RE: Scanners for negatives

2000-09-22 Thread Bill Ross
of histogram deleting details. http://www.amber.ucsf.edu/~ross/gallery/tech/binuscan.html Bill Ross The filmscanners mailing list is hosted by http://www.halftone.co.uk To resign, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Group Scan site has posted SS4000 scans

2000-09-23 Thread Bill Ross
visual comparisons means doctoring the data so it's no longer objective, but someone's 'best interpretation'. More objective: have one person do the adjustments on all the raw scans. Bill Ross The filmscanners mailing

Re: Embed colour profiles in images, useful in Linux?

2000-10-03 Thread Bill Ross
Does Linux already have some sort of colour management system Try searching for 'scarse' on www.photo.net Bill Ross The filmscanners mailing list is hosted by http://www.halftone.co.uk To resign, mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Re[2]: filmscanners: Re: monitors

2000-11-06 Thread Bill Ross
computer and toss one of the sofas. ;-) Art Speaking of Epson tho, I didn't see the 1160 on their web site - is it out of production? Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: horribly dirty negatives from SS4000

2000-11-10 Thread Bill Ross
. This is my experience with slides - a light puff of air on each side, and rare spotting. When they are fresh from a top-quality lab. Bill Ross

RE: filmscanners: Polaroid Sprintscan 4000

2000-11-11 Thread Bill Ross
it's partly the difference, but the 2nd one sounds a bit raunchier, like it's going over broken glass when it's backing up, in a lightweight but still slightly startling way. However, I'm pretty used to it now and expect this one to last a while too. (The serial # is 002780.) Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: Second Hard Drive

2000-11-26 Thread Bill Ross
storage. Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: RE: Film Scanners and what they see.

2000-12-06 Thread Bill Ross
It's basic sampling theory that I was taught in the early 70's and still holds today. As an aside, this reminds me of the caption of a cartoon: "It was a long time ago, but at the time it seemed like the present." Bill Ross

RE: filmscanners: Second Hard Drive/Umax scanner

2000-12-11 Thread Bill Ross
in that the error correction is better as the RAID controller error correction is better than a standalone drive How could the RAID controller could improve error correction w/out parity? Bill Ross

RE: filmscanners: RE: Film Scanners and what they see.

2000-12-12 Thread Bill Ross
that someday even Shakespeare could be lost, in that humanity will have had so many geniuses of that caliber that only the most recent million or so will ever be 'seen'. Bill Ross

RE: filmscanners: Aliasing again, alas

2000-12-12 Thread Bill Ross
ed' in one dimension, i.e. to 2 neighboring pixels rather than 8. Bill Ross

RE: filmscanners: Aliasing again, alas

2000-12-12 Thread Bill Ross
pixel winding up in the ccd cell below the neighboring pixel. Charge bleeding would also be relevant. Yes, though I wonder if charge inheritance is a consideration as the CCD moves on the Y axis. Good point. Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: RE: cd storage

2000-12-13 Thread Bill Ross
will flake off quite readily. The main areas of adhesion are at the hub and rim where there is no dye layer -- the adhesion of the metallic film to the dye is not strong at all. Try 2 sec in the microwave - especially with ots of CDR's it is quite beautiful. Bill Ross

filmscanners: OT Nikon 4k ss4k

2001-03-22 Thread Bill Ross
than cycling, its initialization hangup is to run continuously in eject mode. Now that I'm out of warranty, I'm wondering if anyone has popped the hood worked on these boxes themselves, and with what results? Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - Ed Hamrick - Thanks

2001-03-22 Thread Bill Ross
for burnout; in fact user mail alone is often sufficient (it happened to me doing both in computational chemistry, and I observed a half-life of 1 year in others doing it). Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: OT Nikon 4k ss4k

2001-03-22 Thread Bill Ross
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Re: filmscanners: VueScan, Insight, Epson (David H.) take note)

2001-03-23 Thread Bill Ross
VueScan has limited options for scan resolutions, I only need 72 dpi if I'm scanning for the web, not 500). Scanning 72 dpi off of film will give you a web image about the size of the film itself. Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (long)

2001-03-24 Thread Bill Ross
aybe worth further investigation of augmented Epson technology, but what about getting a Fujix process printer alone or with others and start a side business. Price seems to be $US 12,000. Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: scanning/photoshop workstation (long)

2001-03-27 Thread Bill Ross
I would just use raid0 for workspace, i.e. on the order of 2-4 fast ~5GB disks. Maybe one set for swap and one pair for files. Once the work is done, park the results on something big cheap ( burn a CD or DVD). Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan 7.0.8 hang!

2001-04-01 Thread Bill Ross
waits) until the block is flushed, and this happens immediately. I expect that Windows allows this too. Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-04-03 Thread Bill Ross
ecome just such a cyclic abstraction to me. But that's life :-) Bill Ross

RE: filmscanners: File format

2001-04-03 Thread Bill Ross
as bad as the jpegs, unless 'convert' means 'putting the original files back. Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-04-03 Thread Bill Ross
ity rating is selected.. If a higher rating is chosen, I wonder if the file size will grow. It shouldn't :-) Bill Ross

RE: filmscanners: Burning CD's

2001-04-05 Thread Bill Ross
cquer-only kodaks, I get errors on a music cd after writing w/ a sharpie. Those the mitsui gold's are amazingly transparent. Bill Ross

filmscanners: ss4000 repair bill

2001-04-11 Thread Bill Ross
or failure, I'm suspecting that the root cause is a bad batch of sensors. I wonder how much those sensors really cost.. Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: ColorCorrectionLink

2001-04-11 Thread Bill Ross
of a faculty member, who was engaged in painting his portrait. Moreover, the man had no experience with film scanners. :-) Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: LS4000 and sharpness

2001-04-29 Thread Bill Ross
be weighted by the circumference of a circle with its radius.) Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: LS4000 and sharpness

2001-04-29 Thread Bill Ross
.) Bill Ross -- Erik Kaffehr[EMAIL PROTECTED] alt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mariebergsvägen 53 +46 155 219338 (home) S-611 66 Nyköping +46 155 263515 (office) Sweden -- Message sent using 100% recycled

Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-21 Thread Bill Ross
. And bring a P/S to pull out just in case :-) Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: drum scanning services

2001-05-22 Thread Bill Ross
Francisco claimed that there was no point in going above ~2000ppi because that was the highest density you could _write_ to a slide from a computer. Sigh. Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: Sprintscan 4000

2001-05-27 Thread Bill Ross
the Polaroid - I'd like to see how the edge sharpnesses compare and how discernable the color differences are. Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: Lamda, resolution + poor service

2001-05-30 Thread Bill Ross
gives useful results. In California, ones with good reps in the fine art world include: http://www.calypsoinc.com http://www.westcoastimaging.com http://www.colorfolio.com Bill Ross

Re: filmscanners: Line on SS4000 scanning

2001-06-21 Thread Bill Ross
I bet it's dust on the sensor.. you could try blowing it out w/ compressed air. Bill Ross