Re: filmscanners: negative and skin tones

2001-04-02 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 8:31 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: negative and skin tones My understanding is that there is a degradation or change returning from CMYK to RGB but this is from what I

Re: filmscanners: new Minolta Scan Dual II not working after oneday.

2001-04-02 Thread Acer V
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Rob Geraghty wrote: "Acer V" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isn't the whole point of usb to be plug-n-play and also hot swappable? USB, yes. But it depends on the OS and the drivers for the peripheral. oh yea, the sofware end :) gotcha. thanks. /Acer V -- dum spiro, spero

moving OT file caching and lost log files was filmscanners: Vuescan 7.0.8 hang!

2001-04-02 Thread NedNurk
true, that is the default behavior in windows. There are various levels of cachine on files (not just a windows thing) -application buffering Usually inside either the C runtime library or part of the Java BufferedReader/Writer classes. Contains a buffer that is written to the OS file system

Re: filmscanners: Re: new Minolta Scan Dual II not working after one day.

2001-04-02 Thread Arthur Entlich
Everything I say is only guessing, but might be worthwhile considering: 1) The AC supply might have partially failed, providing incorrect voltage. 2) The USB cable might be intermittent, or the hub might be problematic. I'd suggest trying another cable, if the scanner appears to be properly

Re: filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon 4000

2001-04-02 Thread Arthur Entlich
PAUL GRAHAM wrote: Art, well... I've got a liquid gate for my DeVere's, and I've got carriers with no glass, regular glass, anti newton glass, and vacuum coated anti newton glass (best) I use $2500 Apo-El-Nikkor lenses imported from Japan, (unavailable here) (none of the others are

Re: filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon's

2001-04-02 Thread Arthur Entlich
PAUL GRAHAM wrote: maybe other scanners use a brighter lightsource and so gain depth of focus etc, but this one doesn't. I expect there is some trade made by Nikon against using tubes for LED spectrum, long life, heat, consistency or ?... I think you are correct, that this was a decision

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan 7.0.8 hang!

2001-04-02 Thread Derek Clarke
Flushing each line always puts a very heavy hit on performance, and unless the log file is specifically for detecting crash problems, is unlikely to work that way. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Ross) wrote: Does anyone have any other ideas on how to preserve a logfile being

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan color spaces (long)

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Ligtenberg
From: "shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "film scanner list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 5:55 AM What is more ... Ed informs me there is no such internal color space as "VS RGB"... Vuescan simply carries scanned RGB from the device to any of the selectable "color spaces".

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-04-02 Thread Hugo Gävert
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Henk de Jong wrote: Laurie Solemon wrote: Out of curiosity, how many timed did you do this and what sorts of changes did you see? I took a picture, saved, closed and re-opened it ten times. After every step (save, close and re-open) I compared the new image with the

RE: filmscanners: JPEG Loss - File format

2001-04-02 Thread Hugo Gävert
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Laurie Solomon wrote: However, my experiences with .jpg files has not been along the lines of increasing artifacts with each iteration; when I have gotten artifacts in .jpg files that were opened and resaved without any editing or changing of quality levels, it has been

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Tyson
No-one has commented on the difference between my results a bit of lace jpegged 10 times), posted on 30Mar, and Henk's image of a letter on a plain background, similarly treated. I can assure folk that I saved each image under a new name and only *then* closed it before reloading it. Is it

Re: filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon 4000

2001-04-02 Thread Dave King
Hi Peter, Dave King wrote I've spent alot of effort learning how to get the best 24x36" prints possible from an Epson 7000 (it's been fun:), but at no point along the way have I felt the LS-30 was the weakest link in the chain, far from it in fact. I'm sort of amazed it's as good as

filmscanners: Re: new Minolta Scan Dual II not working after one day.

2001-04-02 Thread Rome
Arthur Entlich wrote: Everything I say is only guessing, but might be worthwhile considering: 1) The AC supply might have partially failed, providing incorrect voltage. 2) The USB cable might be intermittent, or the hub might be problematic. I'd suggest trying another cable, if the

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan color spaces (long)

2001-04-02 Thread shAf
Mark writes ... From: "shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "film scanner list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 5:55 AM What is more ... Ed informs me there is no such internal color space as "VS RGB"... Vuescan simply carries scanned RGB from the device to any of the

Re: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 00:35:08 -0500 Gordon Tassi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I believe that it is in the part of the work flow that deals with the transfer of the image to the printer. I bought an Epson Stylus Photo 700 about 2.5 years ago and it constantly changes its values, especially

Re: filmscanners: negative and skin tones

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 08:47:54 -0600 Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Concerning the CMYK values for skintones, your guidelines appear to be more or less correct. I have found Dan Margulis's guidelines to be a bit better and empirically more accurate. He maintains that, for

Re: filmscanners: Canon 4000 dpi scanner

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 09:11:08 -0800 Chris Hargens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On the photo.net web site I read a discussion = (http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=3D001JxX) in which = a couple of people mentioned a new Canon 4000 dpi scanner that should be = coming out soon,

Re: filmscanners: Epson proofing

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:28:48 -0800 Arthur Entlich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Epson does make a few professional printers which are designed with pre-press in mind. I'm not sure it's fair to expect color profiling built into a printer that sells for a few hundred dollars. It isn't the

Re: filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon 4000

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 16:14:37 -0800 PAUL GRAHAM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Nikon makes and sells a glass holder for the scanner (and the 8000 too) so what's the problem? Worth knowing. Is this retro-fittable to the LS1000/LS30/LS2000 - which all used the same design glassless type?

RE: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-04-02 Thread Richard Starr
--- You wrote: Also I am fed up with the truly vast waste of ink and paper, and especially time. In all my years of darkroom printing I have never come across such an unruly, infuriating and wasteful process with the exception of lith printing - my record there is 4 days to produce a single

RE: filmscanners:Focusing with SprintScan 4000--was flatness in N ikon

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 22:02:58 -0600 Stan Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: David, under what circumstances should the focus box be selected in Insight? The help file doesn't give much detail. Just leave AF turned on all the time. I can't imagine any circumstances where you'd want unsharp

Re: filmscanners: Goals in adjusting scans?

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:12:13 -0800 JimD ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The more I scan images with my ss4000 the more I realize how much I need to learn. You are not wrong. Should I be setting white and black points in the scanning software(Vuescan, insight, SilverFast...whatever) to get

Re: filmscanners: new Minolta Scan Dual II not working after one day.

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sun, 01 Apr 2001 03:04:06 +0200 Rome ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Next day I spent the morning setting up ColorSync profiles on my Mac for Photoshop and my monitor, then plugged the Minolta in again to do some more scanning with ColorSync now in operation - But now the little green light on

Re: filmscanners: OT: copyrights

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 16:35:31 -0500 (EST) Lynn Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My question, for those of you who *are* professional photographers, is whether or not you think I'm wrong for doing a watercolor painting from your very good work. It's technically an actionable breach of

Re: filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon 4000

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 11:03:51 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: By the sound of what Tony (I think) mentioned, the lower illumination provided by the LEDs compared to other much brighter light sources leads to a lack of depth of field. I *was* just guessing, but it seems likely.

RE: filmscanners: OT Photoprinters is not off topic

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:01:25 -0500 (EST) Lynn Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At the risk of *again* being redundant, not all "Filmscanners" do printouts (nor is it off-topic). :-) It is heading toward surreal and bizarre, however. Now we aren't even debating Epsons, but why there aren't

Re: filmscanners: Best value sure thing scanner...

2001-04-02 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 22:19:58 -0800 Arthur Entlich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Now, a "new" problem is making the rounds. Apparently the depth of field at the film plane is so limited (probably due to the low illumination level of the LEDS forcing Nikon to use a larger open lens) that

RE: filmscanners: Canon 4000 dpi scanner

2001-04-02 Thread Tim Atherton
Info from Canon here: 4000dpi scanner http://www.usa.canon.com/press/021201e.html And here's their new 2400dpi flatbed/tranny scanner http://consumer.usa.canon.com/scanners/csd2400uf/index.html Tim A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

RE: filmscanners: Goals in adjusting scans?

2001-04-02 Thread Austin Franklin
With 8bit, you don't have much scope for adjustments after acquisition, so should get as close as possible to the final, desired result. The reason is that with 8 bits, you get rounding errors during successive mathematical operations on the data. That's kind of only part of the reason.

Re: filmscanners: Re: Vuescan color spaces

2001-04-02 Thread Joe Daugirdas
Rome wrote: Okay, I'm new to this... What is this 'Vuescan' you all talk about? Do I need it? Adam ___ Need advice on Rome? Ask ROMEBUDDY http://www.romebuddy.com ROMEBUDDY.COM

Re: filmscanners: OT: copyrights

2001-04-02 Thread Lynn Allen
Tony wrote: unless you sell it or publish it (oh damn, you just did)... Yeah, "Damn!" Not to mention "Whoops!" I guess now all I can do now is put furniture in front of all the doors, turn off the lights, and wait for the Copyright Police. Maybe it's time for another l-o-o-o-ng holiday! ;-)

RE: filmscanners: Kodak RFS3600 - max file sizes

2001-04-02 Thread Rick Berk
At 3600 dpi full frame, I get a 51MB file... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filmscanners: Kodak RFS3600 - max file sizes Just a quicky, what is the

RE: filmscanners: OT: copyrights

2001-04-02 Thread Derek Clarke
What sticks in my craw isn't everyone copying Xerox so much as Apple's litigation on behalf of the look and feel of their particular copy... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hayward at Hopco) wrote: Gosh - what would have happened if MS had licensed the GUI design from Xerox. Maybe XRX would not in

Re: filmscanners: negative and skin tones

2001-04-02 Thread Derek Clarke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert E. Wright) wrote: - Original Message - From: Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 7:47 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: negative and skin tones Another problem that comes to mind is that scanners