At 01:37 PM 3/25/2004 -0600, you wrote:
I'm a bit perplexed at what the dpi means on a film scanner. Trying to
compare apples to apples, will a 4000 dpi Brand X film scanner in theory
produce a better quality image outputted than a 2000 dpi Brand X scanner,
given that the output resolution is the
At 12:48 AM 3/27/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Thanks to everyone who replied to my questions. :-)
My conclusion is that sharpening is not really needed for sky/clouds, but
that a
small amount may be beneficial to offset scan-induced softening and/or to help
minimize the effects of downsizing to jpegs.
This post from Art is the first I've received since on this list since 1
March. Has the list been down? Have I missed much?
Tris
At 04:36 AM 3/11/2004 -0800, you wrote:
I want to inform all my friends and enemies that I am changing my
Internet Provider on March 15th. Until that date, all
You never know. The first drive I ever bought was a Maxtor and it died in
two months. IBM has a good rep and one of theirs died on me six months ago.
Like I said you never know. And if we keep this going some guy's gonna
relate a sad story about Seagate, too. Good to see a company at least
May I ask what monitor compensation is and
how I can find this switch inside of PS v6?
In PS 5.x for Windows, it's in the Preferences | RGB Settings dialog. When
turned on, it uses an ICC profile for your monitor (which you set up with
Adobe Gamma, included with PS) to adjust colors in
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:37:40 -0700 Tris Schuler
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Frankly, until the industry comes up with
some hard video standard we're all basically chasing our tails with
online
images and the critique of same. It's good enough for casual purposes,
but
to get
For an example of a recent scan, see
http://www.atkielski.com/Wallpapers/images/EiffelInvalidesPaper1600x1200.jpg
This is a scan of a Velvia 6x6 transparency, ICE set to normal, no GEM or
ROC, no other adjustments, and then tweaked in Photoshop (slight adjustments
to levels). There is more
There's all of what you say, Frank, but the alternative (censorship) is,
I'm afraid, less attractive still. Choice is ours.
Tris
It's amazing -- and sad -- just how often a few of those on this list seem
driven to engage in hair-splitting arguments about anything not seen quite
their way by
comparatively speaking.
I hope that doesn't rile you, but that's where I'm at.
Tris
Tris Schuler wrote:
I know you love your Polaroid scanner. It is a great scanner. But, it
will
be a better scanner with Digital ICE.
Jack Phipps
Applied Science Fiction
Absolutely true.
It is as simple
I use it on an LS2000 it saves me 3-5 hours a week. That's worth
real money! There is very slight image degradation but far less than
in the transition from pixels to ink.
David Hoffman
Is there a control to it, to where it can directed to work on just a given
part of the image, or be
Al -
I just bought a Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 Plus, which is a significant
improvement over the old 4000. It is available here in the US for $1200,
about $500 less than the Nikon LS-40 (CoolScan 4000ED?).
I'm pretty new to filmscanning, but have had absolutely no trouble with
this machine or
--they still haven't got that right, and yes, I've installed
the firmware update), which is more than you can apparently say for other
scanners out there. So far I've read not one horror story authored by a
Polaroid user.
Tris
Tris Schuler wrote:
Just how is it significantly improved? From what
Tris Schuler wrote:
So far I've read not one horror story authored by a Polaroid user.
Neither have I. That was another (and important) reason I finally
decided on a Polaroid scanner, that plus the helpfulness and easy
availability of David Hemingway, and his (and others') assurances
Tris Schuler wrote:
Firewire may or may not be an improvement--SCSI strikes me as the best
going at present. The increased Dmax would be welcome, if in fact that's a
Astonishing conclusion.
SCSI is old fashined for a long time already. SCSI is expensive,
demands heavy 50 or 66 wires
Hello!
On their site, and in their literature, Kodak extols the virtues of
Supra for scanning. Does anyone have experience with this film? I like
Fuji Superia a lot, but I do get some grain aliasing problems with the
400 ISO, and VueScan doesn't have a profile for it g!
I will shoot a few
You have a definite bias against Nikon, which is fine by me. At least you're
open about it. However, you should be more forthcoming about the fact that
Polaroid has been providing you with a scanner, and that this may bias your
opinion towards their products.
I don't what bias the other person
Hello!
On their site, and in their literature, Kodak extols the virtues of
Supra for scanning. Does anyone have experience with this film? I like
Fuji Superia a lot, but I do get some grain aliasing problems with the
400 ISO, and VueScan doesn't have a profile for it g!
I will shoot a few
Sorry, forgot to add that I scanned this with my Polaroid SS4000 RAW), then
had to work with it for awhile in Paint Shop Pro before achieving the final
image. Use a different scanner and you might well end up with a different
image, use a different approach in PSP (or PS for that matter) and the
I don't wish to add fuel here but I must say I tend to come down in the Art
camp on this one. I don't know this gentleman, have only read what he's
posted to this list. It reads like sober stuff to me, but then I'm no
authority in particular in this area. On the other hand I have some
experience
About a year ago, I saw a NASA website which was showing some filter or
plug-in they had written that seemed to pull amazing information from
images that seems almost obscured by smoke, lack of light, over or under
exposure, etc. They were over sharpened, from my perspective, but the
coding for
At 04:13 PM 2/17/2002 -0500, wrote:
So folks
install a SCSI card, W2K/XP sees it and seems to install everything
necessary for it's operation, but at least as regards many (most?) SCSI
scanners, they won't function without ASPI layer.
The excellent tech support at Polaroid helped me to get
Just thought I'd tell the list that my rebate check finally arrived on
Friday. David had been patient enough to field my query off list earlier
and said he'd pass my concern re the check along to the right party. I
don't know if that had anything to do with receiving the check finally, but
for
How long had you been waiting?
Since the end of October.
Tris
Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners'
or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message
Quite a few might. On the other hand, about half the crowd on the Olympus
list only falls for the wash your camera in the dishwasher with plenty of
soap joke some of the time, so I expect you to do marginally better with them.
Tris
P.S. Glad to see you're still with us, David.
P.P.S. g
I own the 4000 ED and owned the SS4000.
It was a mistake. The Polaroid is a better scanner. The only advantage of
the Nikon is ICE. Dust isn't as big a problem on the Polaroid. The edge
softness IS there.
Keep the Polaroid.
Tom
In a way I disagree. The Polaroid resolves lint strands down
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 02:15:26 +1100 Des Paroz wrote:
Consider Photoshop Elements. PSEL is targeted to photographers, and has
most of the features we would use regularly, at a fraction of the cost
of Photoshop Pro (PSP).
PSP is really targeted to the high end - graphic artists, art
I agree the plug-in seems the way to go, assuming the stand-alone software
has the same feature set. After working a few times with the demo, though.,
I question somewhat the wisdom of buying it at all. It works after a
fashion, but not on all material and the results are here and there.
Well, we'll see how this flies. Someone named Annie got back to me this
evening from SilverFast in Florida. She gave me the correct URL for the $10
upgrade of AI. The fly in the buttermilk is SilverFast wants me to provide
proof of purchase. Now I was forced to send in my original receipt
I have to ask this, Maris, and please don't take it the wrong way: you
seem very high on Vuescan. Why? What is it you like about Vuescan over and
above SilverFast AI or whatever software that came with the scanner you
use? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages?
Tris
Not to
I have a ViewSonic PT795. Besides the excellent quality of this unit's
display, the company seems to stand behind their product all the way. Short
version: about a year ago I thought I might have a problem with the monitor
(I'm convinced it's simply the nVidia drivers for my GeForce2 GTS
Please do point me in the right direction. A simple link to the correct
page would work.
Tris
At 08:42 AM 11/4/01 -0800, Tris Schuler wrote:
Does this mean I'll have to pay $90 to SilverFast to upgrade my copy of
the software which came with the SS4000? I take it they want $45 for both
You've got that right, Ed. I don't even own your product and still I've
mentioned you a couple of times to people. Once in a forum, the other time
in an email. (By the way, the reason I haven't tried your software is
solely due to my reluctance to learn yet one more program from scratch.
- Original Message -
From: Tris Schuler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan
|
| You've got that right, Ed. I don't even own your product and still I've
| mentioned you a couple
Thank you, Pat.
You're right regarding the SCSI BIOS message on boot. I called Adaptec and
the tech guy got me into the utility program to rid myself of this
nuisance--I didn't mind the message so much as I knew that wasn't the
problem (my scanner worked perfectly in Win98 SE) but it seemed
Thanks, David. I've been there many times and have grabbed everything
pertinent.
I'm back up and running at the moment.
Tris
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