Carlisle Landel wrote:
Bunch,
Wow! The list lives!
Thanks to all for the advice.
Especiallly, thanks for the reminder that IR filtering doesn't work
for Kodachrome.
I've got the bulk slide feeder, so the plan is to simply drop a box
of slides in and start it up, then go away and drop
I keep trying to upgrade vuescan but all versions after about 7.6.28 (up
to 61) are unable to keep a manual crop, set using the mouse, in the
final scan. The crop works fine for a preview but when the scan itself
is made it shifts to maximum crop, throwing all values off even with
the highest
I completely missed your kind offer - thanks. And thanks to everyone
who responded. I got zero response form comp.periphs.scanners, and
surprisingly, no response from an e-mail to Ed. But I'm sure he's
swamped. So you guys are it!
Ed's replies tend not to be immediate so you may still
offer this as I use VueScan for both negs and slides and haven't seen this
but I have 256mb of memory and a huge swap file on my disk so that may be
the solution.
Tom
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reasoning on this (or lack of it)?
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In about two years I've had one slide holder break (the
piece that holds the slide in place broke off) with another
one seemingly about to break). I'll see if I still have the
broken one.
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in the orient
right now, finalizing the production run.
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it possible to have both sliders and spinners?
If this product gets much better we'll be complaining that it should be
loading slides automatically while we're in the bathtub!
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related to the scanner or your experience with the film?
Simon
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I've learned from experience to always keep the number with
the plus sign, even when not batch scanning. Easier to
remove the number if you don't want it then to have to
rescan. Of course some people may not be as stupid or
forgetful as me. . .
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I have a number of supra 400 images that I will need to get
decent scans of. Using my SS4000 I get terrible grain
aliasing making the quality unacceptable. I was thinking
that I would have to bite the bullet and get drum scans
made, but it occurs to me that if aliasing is an
interference pattern
I
suppose an anti-static brush would help.
Hersch
Anyone have an opinion about what are advertised as natural
fiber antistatic brushes as opposed to staticmaster brushes?
John M.
That article may have been concerned with something I learned about at university
- inverse fourier transforms.
Right. It did involve fourier transforms of some sort (I
used to have some idea of what that means) but applied to
the image not the lens, if I am remembering right.
John M.
(I remember an article in Scientific American 15 to 20 years ago about the
improvement of photographic images (I think they were alluding to spy
satellite images) to eliminate/reduce blur due to camera motion and lens
focus (or lack thereof). I've been meaning to go to the library to look
So getting an archival medium is only a third of the problem. What happens
in 10 years when no one uses TIFF files anymore.
Preston Earle
After a certain level of usage it is unlikely that software formats and
even (non-obscure) hardware readers will be impossible to find. There is
too much
I have the exact same problem with Supra 400 - red and green speckles in
the shadows. Like you, I can't get them to disappear without blowing
away a lot of shadow detail. I don't know if a drum scan would solve
this or not - I've seen the same problem on both my SS4000 and my new
I've become quite fond of Provia 100F. It is sharp as a tack and
a joy to scan. Of course it does suffer in the exposure latitude
department. I'm still using negative films but am shifting more
to transparency film based on ease of scanning and the knock
your socks off quality of Provia.
| I've been having good results using Supra 400 (SS4000, Vuescan, current
| 7.1.7) except for the noise-like areas in dark parts of the image. At
| times I can partially compensate for this by setting the black point but
| only at the cost of losing shadow detail that at times is needed for
There's just two small items that really seem lacking to me and really slow
me down and frustrate me every time I use it.
1.) A browse for folder button to locate the folder to save files in.
If you click Folder and Default (or whatever) a Browse for Folder box does pop
up in VS.
John
Don't know if it will happen to you but Polaroid quoted 10 days when I sent my
4000 in and they seem to have shipped back express mail the day they received it.
j
Turn it on today and set up to do a scan and get the code 6006.
Lamp failure. Poloard tells me about 2 weeks repair time. Since
I had this problem for a while and nothing seemed to fix it until it went
away by itself. Doesn't seem to have to do with color bit-depth. Wish I could
be of more help.
John M.
It was set to 16-bit (True Color), so I changed it to 24-bit (High Color)
and rebooted. Still see the lines in the
I find it a good idea to scan into a 48 bit file, spot with the cloning tool,
crop any border, and then archive. That doesn't commit to any approach to the
image but means that you never have to do the drudgery of spotting again.
In important cases I often save all the changes in order (not the
I've tried this link a number of times over the past year without
success.
John M.
I found that also Cliff...but it doesn't work for me.
Does it work for you
Here's a link:
http://www.wesspl.com
I wonder if asking for a release could create additional problems; once
someone has refused to sign you have an explicit lack of consent for the
photograph to be used. Once you ask, might not you be more committed to
ceding to the subject's wishes.
In any event, unless someone does relatively
Does anyone know a case where there has been a successful suit against
a
published or exhibited streetphotograher on privacy grounds?
There was a mention of a Cartier-Bresson case before. But on reading the
Stirling article in turns out that it wasn't the photograph that was at
issue but its
It might be nice to have a second crop-like box that functioned something like
a spot-meter or a center-weighted meter: the scan exposure and processing would
primarily be based on the marked off section.
John M.
Rob Geraghty wrote:
Joel Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yup, works for me. My
Even better might be a wacom (or other) tablet, which gives the additional
benefit of pressure sensitivity. Holding a pen seems much more natural than a
mouse for fine movements and raising the pen up and down is much better than
clicking the mouse for cloning. Beyond all this I'm not subject to
While there maybe some merit to your comments about dust in the air masking
flaws in the slide being projected, I had the actual surface texture of the
projection screen in mind as well as the actual viewing distance independent
of any dust.
Laurie
Haven't been following this thread all
I'm curious how you, or others, store their cds.
John M.
I'm happy to report that I've scanned and recorded to CD *all* my
significant negs and slides from 1949 to 1998--which were the ones I was
going for, archive-wise.
Bruce
Same thing happened to me. You could try compressed air into the left
side of the scanner. There was a report that that worked, but it did for
me only very temporarily. Maybe I was too timid.
I had no problem with Polaroid. They asked only for month of purchase
and serial number, gave me a
I got my SS4000 back from Polaroid servicing center a couple of days
ago. There was a notation that, among other things, an MFT adjustment
was made. Any idea of what that is?
I have to praise Polaroid for turnaround speed. They got the scanner
last thursday, and estimated that they would send it
Or can someone give me a really easy, quick and painless way of
transferring a piece of film from a glued cardboard mount into a glass
slide
Mark T.
For getting out of the cardboard pick up a Wess paper mount opener.
Should be available in any good camera store. Aside from being quicker
By the way, my ss4k initialization sequence is broken - it
was cycling interminably, so I tried a suggestion from Polaroid
techs quoted on the ss4k list pushed my slide holder through
it a few times with the power off, and now rather than cycling,
its initialization hangup is to run
You may be able to get slidemounts in the appropriate size for
individual size. I used to be able to get paper mounts in every
imaginable size from Spirotone in NY, which no longer exists in any form
I believe. There may be another source. It is also possible that Wess
makes an appropriately
A couple of days ago my 4000 began recycling eternally. This was a
couple of days after David Hemingway announced that a free sensor
cleaning brush was available for the problem. When I called up Polaroid
the rep said it would arrive in 10 to 14 days, but indicated that she
would mark it to be
A couple of thousand I would guess. I have a feeling that dust is more of an
issue here than use. I have both the front and back openings covered with
plastic wrap but I work in an unfortunately dusty environment. Unfortunately,
the brush hasn't done the job in my case so I'm shipping the scanner
My SS4000 is constantly going through a scan cycle, even without a
holder in. I've tried putting holders through a number of times with the
machine off, as suggested in the support website. I also ordered the
free sensor cleaning brush that David Hemingway sent a message about the
other day, but
Same happened to me. You need to uncheck the watermark box.
"Shough, Dean" wrote:
Anybody give me hint on why when I print form Photoshop to my Photosmart
printer, I get a cross hatch pattern? Not in all photos.
Did these images come from an unregistered copy of VueScan? It's
A more responsive abort button would be nice. Not infrequently I find
myself having made a mistake but spending a good deal of time while the
scan is occurring waiting for a window when I can abort. Not sure if
this might be due to something about my system though.
John M.
If you don't go the ICE route and live in a dusty environment (or work
with negatives from periods of your life when your storage habits were
not the best, as I do) a graphics tablet becomes an extraordinary
blessing. Helps in many ways, but makes using the clone tool for
spotting so much quicker
Related: why in general does Ice-based dust removal soften the image.
The purpose of the IR channel is to identify the particular spots that
are dust / scratches. Shouldn't the software only affect those areas
leaving the rest of the image alone and sharp?
John M.
There are so many variables to
play with when using VueScan that I always seem to forget at least
one of the crucial settings
One thing that would be nice would be a more responsive abort button.
Right now I keep on clicking it works, which can take a while.
John M.
You are right on both accounts. As written it makes no sense at all; but a
relatively non acrobatic leap to the assumption you suggest would be in
order.
At 11:53 AM 02-02-01, Laurie Solomon wrote:
(3) Inkjets have reached the level where there quality and other
features
come very
While batch scanning a strip of negatives I made the mistake of
accidentally checking auto-scan and auto-eject at end of scan in Vuescan
rather than just auto eject, as I meant to do. This led to the program
looping through the all 6 frames a second time. When I realized what
happened I hit abort
of scanners are you talking about? Is this a philosophy
chat room?
John Matturri wrote:
Clark Guy wrote:
The evidence is not everything. There are strong arguments that it is better in
the long run to have eccentrics who explore theories for which there is not
adequate current evidence
Clark Guy wrote:
Science is the idea that soneone makes a claim and
others strive to independently verify the claim.
Given the impossibility of confirmation (there is always an alternate
explanation) attempts at disconfirmation are usually the way to go. But even
once that is done, it is
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