Slide scanning on the Minolta Scan Multi II

2000-09-22 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Everybody! Up until now I've been scanning negative materials almost exclusively with very gratifying results. Recently I took several rolls of both Ektachrome and Kodachrome slides which came out a *little* on the dark side. They look great in the slide viewer, but are probably a bit,

RE: Slide scanning on the Minolta Scan Multi II

2000-09-27 Thread Clark Guy
HI, everybody! I want to thank the half-dozen people who sent me suggestions for improving the exposure of some dark slides on my Multi II. I had success with using both the autoexpose on a cropped region, and then lock in the exposure by disabling autoexposure method, and by changing the

RE: Vuescan6.2 and Minolta Dual Scan II

2000-10-09 Thread Clark Guy
Hi! I, too, have a Scan Multi II and can tell you that the multipass scanning makes a significant difference when scanning overexposed negatives or underexposed slides. The difference is in the noise level of the darkest portions of the slide or the lightest portions of the reversed negative

RE: Image sharpness-- Hand Held vs. Tripod Mounted (wasRE: 4000dpi (w

2000-10-11 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Ron! I agree with you that a 4000 dpi scanner will allow for much greater cropping before losing too many pixels of resolution. The question is simply--How much are we willing to pay for all this extra resolution. As I have stated repeatedly, I am a serious amateur. I can't afford to pay

RE: Image sharpness-- Hand Held vs. Tripod Mounted (wasRE: 4000dpi (was film scanner mailing list))

2000-10-11 Thread Clark Guy
)) - Original Message - From: "Clark Guy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I shudder (shudder!) to think what I'll need to stabilize my camera when I | get old! (er) | | Guy Clark | Why not stabilise your lenses? I was not an advocate of the Canon Image Stabilisation lenses, until I started

Expected Minolta Scan Multi Lamp Life

2000-10-24 Thread Clark Guy
Hi, everybody! I need to know if anyone knows what is the expected lamp life for a Scan Multi II. I recieved my Scan Multi II in early August, and have used it mainly on weekends, (usually turning it off when done, although the lamp appears to power down after a period of disuse). When I turn

RE: Expected Minolta Scan Multi Lamp Life

2000-10-24 Thread Clark Guy
!) but this way I'll have a spare when the lamp in the to-be-repaired unit finally goes bad. I'm going to misss my scanner! :-( Thanx, everyone who responded! Guy Clark -Original Message- From: Clark Guy Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expected

RE: Expected Minolta Scan Multi Lamp Life

2000-10-25 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Gary! I found the website rather unhelpful in terms of getting information and service for my scanner. The website has places for one to ask questions and give symptoms, but after laboriously writing in all the boxes and hitting the "send" button, an error message comes up, and when I

Science vs. religion (was RE: filmscanners: Re: Print dpi comparison)

2000-11-10 Thread Clark Guy
Hi, Art! I wasn't going to get involved in this issue, but I vehemently disagree with your assertion that "Science is whatever the ruling scientist claim is true now. " That's NOT science. Science is the idea that soneone makes a claim and others strive to independently verify the claim.

RE: filmscanners: Minolta Scan Multi II experiment with stitching (long)

2000-11-13 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Ed! Thanx for the tips! I neglected to turn off Auto Mask, White Point and Black Point. D'OH!!! I 'll try it again this week! Thanx again!! Guy Clark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: filmscanners: Minolta Scan Multi

2000-11-20 Thread Clark Guy
Hi, people! Didn't anyone besides Ed Hamrick get my rather long description of how I "faked" a Universal Holder using my MF holder and some sheet plastic with holes cut in it? I described a technique of doing just what is being asked about here: scanning a 6x6cm negaitve in three overlapping

RE: filmscanners: Avoiding Posterization with Vuescan

2000-12-08 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Stephen! This may be a stupid suggestion, but have you checked your display properties? Could you have your graphics card set to something other than "true color"? Just something easy to overlook... (It also may have happened to me once.. ;-) ) Hope this helps... Guy Clark

RE: filmscanners: Re: Umax scanners

2000-12-11 Thread Clark Guy
HI,.all!! Kudos to Ed Hamrick for his latest vuescan release!! I now can operate both my Scan Multi II and my Umax Astra 2400S at the same time (well, not simultaneously, but they can both be on and usable at the same time.)! For some reason, the TWAIN drivers for the two machines don't

RE: filmscanners: Re: Umax scanners

2000-12-13 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Laurie, et al! I tried swapping the SCSI IDs of the two scanners, and sure enough, everything works properly now (I thought I'd tried everything else, why didn't I try this before? !) Thanx for the tip! Guy Clark Oh, HO!! Thanx, Laurie! I think that my Umax is scsi 6 and my

RE: filmscanners: Do any scanners have what I need?

2000-12-15 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Dave! One option that I haven't seen mentioned here is one of the less expensive film scanners, the PrimeFilm 1800U. I have seen these on Ebay for a couple of hundred USD. For example: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1201951441 It appears not to be as good a scanner

filmscanners: DUST (was Scratched Negs Home C-41 processing)

2001-01-25 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Tim! If you have a stand-up shower stall in your home, you might try using that as a place to hang your negatives. I have had a great deal of dust problems in the half a year or so of film scanning I've done, with both professionally developed color film and my home

RE: filmscanners: DUST (was Scratched Negs Home C-41 processing)

2001-01-25 Thread Clark Guy
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: DUST (was Scratched Negs Home C-41 processing) One small addition..If you run the shower a short time before you dry your film, the dust seems to get stuck down, and you have even less of a problem, From: Clark Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED

filmscanners: pseudo1200dpi scanners (was RE: Pigmented inks was Re: filmscanners: SS4000 and LS-2000 real value?)

2001-01-30 Thread Clark Guy
Hi, Pete! Isn't the Epson 1200dpi scanner one of those that uses two 600dpi CCD arrays, offset by 1/2 pixel? If so, then of course it looks like a 600 dpi scanner-- it is merely doing hardware interpolation. The only way this kind of dual array sensor could work would be if the individual

Future of Photography (was RE: filmscanners: real value?)

2001-01-30 Thread Clark Guy
HI, everyone! I guess I'll weigh in with my opinion on the future of photography... In ten years I believe that digital cameras will continue to get better and better, but the rate of improvement will be less and less as time goes by. Unless there is a dramatic change in the methods of

RE: Future of Photography (was RE: filmscanners: real value?)

2001-01-30 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Bob! That's one of the points I feel most secure about. There is that lower limit to how small the CCD elements (photon buckets) can be. Too small and they get noisy, smaller than that and they are too small to respond to visible light! Then there is the upper limit dictated by how

RE: Future of Photography (was RE: filmscanners: real value?)

2001-01-31 Thread Clark Guy
s and get (I predict) a much better shot than the current D30 can produce. Why can't this be doe today? --Bob -Original Message----- From: Clark Guy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Future of Photography (was RE:

RE: filmscanners: Negative and CD storage methods

2001-01-31 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Collin! I can't address all of your questions, but as for CDRs with sleeves, I bought a fairly large quantity of CDRs from a place called Cassette House http://www.tape.com They were Mitsui CDR74, 10 pack logo/silver/gold Tyvek sleeves and I paid about US$0.90 apiece for them some months

RE: Future of Photography (was RE: filmscanners: real value?)

2001-01-31 Thread Clark Guy
: Berry Ives [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 8:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Future of Photography (was RE: filmscanners: real value?) on 1/30/01 2:32 PM, Clark Guy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Michael! Uhh... 35Mb file at 24bits per pixel corresponds

RE: Future of Photography (was RE: filmscanners: real value?)

2001-01-31 Thread Clark Guy
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RE: Future of Photography (was filmscanners: real value?)

2001-01-31 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Bob! I'm glad you have some of the real numbers there. The fact that we are already under an order of magnitude of a wavelength says to me that we can't get too much smaller. After all, there's still the support circuitry for each CCD element that has to be included on the chip. That

RE: Future of Photography (was RE: filmscanners: real value?)

2001-02-02 Thread Clark Guy
s lag well behind the CMOS equivalents. Now, the sky's the limit. Image sensors like the Canon one can be rolled off the same production lines as all the other high-volume semiconductors, and the intrinsic cost should plummet. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark Guy) wrote:

RE: filmscanners: Dust removal, ICE

2001-02-16 Thread Clark Guy
Hi, Mark!!! Are these wipes wet or dry? I'd like to try your method, as I don't have ICE, and spend 'WAY too much time despotting my pictures!!! Thanx!!! Guy Clark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:59 PM To:

RE: filmscanners: Dust removal cloths

2001-02-19 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Mark! Thanx for the reply! I'll check the local grocery to see if they have any. As you did, I guess I can use any oily ones on the furniture (might even keep the dust down!) Thanx!! Guy Clark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday,

RE: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution

2001-03-09 Thread Clark Guy
Hi! I would prefer that vuescan be optimized for the higher resolutions, or better yet, there be a way to switch between optimizations (something in vuescan.ini, for example). I run 1600x1200 on my work computer and on my home Internet and general purpose computer, but since my wife prefers the

filmscanners: Vuescan feedback

2001-03-09 Thread Clark Guy
Hi, Ed! I would like to second the suggestion about allowing the reversal of the order of scan. To be able to type in 6-1 and have it scan positions 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 would be a good thing. Better yet, being able to type in the actual desired order of scans would be wonderful! Speaking of

RE: filmscanners: OT: Co-processors Amiga

2001-03-09 Thread Clark Guy
Hi, Lynn! I am getting flashbacks from my early computer days! I bought an Atari ST back in 1985 shortly after they came out, and learned a great deal about computers and programming with it. The GEM (not related to the scanning GEM) GUI was a really nice windows desktop UI that I wish had

filmscanners: Minolta scan Multi accessories

2001-03-09 Thread Clark Guy
Hi! As long as I'm here ;-)... I'd like to ask if anyone has been able to purchase accessory film holders from anywhere. I expect that Minolta parts department might, but it would be likely to be at list price. Is there a source of Minolta film holders (particularly the medium format holder)

RE: filmscanners: Keeping messages On Topic

2001-03-12 Thread Clark Guy
HI, All! The following are just my opinions and feelings on the matter: I can't think of anything MORE on topic than discussions regarding Vuescan! Considering that it is software designed explicitly for scanning, and isn't particularly useful for anything else BUT scanning, discussions about

RE: filmscanners: analog gain

2001-03-13 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Ed! Any chance of changing this? It would be great if we could play with the exposure in preview mode without actually doing the scan. I imagine that this would speed up my attempting to optimize the exposure on some of my hard to scan underexposed slides. If not, why? Thanx Guy

RE: filmscanners: Any Polaroid Sprintscan 120 Info

2001-04-25 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Tim! I had the priviledge of beta testing an SS120 last month and can say only one thing: WOW! Don't get me wrong, it's not the perfect scanner, but it sure comes close. If Polaroid makes the minor changes to the software and film holders that I suggested, this will be an

RE: filmscanners: VueScan Long Exposure Pass

2001-05-04 Thread Clark Guy
Hi, Ed! I guess that I don't mind, either... I'd actually had SOME success with it on my Scan Multi II, but also some failures... I'll keep a couple copies of the last few versions around just in case I ever want to use it again!! Thanx again for a great product and great support!! Guy Clark

RE: filmscanners: LED Illumination for Film Scanners

2001-06-25 Thread Clark Guy
Hi, all! I'm only going by what the catalog says, and I didn't write it. Stanley LED catalog, p. 24: Operating Life JIS C 7035 Ta=25C, IF=Max, t=1000Hrs. I'm a little behind in my reading of this list, but I thought I'd respond to this one. One thing that hasn't been mentioned (that I

RE: filmscanners: Washed out sky/Vuescan

2001-09-20 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Martin! Id try it with all the auto settings first. I use what amounts to a default configuration of Vuescan with my Scan Multi II and it works great on all reasonably well exposed images, both positive and negative, color and monochrome. Oh, yes, I do this on a PC, but Ed Hamrick seems

[filmscanners] RE: Dickbo

2002-06-11 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Austin! That looks like him! Exactly the same attitude, obnoxious personality and use of English colloquialisms. I vote for his expulsion. Guy -Original Message- From: Austin Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:07 AM To: Clark Guy Subject

[filmscanners] Leben List

2002-07-09 Thread Clark Guy
Hey, all!!! Speaking of messages and the quiet here on filmscanners, has anyone started receiving anything from the Leben scanners (and Epson Inkjet) list? I used to get more traffic from them than anywhere else. If this keeps up, I may have to actually do some work here ;-) Guy

[filmscanners] RE: list

2004-03-23 Thread Clark Guy
HI, Frank! I think that the list is just not too busy right now. Maybe everyone's out shooting pictures to scan later! (and I'm stuck at work... :-/ ) Guy -Original Message- From: Frank K-F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:30 AM To: Clark Guy Subject

[filmscanners] RE: Pacific Image PowerSlide 3600 opinions?

2004-06-03 Thread Clark Guy
To: Clark Guy Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Pacific Image PowerSlide 3600 opinions? You might want to consider the Epson 4870 flatbed: http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson%204870/page_6.htm which appears to be able to get an effective (approximately) 3000dpi out of film, and seems to have

[filmscanners] RE: Revive this list?!

2004-09-09 Thread Clark Guy
, 2004 12:31 AM To: Clark Guy Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Revive this list?! Jules, Actually, that makes sense to me too - would you suggest what we might address best here? Scanners seem about done as a topic - they'll be around for a while, but they are more like appliances than specialized

[filmscanners] RE: Revive this list?!

2004-09-09 Thread Clark Guy
Message- From: Arthur Entlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:16 AM To: Clark Guy Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Revive this list?! Since everyone knows that what really keeps a list active is a good bit of controversy, I will take responsibility for the list having