Re: Science vs. religion (was RE: filmscanners: Re: Print dpi comparison)

2000-11-24 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: Science vs. religion (was RE: filmscanners: Re: Print dpi comparison)

2000-11-25 Thread John Matturri
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

filmscanners: SS4000 in a scanning loop

2001-02-01 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: real value?

2001-02-02 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: Re: VueScan 6.6.1 problems - long pass

2001-02-04 Thread John Matturri
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.

Re: filmscanners: Dust removal, ICE

2001-02-16 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: GEM, ROC compared to Vuescan

2001-02-16 Thread John Matturri
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.

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Improvements

2001-03-05 Thread John Matturri
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.

filmscanners: Polaroid sensor brush

2001-03-13 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: RE: Photo quality printers: Hewlett-Packard

2001-03-13 Thread John Matturri
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

filmscanners: Gold star for polaroid!

2001-03-16 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: Gold star for polaroid!

2001-03-16 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: 110 film

2001-03-17 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: OT Nikon 4k ss4k

2001-03-22 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners:Focusing film flatness

2001-04-01 Thread John Matturri
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

filmscanners: What's MFT

2001-04-05 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: SS4000 problems - again

2001-04-06 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: Another Mission Completed

2001-05-10 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: What causes this and is there any easy solution ?

2001-05-12 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: What causes this and is there any easy solution ?

2001-05-12 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-20 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-21 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-21 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: Wess Plastics - Slide Mounts

2001-05-30 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: 24bit - 48bit dilemma Work flow suggestions

2001-06-08 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: image samples of digital artifacts

2001-07-19 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Sprint Scan 45 - Lamp Challenge

2001-07-20 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan:two small requests

2001-07-23 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: Supra 400 shadows

2001-08-01 Thread John Matturri
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.

Re: filmscanners: Supra 400 shadows

2001-08-01 Thread John Matturri
| 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

Re: filmscanners: Supra 400 shadows

2001-08-02 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?

2001-08-07 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: New auto adjust software on it's way

2001-08-30 Thread John Matturri
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.

Re: filmscanners: New auto adjust software on it's way

2001-08-30 Thread John Matturri
(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

Re: filmscanners: Dust removal software?

2001-09-01 Thread John Matturri
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.

filmscanners: supra 400

2001-09-05 Thread John Matturri
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

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - filenames

2001-11-10 Thread John Matturri
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. . . -- John Matturri words and images: http

Re: filmscanners: Color Negative Film Poll

2001-11-25 Thread John Matturri
related to the scanner or your experience with the film? Simon -- John Matturri words and images: http://home.earthlink.net/~jmatturr/

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan Suggestions Needed

2002-01-10 Thread John Matturri
. Is 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! -- John Matturri words and images: http://home.earthlink.net/~jmatturr

[filmscanners] Re: Anyone heard from David?

2002-01-29 Thread John Matturri
in the orient right now, finalizing the production run. -- John Matturri words and images: http://home.earthlink.net/~jmatturr/ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners

[filmscanners] Re: Sprintscan 4000 broken slide holders

2002-02-01 Thread John Matturri
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. -- John Matturri words and images: http://home.earthlink.net/~jmatturr

[filmscanners] Re: Re:Computer size: RAID

2002-05-11 Thread John Matturri
reasoning on this (or lack of it)? -- John Matturri words and images: http://home.earthlink.net/~jmatturr/ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe

[filmscanners] Re: vuescan problem

2002-05-17 Thread John Matturri
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Matturri Sent: Friday, May 17

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan problem

2002-08-10 Thread John Matturri
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

[filmscanners] vuescan cropping

2003-09-25 Thread John Matturri
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

[filmscanners] Re: Advice on scanner settings--Thanks!

2009-02-28 Thread John Matturri
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