[filmscanners] Re: vuescan and the minolta 5400II

2006-06-13 Thread gary
Slide film can be tricky to scan. I'm not sure I'd like to let it fly on auto, which I assume is the only reason for having a slide feeder. I haven't been following Nikon scanners, but in the past, they have had depth of field issues, i.e. difficulty with curved film. You have a different goal

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-05 Thread gary
This particular Gigabyte has 8 sata ports with two FRAIDs. I figure once the horsepower of the machine is not enough, it will be at the very least a good server. I lost count of the USB portsl but I believe it has 12. Also two 1394B (yes, the 800mbps) firewire. Also two lans. Dual bios, so you can

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-05 Thread Tony Sleep
On 05/06/2006 James L. Sims wrote: I am not impressed with ASUS web support. After all the great reviews about ASUS, that was a letdown. IME Asus are one of the better mfr's, with generally solid boards and a decent record of fixing things that don't quite work. I have used them a lot - 3 here

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-05 Thread Charles Knox
I've built three machines using the GA K8N Ultra-9 board, one for myself, 2 for others. So far it's about the most stable board I've ever used, runs all AMD 64 single and dual core processors up to the FX60 and is happy with nearly anything you throw at it. The other two users are equally

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-04 Thread Charles Knox
vary from one port to another) On these points, I concur. Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Knox Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply My 2c

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-04 Thread James L. Sims
: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply My 2c cents here: USB printers, scanners and other peripherals that plug into the wall or are battery-powered typically don't draw power from the USB port so are not affected by the 500mA limit. The 7-in-1 card reader may be marginal in its

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-04 Thread Tony Sleep
On 04/06/2006 James L. Sims wrote: But just as the restart was completing, I encountered the much feared blue screen. I wont bore anyone with the details but I finally was up and running some seven hours later, with the updated drivers. Oh I hate weekends like that :-} Too often, by half.

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-04 Thread James L. Sims
Tony Sleep wrote: On 04/06/2006 James L. Sims wrote: But just as the restart was completing, I encountered the much feared blue screen. I wont bore anyone with the details but I finally was up and running some seven hours later, with the updated drivers. Oh I hate weekends like that :-}

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-04 Thread James L. Sims
Charles, After I went through a miserable seven hours fighting a blue screen error on startup after the first attempt at installing new chipset drivers, I finally managed to get the new drivers installed and the reader seems to be functioning properly. I have responded to your questions below.

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-04 Thread gary
FWIW, I don't build PCs using Asus mobos. I find I get a better bang for you buck with Gigabyte. I've built two systems using the GA-k8n Ultra-9 (x64 and Suse 10.0) If you are using onboard raid (often known as FRAID for fake raid), it won't be blazing. I use the onboard raid myself as I really

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-04 Thread gary
I guess I should say Asus mobos anymore. It used to be my mobo of choice. http://www.iometer.org/ To some degree you can measure disk i/o with the program, though it really flogs your whole system. gary wrote: FWIW, I don't build PCs using Asus mobos. I find I get a better bang for you buck

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-04 Thread James L. Sims
My previous machine had a Gigabyte MB and I really liked it. So far, I'm not impressed. It's also my first experience with Nvidia chipset drivers - I was ready for anything else, given my experience with VIA. I may go back to Gigabyte, sooner than later. Jim gary wrote: I guess I should say

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread Tony Sleep
On 02/06/2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the technique works for the KM Scan Elite 5400 II, but doesn't work for the Nikon LS-8000. Maybe Ed could find a fix for that. Ed's reply:- On 03/06/2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a more complete scanners.inf file. I thought the extra

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread Tony Sleep
On 02/06/2006 James L. Sims wrote: I have a 32-bit device on a computer running Windows XP 32-bit that regularly fails to see one device unless it's activated and the computer restarted - much like the behavior that I experienced with Win 2K. That's normal and correct behaviour for SCSI. You

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread
Thanks for this. I downloaded the expanded scanners.inf file and used it to load the Nikon LS-8000. I read scanners.inf file in Notepad and saw the LS-8000 listed so it looked promising. The scanner, again, loads fine. But even with the Nikon LS-8000 loaded using this new file, Vuescan still

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread Tony Sleep
On 03/06/2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But even with the Nikon LS-8000 loaded using this new file, Vuescan still crashes the system immediately upon starting. I wish the blue screen of death didn't pass so quickly so I could read what the issue was. Loading the KM 5400 II and my Epson

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread gary
http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/bluescreen.html I have no first had knowledge of this program, but I can vouch for sysinternals.com in general. See if it capture your BSOD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this. I downloaded the expanded scanners.inf file and used it to load the

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread James L. Sims
These are USB devices, Tony. I was told by a so-called computer guru that this problem was corrected in XP. It could be that the device is incorrectly installed - it's a USB 2 device but its speed, or slowness, indicated that Win XP thinks it an early USB device. I've tried uninstalling the USB

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread Tony Sleep
On 03/06/2006 James L. Sims wrote: These are USB devices, Tony. Ah, OK. That is weird, then. I've used USB USB2 a lot and not had any problems like that. Is the controller on the motherboard? If so, it might be worth looking for updated motherboard drivers, or trying a PCI card USB adaptor

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
: Saturday, June 03, 2006 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply These are USB devices, Tony. I was told by a so-called computer guru that this problem was corrected in XP. It could be that the device is incorrectly installed - it's

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread Tony Sleep
On 03/06/2006 Tony Sleep wrote: Is the controller on the motherboard? If so, it might be worth looking for updated motherboard drivers, or trying a PCI card USB adaptor instead. Sorry, too much hurry. I could have been clearer. I meant 'updated BIOS and chipset drivers' for the mobo. Back to

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread Tony Sleep
On 03/06/2006 Laurie Solomon wrote: If you have connected the devices to an unpowered hub Oh yes, what Laurie says, in spades. I sometimes forget there are such things as unpowered hubs. They're more or less completely useless. A single USB port is specced at 0.5amps, and a large proportion of

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread James L. Sims
That's and Idea. Thanks! I usually check for updates but I haven't checked the Asus website for the new board. Jim Tony Sleep wrote: On 03/06/2006 James L. Sims wrote: These are USB devices, Tony. Ah, OK. That is weird, then. I've used USB USB2 a lot and not had any problems like that.

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread James L. Sims
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James L. Sims Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply These are USB devices, Tony. I was told by a so-called computer guru that this problem was corrected in XP

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread Charles Knox
it back on for the system to recognize it. Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James L. Sims Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply These are USB devices

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
03, 2006 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply My 2c cents here: USB printers, scanners and other peripherals that plug into the wall or are battery-powered typically don't draw power from the USB port so are not affected by the 500mA

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-02 Thread
You are able to use your 5400 II on x64? I have Vuescan running on x64 but can't load/install the scanner on the system. How did you use Ed's .inf file to install the scanner? This is great if you were able to do this. Thanks! gary wrote: I got a call back from Konica Minolta regarding the

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-02 Thread James L. Sims
What OS are you using? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried this and it doesn't work. I right-clicked the scanner.inf file and installed it. Vuescan and the OS still can't see or use the scanner (that goes for both the KM Scan Elite 5400 II and the Nikon LS-8000). I've tried it a few different

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-02 Thread James L. Sims
Windows XP 64 should see it, however, I have a 32-bit device on a computer running Windows XP 32-bit that regularly fails to see one device unless it's activated and the computer restarted - much like the behavior that I experienced with Win 2K. Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows XP

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-06-02 Thread
It worked! I'll be d*mned! ;-) To have the 5400 II functional under x64 is great. Thanks for the tip. By the way, I also tried it with the Nikon LS-8000. Windows x64 takes the scanners.inf file to load the scanner, but as soon as you start up Vuescan the whole system immediately crashes (the

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-05-31 Thread James L. Sims
Tony, Thanks for looking into the 64-bit capability of vuescan. It was nice to hear from Ed once again on this list. This discussion has brought about a kind of old home week, hasn't it, and it's been nice to hear from a few others, as well. By the way, Tony, please check your clock, this

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

2006-05-31 Thread Tony Sleep
On 31/05/2006 James L. Sims wrote: By the way, Tony, please check your clock, this message was time stamped 3/31/06 1:05 PM. Yes, sorry about that. I had been using some accounts s/w for which I needed to fake the time date, and forgot to set it back. Tony Sleep

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan/scanners/windows XP

2004-10-19 Thread Les Berkley
AFAIK, VueScan works by using low-level calls to the scanner's interface, and is independent of the OEM driver software. Ancient SCSI scanners work perfectly on my XP box (with the ASPI layer installed). Les -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan file size

2003-11-23 Thread Arthur Entlich
Since no one else has answered this yet, I'm going to go out on a limb, (I don't use Vuescan, and storage is not my strong point) and assume it has to do with how your hard drive was formatted, and which definition of MB is being used, although it does seem like quite a difference. As hard

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan file size

2003-11-22 Thread Rob Geraghty
Thomas Maugham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just scanned a negative and got the following information from VueScan: 5576 x 3669 pixels 4000 dpi 1.39 x 0.917 inch 92.1 mb. The size of the file on my hard drive is 119.885kb or about 119.9 mb. Why the discrepancy between what VueScan says the file

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan file size

2003-11-22 Thread
119.9 mb Tthat's a very small file - just over a tenth of a bit :-) Peter Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in

[filmscanners] RE: VueScan file size

2003-11-22 Thread
Just guessing; but it may have something to do with the way VueScan and your OS read file sizes and count bits as well as what they add or do not add to the file size in terms of metadata overhead, etc. and effects of the file allocation system employed on the hard drive. -Original

[filmscanners] Re: vuescan cropping

2003-09-26 Thread Tony Sleep
John Matturri wrote: I keep trying to upgrade vuescan but all versions after about 7.6.28 (up to 61) are unable to keep a manual crop, set using the mouse, in the final scan. The crop works fine for a preview but when the scan itself is made it shifts to maximum crop, throwing all values off

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan color space question

2003-09-26 Thread Andreas Siegert
LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: It is the Output tab not the Color tab. Na, in the output tab you only specify that you want a profile. You wrote yourself that the profile is set in the color tab when quoting the help file. And as Henk wrote, the pro version is needed to make color space settings

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan color space question

2003-09-26 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andreas Siegert Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 4:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan color space question LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: It is the Output tab not the Color tab. Na, in the output tab you only specify that you

[filmscanners] Re: vuescan cropping

2003-09-26 Thread Julian Vrieslander
On 09/26/03 2:00 AM, Tony Sleep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I set VS to preview @4000ppi then 'scan from preview', which is much quicker since the scanner only makes one pass. You could try that. This is a great time saver for batch scanning. But Vuescan newbies should note that this option

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan color space question

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Siegert
Subject: [filmscanners] Vuescan color space question Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:53:53AM -0400 Quoting Ellis Vener: My question is: How do I reset Vuescan so it is natively working in Adobe RGB(1998) ? You can set the color output space in the color tab of vuescan to adobe rgb... cheers afx

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan color space question

2003-09-25 Thread Ellis Vener
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 10:59 AM, Andreas Siegert wrote: Subject: [filmscanners] Vuescan color space question Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:53:53AM -0400 Quoting Ellis Vener: My question is: How do I reset Vuescan so it is natively working in Adobe RGB(1998) ? You can set the

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan color space question

2003-09-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Look under the Output Tab. There should be an item where you can set the color space option for outputted TIFF or JPG files. I quote from the User Guide: TIFF profile This specifies whether to embed an ICC color profile into the TIFF file. This is primarily useful if you're using Photoshop(TM).

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan color space question

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Siegert
My question is: How do I reset Vuescan so it is natively working in Adobe RGB(1998) ? You can set the color output space in the color tab of vuescan to adobe rgb... I can? Where? When I click on the the color tab I have these options Maybe it is time to get a newer version of vuescan, whcih

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan color space question

2003-09-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
It is the Output tab not the Color tab. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ellis Vener Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan color space question I can? Where? When I click

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan color space question

2003-09-25 Thread Ellis Vener
In output I can either check the TIFF profile to be either on or off. There are no other options. I cannot find the Color|Output color space option. I am currently using VueScan 7.6.62 which I purchased this past Saturday. Do I need to upgrade to the professional edition of Vuescan? On

[filmscanners] RE: vuescan cropping

2003-09-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Just speculating; but could it possibly be that you have some other setting under one of the other tabs (i.e. the output tab) that is causing the final scan to default to a different aspect ratio or a different cropping. I have not used Vuescan in a little while but do not recall experiencing this

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan color space question

2003-09-25 Thread Henk de Jong
Do I need to upgrade to the professional edition of Vuescan? Yes. Only the professional version has the ability to use color spaces. See https://www.hamrick.com/reg.html For VueScan related problems an questions the newsgroup news:comp.periphs.scanners is the place to be. Ed Hamrick himself

[filmscanners] Re: vuescan cropping

2003-09-25 Thread John Mahany
John, I would hazard a guess that vuescan.ini has been corrupted and is not being overwritten as you update with later versions. From memory the fix is to delete vuescan.ini and it will be recreated with default values when you restart. ATB John - Original Message - From: John Matturri

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and profiles

2003-09-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
Julian Vrieslander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recent versions of Vuescan contain provisions for building custom ICC scanner profiles and custom ICC film profiles, using IT8 reference targets. Thanks for the info Julian! Very interesting. It would be nice to be able to make profiles for things

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan profiles

2003-09-19 Thread Julian Vrieslander
On 09/17/03 8:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the color calibration in VS work? The scanner profiles are generated by Ed. The film profiles are from the Kodak PhotoCD profile set ie. the profiles which the Kodak scanner

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better about Vuescan? (was 24 bit vs more)

2003-09-18 Thread
Original message Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:23:30 -0700 From: Frank Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better about Vuescan? (was 24 bit vs more) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last I checked the slide results were fairly comparable but the negatives

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan was: RE: 24bit vs more

2003-09-18 Thread
The big advantage to Vuescan for me is that it is far more aggressive in altering exposure times than most scanner software. This can lead to rather extended scans, but it can also get highlights out of thick negs that absolutely stump other programs. Polacolor in particular is absolutely

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better aboutVuescan? (was 24 bit vs more)

2003-09-17 Thread
: [filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better aboutVuescan? (was 24 bit vs more) I am scanning slides almost exclusively. I got VueScan as a benefit of being a VuePrint purchaser years ago. I got free upgrades for a long time, but they ended that with a version just above my 7.5.41. Stan

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better aboutVuescan? (was ...

2003-09-17 Thread
For a brief period a few months back, there was some problem, as I recall, with serial number activation. He had to make some kind of changes because of some people generating false numbers or something like that. I e-mailed Ed and he gladly gave me a new serial number when he checked my data on

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better aboutVuescan? (was 24 bit vs more)

2003-09-17 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
and marketed before coming out with Vuescan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better aboutVuescan? (was 24

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is betteraboutVuescan? (was 24 bit vs more)

2003-09-17 Thread Tim Atherton
: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better aboutVuescan? (was 24 bit vs more) I have DL'ed the latest version. When I use my old Vuescan serial number, I still get the $$$ watermarks on my scans. -Original

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better aboutVuescan? (was 24 bit vs more)

2003-09-17 Thread Nagaraj, Ramesh
https://www.hamrick.com/rep.html Go to this site and get updated serial number. Thanks Ramesh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:02 PM To: Nagaraj, Ramesh Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan profiles

2003-09-17 Thread
Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the color calibration in VS work? The scanner profiles are generated by Ed. The film profiles are from the Kodak PhotoCD profile set ie. the profiles which the Kodak scanner uses when making PhotoCDs. That's why (sadly) there's no profiles for

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better about Vuescan? (was 24 bit vs more)

2003-09-16 Thread Petru Lauric
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the SS4000: I have tried many times to use the Vuescan software rather than Insight but I keep returning to Insight. First, I find Insight significantly faster than Vuescan. Second, I find the controls in Insight to be just easier to use. I still have Vuescan on my

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better about Vuescan? (was 24 bit vs more)

2003-09-16 Thread
I am scanning slides almost exclusively. I got VueScan as a benefit of being a VuePrint purchaser years ago. I got free upgrades for a long time, but they ended that with a version just above my 7.5.41. I would have to buy the program again now and although it's not very expensive, I just haven't

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better aboutVuescan ? (was 24 bit vs more)

2003-09-16 Thread Julian Vrieslander
On 09/16/03 7:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be fair, I still am using version 7.5.41. Does the latest 7.6.XX offer significantly more features or functionality? I got the last free upgrade before Ed started charging again. You can look at the changes history on Ed's

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better aboutVuescan? (was 24 bit vs more)

2003-09-16 Thread Tim Atherton
I am scanning slides almost exclusively. I got VueScan as a benefit of being a VuePrint purchaser years ago. I got free upgrades for a long time, but they ended that with a version just above my 7.5.41. Stan - so did I, but I still get free upgrades...? tim

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better about Vuescan? (was 24 bit vs more)

2003-09-16 Thread Frank Paris
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petru Lauric Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan vs Insight: what is better about Vuescan? (was 24 bit vs more) Last I checked

[filmscanners] Re: vuescan

2002-09-30 Thread Bob Frost
Matt, I use Vuescan with my LS4000, but after I have scanned the film with NikonScan! I scan with NS (color management off and y=1 for highbit scans and 2.2 for lowbit scans) so I can use ICE (Vuescans implementation of ICE is not as good IMO). Then I do all the color conversions in vuescan

[filmscanners] Re: vuescan

2002-09-29 Thread David J. Littleboy
Matt Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: seems like vuescan might be useful, but here are my gripes. maybe somebody can set me straight my hardware is the nikon ls 8000. I really liked Vuescan for the Epson 2450, but don't find it worth the effort for the Nikon. It seems to be very kludgy

[filmscanners] RE: vuescan

2002-09-29 Thread Tim Atherton
is probably more personal taste than anything tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Maris V. Lidaka Sr. Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 10:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: vuescan Software tuned to film seems

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan/FS2710

2002-08-29 Thread Robert Michael
parameters [the newsgroup is BIG], e.g. 2710 - Original Message - From: Ken Durling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 12:01 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan/FS2710 On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:07:17 -0600, you wrote: I would like to monitor

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan/FS2710

2002-08-28 Thread John Rossi
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan/FS2710 On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:40:37 +1200, you wrote: The release notes on the latest version of Vuescan - 7.5.43 - list as one feature, fixed problem with FS2710. Any idea what that problem was, or is there a more in-depth version of the release

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan problem

2002-08-10 Thread John Matturri
I completely missed your kind offer - thanks. And thanks to everyone who responded. I got zero response form comp.periphs.scanners, and surprisingly, no response from an e-mail to Ed. But I'm sure he's swamped. So you guys are it! Ed's replies tend not to be immediate so you may still

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan freezing in OS X

2002-07-15 Thread Julian Vrieslander
On 7/14/02 2:53 PM, Alan Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must say that I have (almost) never had a app freeze up so much that I can't change to other apps. I would look for a USB device, or firewire device, that stops responding, or a hard disk that won't wake up. There is a long

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan freezing in OS X

2002-07-14 Thread Alan Harper
I must say that I have (almost) never had a app freeze up so much that I can't change to other apps. I would look for a USB device, or firewire device, that stops responding, or a hard disk that won't wake up. There is a long discussion on Macintouch about the problems resulting from Maxtor hard

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan profile problem!

2002-06-24 Thread Ken Durling
Sorry - but are you guys referring to the Monitor Color Space pull down under the Color tab in Vuescan? I can't find anything that is labeled Monitor Profile. Am I missing it? On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:31:27 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:01:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan not finding monitor ICC profile on MacOSX

2002-06-21 Thread Simon Lamb
Julian Thanks for this answer and for the previous one on the OSX compatability issue with Vuescan. I shall create a new profile with Photocal and put the .icc extension at the end. Simon Julian Vrieslander wrote: On 6/20/02 8:04 PM, Simon Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just downloaded

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and Nikon Scan for OS X

2002-06-20 Thread Julian Vrieslander
On 6/20/02 6:05 PM, Simon Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was an old restriction when using Vuescan on a Mac (might have applied to PC also) with Nikon scanners that certain files had to be deleted or extensions removed or Vuescan would not recognise the scanner. Is this still the case

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan infrared cleaning

2002-06-20 Thread Tony Terlecki
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:18:27PM -0230, michael shaffer wrote: Isidoro writes ... I noted, using Vuescan, that scanning with infrared cleaning (Light), the corrections that Vuescan makes seems to be too much bright, producing artifacts. This is particularly evident in ligth areas.

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan not finding monitor ICC profile on MacOSX

2002-06-20 Thread Julian Vrieslander
On 6/20/02 8:04 PM, Simon Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just downloaded the latest version of Vuescan (7.5.34). In the Colour tab I selected 'ICC Profile' in the list of options next to Monitor Colour Space. I then wanted to select my custom monitor profile that I created using Photocal

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and Nikon Scan for OS X

2002-06-20 Thread Alan Harper
There is another gotcha for OS X that I have found for some USB scanners, and may exist for Firewire scanners. If you are running OS 9 (Classic), the drivers there can interfere with VueScan communicating with the scanner. Depending on I don't know what, sometimes you have to reboot if you let OS

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan setting for true neg?

2002-06-12 Thread michael shaffer
Ken writes ... Working with BW negatives, is there a combination of settings of BP, WP and Brightness - and possibly other settings - that would theoretically give you an image that is unaltered of your negative - similar to putting the neg in the enlarger? ... I would think you'd want

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan setting for true neg?

2002-06-12 Thread Ken Durling
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:01:49 -0700, you wrote: That is to say without image inversion (neg-to-positive)? Would Device-Media type-Image work for this? From the help file: [For] Image, no film correction is used, and the cropped file will look as much like the original image as possible. If

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan vs. SilverFast with negs

2002-05-30 Thread Dave King
Personally I prefer Nikonscan 3 to any scan driver I've used, especially for color negatives. With Nikonscan set up correctly for color management you may be amazed at color neg scan quality just using Nikonscan's defaults. PhotoCal and Spyder aren't that expensive, why not do it? Dave -

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan vs. SilverFast with negs

2002-05-30 Thread Petru Lauric
Tomek Zakrzewski wrote: I know VueScan quite well, I use it with my Agfa Arcus 1200 flatbed scanner, I I appreciate many of it's qualities, I can even live with its user interface :-) But putting UI aside, I'm most interested in the capabilities of those programmes in delivering good scans from

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan vs. SilverFast with negs

2002-05-30 Thread Maris V. Lidaka Sr.
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 8:20 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: VueScan vs. SilverFast with negs [snipped} - VueScan - as I said I have only used it for a few times, mainly to try to compare the results with the SF scans. In general I got very flat images, even after adjusting

[filmscanners] Re: vuescan problem

2002-05-21 Thread Eric
John: Ever since I started to scan color negatives with vuescan (on SS4000) I periodically get scans that differ greatly from the preview. Usually with a much narrower range of values and odd casts, often a bright, almost solarized blue cast in white highlights and more recently an overall green

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan in-program viewer

2002-05-19 Thread Håkon T Sønderland
Julian Vrieslander wrote: Try setting Prefs Min Dimension to a higher number. I typically have it set to about 1000. But note the explanation in the User Guide This option specifies the minimum width and height of the displayed data. The larger this number, the more you can zoom into an

[filmscanners] Re: vuescan problem

2002-05-17 Thread John Matturri
PC, Win98 original edition, 128MB Ram, latest Vuescan, it occurs usually after a number, though not a definite number, of scans. The memory theory is quite attractive for me given that in two weeks or so I'll be getting delivery on a new computer with 1.5GB of RAM. This happens on relatively

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan and multipass algorithm

2002-05-04 Thread
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and multipass algorithm This sounds very interesting. Can you step through the process in a bit more detail? Which version of Photoshop are you using

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan and multipass algorithm

2002-05-03 Thread michael shaffer
Åke writes ... ... The output images seem to be calculated by averaging the value in each pixel. The result is a What do you mean ... smooth noise level, but no real noise elimination.? Averaging really should eliminate noise. That is, averaging is a result of adding and normalization ...

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and multipass algorithm

2002-05-03 Thread Arthur Entlich
This sounds very interesting. Can you step through the process in a bit more detail? Which version of Photoshop are you using, and how does one Apply Image in Darken Mode, what menu items and tools are you using exactly. I'm new to this approach. Thanks, Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and Photoshop

2002-04-28 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: Lee Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any way to install Vuescan as a plug-in to Photoshop 6??? Not that I know of. It's a standalone. Second question: If so, is it worth doing? Even if it were possible, there wouldn't be much point: it'll open any photo editor you tell it to on

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and Photoshop

2002-04-28 Thread Op's
David J. Littleboy wrote: From: Lee Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any way to install Vuescan as a plug-in to Photoshop 6??? Not that I know of. It's a standalone. Second question: If so, is it worth doing? Even if it were possible, there wouldn't be much point: it'll open any

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan and Photoshop

2002-04-28 Thread michael shaffer
Lee writes ... Is there any way to install Vuescan as a plug-in to Photoshop 6??? No ... Second question: If so, is it worth doing? Given that Vs will open the image into your pixel editer automatically, the only practical difference between a twain plugin and Vs, is that Vs saves the

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan on Multi Scan Pro

2002-04-22 Thread Bud
Try this: You can report a problem or make a suggestion for improving VueScan by sending e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of VueScan Problem Report or VueScan Suggestion. - Original Message - From: M. Denis Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 21,

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan 7.5.11 Animate Changes

2002-03-22 Thread Henry Richardson
I ramble ... the setting you want is on the 'prefs' tab, set the value refresh delay to '0' seconds ... and your changes will now wait for you to hit the 'refresh' button. Yes, that did it! Thanks! Regards, Henry Richardson http://www.hrich.com

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan Coolscan problem

2002-03-17 Thread Jeremy Nicholl
Mikael, Read the instructions?! What are you, a crazy person? Since when did anyone read software instructions? Umm, it works very well now, thank you... Jeremy Nicholl From: Jeremy Nicholl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners]

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Laurie Solomon
. - Original Message - From: Tomek Zakrzewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:00 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future) Laurie Solomon wrote: So why are you quoting me? My quoted post deal with Dave Hemingway

[filmscanners] RE: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Mark Otway
snip Laurie, I think you're being massively over-sensitive about this. I read your and Tomek's post, and it was absolutely clear that Tomek was making a comparison. If you read the post again you'll see that you wrote: I sincerely hope that David will stay subscribed to the list and remain

[filmscanners] RE: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Mark Otway
Am I the only one who's happy with NikonScan? It crashed once on me. Sometime last year, I think. It's not the crashing in NS that's the problem for me. NS has never actually crashed on me, even before I upgraded to 3.12. The reason I like VS so much more than NS is because the scans VS

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Alan Tyson
Message - From: Op's [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 1:53 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future) Les Berkley wrote: To repeat, VueScan DOES have a manual. Not a great one, but hey, someone tell me about a great software manual

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