RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors/printing exact dimensions with Photosho

2000-12-02 Thread Tony Sleep
So I guess I'll use Austin's method, since there is less processing involved and you get to actual printing faster. I applaud that you actually tried both and reached your own conclusions. Worth more than any amount of argument and theory :) Do you actually get the print finished quicker

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors/printing exact dimensions with Photosho

2000-12-02 Thread Frank Paris
00 7:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors/printing exact dimensions with Photosho So I guess I'll use Austin's method, since there is less processing involved and you get to actual printing faster. I applaud that you actually tried both and reache

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-20 Thread Hugo Gävert
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tony Sleep wrote: Look, I was trying to simplify a common source of confusion for newbies, which is that scans have only one dimensional parameter that matters: the number of pixels along each side. I know this because I have explained it to many, many of them, and

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: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Mimpriss
available. Tim Mimpriss Cymru/Wales - Original Message - From: "Frank Paris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 3:10 PM Subject: RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors This is so true! About getting confused, I mean. When I first s

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-18 Thread Tony Sleep
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 xy number of pixels,

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-14 Thread Derek Clarke
inch and by halving the image size you have effectively doubled the dpi. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frank Paris Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-14 Thread Austin Franklin
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 xy number of pixels,

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-14 Thread Laurie Solomon
rke Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors But you're not doing anything of the kind. The only dimensions that matter are the number of pixels. The dpi and hence the "physical dimensions" are utterly meaningl

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-14 Thread Laurie Solomon
: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors That so-called resizing is nothing of the kind! All it does is change the dpi figure in the file, the picture content is completely unchanged. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurie Solomon) wrote: Resizing in Photoshop is not interpolation

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[3]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-08 Thread Tony Sleep
Nope, I clearly remember you starting this thread. Lawrence Welk This is severely off-topic, and has no place on a list concerned almost entirely with Epson printers 8=p Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner info comparisons

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

filmscanners: Re: monitors Frank

2000-11-07 Thread Julian Robinson
atiel (12 years) http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=62684 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 7:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors I'm still not getti

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[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-07 Thread Guy Prince
Art, It was an original show with recent sketches with Bobby and his adult son. Cloning? Egads man, don't even ~think~ it. Guy I have to admit I haven't seen the show since we got a color X-Mozilla-Status: 0009 ago??) Come to think of it, is that the original L. Welk, or

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-07 Thread Tony Sleep
I've been confused by this for the last two years using the HP PhotoSmart Scanner, and now my SS4000 software allows the same thing. What I would like to see is a procedure to do the following (for example): I scan at 4000 DPI in a crop ratio 11:14. Then on A3 size paper I want to print

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-07 Thread Austin Franklin
What I would like to see is a procedure to do the following (for example): I scan at 4000 DPI in a crop ratio 11:14. Then on A3 size paper I want to print an image exactly 11"X14". I can tell you how I do it:- I do it slightly differently, and I'd be curious if you'd compare the

Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Tony Sleep
What stumped me was when I scanned that same slide at 2650 dpi and attempted to make a 5 x 7 size image suitable for printing. You may well be attempting to scan at 5x7" @ 2650ppi, ie (5*2650) x (7*2650) = 13250x18550, which will cause lots of interpolation. 256Mb would

Re: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Chris McBrien
Subject: filmscanners: Re: monitors 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

Re: filmscanners: Re: Monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Chris McBrien
get it. I too haven't a lot of success with Adobe Gamma. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Robert DeCandido" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:01 AM Subject: filmscanners: Re: Monitors I have the new Samsung SyncMaster 900NF (19 inch)

Re[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Guy Prince
Frank, I am using an older HP 1120C. I don't have that feature in my printer driver. I know I need a new printer, but the film scanner was more important. Most of my work goes directly to the printer on a ZIP disk, the printer isn't critical. Yet. Guy I'm a

Re[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Guy Prince
Gordon, That is exactly what I did, I just didn't mention that I had scanned it, then manipulated it in Picture Publisher. I can't remember where I read it, maybe scantips.com, but would the fact that I have several copies loaded into memory for the UNDO

Re[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Guy Prince
Art, Point taken. But the bright orange blazers and pants with the bright orange background kept me mesmerized. I was helpless. Guy Anyone who watches (and worse still, listens to) Lawrence Welk should be forced to sit in the garage and freeze his *(*@ off, IMHO. ;-) And I don't

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Frank Paris
]: filmscanners: Re: monitors What stumped me was when I scanned that same slide at 2650 dpi and attempted to make a 5 x 7 size image suitable for printing. You may well be attempting to scan at 5x7" @ 2650ppi, ie (5*2650) x (7*2650) = 13250x18550, which will cause

Re: Re[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Bill Ross
If I see another post on Epson color shifts, I'll scream :-) Point taken. But the bright orange blazers and pants with the bright orange background kept me mesmerized. I was helpless. Guy Anyone who watches (and worse still, listens

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Frank Paris
ears) http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=62684 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Laurie Solomon Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors Resizing in Photoshop is not int

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[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Guy Prince
Hello Johnny, AHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAH, you SAW IT Wasn't that the best show ever? Yes, the woman who sung "when I wish upon a star" was a true gift. If anyone out there taped that episode, I would pay ... for the tape. My wife and I sat glued to the during the

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Austin Franklin
This does not involve any sampling of the bits across the scan to create a smaller image (that is interpolation). That's actually called 'decimation', when you 'remove' data...interpolation is when you 'add' dataother than that 'point of order', what you said was right on.

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Frank Paris
nt: Monday, November 06, 2000 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors What precisely do you mean by "resizing"? By "resizing" I mean precisely "rescaling," or changing the dimensions of the image without making any change in the r

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Austin Franklin
I was of the opinion that interpolation was the general term which covered both down sampling and upsampling; but I guess I was wrong in this assumption. Until your post, I was totally unaware of the term "decimation" with respect to sampling; I associated it with destructive natural and

RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Tony Sleep
I'm still not getting this thread. Why is resizing in PhotoShop not interpolating? It still has to use bilinear resampling, doesn't it, which is a form of interpolation. Resizing is crude, better to resample using bicubic interpolation, tho PS calls that resizing too. So it *is*

Re: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Dana Trout
to kill enough to make the point, but leave enough to become useful and willing members of society (i.e., taxpayers). --Dana -- From: Laurie Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[7]: filmscanners: Re: monitors Date: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:29 PM I can accept

Re[5]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-05 Thread Tony Sleep
I have been forced into laptopdom because of space. Commiserations. Like I say, I use a laptop out of choice for non-imaging stuff, and occasionally I've used it on location for scanning. Press photographers have been doing this for years. But reviewing the images on a proper system is

Re[5]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-05 Thread Tony Sleep
This last week I bought the Nikon LS-30 and found that I needed some new skills to run the darn thing. This is true of all filmscanners, and should be written in large letters on the box. It would save a lot of disappointment and negative comments about products. Unfortunately the

Re[6]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-05 Thread Guy Prince
Yes, they should. But since I have been using a flatbed scanner for about six years now, I figured I had the skill set to fumble through it. I did. I was able to get a gorgeous scan about five tries in, even found that fancy new technology of Nikon's.

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[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread Guy Prince
Hello Tony, TONY HUGS !!! People think I am nuts, in my circle of friends for not doing image editing on my laptop. Thank you so much for putting it into print. I am new to the list and my just like it here. Thanks again, Guy Friday, November 03, 2000, 11:46:00 PM, you

Re[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread Guy Prince
think. Guy Friday, November 03, 2000, 7:15:33 PM, you wrote: E Sony G-500 E Sincerely. E Ezio E www.lucenti.com e-photography site E - Original Message - E From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 1:53 AM E Subject: filmscanners: Re

RE: Re[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread Frank Paris
com/j/AlbumList?u=62684 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Prince Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 9:21 AM To: Ezio Subject: Re[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors Wow, some very informative information here. I have

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[4]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread Guy Prince
Saturday, November 04, 2000, 10:51:34 AM, you wrote: FP The two horizontal lines on Trinitron monitors are intrinsic to the design FP and as far as I know will always be there. Rats. FP Some Viewsonic monitors are very expensive, some aren't. Depends on what you FP want and the

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: Re[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread Austin Franklin
The two horizontal lines on Trinitron monitors are intrinsic to the design and as far as I know will always be there. Yes, they hold the aperture grill on...

Re[3]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread Tony Sleep
TONY HUGS !!! People think I am nuts, in my circle of friends for not doing image editing on my laptop. Thank you so much for putting it into print. I am new to the list and my just like it here. Thanks again, I have the laptop I use for email and accounts and stuff right

Re[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread Guy Prince
p I watched a rep from a big name company trying to demo one of their filmscanners p on a laptop recently. Sigh. Misguided foos. I went to a dealer day at a local camera shop and got to touch a Nikon D1. But it was awesome, not fuzzy at all.

Re[4]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread Guy Prince
Well then, I am taking mine off. They make everything all fuzzy. Saturday, November 04, 2000, 2:50:02 PM, you wrote: The two horizontal lines on Trinitron monitors are intrinsic to the design and as far as I know will always be there. AF Yes, they hold the aperture grill

Re[4]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-04 Thread Guy Prince
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, sewer, gas and ethernet in

filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-03 Thread JFMahony91
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

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,

filmscanners: Re: Monitors

2000-11-03 Thread Robert DeCandido
I have the new Samsung SyncMaster 900NF (19 inch) monitor for about a month. For the price (approx. $425.00 plus $50.00 for shipping), it has been a wonderful investment. There was a review in PEI magazine (Andrew Rodney; the August issue) that sealed the deal. This monitor is significantly

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