Re: filmscanners: To Ed H; was: Vuescan for Minolta Scan Multi Pro

2001-11-25 Thread Rob Geraghty
So there is a program that listens to the bus and logs everything that goes through it? Vuescan has a mode which dumps SCSI commands. don't know what other tools Ed may use. Do they make any basic sense or are they like assembler or machine language, if those terms are still in use? I've

filmscanners: Nikon 8000

2001-11-25 Thread Asael
Hi all, See enc. scanned from Nikon 8000 (I'm still testing it, it certainly has potential, but it also has limitations...). I rescanned it (without taking the film holder out, same params, i.e., not fine mode) and the problem went away. Any ideas??? Asael attachment: Nikon8000.jpg

Re: filmscanners: Go with Yahoo Groups

2001-11-25 Thread Robert Logan
Hi Jack, Ive been offline for a while, and the Filmscanners archive is functioning even though I no longer work at the location of the server The archive exists at: http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/ Its got 20,000 messages

RE: filmscanners: Nikon 8000

2001-11-25 Thread Lawrence
Why are you sending attachments to the list? Lawrence Hi all, See enc. scanned from Nikon 8000 (I'm still testing it, it certainly has potential, but it also has limitations...). I rescanned it (without taking the film holder out, same params, i.e., not fine mode) and the problem

Re: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-25 Thread Jeff Spirer
At 02:59 AM 11/24/01, Arthur Entlich wrote: Pre 9/11 there was an FAA regulation which required all reasonable requests for hand inspection of film to be carried out by personnel, as long as you gave adequate time prior to boarding for them to do so. This is/was a requirement. And please, don't

Re: filmscanners: Color Negative Film Poll

2001-11-25 Thread Paul Chefurka
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:09:52 -0600, Tom Scales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me too, with the Sprintscan 4000. I don't like the film at all. Tom I have had the same results as John with Kodak Supra 400 on the Nikon LS-30 - grain aliasing. Maris Same here with the SS4000 and the LS-4000. It

Re: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-25 Thread Robert Meier
--- Jeff Spirer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having read the entire FAA regulations, I will point out that the regulations have ALWAYS allowed for immediate suspension of the film check provision. The right to suspend is not in any way connected to 9/11. Jeff, can you provide a link to

Re: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-25 Thread Jeff Spirer
FAR 108.25 http://www.faa.gov/avr/AFS/FARS/far-108.txt Note that (b)(3) says that rules can be suspended fairly arbitrarily, although it is couched in language that makes that a bit obscure, as it states everything in terms of certificate holders rather than the public. However, this is the

Re: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-25 Thread Doug Segar
As I read it, this section says only that the Administrator which means the FAA administrator (and ONLY the FAA Administrator) can, if (s)he finds it necessary revise any of the rules by issuing a notification to certificate holders (i.e. the companies handling security screening - airlines

Re: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-25 Thread Jeff Spirer
At 02:54 PM 11/25/01, Doug Segar wrote: Since the Administrator has issued no such notice regarding the hand checking film provision, the rule does apply WITHOUT exception. It is in no way clear that the Administrator has not done this. It is difficult to find information on where the changes

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000

2001-11-25 Thread Peter Marquis-Kyle
Lawrence asked Why are you sending attachments to the list? Relax Lawrence, it's OK. Here's a quote from Tony Sleep's mailing list instructions: Posting encoded images is permitted if they are relevant, but please keep file sizes below 80k. Use JPEG image encoding, and MIME attachment. The

RE: filmscanners: pushing dynamic range on the nikon 4000ed

2001-11-25 Thread Jawed Ashraf
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Fernandez Sent: 18 November 2001 20:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: pushing dynamic range on the nikon 4000ed Excellent posting Bill. Pity I don't

RE: filmscanners: pushing dynamic range on the nikon 4000ed

2001-11-25 Thread Jawed Ashraf
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Fernandez Sent: 21 November 2001 11:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: pushing dynamic range on the nikon 4000ed Hi Wayne-- I set auto-exposure OFF to

RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan clipping flat images

2001-11-25 Thread Jawed Ashraf
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty Sent: 24 November 2001 12:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan clipping flat images Jawed Ashraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [so much I can't

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000

2001-11-25 Thread Lawrence Smith
On 11/25/01 7:29 PM, Peter Marquis-Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Relax Lawrence, it's OK. Here's a quote from Tony Sleep's mailing list instructions: Posting encoded images is permitted if they are relevant, but please keep file sizes below 80k. Use JPEG image encoding, and MIME attachment.

Re: filmscanners: SS120: reflexions at the borders of the neg

2001-11-25 Thread Jeff Spirer
At 07:47 AM 11/20/01, Bernie Ess wrote: Someone who has the SS120 told me that one cannot really use the whole negative because near the border or the film holders there were reflexions. I donĀ“t know which borders exatly he means but he speaks of 2-3mm which is IMO quite a lot and would make of a

filmscanners: IR channel and softness

2001-11-25 Thread Rob Geraghty
It occurred to me to wonder whether some of the softness in the use of ICE or infra-red cleaning may be due to the difference in focus needed. If you take photos with IR film, you have to set the focus differently to visible light. If the difference is significant in a scanner light path, maybe

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan clipping flat images

2001-11-25 Thread Rob Geraghty
Jawed wrote: An 8-bit A/D really would struggle. I agree but it was as I mentioned, an artificial example. Maybe I should have worked with what I actually have, which is a scanner with a 12 bit A/D that the firmware drops out the 2 LSB from to return 10 bits per channel. It doesn't matter how

Re: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-25 Thread Ron Carlson
It seems to me the question is whether the suspension of the rule is reserved to the FAA and whether, in fact the FAA has suspended the rule as opposed to rule being ignored by local security inspectors. I would feel a lot better about not being able to have my film hand inspected if I could

RE: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Fed-X apparently no longer guarantees x-ray free travel for film, either. That maybe because Fed-X has an arrangement with the US Postal Service whereby it carries all the USPS's airmail (which is virtually all the USPS mail) from destination to destination; thus, they are obliged to impose the

Re: filmscanners: Color Negative Film Poll

2001-11-25 Thread John Matturri
This could make sense. As I understand it, grain aliasing involves an interference pattern between grain size and ccd size. If 2750 dpi have larger ccds (do they?) the interference might not exist. But that still leaves the problem of some people reporting grain aliasing problems with these

RE: filmscanners: pushing dynamic range on the nikon 4000ed

2001-11-25 Thread Bill Fernandez
At 12:52 AM + 11/26/01, Jawed Ashraf wrote: o By the way, a cool trick for comparing a scan displayed on the screen to the original slide is to open an empty window with a white background and hold the slide up to it, using the monitor as a light table that is perfectly matched in

Re: filmscanners: SS120: reflexions at the borders of the neg

2001-11-25 Thread Bernie Ess
- Original Message - From: Jeff Spirer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 3:53 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: SS120: reflexions at the borders of the neg It's not quite what you state, it is only along the film carrier edges, so your 57x57 neg would

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Color Negative Film Poll

2001-11-25 Thread Rob Geraghty
John wrote: interference might not exist. But that still leaves the problem of some people reporting grain aliasing problems with these scanners and others not. Anyone not have the problem with a 4000 dpi scanner? Tony Sleep said in the past that he had far ferwer problems with the SS4000 and

filmscanners: Superia, CM et al

2001-11-25 Thread Ken Durling
Hi folks - I have two questions. One is I'm having a very hard time scanning Superia 400, and there's no setting for it in Vuescan. Colors are coming out all wrong even on the scan, and it's very hard to even know where to start fixing. What Vuescan settings can I tweak? in some cases I've

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000

2001-11-25 Thread Asael
So... now that we are all past this... what about the problem with the scan! Any ideas?! Thanks, Asael - Original Message - From: Lawrence Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: filmscanners halftone.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 6:38 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Nikon