Sure you can. For $199 you can get the new MC-7 Spider from Color
Vision
which is quite a nice, accurate and fast device.
Wow, that's almost reasonable :) Half what I believed was the entry level,
anyhow, so thanks.
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precursor to the
1200? Prints will seem rather gritty. An upgrade to the 1200 or 1270 would
make a big improvement, comparable to C41. In some ways better.
A competent 2700ppi filmscanner is just about good enough for A3.
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If your going to get a new card for a PC I'd recommend a Matrox. I've
used them for years with Photoshop starting with V3. Matrox is vry
aggresive in driver updates.
I agree, Matrox are good, solid cards for imaging, at reasonable prices.
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generates another half hour of
admin every day, you'll probably have need of a subscription scheme. In
which case I may be able to help...
Jeez, there goes another 15mins.
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rate - though it
wouldn't be good for devices which can shift 5Mb/s, like HDD's. Best to
stick them on a separate channel or controller anyway.
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More objective: have one person do the adjustments
on all the raw scans.
Exactly what I concluded I should be doing, with various film types, about
9m ago :)
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probably custom-make one for enough $$$.
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lines means it writes 4096 lines, not that it resolves 4096 lines,
and it tells you nothing about how the MTF is degraded by diffusion
'spread' of the CRT image.
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the CCD is then
effectively averaging the colours of many dye clouds
Yup. The same would happen with larger grains as well though, provided
there's enough overlap. For sure, the worst examples of aliasing are
fast thin-emulsion, silver-grain BW films.
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away screaming:)
I now have one quote and will probably go ahead later this week, though
it's Majordomo-based, which means opaque email admin, and no nice
integrated web front end (yes, I know about Majorcool, but they don't run
it).
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pretty awful as it needs lots
of work (running against the scanner profile, levels, colour correction
etc).
A regular 16 bit scan will usually have had at least some of this
post-acquisition processing applied within the software, which means there
is much less to do in Photoshop.
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the camera helps.
But I find it difficult to give hard and fast figures. I mean I have got
away with 1/30th handheld with a 200mm, but that's unusual. OTOH if it's
windy, 1/500th can be difficult enough.
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the overall acutance
and tonal quality.
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with the Dualscan with perseverance to find a good
working method, and it's a bullet you are likely to have to bite whichever
scanner you choose. Some film and lighting combinations just seem tricky.
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face. OK,
it looks absurd, and isn't comfortable, but it's cheaper and more portable
than a monopod, though not quite as effective.
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an entire
uncut roll, there is no take up spool, it just feeds the film out onto the
table or floor. Probably best deployed on a 6' pedestal, therefore ;)
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What about the "input" side for the uncut roll. Do you think one could
bypass the input spool and feed in a 100-foot roll from a bulk loader
next to he scanner?
Sorry, I know no more than I posted and what appears on Kodak's website.
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. AIUI rather more USM than you'd normally
want to apply is advisable for repro, and even more again for BW.
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resize/resample
iterations, according to a paper I read on the web. There are also
supposed to be cracking tools in circulation.
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it
is just spam.
In future I will remove anyone posting ads like this unless it is made
very clear that it has some direct relevance to filmscanning.
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What does AIUI mean? Never come across that before.
As I Understand It.
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all ;)
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. Typically 100% at 0.5-1.5 with 4000ppi
images IME. Stop just short of grittiness. You should then have a decently
sharp image, though if you want everything the film has got, you'll need
4000ppi. But it's quite good enough for critically sharp A3 Epson prints.
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does, but it'd be worth trying other s/w to
eliminate Insight from your inquiries, if nothing else.
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The filmscanners
Years ago, when I and my pals were on CIX, ISTR a
concise dictionary of all the common and many rare mailing
list acronyms. You haven't seen it anywhere lately, have
you?
I've seen it several times, so it's still around, but I dunno where:)
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?
A non-problem: the 4000 is virtually noise free with any reasonable black
point setting and a more-or-less correctly exposed orginal. Whatever this
is shouldn't be there, and isn't, in any of the hundreds of scans I've
made with this scanner.
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, not least because they regard scanning as their domain - and a
core part of their business.
'You must supply CMYK' = 'we aren't going to buy a Mac and PS and learn
how to use them, even if it means the client gets a worse print job'.
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is capable of slightly lower noise and slightly stronger dark
tone separation, but only through use of 16x multiscanning.
I was amused by their enthusiasm for the Nikon IS-200 bulk hopper, nice
idea but famously troublesome.
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and speed, I'll tell you if the unit seems OK.
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re and for sure you don't have the latest fixes/upgrades or
version.]
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And for a to
k in
this
case what you've got is a Time/Motion/Workflow decision by the
printers,
that if they can shave a few moments off jobs here and there then
they'll be
saving more money than they lose through not providing a full service.
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What they a
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until it was run. No mail has been lost (I think) but I am forwarding
several to the list which slipped past the initial problem.
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Prescan|Memory to evaluate changes.
An issue I occasionally hit is that any misplacement of the
selection marquee to include film rebate can completely screw up exposure.
You have to crop with precision, and the tool is a bit twitchy.
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and fluorescent even moreso.
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scan line at a
time which introduces a slight delay between each line.
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ans should disappear for most users, who don't intend much further
post-acquisition adjustment.
At present, and until v5, Insight
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a different view,
but with Kodachrome and Ektachromes and Astia/Provia I don't have a
problem.
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will help you understand.
Sorry but i am a beginner , perhaps i do not belong here
Of course you do:)
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next to the
monitor I use on a different PC for imaging stuff. Displaying the same
image on the two screens, using the same software, it's clearly a very bad
idea to imagine the TFT is adequate.
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Can you please turn off all this HTML rubbish in your mail client (MS
Outlook Express|Tools|Send as plain text) . It adds vastly to bandwidth
and some mail clients cannot understand it.
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is unsettling.
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is a matter for
private negotiation between buyer and seller, and worth is exactly what
the two parties agree it to be.
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the more flawed the scanner (=cheaper,
usually), the more those new skills are needed.
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would certainly not be enough! The Nikon s/w is not exactly clear and
intuitive AFAICR.
Just scan at full res, then do your resizing in Photoshop.
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icance when printing.
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ng. 'After 5 years looking at this
screen every day I know exactly what shade of green that Pantone is and
what I'm going to get'. The calibration is in their heads.
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there appears to be loads of space, Norton protected files
sit there occupying shedloads of space which is flagged empty. I would
shut down everything you can do without, ensure you have plenty of disk
space and empty the Recycle bin. If you run Norton, delete all protected
files as well.
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however what bothers me is that
despite more or less same amount of free space on HDD for Win or PS swap
scaning goes slower and slower.
Have you tried defragging your hard disk? And how much space have you got?
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experience for a minute
or two - colours seem so intense, it's like seeing in Velvia ;)
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expensive algorithms, I guess
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ion arises because PS has a rather convoluted and arcane
means of setting print size. Some simpler software makes it much, much
easier and more intuitive. However, PS has more flexibility, since you can
vary any parameter independently, which is why it is like it is.
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Do you know the algorithm Epson uses, when they call it 'error
diffusion'?
It's a patented form of stochastic dithering. Which is what I do when
confronted with large phone bills.
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the
RGB curves. The tool you are using to do that likely has a
different gamma, probably 1.8, as a target.
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Nope, I clearly remember you starting this thread.
Lawrence Welk
This is severely off-topic, and has no place on a list concerned almost
entirely with Epson printers
8=p
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in their enlargers! :)
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I am having great difficulty getting a post that I want published onto
the
filmscanners digest, something to do with
stuff'). 'What we see is not nature itself, but nature exposed to
our method of questioning...'. Ahhh! Zen! :)
Sorry, I /love/ all this stuff, but won't comment further on-list. If anyone wants
to pursue it, by private mail please.
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and using 16bit files in PS.
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It may be great if GIMP would handle 48-bit TIFF, embedded profiles and monitor
compensation,
But I believe Corel Photo Paint for Linux does, though. And it has just gone
GNU, so is freely downloadable.
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at least, it caused print degradation to use
an unnecessarily high source image resolution.
At least if you downsample before printing, you get the chance to apply USM.
Which I regard as essential with Epson printing.
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e original from the matter of output
size,
so the confusion is avoided. Then it is clear that what is being set is 'the size to
print
at', rather than some inherent property of the scan.
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I find extensis porfolio 5.0 does exactly what you need.
Elroy Eckhardt
And there is an entirely free, though somewhat cut-down version, available for download
from www.creativepro.com
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as you suck 'em.
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I would appreciate if you want to discuss this further, we take this off
list.
Please!
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the poster
direct. The volume of wibble is getting a bit out of control here, and I get
mailed by annoyed subscribers, or they leave, reducing the usefulness of the list
...
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the real wish to share hard-found knowledge, practical or theoretical?
That is actually one thing this list has been pretty good at. Do you have a
specific scanning question you would like answered?
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better!
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ser dis/satisfaction and mfr. response.
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for a trial version.
Binuscan is good, but I don't think it is anything like flexible enough for this use.
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the negs, and produce
images for repro for which clients pay me... eventually. It works though, they keep
coming back.
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in
the
OS or GIMP. Are you using something to add these facilities?
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separation, which tends to get obscured with
1.8 or higher. Everything else is worse, IMO.
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but it is a hands off process. To do
any tweaking is to much of an involved process for me to piddle with.
Agreed, it's not the tool for this job.
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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?
It certainly appeared on the list. It could probably use a web page, with
explanatory diagrams or photos.
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I'm planning to buy a new scanner, my old one is a Nikon LS20.
Can anyone tell me what is the best choice, the Nikon LS30 or =
CanoScan2710?
You seem to have posted this several times, and to have received responses.
BTW, please turn off HTML posting in your mail client.
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to know?
Afterall we
aren't here to learn and teach, when will people learn, this is a mutual
admiration society!
Really? Please explain why you think this.
Incidentally, please turn off HTML posting in your email client.
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the
rollers or transport mechanism when the machines are not kept impeccably
cleaned... you have to WATCH THE LAB
IME (again) the problem is the 18y.o. trainee who gets saddled with sleeving the film
after processing as it's regarded as menial and boring. Watch the lab is just right.
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caused ;-)
I'm not going to give his URL here as I really don't want Gamma Wars on this list too!
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I would like to know if there is anything other than Pakon, which so far is the only
thing I
found.
I don't know much about this sort of kit for minilabs, but I believe Kodak and Sony
also make bulk scanning stations.
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hand line. I saw stuff no
photographer
should ever see, without ready access to Prozac and a team of counsellors ;-)
Photoflo: yes, you are right that dilution is important, but Ilfotol is less
temperamental and less inclined to leave a smeary film.
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from VS, IME.
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Now I see a "filmscanners" in the subject line taking up precious
space.
Again, this is something that I was repeatedly asked for...
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be insufficient freedom for software
adjustment within Adobe Gamma.
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the sprocket holes full of water), then heat drying. The final rinse
evaporates unevenly, leaving the gelatin with a slightly different surface
reflectivity where evaporation has been slower. It's absolutely the lab's fault, but
won't normally show in scans or prints.
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artifacts wherever the grating bisects pixels - which is going to be just
about everywhere. Large amounts of wilful defocussing of the scanner may help, but
you'll then obtain a very soft scan.
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be black and white if scanned with 'generic color' setting in
vuescan, since the film has this purple color (i.s.o. an orange mask)
attributed to what is called an anti-halation dye by others in this thread.
Bound to come out some sort of funny hue.
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which died after ~2yrs. The 7200rpm versions are significantly faster,
though
not quite as quick as the IBM 7200rpm Deskstars, which is what I use now, for
preference.
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when correctly
calibrated. At least I have not used one which doesn't. But it's also a tendency of
CCD
scanners as well - one of the great advantages of drumscanners is that they maintain
dark tone separation.
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clination. It also isn't very
meaningful to me, as it is not how I make photos.
You had better start with a definition of quality, then develop a precise notion of
'correct exposure'. That should keep you busy for a few decades g
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areas of the image.
I recently returned a SS4000 scanner and picked up a RFS3600. I like
the image from RFS3600 better. I have read post that claim the RFS3600
is noisy (not Tony Sleep by the way). So how does one evaluate this
claim for himself.
Basically by looking carefully at displayed
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