Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-20 Thread James L. Sims
This does seem to be a confusing issue to some. I've had seasoned professional photographers bring me JPG image files on a 3.5" floppy asking for an 8" X 10" print. The only correlation between the pixel density product (H X V) of the electronic image and the hard image is the target

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-14 Thread Arthur Entlich
Austin Franklin wrote: The only dimensions that matter are the number of pixels. The dpi and hence the "physical dimensions" are utterly meaningless. That's erroneous to say they are 'utterly meaningless'. They CLEARLY are utterly meaningFUL to the printer driver, and, along with the

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-08 Thread Arthur Entlich
Tony Sleep wrote: Just to prevent reinventing the wheel, is this based upon personal experience? My assumption would be different (since Photoshop does a wonderful resampling job, and many printer spoolers do not I've tried printing same image at 240,300,360 and 720dpi. I reckoned

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-08 Thread Arthur Entlich
Austin Franklin wrote: This is absolutely correct. You can send the printer driver any resolution you want, and it has to interpolate the data into halftone screens anyway. If you do leave the box checked, and resize, you will then be double interpolating the data...once in PS

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-07 Thread Arthur Entlich
Guy Prince wrote: Art, Point taken. But the bright orange blazers and pants with the bright orange background kept me mesmerized. I was helpless. Guy I have to admit I haven't seen the show since we got a color TV... (about 35 years ago??) Come to think of it, is that the

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-07 Thread Arthur Entlich
Johnny Deadman wrote: on 5/11/00 8:16 pm, Arthur Entlich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when I want to be warm and comfy, I sit in the living room (big enough for 5 people on two sofas) with my laptop and pretend everything is rosey while watching Lawrence Welk. Tonight's show

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-07 Thread Arthur Entlich
Austin Franklin wrote: This is absolutely correct. You can send the printer driver any resolution you want, and it has to interpolate the data into halftone screens anyway. If you do leave the box checked, and resize, you will then be double interpolating the data...once in PS and once

RE: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-07 Thread Austin Franklin
This is absolutely correct. You can send the printer driver any resolution you want, and it has to interpolate the data into halftone screens anyway. If you do leave the box checked, and resize, you will then be double interpolating the data...once in PS and once in the printer

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Chris McBrien
Joanna, I've had a Viewsonic P815 for three years and no problems to date. I don't know what the latest version is. They seem to be built like a 'tank'. Chris. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 12:53 AM

Re: filmscanners: Re: Monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Chris McBrien
Robert, I've had a ViewSonic P815 (that's 19") for three years now without a glitch. I don't know what the latest version is though. I'm interested in your comment about monitor calibration using "ColorVision". Can you please tell me more and where I can get it. I too

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Johnny Deadman
on 5/11/00 8:16 pm, Arthur Entlich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when I want to be warm and comfy, I sit in the living room (big enough for 5 people on two sofas) with my laptop and pretend everything is rosey while watching Lawrence Welk. Tonight's show showcases Walt Disney. I watched

RE: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-05 Thread Frank Paris
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors Guy: I also am new at this, have an LS-30, and a system with much less capacity than yours. I have found (through trial and error) that the system handles the scan better if you scan at 2700 set at the original negative size, then play

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-05 Thread Arthur Entlich
Guy Prince wrote: Tony, I have been forced into laptopdom because of space. We had to buy a home about 1/4 the size of the rental home we had. My computer/photography lab was sacrificed. Although I do have a large two car detached garage with power, water,

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread Mike Kersenbrock
Frank Paris wrote: The two horizontal lines on Trinitron monitors are intrinsic to the design and as far as I know will always be there. I know, it is a nuisance. I'm always mistaking them for a scratch on the film, for that's just about what Those lines are shadows of wires used to tension

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread photoscientia
The two horizontal lines on Trinitron monitors are intrinsic to the design and as far as I know will always be there. Tubes that use an aperture grid, such as some of Mitsubishi's, are a better compromise between the severe tonal aperture errors with shadow-mask tubes, and the striped

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-03 Thread Berry Ives
on 11/3/00 5:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am a photographer with a PC, Nikon scanner and Epson 750 (eventually a 2000). i want to get a 20 inch monitor and would like some recommendations about what kind to get? thanks, Joanna This does not answer your question,

RE: filmscanners: Re: Monitors/printers

2000-11-03 Thread Frank Paris
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert DeCandido Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filmscanners: Re: Monitors BTW, why the Epson 2000? Too much money, too slow and Cone will have a color CIS