Re: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :)
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 photo and two | articles in the September issue of Australian Ultralight magazine. I confess | my brother produces the magazine for the AUF, but it's still cool to have | my photos published in a news-stand magazine. The photos were taken on | Kodak Supra 100 and Provia 100F, and scanned with my Nikon LS30. Apparently | the laser proofs looked better than the printed magazine - mostly because | the printing company's better press was being used for a month to do another | job. | | It's probably ho hum for the pro photographers on the list, but this is | still exciting for me being able to go into a newsagency and see a photo | I took on the cover of a magazine. Especially when I took the photo and | scanned it! :) | | Rob | | | Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wordweb.com | | |
filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan Problem
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 compressed TIFFs as an FYI for people who want to use Vuescan and PSP. The solutions are simple - drop the output to 24bit or switch compression off. For 'serious' users (which doesn't include me) this is a bad drawback, and means you're stuck with Photoshop or similar. I think the shareware program Picture Window Pro works in 48 bit colour. As a *viewer*, Ed Hamrick's *Vueprint* is pretty well unbeatable, and it's included in the Vuescan licence. Irfanview is a neat little picture viewer as well. Very small and fast but it defaults to opening a file at 1:1 which is a bit of a pain. I think you can change the setting though. Maybe those viewers that don't read Ed's compressed 48-bit files have just lifted a compression/decompression routine from someone else, without understanding it very well. Could be. In the case of PSP I think it's likely to be the earlier guess that they weren't serious about supporting 48bit files in a 24bit editor. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com
Re: filmscanners: MacWorld Scanner Review
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
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 The Canon FS2710 also works on OSX with Vuescan without any Canon drivers installed, (although there are a few glitches which I'm sure Ed will iron out). I wouldn¹t have thought one would need to update the scanner software for OSX when using VuescanOSX, whereas using the scanner software under OSX will obviously require an update. -- Regards Richard // | @ @ --- Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] C _) ) --- ' __ /
filmscanners: Keyboard shortcuts in VueScan
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 keypad function keys (i.e. + and - for zoom). If anyone has any opinions, please let me know. I'm hoping to add this later today. Regards, Ed Hamrick
Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan Problem
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 licence. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
filmscanners: supra 400
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 based on ccd size a smaller ccd cell size might solve the problem. Has anyone had good results with this film with a 2750 (or whatever) dpi scanner, especially the Nikon? j
filmscanners: That's some overclocking
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 quantity and run without a liquid nitrogen bath, I'd say we just turned a big corner. I guess that's the end of encryption protection and the beginning of AI robots... Might also mean some big changes at Intel? Art
filmscanners: Re:Dust removal software/ Question forEd Hamrick
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 think. Would I get less softening using Vuescan than Nikon Scan 3.1? Martin Pete Andrews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) responded to a message you requested notification for in the General (Not Archived) bboard: Subject: Response to 4000 dpi Scanners- Nikon or Canon? IMHO, Ed Hamrick's Vuescan uses better defect removal algorithms than ICE, and the results are sharper. Vuescan uses the IR hardware of any scanner that's fitted with it.
RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking
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 :)
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 articles in the September issue of Australian Ultralight magazine. I confess my brother produces the magazine for the AUF, but it's still cool to have my photos published in a news-stand magazine. The photos were taken on Kodak Supra 100 and Provia 100F, and scanned with my Nikon LS30. Apparently the laser proofs looked better than the printed magazine - mostly because the printing company's better press was being used for a month to do another job. It's probably ho hum for the pro photographers on the list, but this is still exciting for me being able to go into a newsagency and see a photo I took on the cover of a magazine. Especially when I took the photo and scanned it! :) Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.276 / Virus Database: 145 - Release Date: 9/3/01
Re: filmscanners: supra 400
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 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 based on ccd size a smaller ccd cell size might solve the problem. Has anyone had good results with this film with a 2750 (or whatever) dpi scanner, especially the Nikon? j __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking
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 Behalf Of Arthur Entlich Sent: 05 September 2001 13:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filmscanners: That's some overclocking 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 quantity and run without a liquid nitrogen bath, I'd say we just turned a big corner. I guess that's the end of encryption protection and the beginning of AI robots... Might also mean some big changes at Intel? Art
Re: filmscanners: supra 400
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 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 based on ccd size a smaller ccd cell size might solve the problem. Has anyone had good results with this film with a 2750 (or whatever) dpi scanner, especially the Nikon? j
Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking
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 electronic and optical processing. Getting optical processing to work on a chip is a big achievement. -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
OT: Motorola 70GHz CPU (was RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking)
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 of the future, and it always will be.) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/business/04CHIP.html Stan === Photography by Stan McQueen: http://www.smcqueen.com
Re: filmscanners: supra 400
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 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 based on ccd size a smaller ccd cell | size might solve the problem. Has anyone had good results | with this film with a 2750 (or whatever) dpi scanner, | especially the Nikon? | | j | |
RE: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :)
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, September 04, 2001 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :) I just wanted to share my excitement about getting the cover photo and two articles in the September issue of Australian Ultralight magazine. I confess my brother produces the magazine for the AUF, but it's still cool to have my photos published in a news-stand magazine. The photos were taken on Kodak Supra 100 and Provia 100F, and scanned with my Nikon LS30. Apparently the laser proofs looked better than the printed magazine - mostly because the printing company's better press was being used for a month to do another job. It's probably ho hum for the pro photographers on the list, but this is still exciting for me being able to go into a newsagency and see a photo I took on the cover of a magazine. Especially when I took the photo and scanned it! :) Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com
Re: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :)
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 2700-dpi scan is good enough for anything short of a poster-sized publication, though (and even for that it may well suffice), even if some publishers refuse to recognize this. - Original Message - From: Denise E. Kissinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 20:10 Subject: Re: filmscanners: OT (a bit): Publishing pictures :) 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 articles in the September issue of Australian Ultralight magazine. I confess my brother produces the magazine for the AUF, but it's still cool to have my photos published in a news-stand magazine. The photos were taken on Kodak Supra 100 and Provia 100F, and scanned with my Nikon LS30. Apparently the laser proofs looked better than the printed magazine - mostly because the printing company's better press was being used for a month to do another job. It's probably ho hum for the pro photographers on the list, but this is still exciting for me being able to go into a newsagency and see a photo I took on the cover of a magazine. Especially when I took the photo and scanned it! :) Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.276 / Virus Database: 145 - Release Date: 9/3/01
Re: filmscanners: supra 400
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: supra 400 | 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 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 based on ccd size a smaller ccd cell | size might solve the problem. Has anyone had good results | with this film with a 2750 (or whatever) dpi scanner, | especially the Nikon? | | j | | |
Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking
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: filmscanners: That's some overclocking 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 electronic and optical processing. Getting optical processing to work on a chip is a big achievement. -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking
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 PROTECTED] To: Filmscanners [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:13 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking 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 electronic and optical processing. Getting optical processing to work on a chip is a big achievement. -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
Re: OT: Motorola 70GHz CPU (was RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking)
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 shouldn't get too attached to (or worry too much about) the characteristics of those silicon cells, 'cause they'd all be replaced by Gallium Arsenide Real Soon Now. That was... a few years ago.
Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking
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 quantity and run without a liquid nitrogen bath, I'd say we just turned a big corner. I guess that's the end of encryption protection and the beginning of AI robots... Might also mean some big changes at Intel? But you have to wear lead shorts. :-) Mike Duncan
filmscanners: Nikon Scan VS Negative dynamic range
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 Slide media and the restricted range is evident. A Kodak Max 400 dupe of the Stouffer was also scanned. Both Nikon Scan and ViewScan capture the full OD of the Max dupe. In fact, I can see all the Stouffer levels on the screen, which is a first! VS appears to be able to capture even more OD range. 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
RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking
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 the chip was 1 cm long and presumably an electrical signal would have to travel the length of the chip sometime, then in a single cycle that fast electron would travel 1 cm. That would be an average speed of 7 times E10 cm per second or more then twice the speed of light. Note I said average speed. Since the electron must start and stop the actual top speed would need to be even faster. In fairness I beleive chips are smaller then 1 cm (but larger then 0.1 cm), so my little argement is not valid; however, today distances and the time to travel those distances are a significant part of the limitation for chips. So I feel with some confidence the 70 gHZ number is not possible. I would personally be amazed at a number of 7 gHZ with the currently available chip manufacturing processes -- using Xrays to layout the grid might make that possible. You are correct, propagations are one limit to clock rates. Some CPU's actually divide the clock frequency to lower rates internally. Mike Duncan
RE: filmscanners: My 8000 does NOT band using Vuescan!
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 Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: My 8000 does NOT band using Vuescan! In a message dated 9/2/2001 8:06:37 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For those of you who have been following my ongoing saga with banding issues with my Coolscan 8000 here is an interesting update. I have tried the latest version of vuescan and guess what? It appears after doing a few test that the banding does not occur when using that software. I should have described what I learned about this earlier. The LS-8000 is unique in that it has a 3-line CCD (3 lines of 1 pixels), while all the other Nikon CoolScan scanners use a 1-line CCD. There's a mode of the LS-8000 where all three lines are read and then the stepper motor is moved. This (theoretically) can speed up scans, although not 3x because of other limitations. However, there's one more thing to consider - all scanners compensate for non-uniform light sources by doing a shading correction. For instance, the light intensity at the edges of the scan is almost always at least 20% dimmer than at the center. In addition, each CCD element is slightly more or less sensitive than the nearby elements. It appears that the Nikon hardware/firmware uses the same CCD shading for each of the 10,000 CCD positions (the same value for 3 different pixels) instead of the more optimal 30,000 different shading values. This appears to be the cause of the banding. VueScan uses one CCD line per stepper motor position. This still seems to be plenty fast, and there's no banding at all when this is used (it's the only way VueScan works). NikonScan has this same mode (I think it's called the Fine setting) and also doesn't band when using this mode. Regards, Ed Hamrick
Re: OT: Motorola 70GHz CPU (was RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking)
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 remember when the transition in camera meters from CdS to so-called silicon blue cells was getting well underway, pundits opined that we shouldn't get too attached to (or worry too much about) the characteristics of those silicon cells, 'cause they'd all be replaced by Gallium Arsenide Real Soon Now. That was... a few years ago.
Re: filmscanners: That's some overclocking
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
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 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: filmscanners: That's some overclocking 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 electronic and optical processing. Getting optical processing to work on a chip is a big achievement. -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Re:Dust removal software/ Question forEd Hamrick
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 Nikon Scan 3.1? Why don't you go to www.hamrick.com download a copy and TRY it? :-7 From everything you've said so far, it sounds like you have unreasonable expectations. AFAICS the only way you will get the sharpness you want is to turn ICE or IR cleaning off and spot by hand. Something else you should also ask or test is whether the softening you see on the screen is visible in the end product - whatever that may be! I used to be peeved by the softening caused by IR cleaning until I realised it reduced the appearance grain aliasing. :) (Soften those unwanted wrinkles today!) Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com
filmscanners: New to Viewscan/Ed Hamrick
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. I installed the program but can not figure out how to open a help folder or how to get an image into Vuescan. Both the Preview and Scan screens are blank. Am I supposed to open Vuescan.dat. When I try to, I am told, This document is too large to be opened in Simple Text. If I try to open it though Appleworks, it changes to 'html.' Under Devices there is no choice other than scan from disk, which I have no idea what that means. Under that is File Name, which I have no idea of what to do with. How do I proceed? Martin
filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: supra 400
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 unacceptable. Odd. I thought Tony said the SS4000 aliased less than 2700ppi scanners. Can someone explain this to me? ISTM that people are seeing grain at 4000ppi and calling it aliasing? I haven't scanned Supra 400 because I can't buy single rolls, but Fuji Superia 400 scans OK on the LS30. Yes, it's grainy, but it has helped a lot for situations like taking aerial shots from ultralights that vibrate or leave the photographer in the breeze! I want to try Provia 400F to get the same sort of speed which hopefully less apparent grain. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com
filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: New to Viewscan/Ed Hamrick
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 connection will only work on a Mac under OS/X? It sounds like you won't be able to use it on your Mac with the current OS. You hadn't mentioned prior to this what platform you were using. Rob PS It's called Vuescan. :) Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com
filmscanners: Canon FS2710
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
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
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 71.sit and 712.sit, which opened as Vuescan folders Vuescan and Vuescan 2. I installed the program but can not figure out how to open a help folder or how to get an image into Vuescan. Both the Preview and Scan screens are blank. Am I supposed to open Vuescan.dat. When I try to, I am told, This document is too large to be opened in Simple Text. If I try to open it though Appleworks, it changes to 'html.' Under Devices there is no choice other than scan from disk, which I have no idea what that means. Under that is File Name, which I have no idea of what to do with. How do I proceed? Martin Ed informed me the other day that VS only supports Firewire scanners under OS X 10.1 (which should be out soon). Our System 9.x won't work. Gilbert
RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan VS Negative dynamic range
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 scanner? Are you letting the software set your setpoints? The software maps the input range into the 8-bit video. Different settings in VS give different OD ranges. Nikon negative setting is mapped to give a higher contrast than VS normal negative setting. Of course you can adjust this with brightness and curve adjustment. NS3.0 has a different mapping for Positives than NS3.1, the latter giving wider OD range. Mike Duncan
Re: filmscanners: New to Viewscan/Ed Hamrick
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 Viewscan/Ed Hamrick 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 71.sit and 712.sit, which opened as Vuescan folders Vuescan and Vuescan 2. I installed the program but can not figure out how to open a help folder or how to get an image into Vuescan. Both the Preview and Scan screens are blank. Am I supposed to open Vuescan.dat. When I try to, I am told, This document is too large to be opened in Simple Text. If I try to open it though Appleworks, it changes to 'html.' Under Devices there is no choice other than scan from disk, which I have no idea what that means. Under that is File Name, which I have no idea of what to do with. How do I proceed? Martin Ed informed me the other day that VS only supports Firewire scanners under OS X 10.1 (which should be out soon). Our System 9.x won't work. Gilbert
Re: filmscanners: Canon FS2710
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 it all, and selecting the film type setting as appears best and, if necessary, adjust the brightness and gamma numbers, and then to do all level, curve and other such color correction work in Photoshop where the tools are much more useful than even in NikonScan and the image much larger and appears as it should on a calibrated monitor with working space color selected. Maris - Original Message - From: Thomas B. Maugham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Filmscanner mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:44 PM Subject: filmscanners: Canon FS2710 | 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 | |
RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan VS Negative dynamic range
-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 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 scanner? Are you letting the software set your setpoints? The software maps the input range into the 8-bit video. Different settings in VS give different OD ranges. Nikon negative setting is mapped to give a higher contrast than VS normal negative setting. Of course you can adjust this with brightness and curve adjustment. NS3.0 has a different mapping for Positives than NS3.1, the latter giving wider OD range. Mike Duncan Mapping the input data into 8 bit values has nothing to do with the dynamic range of the A/D data. That 8 bit data can represent any dynamic range at all. In fact, three bits can represent any dynamic range at all. It is the resolution within that dynamic range that the 8 bits gives you. Curves are different than setpoints. If you are seeing reduced dynamic range, the setpoints are not being set correctly, or are being set differently. If the software allows you to set the setpoints manually, you will be able to get the exact same dynamic range from any software.
RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: My 8000does NOT ba nd using Vuescan!
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: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: My 8000does NOT ba nd using Vuescan! Winsor Crosby wrote: From the Polaroid page for the SS120: Single Pass RGB, 30K Pixel CCD (10,000 X 3 = 30,000) Since the banding problem has not turned up with the Polaroid implementation I don't think that the three row CCD idea is something that does not work in practice. It may or may not depending on how it is implemented. This may be two different systems at work. The Nikon uses a CCD with no color filters on it, changing the color via the changes in light source color. Therefore, I believe Nikon scans three lines of info of one color at a time (in the three line mode). However, the Polaroid uses a CCD with colored filters on each line, (R, G and B), so it only scans one line per color, and each sensor line is individually calibrated, in effect making those 30,000 calibrations. Art
