our feet down on solid ground with a good purchase choice.
If you've been reasonably happy
"Mark Ligtenberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you mean by this? Is "device RGB" not VS RGB (PCD color space),
but
the raw scanner/film RGB?
AIUI, yes. :) I have yet to try this option however...
Rob
"Lynn Allen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, any potential or current Sofware Designers, please take note: a
"Preferences" menu and a reference card with as many things on it as you
can
possibly think of, would be a blessing and a Godsend!
Try posting to the Paintshop Pro newsgroup, and if you
"PAUL GRAHAM" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikon makes and sells a glass holder for the scanner (and the 8000 too) so
what's the problem?
Anyone know the part number for this? I'm wondering if it may help with
edge-to-edge sharpness on an LS30 as well. Admittedly I'm quite happy with
the focus
Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote:
[re get dpi from in vuescan]
Investigate it - it's what you want. From the Help file:
Actually the only reason it may be necessary is that one of the changes in
Paintshop Pro 7 is that it (unlike 6) doesn't seem to be able to change the
dpi without resampling. :-7
"Jim Sharp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been scanning into sRGB. I'll be using these scans on the web
ultimately so I assumed that was the way to go. I also leave the scanner
on all the time so the warmup thing is not an issue.
What resolution will you be using on the net? If it's
"shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob writes ...
Er, doesn't PS 5.5 allow you to say what profile the
image is coming from when the image is untagged?
Yes ... but it seems to me that list of profiles is particular to
working spaces, excluding device profiles ... or maybe I'm wrong. If
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- Original Message -
From: "Ezio" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Film Scanners News Group" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 6:01 PM
Subject: filmscanners: Ed e-mail ?
Please, I need Ed's personal e-mail to report a bug in Vuescan.
Sincerely.
Ezio
films!
Rob
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. The loss is probably not noticeable in practice, but it's worth
bearing in mind. I don't think GWP can handle PhotoCD Pro format.
Rob
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Tony wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:29:49 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Reala suffers from grain aliasing on the LS30 just as badly as pretty
much every other neg film I've tried.
Now that /is/ intriguing. I scanned Reala on an LS1000 at one
time, and had no problems
all just smoke and mirrors - "this setting works for me". Advice
from a manufacturer would save a lot of wastage in test prints.
Rob
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PhotoCD?
See above.
Go to any graphic program - at least on the Mac side.
I don't know of a Mac program which can write PCD.
Rob
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nsportable
between different editing programs.
Rob
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more homogenous than neg film - which I presume
is also why negs have much more latitude than slides.
Rob
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doing anything which requires Kodak's permission,
nor AFAIK is he truly doing anything which is directly to do with Kodak's
proprietary Photo CD technology.
Rob
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Mark wrote:
I think it is a nice option. Because you are able to use the scannerprofiles
(neg. and trans.) that came with your scannersoftware when you bought the
scanner.
How do you use scanner profiles with Vuescan?
Rob
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was under the misapprehension that the Windows swap file had to be on
the same drive as the OS. This is definitely NOT true for NT generation
OS's (NT 3.51, NT4.x, Win2K).
Rob
PS Yes, you could do the same thing with SCSI and get better performance,
but I am talking best bang for the buck.
Ro
at work and try a comparison
print.
Rob
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ce RGB" invert a negative, or is the output
still raw and without the mask removed?
Rob
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- because you
will probably want to plug the ATA CDROM in somewhere...
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to
see just how much "grain" it shows in the LS30 - because on the enlarger
using a floor projection the grain is incredibly fine.
Rob
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the scan on my Epson. Presumably the answer to my question is that most
people (if not everyone) scans a source file at 2700dpi (or whatever their
maximum optical scanner resolution is) and change the output dpi later in
Photoshop or whatever editor they use.
Rob
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"Arthur Entlich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glossy Photo Paper and Photo Glossy Paper. Although the difference is
not huge, the glossy film did provide better detail and deeper, less
posterized, color. (the samples were printed with Photo 700/750 models).
I'll have to try it again on the
in other words the entire size of an A3 page. I think these oversize
papers work in all the A3 Epson printers and are described as "A3+" or "Super
A3" in the catalogue. I don't know if there are oversize imperial equivalents.
Hopefully this completes the answer for the original
Dave wrote:
Vat is dis vindows XP?
The next incarnation of Windoze. Check out http://www.microsoft.com and
you'll be able to real all the marketing hype.
Rob
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"Colin Maddock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I scan in Adobe RGB (using Vuescan, Canon FS2710, Kodak Gold 200 negs),
and use the "same" Adobe colour space in PS, and I have also noticed even
then
the reds are sometimes way over the top, at times clipped looking, even
though
the general saturation
"shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can we comment when you even admit you load ColormatchRGB data
"against the rules"??
Doesn't stop anyone from commenting. :)
BTW ... you say you bring your VS scan into PS
w/o conversion, but you don't say which RGB space you bring it into
... AdobeRGB?
I am beginning to believe that most people who want to
do a lot of film scanning should seriously consider UDMA
RAID. The delay that bugs me the most is waiting for files
to load and save.
Rob
(glad for once I only use 35mm :)
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"Mark T." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have a few supermarket brands down here, and it seems to be always
'Made
in Germany', so I had assumed it was Agfa..?
Huh. I thought most of the no-name brands in Oz were rebadged Fuji, but I
never knew for sure. I'd rather buy the name brand and know
I've been loathe to use it since everyone
here and in the epson list pan the idea of using a narrow gamut colour space.
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was intrigued
(and a little depressed) to read Tony's recent comment that the aliasing
at 4000dpi was much less than at 2700dpi. I'll bite the bullet in the next
few days and actually try an A3 print.
Rob
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"Michael Moore" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is PQPP?
Premium Quality Photo Paper. I've mostly seen it referred to as EPGPP;
Epson Premium Glossy Photo paper.
It was mainly designed for use with the 1270.
Rob
Richard wrote:
Mr Solomon
[abuse snipped]
Yours in total animosity.
Richard, if you wish to indulge in personal abuse, please do it off the
list. I don't think anyone else wants to read this kind of thing.
Rob
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
circle around it) or spell out the word, "copyright." Does anyone know how
to make the copyright symbol in Photoshop? I've tried, failed, and don't
even know if it's possible.
It's part of the Symbol character set in Windows. I just put one into an
image
in Paintshop
"Henry Richardson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
another story. I often get grain aliasing in the sky but other areas of
the
image rarely have much of a grain aliasing problem. I'm not sure why this
is so, but it has been my pretty consistent experience. Even stranger,
even
other
d cleaning to be separated.
Rob
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Larry wrote:
When I was trying to get my monitors to match visually, I scanned the
Macbeth Color Checker and made it the wallpaper on both my systems.
Is the colour checker downloadable?
Rob
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Jolene wrote:
I have been quietly reading the list for a couple of weeks now, as
I am preparing to buy my very first filmscanner. Here is my
question. I have a big ol' box of negatives (I think they are 16mm
in size) from family pictures. I would really like a scanner that is
capable of
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