Re: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :)

2001-09-05 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
Congratulations Rob! It is cool. Maris - Original Message - From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:51 PM Subject: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :) | I just wanted to share my excitement about getting the cover

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan Problem

2001-09-05 Thread Rob Geraghty
Alan wrote: JASC hasn't taken compression/decompression of 48-bit images seriously because PSP can't work with them. If you do load a 48-bit image you can only save it as 24-bit. Oh, sure. I was just pointing out that ACDSee wasn't the only program which had problems with the Vuescan

Re: filmscanners: MacWorld Scanner Review

2001-09-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 9/4/2001 7:59:46 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VueScan already is beginning to support OS X, but I assume that it will need a Polaroid driver to work from. VueScan works fine on OS X with the SprintScan 4000 without any Polaroid drivers installed. Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: MacWorld Scanner Review

2001-09-05 Thread Richard
In a message dated 9/4/2001 7:59:46 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VueScan already is beginning to support OS X, but I assume that it will need a Polaroid driver to work from. VueScan works fine on OS X with the SprintScan 4000 without any Polaroid drivers installed. Regards, Ed

filmscanners: Keyboard shortcuts in VueScan

2001-09-05 Thread EdHamrick
If you have any preferences for the types of keyboard shortcuts you'd like me to add to VueScan, please send me e-mail with your suggestions (please don't clog up this mailing list with these suggestions though). I need to decide how to use the function keys, control-letter, Alt-letter, and

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan Problem

2001-09-05 Thread Pat Perez
One of the things that amazes me about Ed's work is that, technically speaking, it is Vuescan that's included in the Vueprint license. Pat --- Alan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a *viewer*, Ed Hamrick's *Vueprint* is pretty well unbeatable, and it's included in the Vuescan

filmscanners: supra 400

2001-09-05 Thread John Matturri
I have a number of supra 400 images that I will need to get decent scans of. Using my SS4000 I get terrible grain aliasing making the quality unacceptable. I was thinking that I would have to bite the bullet and get drum scans made, but it occurs to me that if aliasing is an interference pattern

filmscanners: That's some overclocking

2001-09-05 Thread Arthur Entlich
O.T., but darn interesting: Maybe I'm dreaming, but if I heard what I think I did, the whole computer industry is about to start a new ball game. I believe I heard that Motorola just developed a CPU that runs at, not 7 gigahertz but SEVENTY gigahertz. If that's true, and it can be produced in

filmscanners: Re:Dust removal software/ Question forEd Hamrick

2001-09-05 Thread Barbara Martin Greene
Title: Re:Dust removal software/ Question forEd Hamrick This is to Ed Hamrick I have not been satisfied with the softening of images on my Nikon Super coolscan 4000 when using Digital ICE for dust removal. I received the following response to a post I placed on the Photo.net Forum. What do you

RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking

2001-09-05 Thread Austin Franklin
I believe I heard that Motorola just developed a CPU that runs at, not 7 gigahertz but SEVENTY gigahertz. Just think, you can browse the Internet and get your eMail (at 56k) with your 70GHz CPU...

Re: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :)

2001-09-05 Thread Denise E. Kissinger
Congratulations!!! - Original Message - From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:51 PM Subject: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :) I just wanted to share my excitement about getting the cover photo and two

Re: filmscanners: supra 400

2001-09-05 Thread Pat Perez
I have had great results scanning Sura 400 with both a Canon 2710 and Minolta Scan Elite. I really like this as my general purpose film, in fact. Pat --- John Matturri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a number of supra 400 images that I will need to get decent scans of. Using my SS4000 I get

RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking

2001-09-05 Thread Jawed Ashraf
Motorola has worked out how to get gallium arsenide (ultra high performance but damned expensive) to co-exist with standard silicon tech. I saw this on: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/21450.html Jawed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: filmscanners: supra 400

2001-09-05 Thread Tom Scales
Not an answer, but I had exactly the same problem with Supra 400. Stopped using it even though it is supposed to be 'scanner optimized'. Tom I have a number of supra 400 images that I will need to get decent scans of. Using my SS4000 I get terrible grain aliasing making the quality

Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking

2001-09-05 Thread Johnny Deadman
the Motorola press release is here. It doesn't say anything about 70 GHz chips! http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MOTscript=410layout =-6item_id=203874 basically I think they have managed to bond a gallium arsenide layer to a silicon substrate in a way that allows both

OT: Motorola 70GHz CPU (was RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking)

2001-09-05 Thread Stan McQueen
I haven't found any numbers for CPU speed, but the following story (which requires a free registration) says that Motorola has come up with a way to combine GaAs with silicon to produce significantly faster circuits. (It has been said that Gallium Arsenide--GaAs--is the semiconductor material

Re: filmscanners: supra 400

2001-09-05 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
I have the Nikon LS-30 (2700spi) and my results have been fair though not poor. Maris - Original Message - From: John Matturri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:18 AM Subject: filmscanners: supra 400 | I have a number of

RE: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :)

2001-09-05 Thread Jack Phipps
Exciting stuff Rob! I love seeing your airplane pictures. Keep up the good work. I probably won't see the magazine over here, but you should share a link where we can see them on-line. Congratulations. Jack -Original Message- From: Rob Geraghty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :)

2001-09-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
The publisher didn't whine about receiving a photo scanned by yourself? I was under the impression (although it is perhaps a myth nowadays) that a fair number of publishers want to do their own scans (and I have been asked for a transparency on at least one occasion, which I refused). A

Re: filmscanners: supra 400

2001-09-05 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
Don't quote me, but I recall reading somewhere that by 'scanner optimized' Kodak meant that it is better protected against processing lab scratches. Maris - Original Message - From: Tom Scales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:49 PM Subject:

Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking

2001-09-05 Thread Tim Atherton
I want to know when they are going to get those DNA based computers they've been working on up and running? (seriously...) tim a - Original Message - From: Johnny Deadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Filmscanners [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:13 PM Subject: Re:

Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking

2001-09-05 Thread Pat Perez
Good luck getting a DNA computer to run WinNT4 or SCSI. --- Tim Atherton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know when they are going to get those DNA based computers they've been working on up and running? (seriously...) tim a - Original Message - From: Johnny Deadman [EMAIL

Re: OT: Motorola 70GHz CPU (was RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking)

2001-09-05 Thread Jeff Moore
2001-09-05-15:38:34 Stan McQueen: (It has been said that Gallium Arsenide--GaAs--is the semiconductor material of the future, and it always will be.) Yep, I remember when the transition in camera meters from CdS to so-called silicon blue cells was getting well underway, pundits opined that we

Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Duncan
O.T., but darn interesting: Maybe I'm dreaming, but if I heard what I think I did, the whole computer industry is about to start a new ball game. I believe I heard that Motorola just developed a CPU that runs at, not 7 gigahertz but SEVENTY gigahertz. If that's true, and it can be produced in

filmscanners: Nikon Scan VS Negative dynamic range

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Duncan
I just scanned the Stouffer and a Max400 dupe of the Stouffer. There was a light leak in my homemade film holder so the results won't be 100% accurate. If I could only find my film duplicator. Direct BW scans of the Stouffer target were made in BW negative mode. Note that VS kept changing to

RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Duncan
I think something is a little overclocked. BG The speed of light is 2.99 times 10E10 (that is 3 followed by 10 zeros) cm per second. One of the outcomes of Einstein's theory of relativity is nothing can travel faster then the speed of light. I don't know the size of the actual chip, but if

RE: filmscanners: My 8000 does NOT band using Vuescan!

2001-09-05 Thread Hemingway, David J
Jees Ed you let the secret out. That is precisly why the scanner bands.Polaroid scanners use a tri linear array and CCD element is normalised to take thes element to element differences out. They are just not doing a very good job of it. Tricky but not rocket science. David -Original

Re: OT: Motorola 70GHz CPU (was RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking)

2001-09-05 Thread Arthur Entlich
If I'm not mistaken, Nikon has been using GaAs if photo meters for some time now... (Or at least did...) Art Jeff Moore wrote: 2001-09-05-15:38:34 Stan McQueen: (It has been said that Gallium Arsenide--GaAs--is the semiconductor material of the future, and it always will be.) Yep, I

Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking

2001-09-05 Thread Arthur Entlich
Pat Perez wrote: Good luck getting a DNA computer to run WinNT4 or SCSI. They have helped to damage my DNA (Sleepless nights, poor nutrition, emotional breakdowns, etc,... ;-)) Art

Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking

2001-09-05 Thread Arthur Entlich
Actually this DNA stuff is slow compared to the theoretical quantum mechanical systems they are working on. I think Douglas Adams (RIP) of Hitchhiker's Guide fame, wasn't far off with his improbability drive ;-) Art Tim Atherton wrote: I want to know when they are going to get those DNA

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Re:Dust removal software/ Question forEd Hamrick

2001-09-05 Thread Rob Geraghty
Martin wrote: I have not been satisfied with the softening of images on my Nikon Super coolscan 4000 when using Digital ICE for dust removal. I received the following response to a post I placed on the Photo.net Forum. What do you think. Would I get less softening using Vuescan than

filmscanners: New to Viewscan/Ed Hamrick

2001-09-05 Thread Barbara Martin Greene
Ed I just downloaded a trial version. Am hoping it will help to get less softening of images when using ICE. I am running a Nikon LS 4000, using a 400 Mhz Mac G4 through a Firewire connection. My download consisted of 71.sit and 712.sit, which opened as Vuescan folders Vuescan and Vuescan 2.

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: supra 400

2001-09-05 Thread Rob Geraghty
Tom wrote: Not an answer, but I had exactly the same problem with Supra 400. Stopped using it even though it is supposed to be 'scanner optimized'. I have a number of supra 400 images that I will need to get decent scans of. Using my SS4000 I get terrible grain aliasing making the quality

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: New to Viewscan/Ed Hamrick

2001-09-05 Thread Rob Geraghty
Martin wrote: I just downloaded a trial version. Am hoping it will help to get less softening of images when using ICE. I am running a Nikon LS 4000, using a 400 Mhz Mac G4 through a Firewire connection. Others can correct me if I'm wrong here, but I think Ed has stated that the firewire

filmscanners: Canon FS2710

2001-09-05 Thread Thomas B. Maugham
I am using a Canon FS2710 invoked from PS 6.0.1 via the twain driver. My question is: Should I modify the image using levels, curves, etc. at the time of the scan or simply perform the scan, save the image as a .psd file, then make any modifications later? Thanks... Tom Maugham

filmscanners: Nikon LS40 IVED Scanner feedback

2001-09-05 Thread Stephen
Hello, What opinions do you have on the Nikon LS40 IVED Scanner? It uses a USB connection. This scanner is in my price range. Are there others that would be of higher quality for the price? How does it compare to the LS 30? Thanks, Stephen

Re: filmscanners: New to Viewscan/Ed Hamrick

2001-09-05 Thread Gilbert Plantinga
on 9/5/01 7:59 PM, Barbara Martin Greene at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed I just downloaded a trial version. Am hoping it will help to get less softening of images when using ICE. I am running a Nikon LS 4000, using a 400 Mhz Mac G4 through a Firewire connection. My download consisted of

RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan VS Negative dynamic range

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Duncan
Comparing NS3.1 with the Kodak print of the Max400 Stouffer dupe, NS3.1 has more dynamic range by at least two stops. The print compresses the brightest 2 stops and the darkest step is compressed. Mike Duncan What does the scanning software have to do with the dynamic range of the

Re: filmscanners: New to Viewscan/Ed Hamrick

2001-09-05 Thread Barbara Martin Greene
Gilbert Rob Thanks for the information. Before long I'll get OS X 10.1 and then I'll be able to try out Vuescan. Martin From: Gilbert Plantinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 22:18:57 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: New to

Re: filmscanners: Canon FS2710

2001-09-05 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
There is no set answer one way or the other to this question - it's whatever works best for you. I use VueScan myself rather than NikonScan for my LS-30. I prefer to capture the entire tonal range by setting white and black points where appropriate or even outside that to be certain I capture

RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan VS Negative dynamic range

2001-09-05 Thread Austin Franklin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Duncan Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan VS Negative dynamic range Comparing NS3.1 with the Kodak print of the Max400

RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: My 8000does NOT ba nd using Vuescan!

2001-09-05 Thread Hemingway, David J
Art, Each element is normalized so they all deliver the same data. Not rocket science but tricky. We just do a better job at it. David -Original Message- From: Arthur Entlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 5:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: