I saved this filmscanners post from July 2000 which I think might be
useful to current listmembers.
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:17:34 +1200, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vlad -
Mitsui Gold on Gold are often touted as the best CD-Rs - in my
experience TDK are good in
At 12:49 PM 4/04/01 EDT, Rich wrote:
...they ended up relenting and giving me a much better lens with
sufficient depth of field
This is an interesting statement. The only things that affects depth of
field
in a lens is its apeture or focal length. A 'much better lens' doesn't
necessarily
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:01:56 -0500 home ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have recently bought a minolta dimage scan II and I am new to film
scanning. I would really appreciate if any of you could point me to a
site
which has a few pictures scanned on some of the real expensive
(600$)scanners
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:09:53 +0800 Honda Lo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Dear Tony,
in fact, 2740S compare to 2720S, we improved the A/D from
12bit to
14bit
Thanks - I did not realise this.
The other hand is co-work with ASF to have ICE
function inside, due to we're not using
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:46:48 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Have you tried a 3rd party profile? I am tempted to get
one of Jon Cone's profiles for the 1160
http://www.pixl.dk/ is apparently the man - he has a very good rep for
producing custom Epson profiles for your choice
Mikael Risedal wrote:
Nikon have done the same mistake as Polaroid did with the pree released
Sprintscan 4000 1.5 years ago. The Polaroid software Insight was terrible. (
Im not sure if it works today)
The Nikon ED 4000 and software are not optimized and ready for the market
yet.
--- You wrote:
I think you will find that most people here regard the Acer as good enough
to stand comparison with much more expensive models, especially for
slides. If you added individual RGB channel exposure control, you would
improve the scanning of colour negatives - the main users'
At 07:46 AM 5/04/01 +, Tony wrote:
..I think you will find that most people here regard the Acer as good enough
to stand comparison with much more expensive models, especially for
slides.
No arguments from me as a pretty happy Acer user.. if we can control
grain-aliasing/noise on negatives,
I just wanted to mention to any Acer Scanwit clients and others who want
to provide suggestions and guidance to Acer on new filmscanner products
or features, that Mr. Honda Lo contacted me via email and seems
genuinely interested in feedback from end users, particularly about
software
Tony Sleep wrote:
The other hand is co-work with ASF to have ICE
function inside, due to we're not using LED light as our light-source,
so we
need to scan twice to check the place of dust scratch.
Intruiging! So you do ICE without an IR channel! Everybody has guessed
that you
It has been brought to my attention by one subscriber here that my
postings to filmscanners (and only mine) show up in his mail reader
(Netscape) as "read messages" when he receives them.
I use Netscape 6 to read my mail and to compose my responses. I also
receive my own messages as "read"
"Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
spectrophotometer. You send him a print from his calibration file off
the website + $140 and he sends you a custom profile. I may try this as an
alternative to throwing the 1200 down the stairs.
Jon Cone's company www.inkjetmall.com and
If one follows the creativepro url that has been offered on a number of
messages to the Computer Media Testing web pages, which go into much
more detail about the different types of dyes, reflective coatings, and
even track density and angles, types of laser, etc. etc. you will find
the pure
Hi everyone
I'm back.
Last time I spent quite some time complaining about how Silverfast would
lock your machine if you had anything on your PC IDE controllers other than
Hard disk drives and CD ROMs. So its time to redress the balance.
I would like to congratulate them on fixing the problem.
Hi,
After much research I have decided that a Minolta Scan Elite will probably
suit my needs, however I want to do a couple of test scans before I part
with that much cash.
I was all set to go to Jessops (who had it listed at 699), however they now
tell me it is obsolete and they no longer sell
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:14:33 -0400 (EDT) Lynn Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Note that kodak doesn't make gold disks anymore - only the new silver
alloy
ones or something.
Kodak Gold, Gold+Silver and Silver are all freely available in UK, and no
sign of discontinuation of the Gold.
I
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:11:19 -0400 (EDT) Lynn Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I'm shocked at the 6 min, 9 sec scan time with ICE at high quality
It's a long time. But I have frequently spent 30+mins manually doing what
ICE does.
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:06:42 -0400 Lawrence smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I could not find whether it is ok to post this sort of thing so if it
is a
no-no I apologize.
I have a Nikon LS-2000 that I am going to sell.
No need to apologise, private sales of filmscanners are fine.
Mark wrote:
if I just tell Miraphoto (v1.1) it's a slide I get a nice orange
scan..
Is anyone else on the list having this problem?
No, not lately--I've been doing negs exclusively since Xmas. But working
back and forth *does* seem to mess things up, sometimes. Don't know if it's
software or
Art wrote:
some have mentioned that doing this two scan process might lead
to somewhat off registered scans, and if this is the case, it could make an
inferior IR overlay for dust and scratch removal.
What part and how big a part would resolution and reproduction size play in
this scenario?
I have Silverfast Ai and IT8 (supplied with the Artixscan 4000) and with
this software it is possible to output HDR scans which are the raw data.
I think that the best scans to archive are the raw files. As later you can
return to these and use new better processing techniques become available
Reading Ian lyons very helpful tutorial "Silverfast 5 and the Polaroid
SS4000 : Part 1 - Basic steps to IT-8 calibration", I found he used a value
of 10 for lamp lightness. He noted that this allowed him to maximise shadow
detail.
Sounds good to me, but how do I know what value would be good for
I don't know if color steps is the right term but it seems to be a display
problem. In several high resolution scans, I've seen some odd areas of color
that should be continuous appear to step from one tone to another as though
displayed in 256 colors or fewer. One was a reflective surface
From what I saw on Steve's Digicams the new Nikon looks amazing. Does it
really automatically produce such imaculate scans from what can be best
described as well worn originals ?
I have never completely got the hang of removing flaws in PS and it just
takes me forever (around a hour) - it's
Well, what you are supposed to do is to filter the light to the correct
colour temp for the film, and then everything takes care of itself.
Nice theory :) Colour neg and PS work better for me.
No major disagreement from me. My response was tailored to a very specific
suggestion in someone's
Hi, I think "posterization" is the term you are looking for. You can
check it out in Photoshop by selecting the area and examining the
histogram (levels). Very interesting that it prints out okay! Sorry I
don't have any idea what the cause is.
Jon
ps "grain aliasing" just looks like a grainy
There are two issues involved scanning head speed and data transfer speed.
Unless you have dual interfaces it would be difficult to tell if the
scanning head is held back by a slower interface.
If you consiser a full resolution scan of A4 you get approx
11(inch)*8(inch)*2400*4800*6(16 bit
Note that kodak doesn't make gold disks anymore - only the new silver
alloy ones or something.
Kodak Gold, Gold+Silver and Silver are all freely available in UK, and no
sign of discontinuation of the Gold.
I suspect you are just seeing retailers stocking policy - they are
probably getting
What part and how big a part would resolution and reproduction size play
in
this scenario? Inquiring minds want to know. :-)
Empirically, it's unknown. The misregistration of the separate IR pass is
purely theoretical -- Ed Hamrick and Acer have confirmed that it *could*
happen, but AFAIK
I got my SS4000 back from Polaroid servicing center a couple of days
ago. There was a notation that, among other things, an MFT adjustment
was made. Any idea of what that is?
I have to praise Polaroid for turnaround speed. They got the scanner
last thursday, and estimated that they would send it
The speed of the PCI bus is at best 33Meg so unless the firewire socket is
integrated on the motherboard there is an other possible bottleneck!
Firewire is 400Mbit per sec (50MB) max , USB is 12Mbit max per sec
(1.5MB).
Steve
P.S. How the hell would you process a 6GB image!
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http://www.tssphoto.com/sp/dg/kodak_cd.html
Scroll down to section that begins with:
NEWS FLASH - Kodak DISCONTINUES the 'GOLD' Ultima!
Because of the high cost of producing a 100% gold layer CD-R,
Kodak is replacing this product
Anyone tried this slide/neg attachment for the Microtek X6El? Just found it
on their web site.
Bill
At 01:48 PM 5/04/01 -0400, you wrote:
What part and how big a part would resolution and reproduction size play
in this scenario? Inquiring minds want to know. :-)
...misregistration of the separate IR pass is
purely theoretical -- Ed Hamrick and Acer have confirmed that it *could*
happen, but
Grain aliasing and noise has been a regular topic on this list. It should
be--Mark, Rob, I and others have been talking at it hard enough. Without any
spectacular results, I could add. :-\
It's a pity that TIFFs can't be sent reasonably on the Net, because I just
ran up against one that makes
Hi Martin,
After much research I have decided that a Minolta Scan Elite
I've got one. It's a nice scanner.
I was all set to go to Jessops (who had it listed at 699), however they
now tell me it is obsolete and they no longer sell it.
Firstly, is it really obsolete, or is it just Jessops
Richard Starr wrote:
I don't know if color steps is the right term but it seems to be a display
problem. In several high resolution scans, I've seen some odd areas of color
that should be continuous appear to step from one tone to another as though
displayed in 256 colors or fewer. One
John Matturri wrote:
I got my SS4000 back from Polaroid servicing center a couple of days
ago. There was a notation that, among other things, an MFT adjustment
was made. Any idea of what that is?
Would it be politically incorrect to imply it was a Mutha F*%$#$ Tough
Adjustment? ;-)
Art
Lynn Allen wrote:
Art wrote:
some have mentioned that doing this two scan process might lead
to somewhat off registered scans, and if this is the case, it could make an
inferior IR overlay for dust and scratch removal.
What part and how big a part would resolution and reproduction
Tony Sleep wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:11:19 -0400 (EDT) Lynn Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I'm shocked at the 6 min, 9 sec scan time with ICE at high quality
It's a long time. But I have frequently spent 30+mins manually doing what
ICE does.
As Jack mentioned, in case
on 4/5/01 6:46 AM, Martin Wiseman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
After much research I have decided that a Minolta Scan Elite will probably
suit my needs, however I want to do a couple of test scans before I part
with that much cash.
I was all set to go to Jessops (who had it listed at
The speed of the PCI bus is at best 33Meg so unless the firewire socket is
integrated on the motherboard there is an other possible bottleneck!
Eddie,
PCI is 33MHz: megahertz, not megabytes. Since PCI is a 32-bit bus, the
maximum transfer rate is actually 132MB/sec. And some higher-end
I have been changing to LAB and splitting the channels, then applying either
a Gaussian blur or Dust and Scratches, depending on the size of the grain,
in the A and B channels only. Most of the sharpness remains in the L
channel when you recombine.
See Dan Margulis's chapter from Professional
New version of Nikonscan, 2.5.1
http://www.nikon-euro.com/nikoneuro2/download/Download_107c.htm
Edwin
Sorry, sent the link to the wrong
address.
- Original Message -
From:
Edwin
Eleazer
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 9:11
PM
Subject: filmscanners: Nikonscan
2.5.1
New version of Nikonscan, 2.5.1
on 4/5/01 6:46 PM, Bill Petitt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone tried this slide/neg attachment for the Microtek X6El? Just found it
on their web site.
Yeah, I have one. It works fine but the resolution of the X6 is pretty
limited (though I love the scanner overall). I got a half decent
My guess is that it is MTF (modulation transfer function.)
Phil
John Matturri wrote:
I got my SS4000 back from Polaroid servicing center a couple of days
ago. There was a notation that, among other things, an MFT adjustment
was made. Any idea of what that is?
I have to praise Polaroid for
I bought a Nikon Coolscan IV about 10 days ago that has a full version of
Genuine Fractals bundled in. There was no documentation for Genuine
Fractals. Altamira's web site is useless. I have loaded Fractals as a
plugin to Photoshop 6.0.1.
When I tried to use Genuine Fractal, I saved a TIFF
Bill
Mine came free with my scanner, an X6EL. I tried it a couple of times
with 35mm negs and slides and decided it was worth what I paid for it...
I think it was one of those ideas that technology passed by. By the time
it was readily available, low cost film scanners were too.
--
Jim
a full version of
Genuine Fractals bundled in. There was no documentation for Genuine
Fractals. Altamira's web site is useless.
By full version, what do you mean? There are several different full
versions of GF ( there is Genuine Fractals 2.0, Genuine Fractals Pro, and
Genuine Fractals Light
Contact GF at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good luck.
- Original Message -
From: "Douglas Landrum" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Scanner List" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:52 PM
Subject: filmscanners: Genuine Fractals
I bought a Nikon Coolscan IV about 10 days ago that has a full
I just checked the Altamira web site, located at
http://206.63.152.155/default.asp
I found the following: You have the light version of GF 2.0 bundled with
your scanner and you register it from the web site.
The site also notes: The Genuine Fractals LE software included in the
bundle enables
In a message dated 4/5/2001 5:39:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Matturri wrote:
I got my SS4000 back from Polaroid servicing center a couple of days
ago. There was a notation that, among other things, an MFT adjustment
was made. Any idea of what that is?
Would
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