on 7/24/01 9:55 AM, Lynn Allen wrote:
Todd won't find this particularly useful, but he wrote:
Could giving it a new SCSI ID help? A whack in the head, or a toss out the
window?
If their Customer Service isn't any better than HP's, any and all of the
above are worth trying. Or, I could
on 7/13/01 1:39 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
It just strikes me as weird that nobody makes a scanner for doing
35mm/MF contacts a roll at a time. A purpose-built low-spec unit for
$300US-ish would sell well, I think. 3-400ppi would be plenty.
I have been using an Epson 836XL with
My Umax 1200s flatbed has developed a nasty banding problem (in spite of
plugging it into an isolated circuit breaker). I'm calling it banding, but
this might be scans lines.
In transmissive mode it is apparent throughout. I'm talking about regularly
spaced red lines, horizontal to the CCD =
I haven't looked at that scan channel-by-channel.
It's not a perfect scan, by any means, but was
meant to show what comes out of this scanner
with zero effort.
If you'd like a higher-res scan of any part of
this image, I'd be happy to email it to you.
That's kind of you Rafe, but not
on 7/18/01 11:11 PM, rafeb wrote:
I've posted a few small scans from my 8000 ED at:
http://www.channel1.com/users/rafeb/scanner_test4.htm
Rafe,
I looked at your scans in PS, and they are impressive, but one thing I saw
raises a somewhat generic question for me.
The blue channel of the pad
on 7/17/01 12:24 AM, Austin Franklin wrote:
Why would you ever use the long exposure
option if the short one yielded a scan that
was as good?
Increase DMax for positives...
Just for the sake of clarity, I think you mean dynamic range.
Todd
Folks,
I'm very sorry about what transpired here between Austin and I recently. It
was beneath all of you. It was my fault, and I promise to do my best not to
let it happen again.
Todd Flashner
on 7/15/01 10:27 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
He issued a challenge
(as he often
does) to these consultants to provide details of press shops
who are using
color management, AKA profiles, for their press, and no consultant (if
anyone would know it would be they, as they'd be setting them up)
on 7/16/01 5:29 AM, rafeb wrote:
You know what I hate most about the Leaf? It's that each stage of the
process before you get to the scan is a separate operation, with too many
dialog boxes.
Todd -- I'm not taking sides in your debate with Austin,
though enjoying the dialog,
Austin, I'm drained from this. I have one short comment below, and then I'm
done for now.
He issued a challenge
(as he often
does) to these consultants to provide details of press shops
who are using
color management, AKA profiles, for their press, and no
consultant (if
anyone would know
There's this mantra that capturing the scan
data in 16 bits obviates all other
responsibilities at the scanner-driver stage,
and I've never bought into that. Seems I
get by nicely with 24-bit (8 bit/color) scans,
in spite of all I read here and elsewhere
about the advantages of 48-bit
on 7/14/01 3:28 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
How fast can it scan a 6x6 BW?
On a 700 MHz Athlon PC:
2 minutes, 10 seconds with Super Fine Scan OFF.
5 minutes, 15 seconds with Super Fine Scan ON.
FYI, the Leafscan is well under 4 minutes.
At 4000 DPI?
Todd
Austin,
You are doing yourself a great injustice to dismiss the work of Margulis
based upon his style. He is an iconoclast who bases his approach on what
works in the real world, as opposed to the theoretical, and is hell bent on
dismantling many of our conventional wisdoms, and the pundits who
on 7/15/01 5:37 AM, Arthur Entlich wrote:
Lastly, I have found the amount of USM you can get away with depends
upon the scanner and the film in use. If the scanner or film tends to
exaggerate grain, defects, or noise, you can't go to far with USM,
because
these are indeed the types of
on 7/15/01 11:11 AM, Austin Franklin wrote:
How fast can it scan a 6x6 BW?
On a 700 MHz Athlon PC:
2 minutes, 10 seconds with Super Fine Scan OFF.
5 minutes, 15 seconds with Super Fine Scan ON.
FYI, the Leafscan is well under 4 minutes.
At 4000 DPI?
Todd
Todd, don't you own
on 7/15/01 9:10 AM, rafeb wrote:
But, one thing you should know, his emphasis is on color work destined for
press. However, if you are interested in the architecture of Photoshop, in
my humble estimation, he's the Dean of the university.
.. but not necessarily the Color Management
I'm a bit puzzled though. If you have one of these, why do you dislike it
so much, and continue to bring up only (what you perceive as) negative
things about it (or things that other scanners do better)? I've not
(certainly recently at least) heard you say one good thing that is has going
on 7/15/01 2:31 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
He issued a challenge
(as he often
does) to these consultants to provide details of press shops who are using
color management, AKA profiles, for their press, and no consultant (if
anyone would know it would be they, as they'd be setting them up)
on 7/15/01 10:27 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
I've told you before, I get
the sense that a lot of owners (not you, you are a special case altogether
;-)) don't want to discuss any negatives about the Leaf other than it's
weight.
I've never heard anyone have any complaints about it as you
The Nikons sharpness advantage is primarily in the blue channel, which
*could* make it more susceptible to showing noise and film grain.
However, both look great and I think either one could be made too look like
the other without much trouble.
I a have a feeling features (ICE) and accessories
on 6/28/01 4:26 PM, Steve Greenbank wrote:
I have also found that if you scan slides the moment you open the
box for the first time, it takes less than 5 minutes to despot them and you
don't lose any overall sharpness compared to ICE. Usually you can despot
whilst scanning the next slide.
Leaf scanners occasionally turn up on Ebay for a reasonable price. What's
with
them? Are they a good deal or a maintenence nightmare?
Rich
If you get one that gives no trouble, they are a phenomenal buy. If you get
one that needs repair, you can figure on at least $300 round trip
I'm sorry that I gave the impression that it's a bad idea. I don't think
it's a bad idea, I just don't see the merit in it, at least for me.
The CO2 expelled to get to this point has just brought my lawn, and 3
rhododendron back to life! ;-p
Todd
on 6/5/01 1:33 PM, Dave Suurballe wrote:
I would love to see a scanner that can scan from film edge to film edge, not
just the exposed frame in the middle.
That's because I'm scanning negatives which have a serial number exposed on
the film outside the sprocket holes and it would be great
Dual II)
At 11:36 AM -0400 5/13/01, tflash wrote:
I tried this with my Leafscan 45 And I get color fringing around the holes.
I pin pricked the black leader from color neg film and scanned it as color
neg. At 100% The hole edges are ringed with red and green. Does anyone else
experience
on 5/14/01 3:22 AM, Harry Lehto wrote:
Todd wrote:
I tried this with my Leafscan 45 And I get color fringing around the holes.
I pin pricked the black leader from color neg film and scanned it as color
neg. At 100% The hole edges are ringed with red and green. Does anyone else
Anyway, using Harry's pin-prick method with a piece of black neg leader, I
did the same thing Roger did with my Acer Scanwit at 2700dpi (Stellartest1).
No ghosts, no bleeding.
I tried this with my Leafscan 45 And I get color fringing around the holes.
I pin pricked the black leader from
With exposures where you have a black background and very bright
points of light you can get bounce back off film plate in the
back of the camera that look like halos. Can remember what this
effect is called.
Halation?
To the original poster: Do you smoke?
Looks like you might have a
on 5/11/01 8:44 PM, Arthur Entlich wrote:
How about wrap them in groups of say 10 in food wrap (cling film in the UK)
and include some silica gel which could be replaced every couple of years.
Should be very cheap and I dont see why it shouldn't work. A more expensive
but more durable
Could you explain how to use VueScan with Leaf HDR files, I can't get it to
work. I'm running Mac OS 9.1 on a G4, FWIW.
Just put the raw scan files (in .tif format) into the VueScan folder and
name them scan0001.tif, scan0002.tif, etc. Then run VueScan, set
Device|Scan from to Disk, set
on 5/4/01 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's new in version 7.0.17
* Added color correction for Leaf scanners when reading
raw scan files produced by this scanner
Ed,
Could you explain how to use VueScan with Leaf HDR files, I can't get it to
work. I'm running Mac OS 9.1 on a G4,
when it comes to dealing with the files it
can generate (122+Mb files from a 35mm frame) Photoshop does a better
job.
I am enjoying your review, but how does 4000ppi @ 35mm come out to an 122+Mb
file?
Todd
The reduced price of the Polaroid does not include the Sliverfast AI, or
Binuscan drivers. Both will be included for an additional $500. I did get a
chance to make a scan with the Polaroid 120 today with Insight 5.0 and felt
it worked as smoothly as my SS4000. The full size negative scan from
Anybody have anything good or bad to say about this older scanner (NIKON
COOLSCAN 4500AF)? I know very little about it. The tech sheet says it's
capable of 35mm at 3000ppi, and 4x5 at 1000ppi, but it doesn't say what
resolution it uses for medium format, though I suppose it's 1000ppi. Has
anybody
Looking at low cost film scanners and this Canon FS2710 seems like it might
be nice. Anybody have strong feelings for or against it? I know there have
been new 4000ppi scanners announced, but will there be anything better in
the Canon's price range out soon?
Thanks,
Todd
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