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Thanks
Mark Otway
Hi all,
I've had a fair bit of feedback from various people about the negative
scanner to buy, and it seems that the Nikon CoolScan IV LS-40 might be a
good one to go for, since I've been warned off most machines cheaper
than that. I've a feeling it might be a bit of overkill, but
Anyway,
Barbara,
When ordering in the US, you'll probably be charged customs
in addition to the price. (I had that nasty surprise once,
when customs' charge was more than sh.)
Thanks, but I'm not worried about that. The scanner will count as a
computer peripheral, which means that there is no
Why not the Polaroid SS4000 at approx US$600? Better
scanner, cheaper price.
Is it really? Haven't heard of that one. Does it have batch scanning
capabilities?
Thanks
Mark
The LS40 isn't 4000dpi though.
Resolution matters!
True, true. But I'm not sure how much it matters. I believe the LS40 is
2900dpi? In which case it's probably going to be plenty for me - I'm
only intending to create/store images which are 2-3Mb, if that.
Mark
I'd suggest three little buttons next to each thumbnail:
[rotate left
90deg] [rotate 180deg] [rotate right 90deg]. Or if it's
fast enough
you could just rotate the thumbnail itself 90deg each time the user
clicks on it. Then the user just clicks until it's oriented
correctly.
Not
Right, having decided that price and performance-wise, the Nikon
Coolscan IV is the scanner for me, here's another good question. Bearing
in mind I'm in the UK, where's the cheapest place to buy it from? So far
I've found Dabs Direct (www.dabs.com) who are doing the Nikon for £499 +
VAT, and
It's XP Home and XP Pro. Your statement is wrong. Firewire
is supported in any version of XP. Home and Pro are the
same operating system. Home just lacks some optional features of Pro.
Absolutely right. For the full set of differences, see:
You have quoted a post which I missed. I looked at the
site you listed but can see nothing listed for IEEE1394.
Please advise where you saw that XP Home support this.
That's the point - there is no difference between Pro and Home where
Firewire is concerned. It's supported on both. If any
Well, I finally got around to picking up my Nikon Coolscan LS40ED this
afternoon, and I'm very pleased with it.
A surprisingly small machine (despite the *huge* cardboard box it came
in!), it's produced some superb results so far. Installation was very
easy - I plugged in the USB cable and XP
well first of all if you want they have a bug fix version
of Nikon Scan Version 3.1 on their website.. I think the
address is www.nikon-imaging.com
Thanks. I couldn't access that URL for some reason, but found 3.1 at
http://www.nikontechusa.com.
I also notice that on that site it
Tony,
Frankly I have had such a lot of trouble with this list
lately, with admin taking up so much time I seldom have
time to read up to date, let alone participate. 250 bounce
mails today, and that after I spent 1hr weeding dead
addresses; complaints from list members about
conduct of
I managed to download the update, but with great difficulty. Nikon's
site was limited to 7k/s, and didn't have resume enabled, making the
15Mb download difficult on my 56k connection with a 1hour timeout. ;-)
James Grove's site was faster (thanks James) but still no resume, so I
got a mate
I've got a Nikon LS-40, and after a couple of days of trials I've now
registered VueScan, which seems to be excellent. I'm pleased with Ed's
app, and have already produced some excellent results - particularly
with some shots taken on 800 Fuji film which was left over after I shot
some fireworks
Yahoogroups offers a method of uploading, in bulk, a text
file of all email addresses that require registration
(though to register 1500+ would require cooperation from the
Yahoogroups admins, as there is a limit of 500). It handles
bounces by moving email addresses to a bounced
Anything dark will be a problem because large amounts of the
image will be close to the film base.
Eh? On the contrary, anything black should surely be no problem, since
it will have massive contrast compared to the blank areas of the
negative strip?
Besides, the pictures I'm having the
Hi all,
Quick, and possibly dumb, question: all of the pictures I've seen of the
LS-40 have shown it stood on its side - i.e., with the 'Nikon' logo at
the correct orientation, and the power light at the top. However, I note
that it has rubber feet on the 'side', implying that it can also be
I just released VueScan 7.2.10
Thanks Ed. Any chance that the next version will have 'intelligent'
cropping/frame offset added, as discussed earlier in the week? :-)
Also, it's only a small issue but could the installer have an optional
install directory? I prefer all my apps to go in the
:-(
Still having problems with this. Most of the films I've tried seem to
scan fine now, after playing around with the frame offset and cropping
settings. However, I've got a particular set of negative strips which
seem to have non-standard frame spacing (it's slightly wider than the
Surely, the frame spacing has no relationship to the make of
film. It should be a standard 8 sprocket holes. Any variance
has to come from the camera. Some very cheap ones don't even
register the sprocket holes and vary spacing throughout a film.
Both rolls were shot on a Canon EOS300
In their zeal to make totally electronic cameras, Canon eliminated
the sprocket that counts eight holes per frame, replacing it with an
infrared sensor. I'd suggest that plays a role your nonstandard
spacing.
Ah. I see. What a PITA. :-(
Having said that, it looks to be a combination of
YES - however, if you receive them from other lists and also
PAY for time on line by the second would you feel the same way?
I've had this problem on many occasions before. It was a particular
irritation during a period when I frequently downloaded my mail via a
cellphone, at 9.6k/s. :-o
What free upgrades do is encourage good word of mouth
referrals. Word of mouth referrals are very effective,
especially word of e-mail referrals.
This is true - I didn't hesitate to register my copy of VS after being
on this list and owning my scanner for just a week!
The only problem I
Yes, the interface is quite usable, and I don't want to end
up with another 'pretty' but unfunctional product (not much
of a risk of that from Ed, I suspect!). But I do think that
Vuescan could use a *bit* of a facelift.
I think people are forgetting that the app is a cross-platform one,
Okay, I've just had something strange happen. Doing a new film, the
first strip seemed to batch scan absolutely fine - with no frame offset
problems. The second strip had the problems I've been having, where the
first frame was okay, and the second slightly out, and so on.
However, by pure
P.S. Please send messages in plain text.
Off-topic, but if you're using outlook, check this out:
http://ntbugtraq.ntadvice.com/default.asp?sid=1pid=55did=38
It's an add-in which automatically converts all HTML mails to plain text
before they're viewed. It even works in the preview window
Having got a couple of hundred scans now, here's a good question for
you: before I adjust colours and so on on individual images, I'd like to
batch-rotate all of the scans to the correct orientation (I didn't
rotate the images at scan-time due to memory and time restrictions) and
cut them to CD
Mark,
What scanning software are you using?
Vuescan.
I use VueScan and have Irfanview
http://www.ryansimmons.com/users/irfanview/ installed as a
quick file viewer. I have VueScan rotate all
images such that the horizontal ones are properly rotated.
Unfortunately, I can't do that.
Ed,
PLEASE can you add this. I've just noticed that when I re-input my
settings after installing v7.3, I forgot to add the 'plus' to the file
path. I've lost the last 3 strips worth of film scans (about 1h30m in
scanning time) because I didn't get a simple warning to say This file
is going to
I just released VueScan 7.3.1 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X
and Linux. It can be downloaded from:
Thanks Ed, you're an absolute star. :-)))
Perhaps we should all suggest to our service providers that
they should impliment a similar scheme.
The ISP that hosts my website and provides my mail has a virus-checker
running on the pop and smtp servers. This means that I *cannot* receive
a virus, and if I accidently catch one it can't
Perhaps we should all suggest to our service providers that
they should impliment a similar scheme.
The ISP that hosts my website and provides my mail has a virus-checker
running on the pop and smtp servers. This means that I *cannot* receive
a virus, and if I accidently catch one it can't be
While it indeed may be more sensible for the ISP to maintain
a virus checking operation on all messages coming into and
going out of their ISP, your ISP also, evidently, seems to
work under the assumption that redundancy insures that the
message will get through and sends out multiple
Well, you're playing an online form of Russian Roulette
then. Some of the recent rash of viruses attach themselves
to web pages. Click on the right link, and you're hit! And,
you probably won't know about it until for some time. Unless
of course, the virus trashes your system.
If you
This is certainly up to Ed Hamrick, but my long time
understanding has been that the aim was to create a
scanned image file that gave the maximum image data
for adjustment in an image editor.
I totally agree with this. I like Vuescan mainly because it seems to
give me much better results
I just released VueScan 7.3.5 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X
and Linux. It can be downloaded from:
:-)
Ed,
Any chance you could put the VS executable (sans installer) somewhere on
the website? That way, I could set up a scheduled daily download, and
always be sure of having the latest download!
thanks for all the advice. got me thinking though - would be
nice for a piece of code to take a folder full of images and
burn them onto multiple cds (not splitting files over discs
or using archives), and auto generate the thumbnails to use
cd cover stationary...
I do the next best
I understand, I have Snells...
I'm glad to see this list has now broadened its appeal to include lovers
of eclectic hi-fi.
Erm, since this is a bit off-topic now, might I recommend it moves to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]? ;-)
Mark
I have yet to be convinced that a LCD can match a decent CRT
for image processing work (or fast moving games).
Having used a wide selection of LCD screens for all sorts of work (and
in particular for fast-moving games) I'd say they are far better than
conventional CRT screens. There's no
PLEASE - we did this whole raid/striping, ide vs scsi thing about 3
months ago.
Do we have to go through it all again?!?!
:-(
Mark
Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe
Just to follow this post up, I've found that the Independent JPEG Group
have developed a utility called 'jpegtran' which performs lossless
transformations on JPEG images. This webpage:
http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/losslessapps.html
contains a very long list of the various apps which support
FWIW the following is from
http://www.jpg.com/products/wizard.html It
implies that normally you would introduce artifacts when
doing a mirror and re-saving, but I think is claiming that
with this technology you won't degrade the image at all.
Yes, this is what the jpegtran command-line
I'm scanning some negative strips with my Nikon LS-40, but VueScan is
taking a fair while to process/save them on my lowly laptop. After a
certain amount of time (5 minutes? I've not timed it) the scanner seems
to automatically eject the film. That would be no problem, except that
if I'm not
I think you'll find the answers to most if not all of your
questions in the help file that accompanies VueScan. To
access it either click on help on the main menu or press F1.
It's not as comprehensive as many programs but it provides
enough information to give you a good start and you
I don't own a Nikon, but that number is way off. I've owned
four film scanners and even on my original DX 486 I was
getting 5 minute to 7 minute scans.
My LS-40ED, running with the latest version of VS, on a Crusoe 633Mhz
laptop running XP with 128Mb of ram manages to scan a 35mm negative
And I for one am very sick of this stuff.
I'll second that. This whole debate between Moreno, Art and Austin is
*soo* tiresome. :-(
As for me, well, my website will fail professional scrutiny
quite miserably. So I'll now take some time off the list -
my opinions will not be
there are people are there buying Nikons _in spite of_
these issues solely for the reason they wish to associate
themselves with the Nikon brand. That, and the fact that
with the Nikon you can also get ICE packaged.
I think people are also forgetting that the depth-of-field issue affects
I believe some users say they get usable Vuescanned images
straight off their scanners, without much tweaking in
Photoshop.
I've certainly had some excellent results direct from VS.
I'm by no means a professional photographer; the following examples are
holiday shots, all taken with a
I doubt that's a hair on or near the lens. Although you
used a wide angle lens, I'd be very surprised it could focus
that close to the lens or even a filter ring.
I just used a normal lens (the one that came as standard on the Canon).
I don't have any extra lenses yet, although I want to
snip
Laurie, I think you're being massively over-sensitive about this. I read
your and Tomek's post, and it was absolutely clear that Tomek was making
a comparison. If you read the post again you'll see that you wrote:
I sincerely hope that David will stay subscribed
to the list and remain
Am I the only one who's happy with NikonScan? It crashed
once on me. Sometime last year, I think.
It's not the crashing in NS that's the problem for me. NS has never
actually crashed on me, even before I upgraded to 3.12.
The reason I like VS so much more than NS is because the scans VS
Unless your friend works for Adobe he/she is in breach of
the conditions they were given under (assumes it's legit).
Obviously it's not legit. Hence the phrase 'evaluation'. The friend does
not work for Adobe, either. ;-)
Mark
I second the idea of scanning using a separate machine.
Even though W2K task manager shows that there is about 50%
CPU load scanning using Vuescan (was 100% on a P200), trying
to run anything alongside Vuescan is virtually impossible
for me.
I find that turning down the application's
That's how I normally scan. The scanner is on an
underpowered machine and saves the scans across the network
to my editing machine. Slower to scan, but editing while
scanning is much, much faster. I think 128MB would be too
low, even to scan, but 256Mb would be OK. For that matter,
Don't do it.
I'd say quite the opposite. :-D
I had an SS4000 and it with an LS-400 (4000ED). The
Polaroid is a better scanner. Better shadow detail.
Crisper -- no depth of field problem.
This all depends on the negative flatness - if they're flat the DoF
simply isn't an issue.
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