Re: filmscanners: OT - Virus Alert

2001-04-19 Thread Johnny Deadman
on 4/18/01 10:54 PM, Mark Thomas at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I act as a system admin for a couple of sites, and I find that the virus *warnings* are MUCH more of a problem than the actual viruses. So far I have had 6 warnings today about this one. Sig...! no kidding. . I think

Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.0 with LS-30 Ls-2000

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Marquis-Kyle
Edwin wrote Oh I assure you that it does work, and the improvements in the interface are well worth the trouble to install it. You only must un-install 2.5.1 before you install it. Perhaps you should check out the manual for it before you give it a try, a 2.68 MB pdf. Thanks Edwin,

Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.0 with LS-30 Ls-2000

2001-04-19 Thread Edwin Eleazer
I think only the 8 bit output, under the "scanner extras" in the "tools palette" that's all you could select. But come to think of it, I believe you could at least try to select multi-scanning for the preview (which isn't supported on the LS-30) but there isn't any other multi-scanning selection

filmscanners: Dual Scan II - striping

2001-04-19 Thread Vladislav Juro
Hello to all - back to the list after sometime. Recently I changed my S20 for Dual II and I am not sure if it was a good deal. Even though I've gotsome marvelous scans from Dual - I am pretty unsatisfied with pictures containingbig"monochrome" blue areas (like sky, sea etc.) because of

Re: filmscanners: Minolta Dimage Scan Dula II Problems

2001-04-19 Thread Berry Ives
on 4/18/01 10:23 AM, Ramesh Kumar_C at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written a mail to Minolta. Minolta is so bad, none of the document that came with scanner have telephone number of customer support. Their customer support number is 201-825-4000 ext 5721 -Berry

Re: filmscanners: Grain reduction software

2001-04-19 Thread Dale Gail
From: "Chris Hargens" [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following was posted on the digital-finearts (Yahoo) list. You may find it of interest. (Re: [digital-fineart] Report from Seybold) There is a Photoshop plugin available now that helps to reduce grain and digital noise. It is called Quantum

Re: filmscanners: Grain reduction software

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Dale Gail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.camerabits.com/ Thanks for the info Chris. IMO it is way over priced for what it actually does. It is for the person that already has everything and buys the program just to say he/she has it:) Considering I can buy an entire copy of

Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.0 with LS-30 Ls-2000

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Edwin Eleazer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh I assure you that it does work, and the improvements in the interface are well worth the trouble to install it. You only must un-install 2.5.1 before you install it. Is it necessary to flash the scanner with a BIOS update before using Nikonscan 3.0?

Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.0 with LS-30 Ls-2000

2001-04-19 Thread Edwin Eleazer
Must have firmware 1.3 or later. My LS-30 came with 1.31 new, and I think everyone had to upgrade to use NS 2.5. - Original Message - From: "Rob Geraghty" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:20 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.0 with LS-30

Re: filmscanners: OT - Virus Alert

2001-04-19 Thread Lynn Allen
Johnny Deadman wrote: you know the mac version of an outlook virus? it's a regular email that contains the line "please forward this message to all your friends". OK, John--we *all* concede that Mac users are a superior species! ;-) Now let's all get back to scanning and avoiding another round

Re: filmscanners: Dual Scan II - striping

2001-04-19 Thread artistic
I'm about to make the same switch. Can you explain in more detail, or show (via a small jpeg) what the striping looks like? In which direction relative to the scanning process are the stripes? Art Vladislav Jur?o wrote: Hello to all - back to the list after sometime. Recently I changed my

Re: filmscanners: OT - Virus Alert

2001-04-19 Thread artistic
I completely disagree with Mark about this. As a system admin, you might indeed get numerous warnings about a virus, but I only got one, and it came from this list. It was one email, took a second to read, and I'm glad to have received it. I appreciate the heads-up when these things happen,

Re: filmscanners: grain aliasing on slides

2001-04-19 Thread artistic
Lynn Allen wrote: The photo was shot at Disneyland, with the Matterhorn (a roller-coaster ride, at D'land) in the background. What got my attention was the sky area, a clear-day blue with typical atmospheric gradadation down toward to the horizion. What appeared at first to be "dust" didn't

filmscanners: Re: Minolta Scan Dual Problems

2001-04-19 Thread artistic
Hi Ramesh, When you reinstalled the software and it worked for six films, did the color scan normally, or did it still become very green or magenta? After it failed the second time, did it then scan green or magenta? I'm trying to determine if the holder not set problem and the very off-color

filmscanners: Re: Filmscanners: Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II - Problems

2001-04-19 Thread artistic
Berry Ives wrote: on 4/18/01 10:23 AM, Ramesh Kumar_C at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written a mail to Minolta. Minolta is so bad, none of the document that came with scanner have telephone number of customer support. Their customer support number is 201-825-4000 ext 5721 -Berry

filmscanners: Sharpen before retouching

2001-04-19 Thread Lynn Allen
IMO, I think some of us need to make apologies to the writer who sharpened his image before doing further corrections. I just did it, and while I wouldn't exactly recommend it as a standard procedure, is *does* have some advantages: 1) Problems are clearer 2) Problems show up on a

filmscanners: Subject: 4000 ED and updating IEEE 1394 driver in 98 SE

2001-04-19 Thread Leo Stachowicz
First of all let me say thanks to all those who contributed advice to my previous mail to the list. I eventually ordered from Speed Graphic,and got the scanner a couple of days ago! The problem i have,is that after having successfully installed the included firewire interface i have been

filmscanners: 4000 ED and updating IEEE 1394 driver in 98 SE

2001-04-19 Thread Leo Stachowicz
sorry if I've posted this message more than one to the list,having problems with mail here at the moment. First of all let me say thanks to all those who contributed advice to my previous mail to the list. I eventually ordered from Speed Graphic,and got the scanner a couple of days ago! The

Re: filmscanners: Subject: 4000 ED and updating IEEE 1394 driver in 98 SE

2001-04-19 Thread Steve Greenbank
Under my "general tab" in "system properties" it says my windows version is :MS win98 4.10.1998,which as far as i know is 98SE. Thats WIN98 original. SE is 98.10.A. It says second edition between "MS Win 98" and the version number.

Re: filmscanners: Subject: 4000 ED and updating IEEE 1394 driver in 98 SE

2001-04-19 Thread Tom Scales
Leo, Can't help you on most of this, but 4.10.1998 is not 98 SE, it's just 98. SE is 4.10.. Tom From: "Leo Stachowicz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Under my "general tab" in "system properties" it says my windows version is :MS win98 4.10.1998,which as far as i know is 98SE.

RE: filmscanners: Re: Minolta Scan Dual Problems

2001-04-19 Thread Ramesh Kumar_C
Hi Art When "holder error" came for the FIRST TIME, I rebooted PC and I did NOT get the "holder error" so continued scanning; but the resulting scans were Megenta, Green .. Then I reinstalled the software and everything was fine for few scans. Normally I scan 10 films a day and I get

RE: filmscanners: Subject: 4000 ED and updating IEEE 1394 driver in 98 SE

2001-04-19 Thread shAf
Leo writes ... ... The problem i have,is that after having successfully installed the included firewire interface i have been unable to update the driver for 98SE. When i try to run 242975USA8.EXE,it says i have the wrong operating system for the update!!! Under my "general tab" in

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 4000 ED review part II

2001-04-19 Thread tflash
when it comes to dealing with the files it can generate (122+Mb files from a 35mm frame) Photoshop does a better job. I am enjoying your review, but how does 4000ppi @ 35mm come out to an 122+Mb file? Todd

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 4000 ED review part II

2001-04-19 Thread Edward Wiseman
Todd must have scanned at 48bits to get that size file...PS 6.0 will work with "major" functions at 16 bits/channel...I get the same approximate file size with my Microtek Artixscan 4000T with VUESCAN at full-tilt... Eddie Wiseman - Original Message - From: "tflash" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 4000 ED review part II

2001-04-19 Thread Richard
when it comes to dealing with the files it can generate (122+Mb files from a 35mm frame) Photoshop does a better job. I am enjoying your review, but how does 4000ppi @ 35mm come out to an 122+Mb file? Todd Scanned at 16bit will produce a 122Mb file. -- Regards Richard

Re: filmscanners: Subject: 4000 ED and updating IEEE 1394 driver in 98 SE

2001-04-19 Thread Leo Stachowicz
Cheers for the replies everyone... I installed 98 instead of 98SE,ooops!! back to the drawing board.. Leo At 11:44 19/04/01 -0500, you wrote: Leo, Can't help you on most of this, but 4.10.1998 is not 98 SE, it's just 98. SE is 4.10.. Tom From: "Leo Stachowicz" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

filmscanners: ED4000-LS2000

2001-04-19 Thread Mikael Risedal
I did a big work today for a airplane company newspaper. Start to scan with ED 4000 and NikonScan 3.1 Everything looks good until I start my old LS 2000 and Silverfast 5.2. Scanned the same pictures and compared- and what a difference. I turned of ED 4000+NikonScan 3.1 and finished my work on

Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.0 with LS-30 Ls-2000

2001-04-19 Thread Steve Greenbank
Cool. Mine is 1.31. Now I just need to decide how to download the 12MB file. :-P I assume you are worried about failed downloads. I recently downloaded a Music CD Database (about 80MB) . Before I started I downloaded something called Getright from www.download.com . This generally let's

filmscanners: RE: OT- news about Dicky

2001-04-19 Thread Laurie Solomon
Guess where Dicky showed up after leaving this list. You guessed it - on the Leben Scan list. In his first post today on that list, he was unusually civil. Time will tell if he learned his lesson.

filmscanners: Nikonscan 3.0 with Win98 / Win98SE for LS30/LS2000

2001-04-19 Thread Julian Robinson
I want to try Nikonscan 3 too (with LS2000), but can't work out if I must have Win98SE or not. The website says you do, but that may be only for the Firewire interface. I have only Win98 original. Does anyone know if you can use the old scanners with Win98 original? TIA Julian At 05:26

Re: filmscanners: Nikonscan 3.0 with Win98 / Win98SE for LS30/LS2000

2001-04-19 Thread Douglas Landrum
Julian: The specs for my LS-40 that came with Nikon Scan 3.0 call for Win 98SE. I don't know if that is required for the USB support or if it is an issue with NS 3.0. I do like NS 3.0. My present work flow method is to launch NS 3.0 as a TWAIN import on Photoshop 6 and scan with factory

filmscanners: Minolta has poor warranty service

2001-04-19 Thread Berry Ives
Here is a follow-up on Minolta's warranty service quality: it sucks. My scanner developed a problem after 20 or 30 scans, when it began leaving a cyan toned line across the long dimension of the image. It appeared that the CCD had a few pixels fail or maybe some crud on them. A couple people

Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.0 with LS-30 Ls-2000

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Geraghty
Steve wrote: downloaded something called Getright from www.download.com . I have net vampire which does the same thing. I am only using a 28K modem which makes large downloads painful. Hopefully will pick up a 56K modem in the next few days. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: filmscanners: Nikonscan 3.0 with Win98 / Win98SE for LS30/LS2000

2001-04-19 Thread Edwin Eleazer
The manual states that Win 98 SE is required. I want to try Nikonscan 3 too (with LS2000), but can't work out if I must have Win98SE or not. The website says you do, but that may be only for the Firewire interface. I have only Win98 original. Does anyone know if you can use the old

Re: filmscanners: Subject: 4000 ED and updating IEEE 1394 driver in 98 SE

2001-04-19 Thread Gordon Tassi
Leo: Since you just received the scanned, I suggest you try to scan soome slides with differing depths for the bow, from flat to really curved. If you scan them and judge the sharpness of each, you may find that you will not need the glass slide holders with the new scanner. Gordon Leo

Re: filmscanners: Nikonscan 3.0 with Win98 / Win98SE for LS30/LS2000

2001-04-19 Thread Gordon Tassi
What about Windows ME. Gordon Edwin Eleazer wrote: The manual states that Win 98 SE is required. I want to try Nikonscan 3 too (with LS2000), but can't work out if I must have Win98SE or not. The website says you do, but that may be only for the Firewire interface. I have only

Re: filmscanners: Nikonscan 3.0 with Win98 / Win98SE for LS30/LS2000

2001-04-19 Thread Tom Scales
Should work fine. Me has Firewire support built-in Tom What about Windows ME. Gordon Edwin Eleazer wrote: The manual states that Win 98 SE is required. I want to try Nikonscan 3 too (with LS2000), but can't work out if I must have Win98SE or not. The website says you do,