Anyone scanning negs may be interested in a 'smart sharpening' tutorial I
wrote which shows how it is possible to sharpen aggressively without
introducing noticeable artefacts. The tutorial includes a downloadable
Photoshop action.
The approach taken is similar to the one I use in the 'Deadman's
on 9/18/01 8:29 PM, Gordon Potter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you wish to look at what is running on a PC that does not
need to be and you don't really know if something like
ctlmon.exe is important or not, you may want to look at:
on 9/10/01 5:54 AM, Anthony Atkielski squawked from the Olympia of Ignorance
If I write a movie and get 5% of producer's net,
I get it forever.
Why should you be paid forever for something you did only once? Do you pay
your
mechanic forever for a repair on your car that he completed only
on 9/10/01 7:24 PM, Rob Geraghty at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you mean javascript I think
yes that's a good idea. In fact I might search that out.
AFAIK it's java since it's client side code. The only Javascript I've used
is server side code in an ASP. But I don't want to start an
on 9/9/01 7:42 PM, Todd Flashner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But is it really
ethical to do work just once, and then expect to be paid for it forever?
Nobody
else has that privilege.
I sure do! If I write a movie and get 5% of producer's net, I get it
forever. Of course 5% of producer's net
on 9/7/01 6:43 PM, Anthony Atkielski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...And when did this thread get limited to C-41
only?
It didn't. But I can say the same about E-6 and BW as well.
You can say that but it wouldn't be true.
Here are the possibilities as I see them.
1. You are right. There
on 9/8/01 4:35 PM, SKID Photography at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Womack wrote:
I took a look at the engine, if you don't use descriptive names you won't be
indexed in a usable manner. No on at google is doing to look at
image0001.jpg files and decide that was a cake and note it in the
appears near it on the web page.
I did a search for johnny deadman include quotes and it turned up exactly
one image, which definitely wasn't one I was expecting.
--
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on 9/7/01 7:16 PM, Jack Phipps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi John--
Most people on the list know I work for Applied Science Fiction (the
developer of the Digital ICE products like Digital ICE, Digital ROC and
Digital GEM) and I am biased. Regardless, I wouldn't consider a scanner that
on 9/6/01 6:39 PM, Anthony Atkielski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's so special about film and development at home?
you know how it'll turn out
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http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
the Motorola press release is here. It doesn't say anything about 70 GHz
chips!
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MOTscript=410layout
=-6item_id=203874
basically I think they have managed to bond a gallium arsenide layer to a
silicon substrate in a way that allows both
on 8/27/01 5:39 AM, Anthony Atkielski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've consistently heard that it isn't as good as the LS-2000, and some sample
scans I've seen appear to support this. Specifically, it appears to have a
smaller dynamic range.
I don't know where you've heard that, Anthony,
on 8/27/01 2:06 PM, Moreno Polloni at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In fact, after
removal of the $200 US rebate on both sides, our price here is just
double that of the US. Is that silly or what?
only if you pay it!
buy from bh or calumet... I do here in Toronto.
--
John Brownlow
on 8/27/01 2:58 PM, Anthony Atkielski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Without a gigabit connection to the Net, I don't see how Net backup would be
practical. Even DSL and cable are far, far two slow for effective backup.
you're kidding
an incremental background backup while you sleep would work
on 8/16/01 11:21 PM, Austin Franklin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A 6M pixel camera, assume 2000 x 3000, will give you a very nice 8x10-11x14,
but that's about the limits unless you use Genuine Fractals you won't get
very good looking images above that. For general reception (candid) shots,
on 8/17/01 2:28 AM, Ian Jackson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry! sorry! I should have said a used Nikon LS4500
http://www.klt.co.jp/Nikon/Film_Scanners/index4500.html
if you can find one under $500 US buy it
the list is more than $11,000!
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http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
on 8/17/01 6:00 PM, Soren Svensson (EUS) at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
From: Austin Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
So from a photographic perspective, a Pixel, is the whole Quad -
I certainly disagree with that...
Well, I agree with it.
Lets see this from a basic perspective.
on 7/24/01 5:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recommend people keep their eye on the
ball - i.e. the quality of the images that VueScan
produces. I personally would be quite happy
using an MS-DOS user interface if this
produced better looking images.
Ed, this whole
on 7/24/01 1:16 AM, Bob Kehl - Kvernstoen, Kehl Assoc. at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ON a more serious note, maybe this is an item to incorporate into Vuescan
Pro, the $400 version.
nice going. great idea. Finally buy that home in Maui, Ed! I'll chip in.
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John Brownlow
on 7/23/01 6:36 PM, Stan McQueen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, and way back when I was using Macs, I could prototype a GUI in
HyperCard real quick, too. However, converting the prototype to actual Mac
code was often a big job--sometimes not even doable at all in any
reasonable time.
on 7/24/01 2:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no idea what embedded backspace characters means.
it means that Vuescan creates a file with a name which includes a backspace
character. This is very hard to see until you scan the files with some
utility which renders
on 7/24/01 11:00 AM, Tony Sleep at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you receive an email with the first line:-
Hi! How are you?
BE SUSPICIOUS
I feel quite left out as I haven't got one of these yet.
--
John Brownlow
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
ICQ: 109343205
on 7/24/01 4:40 PM, Norman Unsworth at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm guessing that you don't like the way file names are
entered. I can't use standard file dialogs to enter file names
that have the letter + in them,
you certainly can on the mac
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John Brownlow
on 7/23/01 11:25 AM, Shough, Dean at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think we miss the point, but rather we have different priorities. I
would love it if VueScan had a better (and more Mac like) interface, but
given the choice between improving the guts of VueScan or the interface, I
will
Well, I am using Vuescan more and more as my default scanning app but as I
do I get more and more frustrated with it. I've finally figured out what all
the settings do and what figures work for me. I can even live without a
historgram. BUT on the mac at least
-- the crop box is awful and often
on 7/19/01 5:45 PM, Austin Franklin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can even live without a
histogram.
I'm shocked that 1) Viewscan doesn't have a histogram, and 2) that you can
live without it!
Vuescan, Austin. Vuescan. Repeat after me. V-U-E-S-C-A-N
as for the histogram I set blacks and
on 7/19/01 9:51 PM, Roger Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm inclined to agree with Dean - I seem to be able to avoid
most of VueScan's quirks, and admittedly there are more on the Mac
than on the PC. Ed has explained any of them that I have asked him
about, and he continues to improve
on 7/12/01 7:10 AM, Jeffrey Goggin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think Kodak should buy out Polaroid.
If the two companies merged, what would they call the resulting entity?
Kodaroid? Kodapol? Polak? (ooh...)
er, Kodak
--
John Brownlow
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
ICQ: 109343205
on 6/26/01 2:53 PM, Raphael Bustin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I avoid extended warranties as a matter of
principle, be it washing machines or audio
gear.
I do too, but other people have pointed out that for low-grade consumer
items which have a very short projected lifespan...things like
on 6/21/01 5:03 PM, Austin Franklin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, not for a scanner, for an enlarger! I don't know whether they are a
good or bad idea for a scanner, but I do know that for BW, I would rather
be using a ND filter, or something with that wavelength.
???
an ND filter
on 6/21/01 7:37 PM, Arthur Entlich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use a lot of this film pushed to +3 stops..according to Kodak the resulting
ASA numbers are 200 (normal), 320, 640, 1000. Even at 1000 it still has very
low
grain (a bit less than a 400ASA print film), of course you have to be
on 6/19/01 11:56 PM, Dan Honemann at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to remember watching American Football for the first time in the UK
some time back and thinking how fantastic the image quality was. I then
found out that its shot on film. Is this still the case?
It's funny, that. The
on 6/19/01 11:28 AM, John C. Jernigan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Admittedly, this is somewhat OT for this list. Can anyone direct me (and
others
who are interested in this issue) to another more pertinent list?
Try DigitalSilver, where this is exactly on-topic (and I should know cos I'm
the
on 6/19/01 5:30 PM, rafeb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bottom line is, there's only so far you can go (in terms
of enlargement) with 35 mm film. Sure, you can blow it
up to almost any size you want, but the same image on
a larger slide/negative will always yield a better print.
Which is
on 6/12/01 5:41 AM, Dan Honemann at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Either way, high resolution scanners seem to dictate high capacity
storage needs. I'd be interested to hear how others are storing
and archiving 4000dpi scans.
How about the new Iomega Peerless portables (10 and 20GB, USB and
on 6/12/01 8:30 AM, Rob Geraghty at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone else experienced this strange behaviour of the crop box, or is it
only me? Does anyone have any idea how to stop it?
ah, the joy of the Vuescan GUI.
turn on 'blink crop box' and all will be revealed
the crop box is not
on 6/10/01 6:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I remember reading something in the Vuescan manual which
said something about 'making the image look as much like the original scene
as possible'. In other words, applying a inverse HD curve, presumably,
plus
a custom base
on 6/9/01 12:59 PM, Tom Christiansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the advantage of 2880dpi lengthwise compared to 1440dpi? It seems
like it's just the paper that is fed through at half speed... Can you
actually tell the difference between the two or do you just have multiple
drops of
OK, here's my 2 cents on this.
First, Polaroid are not alone in offering this. Silverfast ships with a
bunch of profiles, as does Vuescan.
Are they helpful?
NO.
The first problem is that they don't keep up to date with the emulsions. It
is extremely confusing trying to work out which profile
on 6/6/01 5:55 PM, Nick Taylor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm considering a replacement for my Epson Stylus Color 800
inkjet printer. Two printers have been highly recommended to
me, the Epson Photo Stylus 1280 and the Olympus P-400. Does
anyone here have experience with either or both of
on 6/5/01 4:09 PM, Arthur Entlich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did they say why? Is there a sudden demand, has a company stopped
production, is there a shortage of tellurium (if they still use that) or
some other component, are the manufacturers trying to increase
profits??? Should I invest
on 5/31/01 9:51 AM, Alan Womack at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The yellow/brown on the side of the negative continues. I will have to try a
kodak neg next as this was with Fuji 100.
I missed the first part of this thread but this sounds a lot like a light
leak to me. Either light being
on 5/28/01 10:00 AM, Alan Eckert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Silverfast Ai 5.0 came bundled with my Sprintscan 4000 and, while it seems to
be very capable scanning software, it has one highly annoying trait. It
presents the registration box every time I invoke it, and I must laboriously
on 5/28/01 4:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed, this came up on the Digital Silver mailing list but I'd been wondering
myself what happened to the 'output raw file' checkbox in the mac
version. It ain't there anymore! Not in 7.0.24, or 23, or 7.0.6 either. How
do we
on 5/26/01 1:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Added support for very large scans that require
a buffer of more than 256 MBytes of image data
hooray!!
--
John Brownlow
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
on 5/21/01 11:07 AM, Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are various Releases at
http://lawyers.about.com/careers/lawyers/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http:/
/www.ibiblio.org/nppa/biz/forms/
nice one!
this is great
http://www.ibiblio.org/nppa/biz/forms/pocket_release.html
on 5/20/01 6:19 PM, Lynn Allen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does US law really provide for someone to sue for invasion of privacy?
I've never heard of that. I would like to know more if it is true.
OK, True Story; this happend in the late 50's: A Greyhound excursion bus
tour (50's version
on 5/19/01 8:30 AM, Steve Greenbank at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See this :
http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2001-05/2001_05_17_dcs_760.html
and in particular this : (be warned it's 1.4M)
http://www.robgalbraith.com/public_files/dcs760_bw_portrait.jpg
well, it's very very sharp
on 5/19/01 2:46 PM, Richard N. Moyer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you (John Brownlow below) could talk in terms of digital imaging
terms, maybe I could understand precisely what you are talking about.
The word tone means almost anything, depending on the background of
the individual.
on 5/19/01 6:58 PM, Dave Buyens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My secrets for street photography without getting killed include some
fast slight of hand on occasion (looking like you are photographing
somewhere or something else). But more often its just a really big smile
that disarms people
on 5/19/01 10:57 PM, Laurie Solomon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[re needing or not needing releases for 'art']
You do in the U.S. if the person is recognizable and you do not want to get
sued for invasion of privacy.
There is no right to privacy in a public place by definition. We are
!
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
(Hopefully as a large-format/scanner/piezo/leica-using
documentary-cum-streetphotographer this message is on-topic for all the
lists it's going to!)
--
John Brownlow/Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
virus 'warnings' can be considered a virus.
especially for those of us on macs!
you know the mac version of an outlook virus?
it's a regular email that contains the line "please forward this message to
all your friends".
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
on 4/5/01 6:46 PM, Bill Petitt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone tried this slide/neg attachment for the Microtek X6El? Just found it
on their web site.
Yeah, I have one. It works fine but the resolution of the X6 is pretty
limited (though I love the scanner overall). I got a half decent
I'd like an option for it to go BING when it finishes an operation, like
Photoshop or Toast. This is because it works very nicely (unlike any other
scanner software) in the background on my Mac and I'd like it to tell me
when it finishes something.
--
John Brownlow
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
is somehow less
deserving of kid gloves than E6 4x5???
I guess it must be all those 4x5 instamatics out there.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
on 1/29/01 4:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll roll the first digit if I make significant user interface
changes.
And I'll roll out the champagne!
:)
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
Interesting to note that many, many piezography users have had printers
replaced by Epson under warranty despite using pigmented inks and
retrofitted continuous inking systems -- despite having told Epson what
they'd done.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
them.
It's all covered in Ansel Adams THE CAMERA and THE NEGATIVE, incidentally.
--
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http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
pushed to 400, whatever
the grain looks like.
a classic example of newton's third law of thermodynamics restated...
however hard you shake it the last drop always runs down your leg.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
LAB and do my levels
and gamma corrections on the L channel, then convert back to RGB to do a
color balance.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
then assuming PS
needs 75Mb just to fly the image around while it's working on it
(original/workspace/result) then the undo files add up real quick even if
they are kept in memory.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
on 11/12/00 7:44 pm, Frank Paris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is a high density 50 pin connector, the most commonly found these days.
Not on my equipment! Never seen one! Despite owning 2xmodern SCSI scanners
plus Zip, HD, Adaptec 2906 card etc etc.
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Johnny Deadman
http
on 8/12/00 4:22 pm, Hemingway, David J at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ftp.polaroid.com/pub/imaging/input/polacolorinsight/
will try it out, David... thanks for the link!
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http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
on over to:
http://www.topica.com/lists/documentary
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
on 3/12/00 3:20 am, Hemingway, David J at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Be happy to scan a couple on a SS45 when I get back from Thailand sometime
after the 6th
That would be great, david.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
way down in the tiny print on the back label.
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Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
a dot screen in
newsprint) is scanned at too low a resolution. As a result, rather than
showing the true frequency you get banding at another frequency which
represents the interaction between the scanning resolution and the
resolution of the dot screen.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
on 30/11/00 6:00 am, Tony Sleep at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perfection 1640
What is the maximum film size this model can accomodate?
I think this has a 5x7 aperture so it's no good for you.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
e ground when you're winched out of one... I know
this from experience! So over enthusiastic cleaning can cause more problems
than it solves).
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
that show. The woman who sang 'When I wish upon a star' apparently
dressed as an ice cream cone was great.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
you shoot? I shoo 5-20 rolls a week. The entire
rest of my week would be spent farting about with the filmscanner.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
The filmscanners mailing list is hosted by http://www.half
-starting with high-contrast
slides, we obtained results with shadow detail comparable to that in scans
from scanners with a quoted dynamic range of 3.6-and at 4,000 dpi, the
scanner offers the highest resolution in its class.
This reflects my experience.
--
Johnny Deadman
http
is that in the many non-ideal environments there are out there
the safest thing to do if you're having problems is put the scanner first in
the chain and switch everything else off. At least you have a fighting
chance of getting a scan this way.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
like sharing with hard disks.
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http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
The filmscanners mailing list is hosted by http://www.halftone.co.uk
To resign, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE FILMSCANNERS in the
title
has been very good however, and I have
heard no bad reports about this scanner. It probably does exactly what it
says, which is pretty much the same as the Nikon, with the exception of the
ICE feature.
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http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
between these.
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http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
The filmscanners mailing list is hosted by http://www.halftone.co.uk
To resign, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE FILMSCANNERS in the
title, or UNSUBSCRIBE
? (eg. shadow detail: is
it not solely dependant of the maximum density the scanner used is capable
of?)
thanks in advance,
sincerely andi albert.
That's what I do, Andi. All scan software I have tried sucks.
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Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
Metallica from another uses up more
bandwidth than this entire forum.
This has been an unpaid announcement.
ps Egroups sucks the big kahuna.
--
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http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
topica.com
With all the free services I manage to find something to dislike
- the ad-festooned sites
to crop
down.
I don't understand why you can't do the same thing with the crop tool but
you can't, and you won't be able to in Photoshop 6 either, I predict.
--
Johnny Deadman
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
From: Collin Ong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 08:55
, but mainly
you, a lot of hassle. Your list traffic is FAR lower than many lists on
topica.
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http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
The filmscanners mailing list is hosted by http://www.halftone.co.uk
To resign, mailto
We have been hearing about the upcoming Polaroid Sprintscan 120 on the
Digital Silver list... 4000 dpi, 3.6 Dmax, scans up to 6x9, price point
around or below the $2500 mark. Anyone got any furthers betters?
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http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
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