Tony, I burst out laughing when I got to
(5)Sunday ...
It won't matter because generally I'll have the server in bits,
fitting a new hard drive. Don't ask
what sort, it's not Wednesday.
I'm really glad you've managed to keep your sense of humor through all
the travails of providing this forum
I have a PowerLook III and use it for (among other things) doing
contact sheets of 35mm filmstrips. It is fine for that job because you
will not be enlarging the images very much nor will you be trying to
get every last bit of shadow detail (if you were, you'd not be leaving
the filmstrips in the
You *do* still have the extension in the filename box, don't you? The
default file name is
crop0001+.tif
which means name the files crop0001.tif, crop0002.tif, etc. But you
can put any name or extension you like there. VueScan assumes you know
what you want, and if you give a name of
Does anybody know what the actual color is of the markings that appear
outside the frame area on 35mm color film?
If you look at Kodak Gold, for instance, there are yellow bar codes,
and for Gold 200-6, there are also red dashes between the sprocket
holes.
Fuji also has yellow barcodes but they
I had found that I was getting quite a bit of film squirm as the
carrier was run in and out of the scanner. What was happening was that
the top was bowed and not holding the film tightly, but as the carrier
went through the scanner the top would be pressed down by the leaf
springs near the
I'm looking for a low resolution (no more than 600 dpi native) flatbed
scanner with more than 8 bits per channel sent to the computer, and
that has a transparency head for at least 4 x 5, preferably larger.
The reason I want low resolution is that the final resolution of the
scanned
The reason that either set of mask values gave acceptable images is
that
1. The image you were scanning was reasonably balanced
(had good whites and blacks), and
2. You had selected (probably) White balance in the color
tab, as well as Auto white point and Auto black point.
What
I also looked at the images.google.com engine and noted that the
indexing is based on the text near to the image, not the name of the
image. So even if your image is named image0001.jpg, you will still
find it if the word cake appears near it on the web page.
--Dana
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From: Alan Womack
That solution doesn't always work. When we were in Europe (Athens and
Rome) security would not allow us to do anything but run the film
through the scanner. However, I was told that the intensity of the
X-rays of the gate scanner was much less than what is used for checked
baggage. I don't know
David, could you post the PDF on the web? That way we can download it
without involving email. And the download would be much faster than
retrieving the same file via email, because email can only handle 7-bit
bytes, which means the MIME encoding for the PDF is *much* larger than
the original
with
this
computer.
Geoff
- Original Message -
From: Dana Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows
Now that I see you are stating load times for uncompressed files I
see
our times are much
Hi Dana,
I never bother to compress TIFF's, apparently there is not
much
space saving anyway and I believe the less an image is mucked about
with the
better, even if people say that LZW compression is lossless.
Geoff
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From: Dana Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED
www.geoffmurray.com
- Original Message -
From: Dana Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 7:40 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows
A 25% faster drive won't necessarily get you 25% faster load/store
times. PhotoShop
A 25% faster drive won't necessarily get you 25% faster load/store
times. PhotoShop seems to be inordinately slow in dealing with
compressed TIFFs -- I got curious so I set up a cache large enough to
hold the whole file (53MB). The first time I loaded it into PhotoShop
it took 61 seconds (reading
I am assuming the tram lines are dark after you have inverted the color
negs to see the image as a color positive. If my assumption is correct,
there are several sources:
1. If the tramlines are quite defocussed, it could be dust on the
fluorscent tube(s) (the old tran head used two, the new
Do you realise that with the new lower pricing, plus projected rebate,
that buying a *new* SS4000 with a credit card that doubles the mfrs
warranty is close to the same price as buying another two-year service
agreement for the SS4000 I already have?
And, by getting a new SS4000 I get Silverfast
This sounds to me like a software configuration error, which typically
will not be cleared by reinstalling the software. The following
instructions assume you are using Windows -- if you are using a
Macintosh things are different but the concepts are the same. Generally
speaking, a program will
B.Rumary [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
big snip
Ansco managed to hold out
the longest, but is gone now except for the name.
I think Ansco were killed by the fiasco of Anscochrome colour film. As I
understand it this was brought out in the fifties. Photographers thought it
was wonderful, as
Ed, do you plan to support the UMAX USB scanners, like the Astra 2100U
and its brethren?
I ask because I'm trying to use one for building profiles and VistaScan
(UMAX's scanner software) is helping me entirely too much. I believe
that with VueScan I would be able to get scans that haven't had as
Tony, I've noticed some bad bumps also so I created a test panel to
help figure out what's going on.
Take a look at the test panels at the bottom of
http://www.troutcom.com/gdtpug/profiles/test-images.html
Do be careful when interpreting prints made from this image: if you
have PhotoShop
I have a silly question -- why not use the unique ID number that
already appears in the hub area of most quality CDRs? It has the
advantage that no further handling of the CD is required, and it is
readable through the clear window of CD envelopes, jewel cases, or most
other holders.
Yeah, I
Today I got my scanner back -- Polaroid shipped it to me exactly 3
weeks after they had recieved it. In the meantime I have scanned about
50 rolls of film using the loaner they sent me because I subscribed to
the "Gold" extended service contract. $250/year is a noticeable hunk of
change, but
I'm looking for something that will accept 48-bit raw scans I have made
with the SS4000 and do a reasonable job of compressing the tonal range
without muddying the shadows or blowing out the highlights, and
generate 24-bit files my client can look at and decide which images are
really worth
What scanners news group? Would you please provide info on how to
access it?
--Dana
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From: Dynax N [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kodak RFS 3600 (was: filmscanners: Side Step, Have a
question)
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2000 7:31 AM
--- Bob Shomler [EMAIL
The replacement loaner scanner arrived Monday, 9:30am and is busily
scanning away.
The people at Polaroid have been responsive and helpful, but seem
overworked. It often takes 3-4 hours for them to return a call, and
sometimes that is well after their nominal quitting time (Polaroid
evidently
Umm, decimation means to reduce _by_ 10%, leaving 90%. Look it up in
your dictionary. It comes from the latin decimare, and refers to the
Roman practice of selecting by lot and killing one of every ten. This
was used against enemies, upstart slaves, and cowardly platoons of
troops. They wanted to
I found the descriptions of their various levels of service at
http://www.polaroid.com/service/warranties/digital/scanners.html
At the bottom of the (long) page you will find buttons for "Pricing",
"Terms", "Features", and "How to Purchase".
--Dana
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From: JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Yes, VueScan gives the same results.
I hadn't changed anything except the scanner, so I didn't see any
reason to re-install Insight. I just made sure the white and black
points were something reasonable.
I hope to talk to Polaroid tomorrow. I had left a message today at
noon, my time, but that
post-haste.
The adventure continues,
--Dana
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From: Dana Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: filmscanners [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Polaroid SS4000 Extended Service Contracts
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:36 PM
Well, I had tried similar things for days, but just to be sure (and
whi
Sure -- just make an "album" of web pages which you copy onto the CD.
Almost everyone has a web browser installed on their computer.
--Dana
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From: PC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: filmscanners: Distribution SW
Date: Monday, October 30, 2000 11:23 AM
I'm looking for
Does anyone have experience with Polaroid's Extended Service contracts?
My SS4000 just died (again -- but just barely in the warranty period).
It looks to me that it may be worthwhile to get the contract because I
have yet to have an SS4000 live a full year.
The failure mode has always been the
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