filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.7 Available

2001-12-20 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.3.7 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.3.7 * Significantly improved speed of scanning by updating display and writing files at the same time * Reduced flicker when

filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.6 Available

2001-12-19 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.3.6 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.3.6 * Set the default monitor color space on Mac OS to Apple RGB * Enabled 14 bit scans on AGFA Arcus 1200 * Increased range of focus

Re: filmscanners: Canon D2400UF and Vuescan

2001-12-19 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/19/2001 10:47:33 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: will this scanner ever be supported on Vuescan? This scanner uses the National Semiconductor LM983X chip to control the scanner. It turns out that this is very complex to program, and it will be at least a few months

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan + Infrared

2001-12-19 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/18/2001 11:44:29 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does Vuescan use the same technique with infrared passes on all scanners, Yes. and therefore any difference between say an LS30 and FS4000 in the OEM software are avoided. The problem with the FS4000 is that there

Re: filmscanners: Sprintscan 120 focus/carriers

2001-12-19 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/19/2001 3:42:13 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can't speak or Vuescan focus, never tried that feature but SilverFast for the Polaroid scanners does NOT allow you to pick a focus point. VueScan doesn't allow you to pick a focus point either. The SS120 seems to use a

Re: filmscanners: SS120 and Kodachrome

2001-12-19 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/19/2001 6:05:00 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just started scanning some Kodachromes with the SS120, with disastrous results. I had previously scanned them on an Epson 1640 (which I was using before the SS120) with default settings and got satisfactory,

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.5 color space bug?

2001-12-18 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/17/2001 11:46:30 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have some sample images which demonstrate that 7.3.5 is actually worse than 7.3.4, at least for the above combination of color spaces. http://julianv.home.mindspring.com/color_test/color_test_1.html This is just

Re: filmscanners: Bug in VueScan 7.3.4 Mac?

2001-12-18 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/18/2001 9:29:36 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also noticed that everytime I launch Vs7.3.4, the left and the right panels quickly and very strangely blink twice one after the other as they appear. Never saw that before. Looks like some conflict. This happens

Re: filmscanners:minolta and med format

2001-12-18 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/18/2001 9:33:40 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First of all, based on the way the film holders work, it's physically impossible to scan a piece of medium format film in the way you're describing. That is, unless you cut up the film in 24mm wide sections and use

Re: filmscanners:Vuescan bugs

2001-12-18 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/17/2001 8:30:36 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my SS 4000, Win98SE version 7.33 worked fine. Using version 7.35 with bw Tmax film the following happens: 1) Scan takes 15 minutes instead of about 3 minutes. Is the film being physically scanned more than once?

Re: filmscanners:minolta and med format

2001-12-18 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/18/2001 11:43:46 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alright, now I'm confused. So is the lens moving if you scan 40mm wide or 60mm wide? At what point, in terms of film width, does it start interpolating? When you scan at 4800 dpi, the lens is closer to the film so

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.5 color space bug?

2001-12-18 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/18/2001 11:51:45 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However i do get correct matching between pshop and vuescan when i set both monitor and file space to adobe RGB. A more interesting question is whether you get correcting matching between VueScan and Photoshop when you

filmscanners: Small bug in VueScan 7.3.5

2001-12-18 Thread EdHamrick
I just realized I have something backwards in VueScan 7.3.5. The ICC profile for Adobe RGB has a gamma of 2.2 and the ICC profile for Apple RGB has a gamma of 1.8. I had this backwards in the code. I'll fix this in 7.3.6 in the next day or so. Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.5 color space bug?

2001-12-18 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/18/2001 1:53:44 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just please tell me that EktaspaceRGB came direct from device RGB in a single conversion(?) That's correct. Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners:Vuescan bugs

2001-12-18 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/18/2001 4:16:28 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed it looks as if the SS 4000 pulls the film holder in and out a few times or more during scan. Do you perhaps have the Prefs|Release memory option turned on? This option causes this kind of problem. It's fixed in

Re: filmscanners:Vuescan bugs isolated

2001-12-18 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/18/2001 5:35:10 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's the variable that changes things Ed...release memory reflips, lightens, and compresses to 1/2 the contrast range in pshop. When I uncheck it I get nice, full histograms, correctly flipped image. Yes, I've found

filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.5 Available

2001-12-17 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.3.5 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.3.5 * Added separate color spaces for Monitor and Files * Keeps histogram visible after preview or scan * Added option for histogram

Re: filmscanners: Re: Minolta Multi Pro with negs

2001-12-17 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/17/2001 8:10:10 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I, and others, have found that in practical terms Vuescan does not work with the MSMP and firewire under W2k. But apparently it works well with SCSI connection. It works fine with Firewire. The trick is to put the

Re: filmscanners: VueScan Histogram

2001-12-17 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/17/2001 10:46:16 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How is the upper histogram calculated? m_hst[3][(306L*pix[0]+601L*pix[1]+117L*pix[2])18]++; Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: VueScan Histogram

2001-12-16 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/16/2001 3:34:28 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would second Julian's comments - expecially the part about leaving the histograms in view for the Preview Memory function It's fixed in 7.3.5, which I'll release in the next day or so. Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: VueScan Histogram

2001-12-16 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/16/2001 4:15:12 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a question, is the y-axis in the histograms linear or log? It's linear. Would people prefer it as a log scale? What scale do other programs use? Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.4 Available

2001-12-16 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/16/2001 8:17:47 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please note that the shareware version of VueScan will be disabled on PowerPC G5 processors, and updated product and pricing information for these processors will be announced at a future date. the kind of thing

Re: filmscanners: VueScan Histogram

2001-12-16 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/16/2001 9:46:17 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What scale do other programs use? Others are linear ... but I have to admit, a log scale would be more accurate as the data approached the Wp and Bp. (... Hmmm, maybe not accurate, but at least visible ...)

Re: filmscanners: Problem with Vuescan

2001-12-15 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/14/2001 7:32:47 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been using vuescan with my Canoscan FS4000 Us and everything was fine until when I installed version 7.3.3 wich recognizes my scanner as a FS2720. It's just a small bug with the name of the scanner that's

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.2 Available

2001-12-15 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/15/2001 10:14:53 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uuhps, i think i opened a box full of desires and opinions with this histogram thingsorry about that, Ed, ;-) No problem - I appreciate the feedback. I'll be releasing VueScan 7.3.4 with histograms in the next half

filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.4 Available

2001-12-15 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.3.4 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.3.4 * Added histogram for preview and scan * Fixed problem with SCSI on some Windows systems * Fixed problem with some Canon scanners

filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.2 Available

2001-12-12 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.3.2 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.3.2 * Added support for RGB exposure on some Epson scanners * Fixed problem when changing window size * Fixed problem using APS adapter

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan not detecting Minolta Scan Multi Pro

2001-12-11 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/11/2001 8:08:21 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I a using Windows 2000 and followed the release notes instructions to copy dsscan.inf into c:\windows\inf however this directory doesn't exist on my PC It may be called c:\winnt\inf or c:\win2k\inf - whatever your

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan file overwrite warning

2001-12-10 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/10/2001 10:52:52 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PLEASE can you add this. I've just noticed that when I re-input my settings after installing v7.3, I forgot to add the 'plus' to the file path. I've lost the last 3 strips worth of film scans (about 1h30m in scanning

filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.1 Available

2001-12-10 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.3.1 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.3.1 * Added workaround for a bug in some Mac OS 8/9/X SCSI drivers * Added warning before allowing overwriting tiff or jpeg files *

filmscanners: VueScan 7.3 Available

2001-12-08 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.3 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.3 * Moved options to left panels, images to right panels * Fixed problem with slide feeder on Minolta Scan Multi Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.3 Available

2001-12-08 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/8/2001 9:42:15 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed would you change the file name as well please as Gozilla didn't like it as being the same as in 7.2 and I wasn't sure that 7.3 was coming down. I've updated my web page. Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - Image Brightness

2001-12-07 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/7/2001 11:03:55 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With the exposure being reduced on the LS30 LS2000 as default in Vuescan, when you increase the image brightness setting say to 1.3 etc, is the scanner actually increasing its exposure or is the software just pushing

Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan

2001-12-06 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/5/2001 5:46:01 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does wxWindows allow you to have more than one window open? If so, you must have given thought to drawing the Preview and Scan in a separate window. Yes, wxWindows allows this. I'd prefer to have a set of options

filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.12 Available

2001-12-06 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.2.12 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.2.12 * Added Device|Focus X/Y offset option * Implemented About... menu on Mac OS 8/9/X * Fixed problem with transparency scans on

Re: filmscanners: Re: VueScan Improvements Was: Re: filmscanners: Polaroid ...

2001-12-06 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/5/2001 2:06:23 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed asked if anyone was interested in writing documentation a while back, and I made an offer. I don't remember why I was turned down. I don't recall anything about this either. If anyone has some paragraphs of text that

Re: filmscanners: Tips for SS4000, Insight, VueScan, laptops

2001-12-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/4/2001 8:18:26 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, I should've been more careful before posting that. Perhaps it's a registry setting. On my PC that could also involve a Silverfast upgrade from 5.2 to 5.5. Does the VS install touch the registry? VueScan

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.11 Available (new focus test)

2001-12-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/5/2001 1:38:10 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I followed the above suggestions as closely as I could. The new results can be examined at: http://julianv.home.mindspring.com/focus_test/focus_test_2.html I'm convinced. I'm going to add a focus offset x/y

Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan

2001-12-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/4/2001 7:49:22 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't pine for fancy UI gewgaws either -- hell, I'd probably be entirely happy with a mostly command-line scanning infrastructure. The one thing I'd love to see corrected is that in my admittedly limited tenure with

Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan

2001-12-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/4/2001 11:34:27 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do wish it were possible to have the preview box open and visible as you make changes on the color tab or device tab. I'm trying to figure out how to make changes to options affect the preview and scan as a live

filmscanners: Re: Automatic best focus average solution for selecting focus point? (was R...

2001-12-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/4/2001 10:19:14 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be possible to add an automatic multi-point focus option, which would internally manually take focus at say 9 points across the image, then select the best average that represents the happy medium of all these

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.11 Available (new focus test)

2001-12-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/5/2001 8:33:39 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How would these numbers relate if the preview were rotated? They don't - they're relative to the unrotated position. I'm fairly sure most people will just leave this at the default values (-0.33, -0.33). Knowledgably

Re: filmscanners: Tips for SS4000, Insight, VueScan, laptops

2001-12-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/5/2001 9:23:27 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thinking back to your posts on not wanting to install an extension on Macs, I can see why you'd like to keep VS as self-contained unintrusive as possible. If only other software developers would Oh, don't get

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan and Epson 2450?

2001-12-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/5/2001 7:13:30 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does VueScan already support the new Epson Perfection 2450? Yes.

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Correction for daylight slides with artif...

2001-12-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/5/2001 4:49:08 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob (in another post) is right. The problem was not with faded film dyes but with the use of a wrong film (daylight slides) with artificial light. Setting VueScan's Color|Color balance to White balance solves this.

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.11 Available

2001-12-04 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/4/2001 2:07:36 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here are two sample scans (one from VueScan, one from Nikon Scan) that show the benefit of a manually selected focus point: http://julianv.home.mindspring.com/focus_test/focus_test.html No, there are too many other

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.11 Available

2001-12-04 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/4/2001 4:59:27 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the autofocus point always at the same point on the slide, or does it change when the crop or region rectangle is changed? It's 1/3 of the way from the upper left corner of preview or a scan. If you do a scan of a

Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan

2001-12-04 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/4/2001 11:40:52 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many of us, including me, have been spoiled by Ed Hamrick's steadfast and generous low pricing and no-charge updates. But most of the commercial world still has to pay their bills. Updating software that is

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Correction for daylight slides with artif...

2001-12-04 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/3/2001 6:04:40 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VueScan's Filter|Restore fading option does this automatically. Ed, does this make the Fluorescent colour option in Vuescan obsolete? The fluorescent option has never been especially useful - it just applies a fixed

Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan

2001-12-04 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/4/2001 4:55:46 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I´d like to add a question: Its true that VueScan has gained a very favorable reputation amongst serious scanner users (I like the results too), however almost everybody seems to agree - me included - that the user

Re: filmscanners: LS-40/Vuescan cropping

2001-12-03 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/3/2001 4:32:12 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I notice there's a frame spacing option mentioned in the help file, but that option doesn't appear when I run Vuescan. Does the LS-40 not support this setting? I regret to say that it doesn't. Is there any other way I

Re: filmscanners: Correction for daylight slides with artificial light

2001-12-03 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/2/2001 5:59:41 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anybody knows some kind of filter to apply during scanning or in Photoshop that parcially corrects for greenish color of daylight slides taken with artificial light? (I would like to recover a slide collection that I

Re: filmscanners: Multiple Pass Scanning on the SS4000

2001-12-03 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/2/2001 12:45:22 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Vuescan Users' Guide mentions that the SS4000 often has registration problems between passes and that a future version of Vuescan will fix this. I have experienced this myself, resulting in somewhat fuzzy images.

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan with Acer ScanWit in Linux

2001-12-03 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/3/2001 7:11:41 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is someone on the list who may suggest something? Try a different scsi card. It's probably something wrong in the Acard scsi driver. Maybe the problem is that the Vuescan for Linux doesn't work without reg code?

filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.11 Available

2001-12-03 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.2.11 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.2.11 * Added support for Acer 620UT * Added support for 36mm x 36mm mode on SprintScan 35+ * Increased size of transparency scan

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.11 Available

2001-12-03 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/3/2001 3:13:58 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How hard would it be to provide a way to manually specify the focus point? It wouldn't be at all hard - probably a half hour's work. However, it would further clutter up the user interface. One of my main goals is to

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.11 Available

2001-12-03 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/3/2001 5:56:59 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How 'bout if you could specify the area with a small crop region ... enable manual focus, and then device=focus(?) It would be nice if the manual focus number updated itself ... I understand what you (and others) are

Re: filmscanners: Minolta Multi Pro rez for 24x65 panoramic format

2001-12-01 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/1/2001 5:05:40 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The perspective of paying so much Nikon 8000 nightmares, even with ICE, for this particular use was really boring! In my limited use of the Nikon LS-8000, the SprintScan 120 and the Scan Multi Pro, I didn't come across

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan for Minolta Elite II

2001-12-01 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 12/1/2001 6:02:48 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any news on the Minolta Elite II loan? No, I haven't heard anything from Minolta. I suspect it won't be for a few more weeks. Conversely, the Minolta Elite II casing looks pretty similar to the Dual II I can't yet

Re: filmscanners: Minolta Multi Pro

2001-11-30 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/29/2001 9:38:28 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The stepper motor can actually move at 9600 dpi, which is evenly divisible by both 4800 and 3200. Regards, Ed Hamrick When the stepper motor moves less than the optical resolution isn't that just a software

Re: filmscanners: VueScan white balance question

2001-11-30 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/30/2001 7:22:44 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why does my image change so dramatically between white point 0.001 and 0? It's a bug - zero was being treated as the same as setting Color|Color balance to None. I've fixed this, and will release it in 7.2.11.

Re: filmscanners: Minolta Multi Pro rez for 24x65 panoramic format

2001-11-30 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/30/2001 10:56:43 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What optical resolution does offer the Minolta multi software for 24x65 negs? If low, could the optical system be turned to max (4800dpi) by Vuescan, like Ed made in the old Minolta MF? You can scan 24 x 65

Re: filmscanners: Minolta Multi Pro

2001-11-30 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/30/2001 9:20:31 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: could you tell us some of your impressions about the Minolta Multi Pro when testing it for your software - what about overall sharpness, shadow noise etc. A lot of people out there seem to be interested in getting some

Re: filmscanners: Nikon LS-2000 and supercoolscan 2000

2001-11-30 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/30/2001 12:06:42 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone tell me what exactly is the difference between the LS-2000 and supercoolscan 2000? They're exactly the same thing. Nikon's marketing name is Super CoolScan 2000, but it's also called the LS-2000.

Re: filmscanners: Minolta Multi Pro

2001-11-29 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/29/2001 5:48:43 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the Minolta claims 4800 dpi with a 7260 pixels per line CCD. How do they do that? They move the lens closer to the film when scanning at 4800 dpi. The lens is farther from the film when scanning at 3200 dpi. Minolta

Re: filmscanners: VueScan on Minolta Scan Multi Pro???

2001-11-27 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/27/2001 11:46:16 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed, are you out there? Yup - I'm just busy trying to get 7.2.10 released. I'm just doing the last finishing touches (it supports the Scan Multi Pro and improves some things with the SprintScan 120). I know that you're

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Scan DOES Vary LED Brightness

2001-11-27 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/27/2001 4:28:19 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed asserted the scan speed is proportional to the analog gain setting. Well it isn't proportional. Yes, it is. You need to use bigger values for the CCD exposure to see this though, since it isn't proportional for

filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.10 Available

2001-11-27 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.2.10 for Mac OS 8/9/X, Windows and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in VueScan 7.2.10 * Added support for Minolta Scan Multi Pro * Added support for file names that use the frame number (use = instead of + in the

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Scan DOES Vary LED Brightness

2001-11-26 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/26/2001 5:58:04 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking into the scanner ***I could clearly see that the brightness of the alternating Red, Green, Blue light differed with each scan***. The light is seen reflecting off the slide mount. The length of time the LED

Re: filmscanners: To Ed H; was: Vuescan for Minolta Scan Multi Pro

2001-11-24 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/24/2001 5:25:05 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: could you briefly explain how you learn to talk to a new scanner in its language? Do you run through its software and have some way of reading or logging the info that goes back and forth between the computer and the

Re: filmscanners: Re: Nikonscan v VueScan

2001-11-23 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/22/2001 8:14:12 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Setting Color|white point and Gamma is equivalent, in Photoshop terms, to using Auto Levels and the grey dropper. No, they aren't related at all. The Color|White point (%) option controls how much of the image clips

Re: filmscanners: VueScan cropping

2001-11-23 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/23/2001 2:20:50 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only problem I'm having is that the auto-cropping seems to be way out on some film strips. Some crop perfectly, giving me the precise image exactly as if I'd done it myself, but others are so far out that I'm

Re: filmscanners: VueScan and highlight/shadow pixel clipping--why? (SS4000)

2001-11-23 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/23/2001 1:50:10 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I suggest you scan the slide using the following settings: Device tab: Media type: Image Color tab: Color balance: None It's almost always a bad idea to set Device|Color balance to None. Just set

Re: filmscanners: VueScan cropping

2001-11-23 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/23/2001 11:36:27 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it there in 7.2.8? I just powered up the LS4000 VueScan... cant see it under devices... but then, i don't have any holder in place. JUst the powered up scanner... It will appear when you insert the strip film

Re: filmscanners: Over-Saturated Reds in VueScan 7.27 for Mac!!!

2001-11-21 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/20/2001 10:13:38 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've sent you several emails now concerning my situation. So far, I still haven't heard anything from you. I don't always answer every e-mail the same day I get them. Sometimes it takes a few days. When I was using

filmscanners: SprintScan 120 Success with VueScan 7.2.8

2001-11-21 Thread EdHamrick
Polaroid loaned me a SprintScan 120 today, and I've been testing it with VueScan 7.2.8. It seems to work perfectly, and I can't get it to fail. I've also scanned a really, really dark slide that I have, and the SprintScan 120 has virtually _no_ noise in the dark areas - the images look quite

Re: filmscanners: Canon 4000 scanner VS Nikon LS4000 Mikael

2001-11-21 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/21/2001 8:07:15 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nikon might be approaching the limits of linearity in the LEDs. They also need to be able to have a range of brightness available to them for the analog exposure they offer. No, Nikon scanners don't vary the

filmscanners: Frame size when scanning medium format

2001-11-21 Thread EdHamrick
I've produced a test version of VueScan that lets you specify the frame spacing of medium format film when using a Nikon LS-8000 or a SprintScan 120. I'd appreciate it if people could test this feature. The test version can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/files/test120.sit (Mac OS

filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.8 Available

2001-11-20 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.2.8 for Mac OS 8/9/X, Windows and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.2.8 * Significantly improved features for locking exposure, film color and image color * Added Device|Exposure command to compute

filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.4 Available

2001-11-08 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.2.4 for Mac OS 8/9/X, Windows and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.2.4 * Created icons for Windows and Mac OS 8/9/X * Added additional scanning resolution on Canon flatbeds * Fixed problem with lowest

Re: filmscanners: Artixscan 4000T and Vuescan

2001-11-07 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/7/2001 2:15:31 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also have Vuescan. For negatives the results are first rate. For slides the results are awful. And I mean really awful. The colours are way out. Make sure you set Device|Media type to Image. Regards, Ed Hamrick

filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.3 Available

2001-11-06 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.2.3 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.2.3 * Significantly improved quality of Filter|Grain reduction * Added support for more scan resolutions on some scanners * Fixed

Re: filmscanners: Canon FS4000 - test results

2001-11-06 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/6/2001 2:41:36 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In FilmGet v1.0.1 1. In menu Settings - Exposure Settings... 2. switch off Auto Exposure 3. Now you can adjust Exposure from -2stops up to +2stops. By the way I do not how to control exposure in Vuescan, exposure 6

filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.2 Available

2001-11-05 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.2.2 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.2.2 * Added support for automatic image sizing and cropping when using flatbed scanners * Improved automatic cropping * Added

filmscanners: Test version of VueScan for SS120

2001-11-03 Thread EdHamrick
I have a test version of VueScan for the SprintScan 120. If anyone would like to test it, it can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/files/test120.sit (for Mac OS 8/9/X) http://www.hamrick.com/files/test120.zip (for Windows) To test the Windows version, unzip it into c:\vuescan If

Re: filmscanners: VueScan and Mac OS 9.x

2001-11-02 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/1/2001 12:09:37 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my Mac VueScan doesn't seem to see either of my Firewire scanners (Nikon LS4000ED, Microtek ScanMaker 8700). Haven't yet played with extensions or anything fancy. You need to remove the Nikon and Microtek

Re: filmscanners: Bulk scanning with Vuescan

2001-11-02 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/1/2001 10:39:17 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyway I can get Vuescan to process all the files in a directory ? e.g. Take all the files in C:\RAW and process them into C:\DONE. Then 1234-01.TIF in C:\RAW would produce 1234.TIF and/or 1234.JPG in

filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.1 Available

2001-11-02 Thread EdHamrick
I just releaded VueScan 7.2.1 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.2.1 * Added support for CCD exposure time on Canon FS4000 (integer from 1 to 6), enabling Device|Auto exposure and Device|Long

filmscanners: VueScan 7.2 Available

2001-11-01 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.2 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.2 * Improved speed and quality of infrared cleaning * Fixed problem with scanning dark media (log10 error) Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.2 Available

2001-11-01 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/1/2001 7:33:23 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The downloaded exe file is 71, not 72. It's now fixed. It said vuesca71.exe, but it's actually 7.2. Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.26 Available

2001-11-01 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 11/1/2001 9:30:06 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suppose my point (question) was ... how does just locking the exposure make all panoramic frames accurate? Take a look in the Color tab when you lock the exposure - it locks these too. Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.26 Available

2001-10-31 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 10/30/2001 8:17:04 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With the brightness add back does the gamma work the same as version 7.1.25 where it worked by a multiplier with gamma and brightness or are gamma and brightness now two distinct operations. VueScan just multiplies

Re: filmscanners: Canon 4000 ppi film scanner

2001-10-31 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 10/31/2001 10:29:44 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you noticed the latest version (7.1.26) of Vuescan will scan panoramas with the FS4000. No, not really. It still only scans a 36mm maximum length. However, the new version can position the start of this 36mm

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.26 Available

2001-10-31 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 10/31/2001 2:54:35 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was hoping you had added panoramic functionality in the following way: lock the exposure by (1) changing it over to manual and fixed. In addition you would modifify color controls tab by adding a lock color

filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.26 Available

2001-10-30 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.1.26 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.1.26 * Added Color|Image brightness option * Added Device|Lock exposure option (for panoramas) * Added support for Device|Frame

filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.25 Available

2001-10-19 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.1.25 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.1.25 * Added support for Firewire scanners on Mac OS 9.x * Added support for Minolta Scan Dual II and HP 5300 on Mac OS 10.1 and

Re: filmscanners: Speeding up bulk scanning

2001-10-19 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 10/19/2001 2:17:57 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a piece of software which will analyse images and make a good guess as to which need rotating - then do it ? It obviously would not be able to cope with all pictures, but surely it could look for a blue sky

Re: filmscanners: Canon's scanner Test photo

2001-10-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 10/4/2001 9:25:18 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps he will be able to explain us how to handle properly negatives using his software... The most important thing when scanning negatives is to crop the image tightly enough so you don't have a lot of the white border

filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.20 Available

2001-10-05 Thread EdHamrick
I just released VueScan 7.1.20 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X and Linux. It can be downloaded from: http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html What's new in version 7.1.20 * Fixed problem with occasional clipped highlights when color balance options used * Infrared cleaning can be separately

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Scan 3.1 / Windows 2000: Could not open Nikon Scan 3...

2001-10-05 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 10/5/2001 9:47:50 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P.S. I've tried to start VueScan 7.1.20, but that one causes Windows to re-start immediately during startup.. If Windows 2000 crashes, the problem is (by definition) with something in the kernel. Even the most

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