filmscanners: scanner lenses

Been reading dissection of the new Nikon's 4000/8000 press claims with interest... but can I ask about its optics? I noticed that its lens is 14 elements in the 8000, which seems an awful lot of glass... now maybe this is great and wonderful, or maybe this is because it does every format from APS

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Hi all, I'm planning to get one of the new 4000 dpi medium format scanners for my 6x7 negs, and checked out the specs on their site. Got a bit freaked out when I saw that a scan of this size in 16 bit is 624 Mb. (8 bit: 312 Mb) If Vuescan works with these scanners (likely I'm sure, with Ed so on

filmscanners:

Does anyone know anything about Dicomed Imaginator? (sp?) Heard it was good high end (windows) image editing software Or what about Qimage pro? any opinions on these PS alternatives? thanks, PG

filmscanners: Grain in Color negative Film

I do use pro labs to develop my colour negs, but am I the only who notices a double standard in even their handling: transparency film gets the gloved treatment, negatives get fingers (as in fingerprints...) oh, and I have changed labs 3 times... same result. but then, as we all know real pro's

filmscanners: HP pigmented inks

Hi all, I was talking to a high end ink jet salesman who sold both HP and Epson (and other) wide format machines. He said that the HP machine has the better Gamut in their UV resistant inks, than the Epson in their pigmented archival inks. The interesting thing was that he kept calling

filmscanners: scanning/photoshop workstation (long)

Hi all, I've been researching for months about getting a medium format workstation for my scanning work, and thought I'd just run it by the forum for opinions, oversights, have my assumptions corrected, and perhaps even be some help to others too. Basically the new 4000 dpi m/f scanners will

filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon 4000

Don't see why anyone is surprised to learn that there is film curvature with 35mm negs in the Nikon scanner. Every pro lab knows that you have to use glass holders for film when working to critical sharpness, 35mm or 5x4". and 4000 dpi needs critical sharpness... Nikon makes and sells a glass

filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon's

Mikael: don't see what any of that text you quote from Nikon: "Coolscan Film Scanners: The Coolscan IV ED, Super Coolscan 4000 ED and Super Coolscan 8000 ED, take film scanning to a new level by..." (etc) has to do with the choice

filmscanners: nikon glass carrier ref #

out neg carrier. Hope David will do both of these for the Polaroid Sprintscan 120? David? -pg Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 11:07:50 +1000 From: "Rob Geraghty" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon 4000 "PAUL GRAHAM" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikon mak

filmscanners: film flatness in new Nikon's

well said... last paragraph one report and we're dismissing the entire range of new Nikon scanners. let's get more info, please pg Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:11:11 -0400 From: "Dave King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners:Focusing film flatness Most darkroom workers interested in

filmscanners: Coolscan 4000

Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 09:16:54 +0930 From: "Mark T." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000 At 04:11 PM 7/04/01 +, you wrote: Jeremy Please take a real sharp slide ( glassles) and select the auto focus in the middle of the picture and scan the slide

filmscanners: film sharpness

(snip) I too have noticed funny things with the focusing with my SS4000 (running Vuescan, don't know about PCI - haven't used it in a while). I've scanned a slide, found too much dust, re-scanned it and found that the focusing had changed slightly - the dust was in sharp focus, but the image was

filmscanners: optical

Hi all, Does anyone have Optical for the monitor spyder for PC that they can send me? I have found that my programme is corrupted, and can't find my disk. I just have the spyder! thanks, and please send any mail off-list, paul

filmscanners: which space?

Hi, on a steep learning curve here with scanning and PS6 still a bit befuddled by all the colour management issues.. when I get raw scans from a scanner.. eg Nikon 4000, they don't come in any 'space', right? so should I assign (convert) them to a particular one? isn't that wacking the data

filmscanners: ICG not CGI

Bob, I think you mean an ICG drum scanner, (at least it is them who have the internal oil drum with no taping), and its actually $35,000. (UK £26,000 new) good machine, as is the Heidelberg Primescan/Tango. Paul Whenever I've mentioned 50Mb drum scans at $10 on the Stockphoto list I've had

filmscanners: Lamda, resolution + poor service

Update on trying to get a good Lamda print done: Went to a repro lab recommended by Fuji, and after carefully explaining what I wanted from them - highest quality, finest detail and optimum resolution from my 5x7 inch negative, to output a 45 print, I came back the next day to be shown a 37Mb

filmscanners: tiff compression

Hi all, what do people think about saving my raw scans as LZW tiff's? I am making 48 bit 6x7 scans on Nikon 8000, and they are over 500Mb each, so lossless compression would save a hell of a lot of space, but what are the drawbacks? can most programmes decode them if I send them to people

filmscanners: Nikon 8000

Is anyone using the Nikon 8000? How does it handle those big floppy 6x6 and 6x9 films? Any other comment or link appreciated. Hi. I got one the other week good machine in general. following on from other postings I was wary of Nikonscan software, but it turns out to be extremely powerful and

filmscanners: scanned files open larger than indicated

Can someone tell me why my TIF files open larger in Photoshop than their indicated size on the disk? A 25Mb file opens as 76Mb in Photoshops scratch size indicator A 130Mb file at around 205Mb A 330Mb somewhere about 410Mb what is going on? these are regular tiffs, I dont use LZW

filmscanners: Nikon 8000/ digital ICE, was: Scanner Buying Dilemma

Buy the SS120. I have one and I like it. The Nikon is probably a fine scanner if you could find one, but is reported to have problems keeping medium format film in focus at the edges due to the type of light source it uses, which also evidently accentuates dust which means you need to use ICE

filmscanners: SS120 UK prices - was/UK price reduction for the Sprintscan 4000

There is also a cheap source for UK SS120's if anyone is interested, please contact me off-list. About UK£1850, pre-tax, - a full £900 less than Jessops price...or almost anyone else for that matter, Paul

RE: filmscanners: Nikon 8000/ digital ICE

thanks for your prompt feedback Jack, regarding ROC, I was using it on an underexposed negative, as I think you recommended a while back. ROC worked, shockingly so, but way too much. a far weaker setting (like two or three notches down, not just one) for such thin negs would be great, and then

RE: filmscanners: Bruce Fraser Reviews Nikon 4000ED

I've read both his comments and Wire Moores, and the truth is somewhere in between. his are written for a major magazine readership, yours, if you will excuse me, seem quite hostile to the 4000. Bruce says If ICE is cool, GEM is nothing short of amazing. Blah, blah. What he doesn't say is that

RE: filmscanners: Re: nikonscan white clipping

Hi Ralf, Just to clarify your technique: what do you mean by: use the auto adjust (which button is that? is it the contrast black/white one?) and what do you have your balck/ white points set to in Preferences? at the default 0.5? otherwise thanks for your technique - its useful also: what

filmscanners: GEM + highlight detail + Nikonscan

Hi, following all the posts about obtaining good highlight detail from Nikonscan, just wanted to add an observation: having just spent 2 days trying to sort out a particularly difficult negative, I couldnt work out why vuescan was giving me detail in the whites, where nikonscan wasn't. I could

filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1: how to get good color and shadow detail

Bill thanks for your NS 3.1 advices, they are useful, so what do you suggest as a good everyday practise: wide gamut (compensated) or turning color management off? I use fuji negative film nearly all the time. please see my next post on highlight detail and GEM though - my 2 cents... paul

filmscanners: PS6 and W2K: virtual memory on/off?

When I'm handling large files in PS6 with W2K, I'm watching the scratch disk size, which shows the current usage against the amount of RAM I have allocated to PS something like 650/1270, then with a move that takes me up to the 1270 allocation for the programme the computer baulks for a moment,

filmscanners: Re: Constant crashes with Nikonscan 3.1/Coolscan 4000ED/W2K/Dual CPUs

Yeah, me too Cary. I'm a dualie also, but I hadn't attributed it to that, as enough people have mentioned NS crashes for me not to pin the blame on dual processors. but maybe you have something. It does crash at the most annoying times (after 15mins previewing and a lot of curve work on that

RE: filmscanners: A picture can say more...(was: nikonscan white clipping)

Ralf thanks so much wonderful and clear Nikonscan explanation you should get a job at Nikon (or get together with Ed!) paul Instead of making lots of words again, I have put up a picture which shows the respective histogram views of the Nikon Scan GUI, with a few annotations of mine on how

filmscanners: Nikonscan and dual processors

Just got this back from Nikon: It is known by Nikon that there are problems with Dual Processor PC's, both Windows and Mac. Although the Product Brochures do not specifically say the 2CPU machines will not work, neither do they say it does. Dual Processors are good but only for applications

filmscanners: switching of nikonscan colour management

Ralf, thanks for the advice - when I switched off Nikons colour management system I got a fantastic colour preview - (with some sort of grid over it) it looked like just what I had been striving for in colour but... when I had got the scan a few minutes later, it opened way off in colour (far

was: filmscanners: High End Scanner Prices now: scan resolutions

This topic seems to have moved into MF scan resolution vs output size. which I wanted to put in 2c worth I use a 4000dpi MF scanner, and my slightly cropped 6x7's are around 250Mb by the time I have dropped them into 8 bit. So far everyone has been dividing these pixels by 240 or 300 dpi for

filmscanners: SS120

David, UK prices for the SS120 seem completely out of wack, Jessops (our BH) have it at GBP 2703 plus tax (about $4000 !) and sell the Nikon for less... they are normally a cheap store to buy stuff other retailers, such as Argon have it for GBP 1499 plus tax (about $2170!). this seems so

RE: filmscanners: Glass slide mounts

the circles/ weird shapes are 'newtons rings' which are interference patterns from glass/film surfaces meeting very well known (google it to find out more) use anti newton mounts when you get these paul

RE: filmscanners: SS120

well I have it form a very reputable source that Polaroid's price to retailers in the UK is £1722. This indicates that anybody selling it on at 1499 is either (a) insane, or (b) getting their supplies somewhere else. Ummm, no its not a secondhand unit, or ex-demo, nor are they insane. just a

RE: filmscanners: ss120 ARGON

sorry about that, it wasn't what they told me earlier this week, and remains the published price in their price list, regardless, its still about £1000 less than Jessops, which is a *lot* of moolah pg

RE: filmscanners: Nikon film flatness (was Glass slide mounts)

Hi all, My opinion on film flatness has been explained before, so this will be my final word on the topic. I've worked in very high end darkrooms for 20 years, typically making 4 foot to 6 foot prints (110 to 180cm) every day, from 35mm and medium format negs. That is an enlargement factor of

RE: filmscanners: Nikon film flatness (was Glass slide mounts)

Bill, My only conclusion is that something must be up with the 4000 (which I don't have) compared to the 8000 (which I do). By rights, the medium format 8000 should by far have the bigger problem with film flatness, but I can assure you that it's fine - no more nor less than one would expect. I

filmscanners: Nikon 8000

Hi all, anyone else out there using a Nikon SC8000 with Vuescan? I'm having problems and Ed thinks its my system, so extra input would be welcomed, you can contact me off-list Paul

filmscanners: Monitor Purchase/ Sony F520

I have the F520 too. Running it for 6 months, no problems, and it seems pretty good, but then I have nothing to compare it to. Incidentally its far cheaper in the UK than the US. (by many hundreds of dollars) No idea why, a rare reversal of the usual order. does everyone expand their monitor to

RE: filmscanners: Minolta Scan Multi Pro Manual URL

Bernhard, Wow, thanks for that URL. I know the Tango is the best drum/high end flatbed scanner out there for under than $100,000 so, those are simply amazing results from the 8000. we are really moving into a new era here I almost forgive nikon for the 6 crashes I've had today on 3.1 oh, and

RE: filmscanners: Website ref. re - Pixels per inch vs DPI

well thats an astonishing amount of work on this site, and very interesting reading, but what dropped my jaw was that he did the tests on a Canon Elan with a Canon 28-105mm lens to judge the quality of 35mm vs 5x4 (among other things) with this is plainly ridiculous I'm not trying to be a snob

RE: filmscanners: SS4000 - Insight too hot?

You can still (and should) tag the image with the monitor profile after all it is the profile being used when you edit the image. Once the image opens in Photoshop you simply allow conversion to your preferred colour space. This is the method suggested by Polaroid in their web based help

RE: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan iv ed trashes Windows 98SE

for feedback on running NikonScan 3.1 under Windows 2000. Many people responded, and quite a few were kind enough to provide additional feedback when I requested, including Joe Blaze, Paul Graham, Bob Kehl, Tom Scales, Charles Volkland and many others. Thank you. A couple of people reported

RE: filmscanners: Nikon 4000 vs 8000

Interesting. nobody has thought of that test before I'd love to see those results too especially as a lot of 4000 owners report focus problems, and 8000 owners do not. paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of DaleH Sent: 31 October 2001

filmscanners: W2K vuescan memory problems

Hi all, I'm having problems with Vuescan scanning very large scans, and getting memory warnings, like: Warning: Unable to allocate 638Mb memory Try increasing the amount of virtual memory I have tried everything in terms of increasing the Virtual Memory/Paging file size, and it seems to make

RE: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED nightmares!!!

David, Then I've done everything I can. The 8000ED is just plain slow with my Mac. It's ICE/GEM that is slow, not the Nikon. If you turn off GEM especially the scan times are remarkably good in normal mode... I doubt if you compare equals (no ICE in either scan) that you would find anything

RE: filmscanners: Howtek D4000 or D4500?

fwiw, the guys at FLAAR (http://wide-format-printers.org/) dont have a single nice word to say about the Howtek. They recommend the ICG drum scanner which has a very clever vertical drum system and thus requires no mounting time/ mess/ tape etc. paul

filmscanners: photoshop problem

Hi all, I'm having an issue with Photoshop, after a C drive failure, and a complete rebuild of programmes, it now seems to be behaving strangely: when, for example I do a levels adjustment, I adjust everything so it looks good in the screen preview, then press ok, and it works the levels move