Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.0 Available

2001-03-13 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/12/2001 7:40:53 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that you have the LS-40 working with Vuescan... What is your opinion of scanner? It's an excellent scanner. The images are some of the best I've seen from any scanner and the scanner seems basically like an LS-30

filmscanners: Re: GeForce2 MX Graphics Card

2001-03-13 Thread Colin Maddock
Rob said: It's capable of using custom ICM profiles, so it should be fine. Just depends on what resolution and refresh you want to run at, but I think it will do most you could want. Thanks Rob. A friend here also suggested looking at a Riva TNT2-M64 32MB, but I believe they are "last year's"

RE: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for archiving

2001-03-13 Thread Eli Bowen
I have also used this technique with success. It is the workflow that evolved for me while doing production drum scans to be handed off either for retouching and photocomposition or for archiving. The idea in that environment was to get the maximum amount of information in the scan while

Win2K and memory and performance (Was: Re: filmscanners: Anyoneusing Win2K? Does is manage color like W98SE?)

2001-03-13 Thread Hugo Gävert
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Rob Geraghty wrote: Art wrote: Does Win 2K require a 133mHz motherboard bus? Can WIN 2K run on a Celeron system CPU which uses a 66mHz bus? Does anyone know why a bunch of list messages have been resent? I've just seen several duplicates. :-7 BTW I just used a

filmscanners: Trying to Calibrate Monitors to Match

2001-03-13 Thread Larry Berman
Now that I've got my new Win2K system up and running (still waiting for a second Sony monitor from Dell), I'm finding that it's impossible to get the monitors to look alike (by eye) between my Win98SE system and the Win2K system. The grays on the Win2K are much colder and lighter in comparing

filmscanners: Polaroid sensor brush

2001-03-13 Thread John Matturri
My SS4000 is constantly going through a scan cycle, even without a holder in. I've tried putting holders through a number of times with the machine off, as suggested in the support website. I also ordered the free sensor cleaning brush that David Hemingway sent a message about the other day, but

RE: filmscanners: RE: Photo quality printers: Hewlett-Packard

2001-03-13 Thread Shough, Dean
Anybody give me hint on why when I print form Photoshop to my Photosmart printer, I get a cross hatch pattern? Not in all photos. Did these images come from an unregistered copy of VueScan? It's possible that when you downloaded a new copy of VueScan that you forgot to copy over the

Re: filmscanners: RE: Photo quality printers: Hewlett-Packard

2001-03-13 Thread John Matturri
Same happened to me. You need to uncheck the watermark box. "Shough, Dean" wrote: Anybody give me hint on why when I print form Photoshop to my Photosmart printer, I get a cross hatch pattern? Not in all photos. Did these images come from an unregistered copy of VueScan? It's

Re: filmscanners: Trying to Calibrate Monitors to Match

2001-03-13 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
Have you calibrated the black points of both monitors and set them to the same temperature? Maris - Original Message - From: "Larry Berman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 5:56 AM Subject: filmscanners: Trying to Calibrate Monitors to Match | Now

RE: filmscanners: Kodak RFS 3600

2001-03-13 Thread Lynn Allen
Rick wrote: Just started noticing this- but things that were posted a week ago seem to be showing up on list again... server problems? Rick I've noticed the same thing, and just chastized my ISP. Oh, well, they deserved it anyway. ;-) (Also mentioned it to Tony, off-list, but he's been awfully

RE: filmscanners: Trying to Calibrate Monitors to Match

2001-03-13 Thread Frank Paris
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Berman Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 3:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filmscanners: Trying to Calibrate Monitors to Match I was looking at the ColorCal system: http://www.colorcal.com

Re: filmscanners: Trying to Calibrate Monitors to Match

2001-03-13 Thread Michael Moore
You're darn tootin' this is relevant! Please post your responses to Larry's question here so the rest of us can benefit. Thanks in advance. Mike M. Larry Berman wrote: Now that I've got my new Win2K system up and running (still waiting for a second Sony monitor from Dell), I'm finding that

Re: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for archiving

2001-03-13 Thread Lynn Allen
Alan T wrote: There are 7 CDs, each consisting almost entirely of Kodak's software. The data, as approx 1500x1000pixel 500KB jpegs at, I estimate, "95% quality" takes up 102MB altogether, complete with a freeware image viewer, when I transcribe it to a CD-R. The way I bypassed this problem

Re: filmscanners: RE: Photo quality printers: Hewlett-Packard vs. Epson

2001-03-13 Thread Quoton
Software City wrote: Being in the repair biz, I can only say we see lots more HP inkjets, then all the other brands combined (granted there are more HP's in circulation, but the numbers still seem disproportionate). HP does great lasers, but I'd never recommend an HP inkjet to a Customer.

Re: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for archiving

2001-03-13 Thread Lynn Allen
Hey Mike-- Thanks for the Raw Scan Input. Thank you, too, Eli--it'll take me a bit to absorb that much input, but should be worth it. At your "suggestion(s)" I tried ouputing Raw scans from Kodacolor negs on my Scanwit, this AM. I was surprised how easy it was, especially with Vuescan, which

Re: filmscanners: I got a Nikon LS-40 on Loan

2001-03-13 Thread Avi33
The DMAX of the LS-40 will be 3.6 instead of the 3.0 DMAX in the LS-30. Is the main improvement of the LS-40 over the LS-30 the USB connection, 12 bits vs. 10 bits, and slightly higher DPI?

RE: filmscanners: analog gain

2001-03-13 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Ed! Any chance of changing this? It would be great if we could play with the exposure in preview mode without actually doing the scan. I imagine that this would speed up my attempting to optimize the exposure on some of my hard to scan underexposed slides. If not, why? Thanx Guy

RE: filmscanners: I got a Nikon LS-40 on Loan

2001-03-13 Thread shAf
Avi33 writes ... The DMAX of the LS-40 will be 3.6 instead of the 3.0 DMAX in the LS-30. ... Unfortunately, it is up for debate what any Dmax is for the Nikon scanners. That is, their Dmax specification seems to be simply what the bit depth is capable of storing, and may have

filmscanners: Refilling printer cartridges (was: Photo quality printers...

2001-03-13 Thread Lynn Allen
Qoton wrote: I have heard that HP inkjet heads actually last longer if you refill them and continue to print... I have two HP printers so far I have no complaint. I got a Canon before. It was simply not comparable in print quality. Good question! I have a Lexmark Z51 (I don't print marketable

filmscanners: Dust Filter in Photoshop

2001-03-13 Thread Lynn Allen
Hi, all-- I have to back up a little bit about my "glowing review" of Photoshop's Dust Scratches filter (Sunday's post?). If you're doing animals particularly wild-life photography, you *don't* want to use it. I just tried it on a cat (original size on neg about 1/2 centimeter) and even at

Re: filmscanners: ADMIN: List Insanity

2001-03-13 Thread Richard N. Moyer
Tony - the consensus of some other list managers is that it is the Naked Wife virus, which has taken a variety of servers down to their knees, and hobbled others. Bringing them back up has resulted in doubling, or more. I really don't know, just what I hear. PC only. If you haven't heard

filmscanners: how much time do you spend futzing with scans...

2001-03-13 Thread Alan Womack
When I started scanning my own film, I spent about a week fixing the images and printing them out. I've cut that down on my images to about 3 hours from the time I load the film in the carrier and have a print I will hang on the wall. Just curious what the average time is for others on the

RE: filmscanners: how much time do you spend futzing with scans...

2001-03-13 Thread Cathy Brown
Alan, It depends on the image. Some images take just a couple of hours or so, others I work on for days, never seeming to get them just right. Cathy http://www.catbrownphoto.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Womack Sent: Tuesday,

filmscanners: RE: Dmax (was: I got a Nikon LS-40 on Loan)

2001-03-13 Thread Lynn Allen
shAF wrote: Unfortunately, it is up for debate what any Dmax is for the Nikon scanners. This brings up a question I've wanted to ask: is there some place on the Net (or otherwise) where one can look at and compare the dynamic-ranges of current scanners (film or otherwise), and make sense of

filmscanners: RE: Dmax (was: I got a Nikon LS-40 on Loan)

2001-03-13 Thread Lynn Allen
shAF wrote: Unfortunately, it is up for debate what any Dmax is for the Nikon scanners. This brings up a question I've wanted to ask: is there some place on the Net (or otherwise) where one can look at and compare the dynamic-ranges of current scanners (film or otherwise), and make sense of

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: Incrementing TIFF file names

2001-03-13 Thread Gordon Tassi
Joel: Be sure you do not remove the "+" sign after the number. You can replace any part of the information before the # 1 and the + and vueScan automatically increases the number by 1. e.g. Crop0001, Crop0002 etc. The key is don't mess with the +. You can even chang the number Crop21+ and

RE: filmscanners: analog gain

2001-03-13 Thread Rob Geraghty
Guy wrote: Any chance of changing this? It would be great if we could play with the exposure in preview mode without actually doing the scan. I imagine that this would speed up my attempting to optimize the exposure on some of my hard to scan underexposed slides. If you change the brightness,

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Improvements

2001-03-13 Thread Rob Geraghty
Jules writes ... I think many on the list would vote for a separate checkbox control to enable grain removal independently of the clean/scrub/scour setting. but scrub = clean + grain removal and scour = clean + heavier grain removal AFAIK the clean algorithm does change between the

APS and numbering was Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: Incrementing TIFF file names

2001-03-13 Thread Rob Geraghty
Just on the topic of incrementing the numbers, it would be really useful to be able to have a *negative* increment. I never had a need for this until last night when I plugged in the APS adapter for the LS30 (which worked flawlessly BTW). When you load the film, the adapter winds the entire

Re: filmscanners: analog gain

2001-03-13 Thread Jules
- Original Message - From: "Rob Geraghty" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 3:08 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: analog gain Guy wrote: Any chance of changing this? It would be great if we could play with the exposure in preview mode without

RE: filmscanners: analog gain

2001-03-13 Thread Mark T.
At 09:08 AM 14/03/01 +1000, Rob wrote: If you change the brightness, the best thing to do is rerun the preview scan. It's not horribly slow. Otherwise you're not seeing the result of the longer integration time. I imagine Ed could code Vuescan to estimate the change produced by the brightness

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Improvements

2001-03-13 Thread Mark T.
At 09:17 AM 14/03/01 +1000, Rob wrote: why would you want to seperate these? to allow the option of grain removal WITHOUT clean? Yes, or to allow varying intensities of clean without grain removal. They should be two separate drop down options, and with the interface changes in 7.0 there's