Re: filmscanners: storage

2001-02-22 Thread Richard N. Moyer
Art - I'm sure you must know that Corel is broke, and is likely to be bought out by Microsoft, if MS can get over the antitrust implications. Corel must stop doing some of the things they had been doing, since these activities aren't contributing financially. Enough anyway. Speaking of

Re: filmscanners: why bother professionally ??

2001-02-22 Thread Tony Sleep
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:48:56 - Dicky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You will, at some future stage, have to chose between taking the picture and reproducing it, simply because the time scale will eventually force you to decide between the two processes. One is creative and the other largely

Re: filmscanners: Re: OT...Trimming Quotes...

2001-02-22 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:12:15 -0600 Marvin Demuth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Tony, I am impressed with the way you trim your quotes. Nope, it's the mail client I use - just highlight the bit I want quoted, press 'c' to comment, then 'Ctrl/Q' to copy the quote across. Ameol is a dedicated

RE: filmscanners: evolution (was Nikon 8000 ED or Polaroid Sprintscan 120 ??

2001-02-22 Thread Tony Sleep
On 21 Feb 2001 07:22:44 -0800 Frank Paris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Tautological or an oxymoron? At 3am, I didn't care :) Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner info comparisons

filmscanners: ADMIN: OT Restraint please!

2001-02-22 Thread Tony Sleep
Ladies and gentlemen, Although I take a liberal view of OT postings, the volume of OT Epson msgs is threatening to turn this list into [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mk2. There are 3m msgs arguing about Epson bloody cartridge bloody mechanisms there already. This is a social space like a pub or cafe to an

Re: filmscanners: Workflow questions

2001-02-22 Thread Tony Sleep
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:06:41 -0700 Michael Moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would not apply unsharp mask to a file I was going to distribute to clients or send for color reproduction because there may be further manipulation done and sharpening added once the image is out of your hands.

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 ED or Polaroid Sprintscan 120 ??

2001-02-22 Thread Tony Sleep
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:29:32 - Dicky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sci-Tex from Israel being probably the best known creative workstation = provider today although for really flashy creative work the Quantel = Graphics Paintbox would turn a few heads and a few bank balances as well = at

filmscanners: Dicomed demise

2001-02-22 Thread Dicky
Any professional photographers in the USA will probably be familiar with the name Dicomed, they make digital camera backs. I have recently learned that this organisation went broke in late 1999. Is this the case and exactly what happened. If anyone can assist me on this issue then perhaps a

Re: filmscanners: evolution (was Nikon 8000 ED or Polaroid Sprintscan

2001-02-22 Thread Michael Moore
Tony: Totally agree as for the complexity issue... I used a Pentax Spotmatic for years... I still keep a 1967 Nikon F in my bag... When the batteries on my N90 die (I am talking about the spares) and I am someplace like Macchu Picchu or an isolated construction site, the old F and the film box

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 ED or Polaroid Sprintscan 120 ??

2001-02-22 Thread Dicky
- Original Message - From: "Michael Wilkinson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:24 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 ED or Polaroid Sprintscan 120 ?? Art is ,in my opinion ,spot on ! Drum scanners will have a limited life span,I use

Re: filmscanners: why bother professionally ??

2001-02-22 Thread Dicky
- Original Message - From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED] and some slight possibility of not dying of starvation after all. Do remember that death is natures way of warning the body to slow down.(:-) Richard Corbett PS I just love your web site XXX

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 ED or Polaroid Sprintscan 120 ??

2001-02-22 Thread Dicky
- Original Message - From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Repro houses are going to get hammered again. You swine.. I'll never forgive you for that comment. Actually I have every confidence in the abilities of the man camera manufacturers to produce the

RE: filmscanners: why bother professionally ??

2001-02-22 Thread Shough, Dean
It seems that are hearing from two approaches to photography. One shoots thousands of images and uses standard processing to all images. I would expect anyone shooting catalogs, weddings, and newspapers can not afford to custom process each image, whether in the darkroom or on the computer.

Re: Corel MS (was: filmscanners: storage )

2001-02-22 Thread Lynn Allen
Richard wrote: Art - I'm sure you must know that Corel is broke, and is likely to be bought out by Microsoft, if MS can get over the antitrust implications. Given enough time (and lattitude), Microsoft will own everything, including Macintosh. That's what makes Art's statement/theory about the

filmscanners: Acer or Nikon?

2001-02-22 Thread trs80
Hi All I'm pretty new to this list, but could do with advice. I'm looking for a film scanner that won't break the bank (aren't we all) and it's come down to the Acer Scanwit 2720 as it's a great price, BUT I like Nikon stuff, is the LS30 really a better scanner for the extra cash? I did fancy

filmscanners: Problem with Minolat Elite and Win2000

2001-02-22 Thread Dieter Henkel
Hello all, I hope this question wasn't asked ten times before and if so please answer me privately. I bought a Minolta Dimage Scan Elite and installed it on my computer running Windows 2000. It works very well apart from the annoying fact that each time I start Windows hte scanner is registered

re: filmscanners: Acer or Nikon?

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Womack
If you were only scanning slides that were well exposed, the Acer would be a good bet. It does fine on negs and great on slides, but without that variable exposure you do give up something on color negatives. Buy the nikon and buy VueScan.. alan Acer Scanwit 2720 as it's a great price, BUT

filmscanners: Scan Dual II on Mac platform

2001-02-22 Thread Berry Ives
on 2/22/01 4:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did fancy the Minolta Scandual2 but here in the UK it's a full 33% more expensive then it is in the US and that I object to.. Graham Report on my initial experience with my new Scan Dual II: 1. The software is pretty