Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/4/2001 12:42:54 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After I saw the mis-registration for LEP, I scanned again at 16x MP only. I couldn't see where LEP improved over 16x MP. If you have a Nikon LS-2000, the 16x multi-pass scanning will probably produce better results.

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/3/2001 6:35:33 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. In the Color balance tab, what is the difference between "Neutral" and "Auto Levels?" Neutral doesn't change the ratio of red to green to blue. Auto levels uses the brightest point to determine the ratio. 2. Also

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread Chris McBrien
the media or something to that effect. No great rush. Regards Chris. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 10:30 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions In a message dated 3/3/2001 6:35:33 PM EST, [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread Roger Smith
At 3:45 AM -0500 3/5/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Increasing the exposure time will saturate the CCD in the bright parts. Some (most?) CCD's will bleed light from overexposed pixels into nearby pixels, which messes up dark areas that are near bright areas. This is the reason that I resisted

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread Collin Ong
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Increasing the exposure time will saturate the CCD in the bright parts. Some (most?) CCD's will bleed light from overexposed pixels into nearby pixels, which messes up dark areas that are near bright areas. Ed, When the Long exposure pass was

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread IronWorks
What on earth is a 3X3 matrix? Maybe someone on the list could point me to a website description. Maris - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 2:45 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread shAf
IronWorks writes ... What on earth is a 3X3 matrix? 3 by 3 is the small matrix (or "kernal") around the pixel to be filtered ... i.e., its nearest neighbors. Other common filter kernals are 5x5 (a pixel beyond nearest neighbor), and 7x7 ... and even larger. shAf :o)

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/5/2001 1:52:06 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What on earth is a 3X3 matrix? 3 by 3 is the small matrix (or "kernal") around the pixel to be filtered ... i.e., its nearest neighbors. Other common filter kernals are 5x5 (a pixel beyond nearest neighbor), and

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread Hersch Nitikman
Very interesting, Ed. How does the program know how much fading there was, vs just a difference in what was in front of the camera lens? At 03:45 AM 03/05/2001 -0500, you wrote: In a message dated 3/4/2001 8:39:50 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the scan in Vuescan's memory the same as

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/5/2001 3:42:26 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does the program know how much fading there was, vs just a difference in what was in front of the camera lens? It analyzes the colors of the film grains. Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/5/2001 12:34:39 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When the Long exposure pass was first discussed, you mentioned that certain scanners had different options for long exposure levels (like 2x, 3x, 4x, etc). However, Vuescan doesn't seem to give you access to setting

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-05 Thread Lynn Allen
What on earth is a 3X3 matrix? 3 by 3 is the small matrix (or "kernal") around the pixel to be filtered ... i.e., its nearest neighbors. Other common filter kernals are 5x5 (a pixel beyond nearest neighbor), and 7x7 ... and even larger. That's definitely CG Programmer talk. As Spock would

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread IronWorks
ED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 8:59 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions | Joel writes ... [snipped] | 3. When should Options/Long scan not be used. I assume it is | useful for | bringing out shadow detail, but it seems to me that it would alw

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread Rob Geraghty
"shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realized for my LS-2000 Coolscan, the 2nd pass would not properly register with the 1st ... bummer!! ... Huh? How come, Michael?? I've *never* had registration problems with my LS30. :-7 Rob

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread Joel Nisson
shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 8:59 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions | Joel writes ... [snipped] | 3. When should Options/Long scan not be used. I assume it is | useful for | bringing out shad

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread IronWorks
ot; [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 6:15 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions | I'm using a SS4000 which definitely suffers from misalignment on long | passes. | | Why do you never use "long pass?" | | | - Original

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread shAf
IronWorks writes ... I never thought to try it. [long exposure pass] How does it benefit the scan? I had assumed that the normal pass would gather sufficient information, especially when it passes multiple times picking up missed or bad data and then averaging them out. VS's "long

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread Joel Nisson
I assumed that LEP is one pass at a slower-than-normal speed. If so, it shouldnl't be subject to mis-registration that MP can cause on some scanners (SS4000). --Joel Nisson - Original Message - From: "shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] . After I saw the mis-registration for LEP, I scanned

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread shAf
Joel writes... I assumed that LEP is one pass at a slower-than-normal speed. If so, it shouldnl't be subject to mis-registration that MP can cause on some scanners (SS4000). ... For a Nikon LS-2000, a 16x MP is a single pass operation ... better described, it "multi-samples" rather

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread IronWorks
ROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions | IronWorks writes ... | | I never thought to try it. [long exposure pass] How does it benefit | the scan? | | I had assumed that the normal pass would g

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread shAf
IronWorks writes ... ... I have some new questions: Is the scan in Vuescan's memory the same as the "raw scan"? Yes ... I have come to respect VS's "raw scan" ... scan it once ... save if you want to archive ... or 'scan memory' with any variety of "crop" settings until the cropped TIFF

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-04 Thread shAf
shAf (me) writes ... IronWorks writes ... ... Finally, ... I scanned a Q-60 without [restore color] and the colors were off - Blue was about 10 points too low. With the Restore Color option checked the result was fairly accurate. ... Hmmm ... interesting ... as if 'restore

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - A few technical questions

2001-03-03 Thread shAf
Joel writes ... For Ed Hamrick (most likely): I'm going to throw my own observations in here and hope Ed addresses them as well. ... 1. In the Color balance tab, what is the difference between "Neutral" and "Auto Levels?" If you use auto levels, and after the scan is done (you