Re: filmscanners: Color Calibration

2001-03-29 Thread Tony Sleep
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:04:01 +0100 Michael Wilkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you are working quickly its almost impossible to use gels unless you've used the location before. Specially if it's flourescents ;). However, then it's difficult to see the v/f image. The drawback to any

Re: filmscanners: scanning/photoshop workstation (long)

2001-03-29 Thread Dicky
- Original Message - From: "Rick Berk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, I was reading a bulletin board at zdnet last night where people did nothing to bash MS left and right, and sing the praises of Unix. I know Which version of Unix would that be then. Richard Corbett

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (l

2001-03-29 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
Investigate it - it's what you want. From the Help file: "Prefs tab Get dpi from/Dpi or width These options let you specify how to compute the dots per inch (dpi) of the cropped images. The dpi can be the same as the scanned image, can be explicitly set, or can be computed so that the

filmscanners: Ed e-mail ?

2001-03-29 Thread Ezio
Please, I need Ed's personal e-mail to report a bug in Vuescan. Sincerely. Ezio

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (l

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote: [re get dpi from in vuescan] Investigate it - it's what you want. From the Help file: Actually the only reason it may be necessary is that one of the changes in Paintshop Pro 7 is that it (unlike 6) doesn't seem to be able to change the dpi without resampling. :-7

Re: filmscanners: Color saturation with Vuescan

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Jim Sharp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been scanning into sRGB. I'll be using these scans on the web ultimately so I assumed that was the way to go. I also leave the scanner on all the time so the warmup thing is not an issue. What resolution will you be using on the net? If it's

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
"shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob writes ... Er, doesn't PS 5.5 allow you to say what profile the image is coming from when the image is untagged? Yes ... but it seems to me that list of profiles is particular to working spaces, excluding device profiles ... or maybe I'm wrong. If

Re: filmscanners: Ed e-mail ?

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Ezio" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Film Scanners News Group" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 6:01 PM Subject: filmscanners: Ed e-mail ? Please, I need Ed's personal e-mail to report a bug in Vuescan. Sincerely. Ezio

Re: filmscanners: 7.0.6 Great !

2001-03-29 Thread Dale Gail
Yuri, Did you report the problem to Ed. sigh Dale 7.0.6 causes my SCSI HP Photosmart scanner to change from "negative" to "print" mode halfway through a scan with disastrous results for the last frame on the negative strip as it gets eaten by the scanner. Went back to 7.0 and the

Re: filmscanners: Ed e-mail ?

2001-03-29 Thread Dale Gail
Did you check his web page.sigh Dale - Original Message - From: "Ezio" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Film Scanners News Group" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:01 AM Subject: filmscanners: Ed e-mail ? Please, I need Ed's personal e-mail to report a bug in Vuescan.

filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-29 Thread Richard Starr
The dpi thread leads me to ask what the best dpi for printing on an Epson printer (Stylus 600 for example) would be. My habit is to correct an image at the scanned resolution then move it to a default blank page for printing, using PhotoShop's free transformation for sizing. I save the 'print'

Re: filmscanners: scanning/photoshop workstation (long)

2001-03-29 Thread Lynn Allen
Derek wrote: I've just built my current most powerful box with a RAID 10 array of four 30 Gig drives , giving 60 Gig of reliable storage for £450 which is comparable to the cost of just one smaller SCSI disc. Whoosh! Now *there's* a Power User! How does it work, Derek? ("he said, drooling!" :-)

Re: filmscanners: AcerScanwit

2001-03-29 Thread Richard Starr
--- You wrote: Have heard of folk using them on a Mac, but not me. --- end of quote --- Thanks for the replies on the Acer scanners. How would it be driven on a Mac if it isn't supplied with Mac software? Woudl Vuescan be required? Rich

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing

2001-03-29 Thread Lynn Allen
Rob wrote: ... most people (if not everyone) scans a source file at 2700dpi (or whatever their maximum optical scanner resolution is) and change the output dpi later in Photoshop or whatever editor they use. For people merely documenting a roll of film or a box of slides (which presupposes not

RE: filmscanners: Ed e-mail ?

2001-03-29 Thread Lynn Allen
--Original Message-- From: "Ezio" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Film Scanners News Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 29, 2001 8:01:20 AM GMT Subject: filmscanners: Ed e-mail ? Please, I need Ed's personal e-mail to report a bug in Vuescan. Sincerely. Ezio It's [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or was, 3

Re: filmscanners: Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan

2001-03-29 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:12:11 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: FYI last night I tried my first A3 (not A3+) print from a 2700dpi scan. The image was scanned from 100ASA print film with a Nikon LS30. The result is good, but perhaps not as sharp as I'd like - but for a real test

Re: filmscanners: scanning/photoshop workstation (long)

2001-03-29 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:26:12 +0100 Dicky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Which version of Unix would that be then. I am trying to suppress OT threads, as you and others have asked... Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner info comparisons

Re: filmscanners: AcerScanwit

2001-03-29 Thread Tony Sleep
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:08:50 -0600 Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Not that many reviews but those that are out there say it works well. But apparently VueScan no longer supports it, though it supports the 2720S. From discussion here, the 2740 is the exact same scanner as

Re: filmscanners: Color Calibration

2001-03-29 Thread Michael Moore
This why I use the Fuji emulsions... REALA in 35mm and NPS/NPL in 4x5... I shoot in mixed light (daylight/tungsten/flourescent) with NO FILTERS and get great results... I've been the gels/flourescent filters/this and that route... that's the problem with trannies on interiors... Mike M. Tony

RE: filmscanners: Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan

2001-03-29 Thread Cooke, Julie
From the following article, grain aliasing will be worse on a lower resolution scanner. http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Grain.htm Julie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (l

2001-03-29 Thread Michael Moore
Kodak makes an excellent photo weight glossy paper that works just fine in my Epson 740 Mike M. Derek Clarke wrote: In fairness to Epson, the full technical specs of all their papers is available on their various national web sites. But to be honest, I don't think they make a paper you

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-29 Thread Tony Sleep
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:39:18 -0800 shAf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I meant it only in the context of what you seemed to imply ... VS offering only trismuthus matrix tranformations. It is apparently something quite rigorous to impliment and tranform 3-dimensional LUT-type device

Re: filmscanners: Ed e-mail ?

2001-03-29 Thread Lynn Allen
This last msg recalls something from my WWII childhood: "Is this trip really necessary?" No offense intended, and best regards--LRA Did you check his web page.sigh Please, I need Ed's personal e-mail to report a bug in Vuescan. --- FREE! The

RE: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-29 Thread Austin Franklin
The dpi thread leads me to ask what the best dpi for printing on an Epson printer (Stylus 600 for example) would be. My habit is to correct an image at the scanned resolution then move it to a default blank page for printing, using PhotoShop's free transformation for sizing. I save the

Re: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-29 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
The general consensus is printing in the range of 240-360dpi, and it will depend on the paper - for a good explanation of why see http://www.scantips.com/ The best thing to do is to experiment on *your* printer and find the optimal dpi for each type of paper you generally use. I did that for my

Re: filmscanners: AcerScanwit

2001-03-29 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
That's my understanding, too. But I note that in the Help files the 2720S is listed but the 2740S is not - why is that? There was a message on the comp.periphs.scanners group that the 2740S was not supported - I have no information as to the reliability of the sender of that message. Maris

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-29 Thread shAf
Tony writes ... The raw scan is in an unspecified device space, scanner RGB. Ed's transform, applied during the production of the Crop file, munges that against his characterisation and the result is a scan with altered data values within Vuescan's working space (which I previously said I

Re: filmscanners: Color saturation with Vuescan

2001-03-29 Thread Jon
Jim, I noticed I get "better looking" results scanning my Kodak Supra 400 with Generic Neg setting. Info posted on another thread indicates that Vuescan attempts to make all neg films "accurate" to a Kodak target, which seems to me would make all different types of neg film look alike. So, you

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (l

2001-03-29 Thread Gordon Tassi
Hi all: I have found that I get a better transition from scan to PS to print using Vuescan, PS and Hammermill Jet Print Ultra Glossy and Epson's Matte papers. Hammermill's glossy is a bit heavier than Epsons. I do not know if this applies to those out of the US. Gordon Michael Moore wrote:

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan 4000ED Review

2001-03-29 Thread Mikael Risedal
Here are some conclusions regarding Nikon ED 4000. and 3 weeks try out. Sharpness, resolution: There is a problem with the film holders and flatness of the film. No film are exactly flat, and ED 4000 overall sharpness are not good because of curved film.. If the auto focus or manual focus

Re: filmscanners: AcerScanwit

2001-03-29 Thread Lynn Allen
Richard wrote: Thanks for the replies on the Acer scanners. How would it be driven on a Mac if it isn't supplied with Mac software? Would Vuescan be required? Vuescan should work. Also call Acer Customer Service and ask if a Mac driver is available. (1-800-452-2237 in the US--don't be

filmscanners: Grain aliasing (was:Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan

2001-03-29 Thread Lynn Allen
Julie wrote: From the following article, grain aliasing will be worse on a lower resolution scanner. http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Grain.htm That seems to be true from my experience--either worse or not much affected. Be that as it may, when *dealing* with it, PS's Despeckle filter does a

Re: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-29 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Richard Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 5:27 AM Subject: filmscanners: Printdpi The dpi thread leads me to ask what the best dpi for printing on an Epson printer (Stylus 600 for example) would be. My habit is

Re: filmscanners: Color saturation with Vuescan

2001-03-29 Thread Jim Sharp
Jon - Thanks It's one more thing I'll try... This stuff has about *a million* degrees of freedom, and in the end, I'm still working with something that's subjective. I'm afraid I may have been a bit too lazy so far. It's not going to work though - the canned solution isn't going to satisfy

Re: filmscanners: AcerScanwit

2001-03-29 Thread Collin Ong
On 29 Mar 2001, Richard Starr wrote: --- You wrote: Have heard of folk using them on a Mac, but not me. --- end of quote --- Thanks for the replies on the Acer scanners. How would it be driven on a Mac if it isn't supplied with Mac software? Woudl Vuescan be required? I have used the

Re: filmscanners: scanning/photoshop workstation (long)

2001-03-29 Thread Dicky
Quite sojust carring out a "quality of service" check that's all. Richard Corbett - Original Message - From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:26 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: scanning/photoshop workstation (long) On Thu, 29 Mar

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-29 Thread Richard N. Moyer
There is a lot that doesn't add up - - regarding PCD "space", and VS using PhotoCD "space". 1. You will note that you cannot do a profile conversion (profile to profile) in Photoshop to a PhotoCD (space) profile, of which I have about 8 of them in my ColorSync folder. 2. PhotoCD format - -

filmscanners: PhotoCD format

2001-03-29 Thread Larry Berman
This was discussed about a year ago. There is a program called Graphic Workshop Professional that can convert to the proprietary PhotoCD format: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwspro.html Larry There is a lot that doesn't add up - - regarding PCD "space", and VS using PhotoCD "space".

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
Lynn wrote: For people merely documenting a roll of film or a box of slides (which presupposes not being *super-critical* of the output other than that the black/white points are fairly stable), using a lower scan resolution (1350 to 300, in reverse order) is much faster. Especially with APS -

RE: filmscanners: PhotoCD format

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
Larry wrote: This was discussed about a year ago. There is a program called Graphic Workshop Professional that can convert to the proprietary PhotoCD format: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwspro.html And it works, too! However, bear in mind that PCD is NOT a lossless format like TIFF.

Re: filmscanners: Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
Tony wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:29:49 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Reala suffers from grain aliasing on the LS30 just as badly as pretty much every other neg film I've tried. Now that /is/ intriguing. I scanned Reala on an LS1000 at one time, and had no problems with

RE: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
Richard wrote: The dpi thread leads me to ask what the best dpi for printing on an Epson printer (Stylus 600 for example) would be. It would be nice if we could get definitive responses from the manufacturers on this sort of issue. I haven't seen any such response even on the leben list. It's

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-29 Thread shAf
Richard writes ... There is a lot that doesn't add up - - regarding PCD "space", and VS using PhotoCD "space". 1. You will note that you cannot do a profile conversion (profile to profile) in Photoshop ... 2. PhotoCD format - - and their ICC profiles ARE proprietary, ... 3. If you

filmscanners: OT: Photoshop LE

2001-03-29 Thread Lynn Allen
This is a "rant," so delete now if you've heard it before. ;-) I've just reverted to PS-5.0-LE--partly because a bigger PS was giving me problems, and partly to see "What are the Peasants, Doing, Tonight?" (bad joke, I admit--it needs the music). :-) Someone, a few months ago said PS-LE was a

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-29 Thread Bob Shomler
8. All Kodak PhotoCD profiles exhibit very unusual gamut profiles, in either L.a.b., Yxy, or XYZ space. The are all complex. The only thing you can say is that they universally fit within Kodak ProPhotoRGB space. I don't know why Ed would even consider these spaces - - unless for PR reasons.

Re: filmscanners: PhotoCD format

2001-03-29 Thread Richard N. Moyer
There are a whole host of imaging programs which can handle or open PhotoCD format, including Photoshop. None, that I know can write to PhotoCD foramt. If Kodak has released PhotoCD to the public, its news to me. I think what you are trying to tell me is that I can cut my own Photo CDs.

Re: filmscanners: Printdpi A3 from 2720

2001-03-29 Thread Mark Thomas
Having just experimented with print resolutions using a very sharp Kodachrome 25 with lots of fine detail, I would agree with Bob's figures. I found that I could push the print resolution down to 140 dpi before I began to detect a noticeable difference in the prints when viewed at about 30cm

Re: filmscanners: PhotoCD format

2001-03-29 Thread Larry Berman
Graphics Workshop Professional can write the Kodak PhotoCD format, as I previously posted. From the FAQ page on the web site http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwsproqa.html Q: Graphic Workshop Professional can write PCD files. Does this mean it can create complete Kodak PhotoCDs? A:

Re: filmscanners: PhotoCD format

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
Richard wrote: There are a whole host of imaging programs which can handle or open PhotoCD format, including Photoshop. None, that I know can write to PhotoCD foramt. Graphic Workshop Profesional does. If Kodak has released PhotoCD to the public, its news to me. They released a toolkit

filmscanners: File format

2001-03-29 Thread httin
Did any one knows whether is there any informations/details loses when store in compressed JPG format in maximum quality 10 and while you keep opening and saving the same file many times? And how about the raw file TIFF? Thanks. HT Tin

Re: filmscanners: Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan

2001-03-29 Thread Bob Shomler
I think there may be an issue here with what is "apparent grain" and what is "real grain" and what is "grain aliasing". In any case, I have yet to find a neg film which *doesn't* show unacceptable amounts of "grain" in things like blue sky, while pretty much *every* slide film gives reasonable

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-29 Thread Richard N. Moyer
I guess you will have to ask him exactly what he is using. The discussion was about PhotoCD embedded profiles. Not standard spaces, such as AdobeRGB. The "Transforms" you can download from Kodak - ASFICT are profiles, used to open files formatted in PhotoCD format. For opening files only.

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-29 Thread Larry Berman
What would be the point of storing and reopening and saving the same image in a compressed format repeatedly. Each time there would be some generational loss. Store in an uncompressed native format to your graphics program. If you open a jpeg in Photoshop it automatically takes on the

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-29 Thread Richard N. Moyer
When you say "all the PCD profiles", wouldn't Ed simply be using the most appropriate one. And, wouldn't this one offer a standard model for mathematically converting to from??? They are all different: pcd4050e.pf for E6 pcd4050k.pf for K-14 pcdcnycc.pf for color negative pcdekycc.pf

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
larry wrote: What would be the point of storing and reopening and saving the same image in a compressed format repeatedly. Each time there would be some generational loss. This is only true of lossy compressed formats like jpeg and PCD. Store in an uncompressed native format to your

Re: filmscanners: Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
Bob wrote: I think what you may have here derives in part from the sky and other nominally bright parts of images on negatives being the darkest -- most dense -- in the film. So sky in negs can be more difficult and show grain and/or noise much like dark shadow areas of slides are the difficult

Vuescan film characteristic transforms was RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
Richard wrote: And, you can't open a file into "photoCD space", You cannot load any of the profiles mentioned above as a working "space". If Ed is "doing this" - somehow - he is not doing this without Kodak's permission, unless he is licensed and has obtained proprietary authoring software.

RE: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-29 Thread Laurie Solomon
Only if you change the quality when resaving the .jpg file or if you resample the file in any way prior to resaving the .jpg file even at the same quality level. With .tif files, you will lose information only if you resample the file after opening it and before resaving it. -Original

RE: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-29 Thread Laurie Solomon
Each time there would be some generational loss. Not necessarily true. If you open and close ( or resave) the compressed file without changing the compression from one quality level to another in the case of .jog or without resampling the image prior to closing or resaving the file, there will

filmscanners: Bulk scanning

2001-03-29 Thread Tom Scales
This is the main reason I am considering selling my Sprintscan 4000 and buying a Nikon 4000ED. The ability to drop a 36 exposure roll of 35mm film in and walk away. Does anybody have any experience yet? That's literally the only reason I want to make the switch. I like my Sprintscan a lot. Tom

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-29 Thread Larry Berman
Hi Rob, The original question was asked about repeatedly opening and saving as a jpeg. larry wrote: What would be the point of storing and reopening and saving the same image in a compressed format repeatedly. Each time there would be some generational loss. Rob wrote: This is only true

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-29 Thread shAf
Richard writes ... Yes it is large. It will encompass Ekta Space (almost), which is the definition of E6 Ektachrome media, and thus E6 gamut. I'm posting th results of my little test regarding the capacity of Vuescan's gamut, "device RGB" (... whatever it is ...) First ... some

RE: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-29 Thread Frank Paris
This is what I thought, too, but before venturing to say so, I actually performed an experiment, repeatedly saving the JPG file at the same compression factor. It got smaller by about 2% each time I saved it. It is probably honing in on some optimized compression at that level of quality. Visual

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-29 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
Just a note on LZW compressed image portability - I have run into one instance where an LZW compressed image was not portable - when exporting a 48-bit compressed TIFF from Vuescan to Corel PhotoPaint 9 it opens but the image is unrecognizable. If exported uncompressed there is no problem, and