RE: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-20 Thread Laurie Solomon
There is no right to privacy in a public place by definition. Not necessarily true; it depends on what the courts decide is a public place and not what the photographer or the man-on-the-street defines as a public place. The courts, at least in the US, base their definition on a number of

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
Joel Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, works for me. My Crop|Buffer setting is 2% (I think the default) and that seems to work well for my full frame crops. A person could probably increase this to 10% to make sure the black can't influence the auto values. The default 2% often doesn't

filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 - Peppery scans with Fuji chromes

2001-05-20 Thread Kah Heng, Tan
Hi I have been fiddling with this scanner for the last half a day since buying it yesterday. Whilst it's ability to see into dark shadows is nothing short of amazing, and its terrific scanning speed at full res brings a smile to me, I have been having an extremely annoying problem with what I

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 - Peppery scans with Fuji chromes

2001-05-20 Thread Ray Amos
Kah Heng, Tan wrote: Hi I have been fiddling with this scanner for the last half a day since buying it yesterday. Whilst it's ability to see into dark shadows is nothing short of amazing, and its terrific scanning speed at full res brings a smile to me, I have been having an extremely

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 - Peppery scans with Fuji chromes

2001-05-20 Thread Kah Heng, Tan
At 09:22 AM 5/20/01 -0400, you wrote: Kah Heng, Tan wrote: Hi I have been fiddling with this scanner for the last half a day since buying it yesterday. Whilst it's ability to see into dark shadows is nothing short of amazing, and its terrific scanning speed at full res brings a

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-20 Thread John Matturri
It might be nice to have a second crop-like box that functioned something like a spot-meter or a center-weighted meter: the scan exposure and processing would primarily be based on the marked off section. John M. Rob Geraghty wrote: Joel Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, works for me. My

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-20 Thread Richard N. Moyer
You definitely can reset the crop outline in Photoshop. Or alter it. Easily. In contrast with PSP, or some other programs, what you do in PS is: 1 Use Marquee tool to draw box outline. It can also be a circle, etc. 2.To add to the box, hold shift key down (don't have to) and redraw box, or

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-20 Thread Larry Berman
Or move it incrementally one pixel at a time in any direction using the arrow keys. Larry You definitely can reset the crop outline in Photoshop. Or alter it. Easily. In contrast with PSP, or some other programs, what you do in PS is: 1 Use Marquee tool to draw box outline. It can also be a

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-20 Thread Julian Robinson
Rob - if you meant Photoshop and not Vuescan, it does have a crop tool which is adjustable on each edge. It is not the Rectangular Marquee Tool that I think you are referring to, but the Crop Tool on the same location in the tool palette. Hold mouse down on the corner of the Rectangular

Re: filmscanners: Size of scan files

2001-05-20 Thread Richard N. Moyer
More information in the higher ISO film. LZW is a near lossless compression. With the lower ISO film, you had less information. And, not necessarily grain information in the 800 film, you could well have greater gamut/saturation, greater light latitude in the 800 film. The Fuji 800 films are

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-20 Thread Arthur Entlich
Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote: Flatbeds can and have been used for macro photography and to great advantage, and to create original works of art as well. Just protect the glass surface. Maris Now, you really are giving the store away. ;-) Much of my original artwork of the last year

Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-20 Thread Arthur Entlich
Dave Buyens wrote: Art, I am a part time photojournalist. I hope my comments below encourages others to follow your lead. Further, I don't need a model release for such publication. Now, if it were for art's sake or for profit--that'd be a different story. Then, go ahead and get

RE: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 - Peppery scans with Fujichromes

2001-05-20 Thread Stan Schwartz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kah Heng, Tan Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 9:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 - Peppery scans with Fuji chromes At 09:22 AM 5/20/01

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 - Peppery scans with Fuji chromes

2001-05-20 Thread shAf
Tan writes ... I seem to have bad luck with scanners. Thank God I bought this locally so I am going to exchange it tomorrow first thing in the morning. Please document the problem by scanning a problem slide with the old unit and its replacement, and then report back to us. On the face

RE: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-20 Thread Laurie Solomon
Maris, To start with, I agree that I did back off my initial statement. I did it for a couple of reasons; none of which were because I thought any of it was wrong, misstated, or untrue. I backed off because John's response made me realize that the statement came off sound much too absolute and

Re: filmscanners: remove

2001-05-20 Thread Psycleman
remove

filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-20 Thread cjcronin
Hello, I am having problems installing several different versions of vuescan which has brought me to a suggestion: Ed, is there an easy way to add/modify this: have the install program let the user select which directory to install too? I ask because I run several different releases of VS. I

filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 - Peppery scans with Fuji chromes (Conclusion)

2001-05-20 Thread Kah Heng, Tan
At 09:20 AM 5/20/01 -0700, you wrote: On the face of simply examining your wwweb posted example, it is difficult to believe it is the scanner (... the peppering is too random ... location and size ...), and especially when you say it appears to be film specific. By all means ... exchange the

filmscanners: remove

2001-05-20 Thread home
remove

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-20 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 5/20/2001 2:19:58 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed, is there an easy way to add/modify this: have the install program let the user select which directory to install too? Just install it and then rename c:\vuescan to something that indicates the version number.

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-20 Thread cjcronin
At 05:10 PM 5/20/01, you wrote: I wrote: Ed, is there an easy way to add/modify this: have the install program let the user select which directory to install too? Ed wrote: Just install it and then rename c:\vuescan to something that indicates the version number. That is what I was doing. But

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-20 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
Check to be sure vuescan as originally installed has not become a hidden directory invisible to view - in Windows go to My Computer - View - Folder Options - View tab - and be sure that Show all files is checked under Files and Folders/Hidden Files If that doesn't work, try deleting C:\vuescan\

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-20 Thread cjcronin
At 05:34 PM 5/20/01, Maris wrote: If that doesn't work, try deleting C:\vuescan\ from a DOS prompt. Thank you very much! That did the trick! Jules

filmscanners: optical

2001-05-20 Thread PAUL GRAHAM
Hi all, Does anyone have Optical for the monitor spyder for PC that they can send me? I have found that my programme is corrupted, and can't find my disk. I just have the spyder! thanks, and please send any mail off-list, paul

Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-20 Thread Lynn Allen
John wrote: Does US law really provide for someone to sue for invasion of privacy? I've never heard of that. I would like to know more if it is true. OK, True Story; this happend in the late 50's: A Greyhound excursion bus tour (50's version of Princess Cruises), photographer's assignment is

Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-20 Thread Johnny Deadman
on 5/20/01 6:19 PM, Lynn Allen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does US law really provide for someone to sue for invasion of privacy? I've never heard of that. I would like to know more if it is true. OK, True Story; this happend in the late 50's: A Greyhound excursion bus tour (50's version

RE: filmscanners: Size of scan files

2001-05-20 Thread Lynn Allen
Rob wrote: It looks like the excessive grain of the fast film compresses very poorly, while the almost non-existent grain of Provia 100F compresses very well. That sounds perfectly possible to me. Grain is a form of texture, and a textured backround will eat up a *lot* of memory (unless it's

filmscanners: Any web sites with a decent technical explanation of the operation of a drum scanner?

2001-05-20 Thread Austin Franklin
I am looking for a decent technical explanation on how a drum scanner operates...something more than 'it uses a PMT'... Thanks!

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-20 Thread Lynn Allen
Jules wrote: I run several different releases of VS. I was in the process of setting them all back up on my new hard drive when I got an error message that VS could not create/write to the directory it wants to install too. Once I put a copy of vuescan on, I will rename it, then install another

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-20 Thread Clive Moss
At 05:10 PM 5/20/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed, is there an easy way to add/modify this: have the install program let the user select which directory to install too? Just install it and then rename c:\vuescan to something that indicates the version number. Can the whole directory be moved

filmscanners: which space?

2001-05-20 Thread PAUL GRAHAM
Hi, on a steep learning curve here with scanning and PS6 still a bit befuddled by all the colour management issues.. when I get raw scans from a scanner.. eg Nikon 4000, they don't come in any 'space', right? so should I assign (convert) them to a particular one? isn't that wacking the data

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
Richard wrote: You definitely can reset the crop outline in Photoshop. Or alter it. Easily. [snip] OK, as usual with Photoshop, there are lots of features which are there but not obvious or intuitive. You say easily and it is if you know how, but it's nowhere near as straightforward as the

RE: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-20 Thread Dave Buyens
Art, You certainly do have a point. For me, though, it's certainly not as much profit as I'd like! Dave Arthur Entlich wrote: I've never quite understood why publishing an image in a newspaper is considered not for profit... does the name Randolph Hearst (and granddaughter Patti) and

RE: filmscanners: Size of scan files

2001-05-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
Lynn wrote: That sounds perfectly possible to me. Grain is a form of texture, and a textured backround will eat up a *lot* of memory (unless it's mathmatical--which grain isn't, AFAIK). Exactly. Because the grain pattern is random, it doesn't compress well. I was just pointing out an

Re: filmscanners: Size of scan files

2001-05-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
Richard wrote: More information in the higher ISO film. That's an interesting way of looking at it. I would have said the opposite; that there is less information lost in *more* noise. LZW is a near lossless compression. With the lower ISO film, you had less information. And, not

Re: filmscanners: which space?

2001-05-20 Thread shAf
pg writes ... ... when I get raw scans from a scanner.. eg Nikon 4000, they don't come in any 'space', right? Yes no ... there is no color space embedded, but every bitmap of RGB values belong to a color space ... you only need figure out which one. so should I assign (convert) them

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-20 Thread Julian Robinson
At 09:20 21/05/01, Rob wrote: You say easily and it is if you know how, but it's nowhere near as straightforward as the click and drag behaviour in PSP. As I said it is exactly as straightforward if you use the Crop Tool and not the Marquee Tool. Julian Robinson in usually sunny, smog free

RE: filmscanners: Any web sites with a decent technicalexplanation of the operation of a drum scanner?

2001-05-20 Thread Austin Franklin
maybe this will appeal to you, Austin May be. I couldn't really find any explanation of operation though... I'll poke around it a bit. Thanks.

Re: filmscanners: which space?

2001-05-20 Thread Douglas Landrum
Paul: I just went through the same learning curve. Try this site and look for the article on setting color management on Photoshop 6 http://www.computer-darkroom.co.uk/ Good luck, Doug - Original Message - From: PAUL GRAHAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Filmscanners@Halftone. Co. Uk [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-20 Thread Douglas Landrum
John Brownlow wrote: Okay but that's not invasion of privacy in the sense of the French law or touted UK law (it won't happen). That's just non-released commercial usage. As far as I am aware there's no invasion of privacy statute in US law. My response: In California, where I practice law, a

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-20 Thread Alan Tyson
It sounds to me as though your backup software may be keeping a record of everything that has been installed since the last backup, and trying to recreate it when you restore, and also trying to verify that this will be possible. If this is the case it's a superficially good but naive idea from