could be an answer, involving placing a transparent GIF over the image you want to
protect from downloading.
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here is caused by electron gun, rather than phosphor aging.
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there was. (black clip set to 0 at all times, other settings the
same as I used to use). It shows obviously on the VueScan histogram. Previously the
blacks were perilously close to clipping, I thought, but now there is room to
manouvre. I think I like the change.
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, then the Start Up tab. Untick Adobe Gamma Loader.exe.
The file Adobe Gamma Loader.exe is in Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration
folder, if you want to delete it. You might want it again one day though.
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for cosmetic reasons etc can be done as part of
the operations in the image editing program, using, say, the Info facility to search
the levels.
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first encounter with the scan than the new setup.
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option for focus, which it will then attempt before the preview scan. You
should hear it motoring the focus mechanism very early on in the procedure.
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matching that look.
At least withVuescan, both these factors are under our control.
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Ken asked: The Vuescan Fuji neg options don't include one for Superia 400, which
I've shot a lot of. Any idea which of the existing ones match it the
best?
I worked through them all and the closest to what seemed accurate colour was Reala
100(Japan)
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. That's how it is with my Canon FS2710. It works
fine, within its specifications, and doesn't have any particular faults like banding,
shading, jaggies etc. etc.
Or, maybe not many people have bought one.
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. I think you need a program such as this that will
allow editing in 16 bit mode for most operations.
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produced print, the colour balance is in your
hands so that is usually better too.
I use VueScan software, as the Canon provided software clips blacks and whites too
much.
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Ian Lyons wrote:
...whilst SilverFast is initially quite complex it has the capacity to produce
scans from the SS4000
that VueScan users can only dream about (that's not a criticism of VueScan)
What specifically can be better in the final result then, please Ian?
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constant.
So keep the Radius down. Settings used here range from about 0.8 to 1.5, depending on
the image resolution. Then increase Amount the minimum necessary. 60 - 70% is a
typical maximum for me.
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Tony wrote:
Printing them well is another matter however, best discussed elsewhere.
Not even a wee discussion? Have you seen prints off the Canon S800 yet?
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Art said:
If my reel to reel player failed and the parts were no longer made, and
my only choice was buying a Revox at thousands of dollars, I might just
decide it was time to buy a CD player, or whatever.
Annoying though that you will have nothing to play your reel to reel archive on?
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Alan asked about the archive:
http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/
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Usually use a gamma of 2.2 here in Vuescan, but I remember Mikael Risdael suggesting a
lower figure could improve results.
Alan wrote:
On slide film I'm usually around 1.8, but negs is almost always 1.0 Maybe Ed has a
gamma difference for some scanners.
Sorry I was at work at the time and
brings up the colour picker.
Select the colour you want, and then click on the part of the picture you want to be
that colour.
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. It's more than that in fact. After going to some trouble to get a
satisfying colour balance at printing time, I then see the result going bad. Very
disappointing.
You mentioned the Canon S800 Tony?
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David Gordon wrote:
Give your spam to Spamcop at www.spamcop.net
Thanks David, I'll have a look at it.
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, and sends it back with an appropriate message from the
Postmaster, but goodness knows if it does any good.
Is anyone else receiving much more spam than they used to?
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. As far as I know, there aren't any problems here with the SCSI card and the
AGP display card sharing IRQ11.
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www.grisoft.com The
updates are not daily, but come out as required, AFAICS.
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implemented them. That said, Opera is otherwise very
good and speedy in its operation.
I haven't used Pegasus.
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Norman Quinn:
I used Calidad ink and Lexmark ink in a Lexmark printer. One year later the Calidad
prints have lost the blue / green while the Lexmark prints have not faded.
That's a pity - doesn't sound promising for Calidad ink.
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Has anyone tried Calidad brand ink in their inkjet? Trying it here at the moment.
Judging by one A-B comparison, the colour is very close to Epson ink, the only
difference I can see is that green may be a whisker more intense. Longevity is
anyone's guess.
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sounds like a fault inside the monitor caused by bad connections, maybe
dry soldered joints. Not too unusual if the monitor is some years old.
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unin201.exe. Thanks Larry.
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thought.
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, but a nuisance. I've researched the Microsoft KB and the
Matrox website for a fix, with no success. Has anyone a solution please?
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what I think is the most accurate colour with
Superia. Just wondered if that was the best I could do.
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there
was a true white in the picture or not, I suppose. The recent Vuescans get the colour
very close now though, on my current film, Fuji Superia, using the Reala Japan
setting. Greens may still need a small hue shift.
Are you coming up with a setting for Superia, Ed?
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Tony Sleep wrote:
The other major issue for system stability is MS COM components.
I'm slow on the uptake here. What are the MS COM components please Tony?
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never liked.
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be happening there Stan. VS 7.1.4 loads here in about 4secs on a
freshly booted computer, and closes in about 1sec. Using W98, Canon FS2710.
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Ed Hamrick wrote:
I happen to live near Ockham
Is that the same Ockham as the place William of Occam was born in?
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on it.
Oh Richard, I'm using Windows, not Mac
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default black and white limits.
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the tonal range
without crushing the blacks or whites, compared with Canon's own software. I don't
find noise in the whites with negs any problem.
Don't hesitate to ask if there is anything else you want to know about the Canon.
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jn asked:
I would like to get a $350-$450 scanner to make scans
of slides to produce 8x10 prints on either an Epson
870 or Canon S800 inkjet printer.
How about the Canon FS2710? Probably in your price range.
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image.
It is all a bit hit and miss so far.
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Maris asked:
Question: What dpi should my resulting image be for display on a 21 TV?
As the resolution of the NTSC TV system is lower than even the lowliest computer
monitor these days, 72 or 75dpi will be more than enough, I think.
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I use cotton bud dipped in a diluted ammonia based household cleaner - it works
wonders on the mould too.
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Art said:
All I can say is eeek! stay away from my film!
Why do you say eeek Art? Needless to say, the above cleaning method has no adverse
effect on the film. In fact
based household cleaner - it works
wonders on the mould too.
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Charles,
List archives:
There are 2 'unofficial' web archives
http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/
http://www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
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are available here.
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to your
desire.
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ght papers, I expect.
Rob, why aren't you using Celcast paper? We find it pretty good here, albeit more
expensive than Epson.
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. The paper (IJ90) is a colder white, but that is
nothing that can't be adjusted for.
I have had long term colour shift with Epson Photo paper, but so far the Celcast is
quite stable.
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mes way over the top, at times clipped looking, even though the general
saturation is nowhere near excessive. At this stage I have just put it down to a
peculiarity of Vuescan, as the Canoscan software scans don't have this problem.
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Arthur said:
Mike is right. There are no "supermarket" brands.
Does anyone know who makes the Jessops neg. films, which are on sale here in New
Zealand?
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. Also, in my experience it could be a good thing to turn the scanner on
before booting the computer, rather than doing a hardware refresh in Device Manager
later. Not sure about this point.
It also works with Vuescan ok.
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he clarity of display when comparing different cards connected
to the same monitor.
The only comment I have seen regarding that was on Tom's Hardware site, when the
Matrox G450 was referred to as having "razor sharp signal quality", but no comparisons
were made.
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ear's" technology? ;-)
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hat
maybe the setup of monitor and card here could benefit from an upgrade.
Some of the GeForce MX cards can drive two monitors I see. Are there restrictions on
the way these cards can do this compared with the G450, do you know?
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?
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Rob Geraghty wrote:
anyone using vuescan would surely be using Photoshop or PSP, both of
which are unworkable in 640x480.
Unworkable? I'm using PS at 640 x 480 (and using Vuescan) and both work fine.
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in, say, Adobe 1998 colour space will look
undersaturated on the Web or in colour space unaware viewing programs, unless they are
converted to sRGB beforehand.
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difference, which surprised
(and disappointed!) me.
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faster? Presume there is continuous agitation from go to whoa.
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. The downloaded file is w2k_v100b_pci_drvs.exe. I am using the card
which came with the scanner, by the way.
Don't forget to run the Canon Automatic configuration. Doing that sometimes solves
problems.
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saturation, then away we go.
Thinks. What is it with red? The scanner (with negs) puts in too much, and the printer
tends to too.
So that is what I do.
The 760 printer is mentioned favourably here at present. Would I notice a big
improvement?
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ectionable,
particularly in the first pic, and effectively we are seeing on the monitor a greater
than 10x8 blow up anyway, particularly as that is only part of the frame. Did you
increase the saturation, by the way, in PS? Great photos.
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a slight S-shaped gamma correction is
needed to stretch the mid-tones to give the same "gutsy" impact as the Canoscan
software, but that needs more experimenting, and may not be a good thing anyway. So
far so good though.
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Byron wrote:
Canon FS2710 negatives aren't scanning properly on my system.They come
out looking like negatives (!) On a Win98SE system.
Anyone else having similar problems?
Yes, same here trying 6.4.11 on my FS2710. Also using W98.
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do to have colours out there that our digital darkrooms can't
handle.
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on the FS2710 with Windows and colour neg. scans. Slides look
ok.
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to be resolved?
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Frank Paris asks:
Where along the path from sensor to
scanned image is the mapping performed that actually corresponds to the
psychological way we perceive brightness levels?
When the gamma correction is applied, I think.
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.
Obviously the PSP people don't think sRGB is a bad colour space, and they do have
Pro(fessional) in the name of the program :-).
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results are less than they
might be through having to use the sRGB colour space, rather than a wider gamut one?
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, as neutral
as possible using the monitor's cut off and white point adjustments) before bringing
Adobe Gamma into the picture. That way Adobe Gamma only has to make minor corrections.
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I use an old utility, CRT Align, for the job
Any idea where (or even if) this is available?
Al, this came off the W95 Secrets 4th Ed. CD. I can easily send you a zipped file of
it if you like. It's only about 300kB.
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.
At the same time, using the same greyscale, you can see if the monitor has developed
any unexpected colour cast.
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