[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-40 vs Polaroid SS4000

2002-03-24 Thread ThomasH
Tris Schuler wrote: Firewire may or may not be an improvement--SCSI strikes me as the best going at present. The increased Dmax would be welcome, if in fact that's a Astonishing conclusion. SCSI is old fashined for a long time already. SCSI is expensive, demands heavy 50 or 66 wires cables

[filmscanners] Re: filmscanner for business use

2002-03-10 Thread ThomasH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steve, I use a Nikon 4000ED with a roll film adapter to scan full rolls. It's almost great. The hardware IS great, but the software is so buggy it seldom finishes a complete roll before it crashes. It usually scans 6-12 neg's and Bob, I have the SA-30 as

[filmscanners] Re: Colormatching with Canon S820/S900

2002-02-26 Thread ThomasH
John Pendley wrote: I think that everybody can. This is a system made by one person, so the interface is a bit simpler, down to the basics but the essential issue here is that this is a put the film preview adjust the brightness (or rather gamma factor, this is what it is)

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon D100

2002-02-25 Thread ThomasH
Austin Franklin wrote: The problem with flatness of the CCD and CMOS sensors dictated even modifications in lens design. How does lense design help solve this? The light rays come from what ever angle they come from, and I don't believe lense design can do anything to help. This issue

[filmscanners] Re: Colormatching with Canon S820/S900

2002-02-25 Thread ThomasH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the help of the filmscanners group I've spent about 200 man-hours tweaking the color management profile in my Epson 2000P last year. Much thanks to all for your direction and encouragement in that seemingly endless trial.! No, seriously. If it wasn't for

[filmscanners] Re: Slide scratches when using Nikon feeder

2002-02-25 Thread ThomasH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have experience using the 50 slide feeder for the Nikon Scanner 4000ED. When using this feeder, I noticed slight parallel rub/scratch marks on the slide that run the length of it. Any similar experience? Fortunately not, but I got a series of close calls

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon D100

2002-02-24 Thread ThomasH
Dickbo wrote: - Original Message - From: Wilson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone explain just why manufacturers seem unable to produce a full 36x24mm CCD sensor. One known problem is that the light being off center has an increasing entry angle, what works fine with conventional

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon D100

2002-02-24 Thread ThomasH
Op's wrote: Contax N Digital. is another SLR this has a full frame sensor 6.29 Mp. http://www.contaxcameras.com/ They have a funny press announce design error: They enumerate the features and the first in the list is: 1. 6 Mega Pixel... what looks in the proportional font almost like

[filmscanners] Re: Ice cubed

2002-02-19 Thread ThomasH
Thomas B. Maugham wrote: I would love to have an ICE program that works with the SS4000 and VueScan. Does anyone have any further information about the offerings from ASF? Why? Vuescan's IR is just as good. GEM: that would be super! Thomas. Tom -Original Message- On Behalf Of

[filmscanners] Vuescan: batch scanning raw files made by NikonScan.

2002-02-18 Thread ThomasH
Hi, Vuescan's problem was dealing with grain or texture removal, which might be a problem with LS-4000ED and some materials, especially the Kodak E200 Pro scans were beyond use. Someone has suggested to generate a large raw file using NikonScan, as neutral as possible (Nikon Color Management

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan: batch scanning raw files made byNikonScan.

2002-02-18 Thread ThomasH
Alan Womack wrote: Is this a recent issue with Vuescan? In the past I scanned my film as RAW files, then went to disk mode, pointed vuescan to the first batch file. Scan0001.raw then told it to scan frames 1 to 36. In about 30 minutes I had 36 finished files. Hm, this sounds good, I wish

[filmscanners] Re: Foveon

2002-02-11 Thread ThomasH
Precisely! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, this is a brand new sensor that uses R G and B elements at different depths in the silicon. On Monday 11 Feb 2002 7:46 am, ThomasH wrote: I think the news are about the 16 Mpixels sensor made in cooperation with National Semiconductors

[filmscanners] Re: VS 7.5 grain removal (was Vuescan 7.5.b15: problemwith batchprocessing.)

2002-02-10 Thread ThomasH
Bob Shomler wrote: Yep, I also still have the 7.1.24 and 7.2.7, the last version before the exposure locks were introduced ... Vuescan's grain removal in 7.5 has improved indeed. ... This grain removal improvement in Vuescan is thus a very valuable improvement but it comes at a price

[filmscanners] Re: Foveon

2002-02-10 Thread ThomasH
Julian Vrieslander wrote: This is a bit off-topic, but it may interest people on this list. The NY Times has a report on a new digital sensor technology, which might have advantages over CMOS and CCD devices. One of the principals is Carver Mead, who has a pretty good track record as an

[filmscanners] Re: ADMIN: List charter alterations

2002-02-09 Thread ThomasH
Dana Trout wrote: Tony, I burst out laughing when I got to (5)Sunday ... It won't matter because generally I'll have the server in bits, fitting a new hard drive. Don't ask what sort, it's not Wednesday. Well, he is trying to bring some convenience to the users, but I doubt that this will

[filmscanners] Re: Digital ICE

2002-02-08 Thread ThomasH
Jack Phipps wrote: Hello Bob! I checked out your site. It has some great work on it! I'd like to meet Sidney some time. I've always been fond of birds. ONE patent is US6195161. There are many other patents pending (well over 100). I recommend you search on Applied Science Fiction or

[filmscanners] Re: nikon 4000 ED (ICE, Tmax, Kodachrome)

2002-02-06 Thread ThomasH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date sent: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:13 + (GMT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[filmscanners] Re: nikon 4000 ED On Tue, 5 Feb 2002