--- tflash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The blue channel of the pad lock image shows what
appears to be jpeg
artifacts, but none of the other channels do. I know
the blue channel is
typically the noisiest channel of a scan, but I
forget why. Isn't it because
the CCD elements are least
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:26:51 -0400 (EDT) Raphael Bustin
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Can you honestly say that any one brand is more
or less prone to reliability or service headaches
than the others?
Nope. There's anecdotal reports aplenty, but no way of weighting the
--- Pat Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a wild-ass guess, but maybe memory at the
byte level isn't being
accessed or allocated or released properly, and what
appears as a band is
the result of regular 'overflows'.
I don't think that is the problem. If there would be
overflow you
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:51:45 - Lynn Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
The difference in
light transmission might be miniscule, but sensitive CCDs might also be
able to record it.
Try scanning something like TMax3200 or Delta3200. Both have substantial
amounts of base fog, and hefty
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:46:41 -0400 Lawrence Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I don't really have enough RAM in my computer, only 384.
Just a thought. Do you get stop/start motion of the film carrier because of
spooling, during the actual scanning process?
If yes, do you still see banding
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Lawrence Smith wrote:
Well, just when you think you've made progress the scanner fools you. On
further testing I started getting bands without making any adjustments.
This is one strange machine. One thing is consistent however, the banding
is much worse at 16x. at
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Rob Geraghty wrote:
Lawrence wrote:
settings. Heres what I have discovered. If I make individual adjustments
to the RGB channels in Nikonscan the banding appears.
Does the banding occur in Vuescan output?
Vuescan, the cure for what ails you. g
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, tflash wrote:
on 7/18/01 11:11 PM, rafeb wrote:
I've posted a few small scans from my 8000 ED at:
http://www.channel1.com/users/rafeb/scanner_test4.htm
Rafe,
I looked at your scans in PS, and they are impressive, but one thing I saw
raises a somewhat
Norman,
Yes, that's exactly what happened. Makes one feel sorta silly, doesn't it?
:-) That's one advantage of shooting transparencies--you can bracket to
your heart's content (and get some interesting results, as well). Besides,
on my Acer, they scan better. Usually. :-)
Best regards--LRA
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Robert Meier wrote:
Unfortunately, I do not have the email with the scan
anymore but it seemed to me that the banding happens
at constant pixel spacing. Therefore, I do not believe
that it is a problem with the CCD itself because it's
quite unlikely that the sensors
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Tony Sleep wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:26:51 -0400 (EDT) Raphael Bustin
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Can you honestly say that any one brand is more
or less prone to reliability or service headaches
than the others?
Nope. There's anecdotal reports
rafeb wrote:
I don't give a rat's ass about your observations
on this topic,
I stand behind my statements.
Even with your nice expensive Nikon scanner, I STILL own a lot more
Nikon equipment dollar per dollar than you do, and I can speak with
years of experience with their equipment as to
Lawrence Smith wrote:
p.s. glad you liked the Cuba images. It's a great place. I can't wait to
go back. nikon is running a story about my trip with 15 of the images on
nikonnet.com in the travel section under 'articles'.
Let's hope they don't change their minds after they read your
If a $500 scanner can produce a scan which has no banding, I think a $3K
one should as well.
The expectation that a $3K scanner should work well enough to not
produce banding is, IMHO, not an unreasonable one. Heck, I expect it of
a $500 one too.
Certainly, there are likely differences between
Rafe wrote:
I'd be curious to know, among veteran film-
scanner users, whether there's any brand
loyalty at all. Anybody out there buy the
same brand twice?
I'm every bit as brand loyal as the brands (and suppliers) are loyal to me
and my goals. If it works like it's supposed to work, I'll
Fantastic comparisons, Rafe. And much more Real Life than anything from
the mfgrs' publicity departments. Thanks.
From: rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: filmscanners: On A More Positive Note
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:11:04 -0400
I've posted a
I don't really have enough RAM in my computer, only 384.
Just a thought. Do you get stop/start motion of the film carrier because
of
spooling, during the actual scanning process?
First - RAM is dirt cheap these days - I just ordered 2 - 512 MB RAMs for my
new G4 from Coast to- Coast (
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Lynn Allen wrote:
Oh, well, enough of this. We all know they exagerate.
I believe Minolta has carried this to its logical
extreme with their upcoming medium-format scanner,
claiming a 4.8 dynamic range -- presumably on the
basis of its 16-bit A/Ds. Do they suppose
I believe Minolta has carried this to its logical
extreme with their upcoming medium-format scanner,
claiming a 4.8 dynamic range -- presumably on the
basis of its 16-bit A/Ds. Do they suppose we're
all that stupid? Er.. no need to answer that.
This must be the filmscanner equivalent of
| Ask yourself -- how did the pros manage to get
| nice looking colors before the ICC came along
| to fix everything?
Work in a closed system. Basically, the scanner directly outputs CMYK file
that matches the characteristics of the press. Ignore what the monitor
shows. If you need to
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Arthur Entlich wrote:
rafeb wrote:
I don't give a rat's ass about your observations
on this topic,
I stand behind my statements.
Apparently not, Art. You have yet to answer
my simple question.
Even with your nice expensive Nikon scanner, I STILL own a
Re the banding problem
My first reaction was that the scan is being done off a native
resolution 4000 dpi, 2000 dpi, 1333.333 dpi, 1000dpi etc and that software
interpolation was/is being done.
After a few of the other comments about possible mechanical
problems I
Is there an online tutorial/FAQ/glossary somewhere that shows image samples
of various digital artifacts (e.g., banding, grain-aliasing, jaggies, etc.)?
I'm a newbie to all this, and Tony's glossary at halftone is a help but
doesn't show pics. Here, I think, sample images would be worth a
When I got my most recent camera (Nikon N80) I
took it out to test drive all the bells and whistles, including exposure
and
flash compensation.
Norman,
That's why I shoot test rolls on slide film -- no lab prints to
misinterpret. Slide film also has much less exposure latitude, of course, so
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Lynn Allen wrote:
Rafe wrote:
I'd be curious to know, among veteran film-
scanner users, whether there's any brand
loyalty at all. Anybody out there buy the
same brand twice?
I'm every bit as brand loyal as the brands (and suppliers) are loyal to me
and my
It
sounds like the
samples aren't completely being reset to zero before another sample is
taken.
Pat
I am curious exactly what you mean by that? Where are the samples not being
reset to 0?
Just a thought. Do you get stop/start motion of the film carrier
because of
spooling, during the actual scanning process?
I understand your point, but...the scanner stops for every line anyway, it
has to...it's just a matter of how long it stops, so providing there isn't
some some race
I was proceeding from the thought that the band was
the result of 'accumulated bits' (my own term, just
made up) but someone posted a very knowledgeable note
that pretty much put the kibosh on my theory. I'm just
an armchair coder, and defer to the explanation of why
my suggestion probably was
Even with your nice expensive Nikon scanner, I STILL own a lot more
Nikon equipment dollar per dollar than you do, and I can speak with
years of experience with their equipment as to what has happened to the
quality of the stuff and their repair service.
What Nikon equipment do you own, Art?
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Stephen Kogge wrote:
So is it possible that your scanner is out running your system,
the scanner stops and has to back up. It could also be a similar
problem that the data rate from the CCD head is higher than what the
Scanner interface can handle and the
Title: RE: filmscanners: Nikon Service
I spent A LOT of time on the phone with Nikon tech support when I had my first LS-8000. As a software engineer/dba with a lot of hardware experience, I've had a lot of experience with tech support in other areas. Finally, I've done my part to help Nikon
Stephen Kogge wrote:
Re the banding problem
My first reaction was that the scan is being done off a native
resolution 4000 dpi, 2000 dpi, 1333.333 dpi, 1000dpi etc and that software
interpolation was/is being done.
After a few of the other comments about
I haven't looked at that scan channel-by-channel.
It's not a perfect scan, by any means, but was
meant to show what comes out of this scanner
with zero effort.
If you'd like a higher-res scan of any part of
this image, I'd be happy to email it to you.
That's kind of you Rafe, but not
I've seen this too rafe. In fact, it seem to be more distinct in the print
than on the screen.
Lawrence
What worries me a bit is that I've had cases where the
banding shows up on the (Epson) print, but is almost invisible
on the screen. And no, I'm not confusing it with the micro-
Dan Honemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an online tutorial/FAQ/glossary somewhere that shows image
samples
of various digital artifacts (e.g., banding, grain-aliasing, jaggies,
etc.)?
I should put some examples of jaggies on my web site. Thankfully, Nikon
finally
seems to have fixed
Rafe wrote:
Aw, c'mon Lynn, just answer the question. It's really simple.
Ever bought the same brand of film scanner twice?
I sure haven't.
Gee, Rafe, since I've been scanning for less than 2 years and only done
8,000 or so scans, how many scanners would you expect me to buy!? :-)
Have I ever
Title: RE: filmscanners: Link to Nikon 8000 banding example...
Me too
-Original
Message-
From: Wilson, Paul
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
1:32 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Link to
Nikon 8000 banding example...
That's
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Dan Honemann wrote:
Is there an online tutorial/FAQ/glossary somewhere that shows image samples
of various digital artifacts (e.g., banding, grain-aliasing, jaggies, etc.)?
You mean, like a Madame-Tussaud's wax museum of
film scanner horrors? Sounds ghastly.
Just
For those interested, my colleague Michael Reichmann has just published his
initial impressions of the Nikon 8000ED. He compares it to the Imacon Photo.
http://luminous-landscape.com/nikon-8000.htm
Ian Lyons
http://www.computer-darkroom.com
I'm on my third film scanner, and have never bought
the same brand twice, but this was certainly not due
to dissatisfaction with the product's reliability. It
is more due to the product selection/price at each
purchase. I started out with an original HP Photosmart
scanner and moved up to a Canon
Yes, very obscure, that Nikon web support. www.nikontechusa.com was working
yesterday when I accessed it for digicam related support (which wasn't there
for the new 995). The site is downed hopefully temporarily, and hopefully
down for improvements to the awful interface. You had to read every
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Austin Franklin wrote:
Does Nikon have any web based support for the scanners? If so, what's the
URL? I did find NikonNet (real obvious that this is a link to support
;-/ ) and then NikonTech (very buried, and surrounded by a lot of stuff
that has nothing to do with
Just a thought. Do you get stop/start motion of the film carrier
because of
spooling, during the actual scanning process?
I understand your point, but...the scanner stops for every line anyway, it
has to...it's just a matter of how long it stops, so providing there isn't
some some race
Hi, Austin--
Your point is well taken, that different divisions of Nikon are probably
involved here, and not all run at the same level of competence. The point
remains that a manufacturer with a name like Nikon (or any number of other
names you'd care to mention) has a vested interest in
Title: RE: filmscanners: My replacement 8000 is banding like the first one :-(
This is a possibility. As I mentioned, when I had the LS8000, it did not always band. Sometimes it would and sometimes it wouldn't. Nikon tech support did mention moving the scanner to a different location to rule
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Austin Franklin wrote:
Just a thought. Do you get stop/start motion of the film carrier
because of
spooling, during the actual scanning process?
I understand your point, but...the scanner stops for every line anyway, it
has to...it's just a matter of how long it
Rob wrote (re grain-aliasing)--
The closest analogy is the moire patterns you get when scanning offset
printed magazine pictures with a flatbed at certain ppi settings.
This makes the exact point of my earlier post--that's not how I'd describe
it, at all (and the Acer can grain-alias with the
Dan wrote:
Is there an online tutorial/FAQ/glossary somewhere that shows image samples
of various digital artifacts (e.g., banding, grain-aliasing, jaggies,
etc.)?
I'm a newbie to all this, and Tony's glossary at halftone is a help but
doesn't show pics. Here, I think, sample images would be
Lawrence wrote:
I have been instructed that there will be NO 'during delivery' photos.
Immediately afterward is ok, just not before
You could try sneaking a Minox into the birthing room. As documentary, your
heirs might appreciate it. Not that *you'd* live to ;-)
Congrats and good
Title: RE: filmscanners: Link to Nikon 8000 banding example...
First off, I don't think the banding is memory related. I was doing 35mm scans on a dual PIII 866 with 512MB and Ultra2 SCSI disks. This machine should have been more than capable of dealing with those file sizes.
Anyway,
Very good review. Excellent, in fact. Please pass it on to Michael, Ian.
The only comment I would make is on Michael's, vis a vis Polaroid's
financial troubles. It's somewhat perjoritive (although I'm sure he meant it
only as a cautionary), and a tad irrelevant to performance. Be that as it
I have made some measurements on 4 scanners (Canon FS-4000, Polaroid
SS4000, Nikon LS4000, Minolta Diamage Dual) using the Q60 test image.
After reading Tony's discussion of the Q60, I had assumed the steps were
linear from 1 to 22. They are not. Steps 21 and 22 have half the step
change (2%
According to Ed,
I'm hoping to work on adding support for FireWire scanners on
Mac OS X in the next week or so. I don't know when (or if) I'll
add support for FireWire scanners on OS 9.1.
This is one thing that is discouraging me from buying a LS4000. I don't
plan on upgrading to Mac OSX. I'd
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ian Lyons wrote:
For those interested, my colleague Michael Reichmann has just published his
initial impressions of the Nikon 8000ED. He compares it to the Imacon Photo.
http://luminous-landscape.com/nikon-8000.htm
Thanks for that link, Ian. Say, isn't Michael
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Lawrence Smith wrote:
Nikon tech support advised me to send the unit in for service this morning.
They also said that they believed that service has been able 'fix' the
banding issue. They could not tell me however what they believed the issue
really was. They also
LaserSoft have just launched a new forum for those using SilverFast and
looking for information, advice or just feel like venting. Hopefully, we can
avoid the latter :-)
http://www.silverfast.com/forum/index.php
Ian Lyons
http://www.computer-darkroom.com
For Vuescan, Nikon Scan and Photoshop you'll find a PC does at least as good
a job for rather less money than a Mac.
If you can find a geek type around who'll do the work for you, you can
configure a replacement motherboard, CPU, 1GB of RAM and bits to make it
work for $5-600 (maybe less, I'm in
Does the scanner seem to stop and start or is it a smooth scan?
This is completely out of left field, but could it be a power supply
(in the scanner) issue? Someone else commented on how this only seems to
show up with scanners using stepper motors... Could the stepper motors
Chris claims that Nikon service has not recived a
unit for service, yet, for the banding problem.
That *may* possibly be true, if Lawrence's 1st 8000
went back to the retailer directly.
These guys need to get their story straight. I believe it was Chris I was
speaking with this morning
Title: Re: filmscanners: Link to Nikon 8000 banding example...
I am not sure if this has been mentioned before, if so, sorry for repeating. Try making a scan of the image that has banding with Nikons colour management system turned off, completely off! Compare the images and see if it has been
I've actually done this many times myself! I'd like to get a mac this time
(I've had 6 or 7 of them over the years and really prefer them to PCs but
that's a different story). That being said, I might just build a new PC and
save the $$. It would be a BIG improvement over what I'm using now no
Lynn,
I would be glad to contribute the web space and storage for this - I would
love to see examples of the terms used by everyone!
/fn
(email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lynn Allen
Sent: Thursday, July
Title: Re: filmscanners: Link to Nikon 8000 banding example...
Itried this and i still get the banding.
Good idea though!
Lawrene
I
am not sure if this has been mentioned before, if so, sorry for repeating. Try
making a scan of the image that has banding with Nikons colour management
Well, I am using Vuescan more and more as my default scanning app but as I
do I get more and more frustrated with it. I've finally figured out what all
the settings do and what figures work for me. I can even live without a
historgram. BUT on the mac at least
-- the crop box is awful and often
For those that don't get Dilbert in their local funny (?) papers, I think
that Scott Adams has a web site. He could probably use some of this material
in his strip. :-)
Actually, I feel your pain--LRA
From: Lawrence Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is completely out of left field, but could it be a power supply
(in the scanner) issue? Someone else commented on how this only seems to
show up with scanners using stepper motors... Could the stepper motors
cause spikes in the PSU that could interfere with the imaging side of
Title: RE: filmscanners: My replacement 8000 is banding like the first one :-(
I no longer have my LS8000 as I've mentioned. However, Camera World did want my Nikon case # so they could return it. If anyone wants the case #, I'll supply it.
Paul Wilson
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From:
I can even live without a
histogram.
I'm shocked that 1) Viewscan doesn't have a histogram, and 2) that you can
live without it!
Lynn, Rafe, Rob and others:
One thing I've always been curious about is what causes the topographical
map type of lines you see in the blue sky portion of this image:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~taiji/gallery/t21.htm
???
I see this sort of artifact a lot in jpegs on the web. Is this what is
Frank wrote:
I would be glad to contribute the web space and storage for this - I would
love to see examples of the terms used by everyone!
Count me in for samples! (even though I'll have to go back through and
retrieve the originals--stuff I've fixed doesn't count). :-) I haven't
had time
Stepper motors are known to resonate
a certain step-rates, for example.
Sorry, and I don't mean to be glib...but perhaps having an 85 pound scanner
may be an asset ;-)
At 08:42 PM 7/19/01 +0100, Jawed Ashraf wrote:
For Vuescan, Nikon Scan and Photoshop you'll find a PC does at least as good
a job for rather less money than a Mac.
snip
Careful, Jawed. While I might just agree with
you, your post is quite likely to upset a few
folks. Folks get attached to
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Austin Franklin wrote:
Just a thought. Do you get stop/start motion of the film carrier
because of
spooling, during the actual scanning process?
I understand your point, but...the scanner stops for every line
anyway, it
has to...it's just a matter of how
Hi, Dan--
That looks like Posterization to me (at least, tha's whut ah calls it! :-)
--cf definitions (-:|:-) ). I'd say it's probably a result (in this case,
anyway) of pushing the sizing and JPEG compression too far. A good reference
is Larry Berman's Compression Comparisons
--- Dan Honemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing I've always been curious about is what
causes the topographical
map type of lines you see in the blue sky portion of
this image:
The old JPEG (not JPEG 2000) does code three channels
Y, Cr, Cb. The channels Cr and Cb are downsampled.
Then
- Original Message -
From: rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:11 PM 7/16/01 -0400, Dave King wrote:
I disagree with him (Margulis) on one point however, and I consider
myself a color balance freak. Why? In an average color
photograph,
global color contrast is maximized at one point
I get around all of these problems by not using these features in VueScan:
- I never have used the crop box. Probably a carryover from when the Mac
version did not have it.
- Tried to use folders once. Now I just leave the images in VueScan's
folder and manually move them afterwards.
- I always
Thanks for that link, Ian.
Pleasures mine.
isn't Michael
the same guy who says that the Canon D30 makes
better images than 35 mm Provia?
Nope, he was quoted out of context. You might want to read what he did
write, there being a subtle but important difference.
John wrote:
it is far too easy to forget to change the output file name when
starting a new scan.
True, but if you use the + after the filename in Vuescan at least you
won't overwrite anything. :)
user interface. Human interface design clearly isn't something that lights
Ed's candle, and why
Lynn wrote:
Hoo, boy, that *would* be useful! Presently, every definition is
about a half-click away from the next guy's definition. If I had
a website, I'd give it a go (I've got *plenty* of examples!)--
maybe some kind-sprited, web-savvy member will do it?
I'd be happy to put things online
Dan wrote:
One thing I've always been curious about is what causes the topographical
map type of lines you see in the blue sky portion of this image:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~taiji/gallery/t21.htm
I see this sort of artifact a lot in jpegs on the web. Is this what is
called jaggies? Do they
on 7/19/01 5:45 PM, Austin Franklin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can even live without a
histogram.
I'm shocked that 1) Viewscan doesn't have a histogram, and 2) that you can
live without it!
Vuescan, Austin. Vuescan. Repeat after me. V-U-E-S-C-A-N
as for the histogram I set blacks and
I hate to admit this and invite pressure :), but I have been collecting
some bits and pieces for exactly this purpose..
My initial plan was to use microphotographs as well as scan samples to show
how the grain-aliasing on my Acer is indeed 'set off' by real grain, and
also to show how grain
At 05:45 PM 7/19/01 -0400, Austin wrote:
[someone else:}
I can even live without a
histogram.
[Austin:]
I'm shocked that 1) Viewscan doesn't have a histogram, and 2) that you can
live without it!
Ayup. I still wonder why Vuescan is so revered by so many.
Earlier versions didn't even have a
At 05:44 PM 7/19/01 -0400, you wrote:
Lynn, Rafe, Rob and others:
One thing I've always been curious about is what causes the topographical
map type of lines you see in the blue sky portion of this image:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~taiji/gallery/t21.htm
???
I see this sort of artifact a lot
I tried sitting on my scanner (I'm at least 80Kg) but it made no difference,
the little begger still makes a rattling noise when it's doing a preview - a
bit like a Skoda would do if it was miniaturised.
Jawed
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At 06:08 PM 7/19/01 -0400, you wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Austin Franklin wrote:
Rafe,
Exactly, and that's my point. If what was suggested is an issue, these guys
made a very basic design flaw...which I am hard pressed to believe they did,
so I question this being a problem.
I'd like to get
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 19 July 2001 23:01
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Link to Nikon 8000 banding example...
At 08:42 PM 7/19/01 +0100, Jawed Ashraf wrote:
For Vuescan, Nikon Scan and
At 10:08 PM 7/19/01 +, Lynn Allen wrote:
Hi, Dan--
That looks like Posterization to me (at least, tha's whut ah calls it! :-)
--cf definitions (-:|:-) ). I'd say it's probably a result (in this case,
anyway) of pushing the sizing and JPEG compression too far. A good reference
is Larry
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From: rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:00 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: image samples of digital artifacts
Hold everything! Do you mean, Prairie, Northern Tibet?
If you're seeing topo map effects in the sky, it's
Robert,
The old JPEG (not JPEG 2000) does code three channels
Y, Cr, Cb. The channels Cr and Cb are downsampled.
Then each channel is divided in blocks of 8x8. For
each such block you do a Discret Cosinus Transform
(DCT), devide each of the 64 resulting values by one
of 64 numbers defined
Thanks, Lynn! I look forward to whatever artifact samples you care to
share. :)
Dan
[rafe b:]
isn't Michael
the same guy who says that the Canon D30 makes
better images than 35 mm Provia?
[Ian]
Nope, he was quoted out of context. You might want to read what he did
write, there being a subtle but important difference.
Out of context?
Hmm. I read it, again. Yes, it's the
Rafe wrote:
Ayup. I still wonder why Vuescan is so revered by so many.
Earlier versions didn't even have a preview window.
Because it gets me results from my scanner I simply can't get with the OEM
driver. Sure, the interface could be improved, but *any* interface that
gets me better results
Rafe wrote:
I'm willing to bet that Dan Honemann has his video
set to 256 colors (indexed color.)
Some video drivers in Windows (particularly the generic Windows ones as
opposed to OEM) only display 256 colours despite being set to 16bit or 24bit.
It was one reason I had to throw out a video
Paint the edges of the negatives green, and get some Shitake Stones or what
ever they're called, sold at the high end stereo stores...some people swear
they improve their sound, so they might improve scanning ;-)
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Did you say, Leaf 35 ? Not 45? You've got the little guy too?
Rafe,
I did. Two reasons. One was because the electronics are identical to the
45, so I can use the power supply, CCD board, processor/SCSI board etc. if I
have any problems with my 45, and mostly because I wanted to use it to
At 01:43 20/07/01, rafe wrote:
Stepper motors are known to resonate
a certain step-rates, for example.
Yes...
Given that Nikon were reported to be having development problems with the
higher res stepper motor for the new generation of product including the
8000, and given that jaggies is
Rafe,
I'm willing to bet that Dan Honemann has his video
set to 256 colors (indexed color.)
It was set to 16-bit (True Color), so I changed it to 24-bit (High Color)
and rebooted. Still see the lines in the sky, but this is only a Dell
Inspiron 3500 notebook PC with a NeoMagic MagicMedia
on 7/19/01 9:51 PM, Roger Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm inclined to agree with Dean - I seem to be able to avoid
most of VueScan's quirks, and admittedly there are more on the Mac
than on the PC. Ed has explained any of them that I have asked him
about, and he continues to improve
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