Some weeks ago there was a thread about fogged negs from airport X-rays.
This is to put everyone on notice that if you travel in the US, fogging is a
strong possibility, because it just happened to me on a trip from Cleveland
to Seattle--neither of which are particularly effective smuggling
Hi, Johnny--
The Scanwit slide holder as delivered is hard to load quickly, and it also
beats up square-cornered cardboard slide mounts. But the fix is simple. You
just need to be careful--for your own sake, not the slide-holder's.
The first problem is the curved keeper at the top-right
Mark wrote:
I'm not Lynn, but hopefully he won't mind me rudely jumping in..
Don't mind at all, Myte. ;-)
Best regards, LRA
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Dale wrote:
I want to scan maybe ten slides a month. My main purpose will be to
publish the digitized photographs as attachments to e-mails or simply
file them one place or another in cyberspace.
Acer Scanwit (either with or without IR) is definitely worth looking at.
Some flatbeds have
Anthony wrote:
I'm not sure ... what do you mean by reference color?
OK, I'm probably not using the proper terminology here. I mean that if I
select color R=0/G=181/B=145 (which may or may not approximate the general
hue and brightness of Rob's turquoise slide--I'm working from color-memory
in PS-LE,
BTW).
Best regards--LRA
From: Colin Maddock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:50:10 +1200
Lynn allen asked:
Isn't there also a way to select a color in Photoshop
Art wrote:
Gates also owns several other collections from
Europe, which unfortunately are also disintegrating.
Which proves conclusively that even Money doesn't solve problems--unless, of
course, you *use* it!!! ]:(
Best regards--LRA
From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Robert wrote:
I don't think PS LE allows access to individual channels in the curves
dialog.
It does--sort of--in Adjust/Curves. It does *not* allow individual
separations into (BW) RGB channels. The lower-priced CorelDraw will,
however.
In the full version you can select the color channel
the desired tones in each channel.
Bob Wright
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From: Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?
Anthony wrote:
I'm not sure ... what do you mean
, 13 Aug 2001 19:14:23 +1000
Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Turquoise has a lot of yellow, cyan, and almost no red (other than
shadows,
ripples, etc), in terms of CMYK. It can be a bugger on a monitor, where
RGB
are your working colors.
I tried printing it, but the print looks like
Cary wrote:
This technique can help many balky applications to run correctly on Win2K.
This (below) sounds like a good answer to a bad problem. Before I try it on
my next install, though, has anyone here tried this type of custom
installation on Win98?
Best regardds--LRA
Original Message--
Neil wrote:
What do I do? I've been waiting over 2 months now for my LS4000 only to be
told each week, it will be here next week. *sigh*
clip
I am looking to go medium format shortly so maybe this is a good chance to
consider another alternative, unfortunately price might prevent me there.
Anthony wrote:
You can save a given set of curves, saturation values, levels, etc., and
then just reload them for subsequent images.
Thanks, and yes, I found that in Edit (at the bottom) in a friend's PS6. It
doesn't seem to be available in PS-LE, however, which may be what Rob is
using. As
Isaac wrote:
. I can assure you, they do not lose a dollar, at the very worst, they
will break even. This has been going on for some time. Have you ever
wondered why so many local camera stores are going out of business all over
the country?
Gee, was it B H caused that? ;-) I
Cary wrote (re: Silverfast demo):
Been there. Did that. On my Win2K system the SIlverfast demo made NikonScan
inoperative. I had to uninstall Silverfast and reinstall NikonScan before
it would work again.
I don't have SF or NS (or even a Nikon), but I've experienced that
phenomenon *more* than
Steve wrote (accurately):
It all seems to be a bit of a mess. We have one set of colours for each of
the following:
1) scanner
2) monitor
3) printer
4) human eye - which is uncalibrated and has wild variations from one too
another.
None of them match up - each has some colours that are not
Rob wrote:
Incidentally speaking of gamut, my LS30 doesn't seem to have turquoise in
its colour space. I have some Provia 100F slides with gorgeous turquoise
ocean in the background, but in scans it just comes up blue and dull. :(
I'll have to try one of the slides on the SS4000 at work and
Hersch wrote:
I believe that Etruscan writings in Tuscany, approximately 2-3000 years old
have still not been deciphered.
So then, we seem to have the additional problem of also keeping Etruscan
scribes alive for 2-3000 years (or perhaps their counterparts). Formidable!
;-)
--LRA
Lynn
It is hard to imagine this Sony monitor not having the ability to
tweak
the individual guns (... is this some type of consumer model? ...).
Is this stuff necessary? I discovered that under Win98SE just about any
fully supported video card can do the required gamma adjustments. The
Ed (Bigboy9955) wrote:
The only thing I noticed so far is a print with a deep blue sky and no
clouds had a faint wavy look to it (I don't even know the terminology!!).
From what I've read on this list blues are tough so I'm hoping this *may*
be expected for a blue sky.
No, it shouldn't be
Colin wrote:
Is anyone else receiving much more spam than they used to?
Oh, yeah! But I'm on what Tony accurately describes as dreck--MSN Hotmail,
which produces as much spam as the Wison packing house ever did (it *was*
Wilson, wasn't it? or was it Hormel? Whatever!). ;-)
ISTM that the
Dean wrote:
The small file size will only occur for a subset of all possible images.
Hopefully this subset includes the majority of photographic images. The
best possible compression for an image that consists of nothing but
random data is a one bit flag to indicate that the rest of the file
Andrew wrote:
What CDRs would be the good quality ones?
Kodak and Sony seem to be leading the pack. I've heard mixed reviews about
Verbatim, and while I use them for CD-RW, I'm hesitant to commit archive
stuff to them. I've had zero trouble with Kodak, but then the discs are only
a year old
Hersch wrote:
He [Mark] wants 20 years. My 20-year-old slides and negatives have degraded
enough that they need Ed's roc, and are generally not as 'good as new.' I
think the digital resource is more reliable, if proper care and storage,
and regular renewal are carried out.
It needs to be
Excellent post, Bob. I think you covered the bases completely. :-)
Best regards--Lynn Allen
From: Bob Kehl - Kvernstoen, Kehl Assoc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:39
Richard wrote:
I archive all my critical stuff (scans and work) onto external 30GIG HD's.
At around £90 a unit I don¹t think you can beat them for reliability and
speed.
An excellent idea, but it needs mentioning that you have to keep magnetic
media far away from other magnets--a radio speaker
shAF wrote:
It is hard to imagine this Sony monitor not having the ability to tweak
the individual guns (... is this some type of consumer model? ...).
AFAICT, my Dell Trinatron monitor does not--it's not upfront, at any rate.
Possibly there's a software tweak that I'm not aware of.
Best
Bert wrote:
Ive attached a small HTML doc with some specs.
Not exact, but a guide - if anyone wants to add
formats then do so.
Very good post, Bert, and thank you.
IMO, some of the confusion, vis a vis archiving, is based on lossy vs.
lossless compression. STM the difference is in how it's to
Flo wrote:
On a MOD the data is stored by changing the magnetic orientation of a ferro
magnetic meterial. This will not fade. To change it very high temperatures
and high magnetic fields are needed.
Cautionary note: I have a (ferro)magnetic tape cast-recording of Chicago
that somehow got too
Art wrote:
I am very intrigued by the number of people on this list how have color
deficiency.
I thought the same thing. I've looked at the photos of several of these
color deprived photographers, and it's astoundingly good!! Apparently,
this disability can be an asset. :-)
I also find
Rob wrote:
Presumably you meant 14GB. :) Funny I was just reading about DVD-RAM and
DVD-RW last night and they were only talking a max of 4.7GB per side.
Yes, you're right as usual, Rob. It was a case of Numbers Overload for me.
Too many numbers in the same PC World article, none of which I
Although I haven't used it (some members have/do), PNG probably offers the
best compression in a lossless format--according to the chart that Bert
posted. Photoshop *does* offer that. Whether the format will be around in 20
years is another matter. :-)
Best regards--LRA
From: [EMAIL
Tony wrote:
Basically, if a sensible black point doesn't
allow a decent scan you are stuffed.
There he goes, beating up on us Scanwitters again! ;-)
Unfortunately, Tony's mostly right. But it *is* possible to suck a little
more light out of a Scanwit by covering the calibration slot with
Tony wrote:
Best backup medium is probably binary printed on acid-free paper as
barcodes. This is well capable of true Dead Sea Scrolls archival longevity,
if suitably stored.
That is probably the most unique solution I've heard all day, and probably
all year. :-)
If one could transcribe the
Winsor Crosby wrote:
It is not wide spread, but photographers have archived color images
as black and white color separations for years. The longevity of
black and white film is pretty well established.
That's a redundancy that I vaguely knew about, but didn't consider.
Haven't even heard
Bob Kehl wrote:
Do you have any experience with the Umax PowerlookIII?
It has a specified dmax of 3.4 and a full 8x10 transparency hood is
available.
If that's the same scanner as a Umax 34X0, my experience is that it's a bit
cranky, with toy software. I recently returned 2 of them, and traded
Hi, Mark--
Don't know about Minolta's native driver (and my Acer's Raw scans aren't
very sophisticated), but Vuescan does a very good job of outputing Raw
scans.
I tend to agree with you--if you're going to correct in the image program,
what's the point of correcting in the driver program?
Hi, Mark--
I tend to disagree--storage *is* a scanning issue in the Real World. You
have to put them somewhere, and Hard Drives are fallible, too.
PC World (I got my copy just 2 hours ago) has some comments on DVD-RW and
DVD-RAM. Not enough info, IMO, but a start. DVD holds a lot of data (up
FWIW, McAfee shuts me down using graphics on a small RAM base. For some
unknown reason, it makes backups of each scan as I do them, and crashes the
program (sometimes the system) after one or two scans. That might not be a
problem if I bought more RAM, but I bought Norton, instead.
Best
I've spent the last 4 days experimenting with the good inputs that members
have put forth re Photoshop Auto Levels. I can see how Tony, being
somewhat a perfectionist, would reject 9 out of 10 Auto Level
interpretations. I tend to reject 40-50%, myself. The various comments on
the White
Rob wrote:
If all I was doing was scanning and editing pictures, I
would already be running Win2K.
From what I've read here and in various computer mags, maybe you should wait
for the next New and Improved Windows version, if only for saving the cost
of one upgrade. Some reporters are
Rafe wrote:
Auto Levels is a bit of a sledgehammer approach to
color correction. Not very subtle, and quite often
wrong.
Yes, but it's quick. When you're working on images that differ greatly in
subject, film, time of day, and exposure (and I always am), it saves a lot
of time to get color
Bob Kehl wrote:
ON a more serious note, maybe this is an item to incorporate into Vuescan
Pro, the $400 version. Some of us would pay for this version.
Unfortunately, doing that version would force Ed into becoming another
Adobe-type corporation, with employees, payrolls, IP issues, lawyers,
Photos (a little off-topic)
| Lynn Allen wrote:
| but I had 5000 pictures to do in 10 month's time
|
| That's exactly my task at the moment.
| I've just bought a rather good flatbed (Agfa Arcus 1200, 14bit color) to
| scan my whole archive of family pictures from the last 100 years.
| Since
Hi, Larry--
This was three years ago (seems like a lifetime) when I didn't know
anything about scanning or had never even installed Photoshop.
You've crammed a lot of scanning and learning into that 3 years, Larry. :-)
If I had it to do all over again I would save an uncompressed file of each
Todd won't find this particularly useful, but he wrote:
Could giving it a new SCSI ID help? A whack in the head, or a toss out the
window?
If their Customer Service isn't any better than HP's, any and all of the
above are worth trying. Or, I could buy it from you for $3.50 and add it to
the
Quietly, Frank, q-u-i-e-t-l-y. If it ain't broke, don't fix it; and the way
the Vuescan driver works with my Acer is *more* than very acceptable. :-)
Best regards--LRA
From: Frank Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Scanning multiple times
My daughter is a digital graphic artist, and designs GUIs. I mean, that's
what she *does*--full time. And she's always working (60-hour weeks aren't
uncommon).
A lot of people forget that Ed's a One-Man Band (orchestra?). It might be
*nice* if Vuescan had bells and whistles, GUIs, extensive
Thomaz:
Tungsten light is always warmer by several Kelvins than natural light, as
you know. If you can't buy film rated for tungsten light (and I'm not sure
you can), you can use a light blue filter, which unfortunately reduces the
incident light you're working with (I don't know the filter
--not
that I can help every time, but I can try.
Best regards--LRA
From: Tomasz Zakrzewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Archiving Photos (a little off-topic)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 02:02:21 +0200
Lynn Allen wrote:
but I had 5000
Terry, this is off-topic to the point of the ridiculous, but *what* is the
Baltimore Ravens v. Bouchat case-law you quote? As a Cleveland-area
native, I'm no big fan of Art (Take the Browns and Run) Modell, and I'm
curious as to what the case was, and why it was denied.
BTW, I'm not a lawyer
Terry Carroll wrote:
it's unusual to have an opportunity to provide some signal that I believed
would be found useful, even if a little off-topic.
I, for one, am happy you chimed in, Terry. It sounds good, anyway.:-)
I'd like to mention, from both a producer's and user's point of view, that
Alan wrote:
I find with my scanwit all my scans with people in them, or actually all
my scans lately have way too much blue in the[m] period.
Alan, do you find this true after you aply Auto Levels in PS? That's the
first thing I do after a scan is loaded, whether from Vuescan or MiraPhoto
Ed wrote:
One prediction:
a major scanner manufacturer is going to release several
features like this in the next year that will drive several of their
competitors out of the scanner business.
The low-end scanner business is quite competitive - witness
AGFA's recent abandonment of the low-end
Laurie wrote:
Like locks, copyright notices and the like are basically only for the
honest and should not in and of themselves be regarded as practical
protection against deliberate infringements - actual or potential.
I don't think anybody who's in or near the business can disagree with
S. Matthew Prastein wrote:
No, I do not scan 16 times, only 3, but at
highest resolution.
That would be the high 32 in Mira, or 48-bit in Vuescan. I'm not sure this
buys you much with thin negs, but OTOH every little bit helps (pun not
intended). :-)
I _think_ I see improvement in noise
Frank wrote:
I purchased a set of 4 Landscape Prints at an auction a couple days ago. It
is my intention to sell them on eBay, however, they are un-signed so I am
not to optimistic.
My question is: Can I scan them, and display a small picture of them on
eBay for advertising without violating
Thanks, Rafe. I could have used that bit of insight about a week ago, when
the same thing happened to me (it all worked out happily--or mostly, except
that I crashed my video card and had to reinstall *that*, too). Now I have
your msg in a safe place--providing I don't crash my HD.
Best
Julian wrote:
He actually said if you send it back, we'll just send it back
to you the same. He also said I don't know the details of how it was
checked, and you can't talk to the service people directly, you have to
talk to me and I am only a support person as well as It is within
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Subject: RE: filmscanners: image samples of digital artifacts
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 20:41:23 -0400
At 10:08 PM 7/19/01 +, Lynn Allen wrote:
Hi, Dan--
That looks like Posterization to me (at least, tha's whut ah calls it!
:-)
--cf definitions (-:|:-) ). I'd
Rafe wrote:
The sky in the Prarie photo looks smooth as silk
on my PC, with 24 bit video. With the screen set
to 256 colors I get topo maps in the sky.
and Bob wrote:
Thanks Rafe. Mine looked smooth as silk too. I couldn't figure out what
I was suppose to be seeing and wasn't. Now I get
Well, this may be what Dan Honemann is up against
on his notebook computer. I told him to ditch it.
That's a little extreme, Rafe. :-) Granted that an LCD is not suited to
*working* on graphics, it's viable for *viewing* them. Still, if Dan throws
out his Dell Inspiron, I hope he throws it in
Dave wrote (re bad repro houses):
It'll get better as more jobs are shot digitally. Then the repro
folks won't have as much incentive to sabotage jobs not scanned in
house since there's no film anyway.
Even with photographer supplied scans this behavior will eventually
backfire on honery and
Tony wrote (re grain aliasing):
No, I have scans of the same neg showing the effect very strikingly. You'll
have to wait a while longer though.
I will wait, but since *you're* the one who sent us off in search of this
Holy Grail, it's only appropriate that we see your examples, one day. :-)
Tony wrote:
These problems have long since been resolved in newsprint, for that
reason.
Generally smaller repro houses don't have these problems...
In the US, many (if not most) newspapers are using digital, because it's so
fast. By the same token, the MajorMajors, like Time Newsweek (I've
Not that I really want to comment on this at all, but I've found that if I
don't, maybe nobody will (too often, and not often enough). :-)
Given: That the stepper mechanism is accurate, and not just a piece of
trash...
Then: It would not matter whether the copy is moved or the scanning head is
Ivar, you're absolutely right! That must have been a senior moment on my
part. :-) They were both greats in the ad biz. I do think it was Bill
Bernbach who made the statement.
Thanks for setting me straight :-) --LRA
From: Ivar Järnefors [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To:
Rafe wrote:
...our entire job in this listserv sometimes seems to be second-guessing
the manufacturers and telling them what they did wrong. g
Seems to me they give us ample opportunity! ;-)
My personal guess is that the better
way is the one that moves the smaller
mass -- all else being
I think Art may be pretty much right, here, particularly about the top
down management. Recent history (and personal experience) shows that this
type of hierarchy tends to frown on any criticism from below, hence
constructive comments dry up, and the Top becomes not only insulated but
I seem to be missing something. I have an Acer Scanwit 2740S, which
requires multiple passes to do a multiple scan. I thought that this
was the right thing to do to get lower noise when scanning at 16x. so
as to be able to average the input from successive reads. And, I
thought this would help
Norman,
Yes, that's exactly what happened. Makes one feel sorta silly, doesn't it?
:-) That's one advantage of shooting transparencies--you can bracket to
your heart's content (and get some interesting results, as well). Besides,
on my Acer, they scan better. Usually. :-)
Best regards--LRA
Rafe wrote:
I'd be curious to know, among veteran film-
scanner users, whether there's any brand
loyalty at all. Anybody out there buy the
same brand twice?
I'm every bit as brand loyal as the brands (and suppliers) are loyal to me
and my goals. If it works like it's supposed to work, I'll
Fantastic comparisons, Rafe. And much more Real Life than anything from
the mfgrs' publicity departments. Thanks.
From: rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: filmscanners: On A More Positive Note
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:11:04 -0400
I've posted a
Rafe wrote:
Aw, c'mon Lynn, just answer the question. It's really simple.
Ever bought the same brand of film scanner twice?
I sure haven't.
Gee, Rafe, since I've been scanning for less than 2 years and only done
8,000 or so scans, how many scanners would you expect me to buy!? :-)
Have I ever
Hi, Austin--
Your point is well taken, that different divisions of Nikon are probably
involved here, and not all run at the same level of competence. The point
remains that a manufacturer with a name like Nikon (or any number of other
names you'd care to mention) has a vested interest in
Rob wrote (re grain-aliasing)--
The closest analogy is the moire patterns you get when scanning offset
printed magazine pictures with a flatbed at certain ppi settings.
This makes the exact point of my earlier post--that's not how I'd describe
it, at all (and the Acer can grain-alias with the
Dan wrote:
Is there an online tutorial/FAQ/glossary somewhere that shows image samples
of various digital artifacts (e.g., banding, grain-aliasing, jaggies,
etc.)?
I'm a newbie to all this, and Tony's glossary at halftone is a help but
doesn't show pics. Here, I think, sample images would be
Lawrence wrote:
I have been instructed that there will be NO 'during delivery' photos.
Immediately afterward is ok, just not before
You could try sneaking a Minox into the birthing room. As documentary, your
heirs might appreciate it. Not that *you'd* live to ;-)
Congrats and good
Very good review. Excellent, in fact. Please pass it on to Michael, Ian.
The only comment I would make is on Michael's, vis a vis Polaroid's
financial troubles. It's somewhat perjoritive (although I'm sure he meant it
only as a cautionary), and a tad irrelevant to performance. Be that as it
For those that don't get Dilbert in their local funny (?) papers, I think
that Scott Adams has a web site. He could probably use some of this material
in his strip. :-)
Actually, I feel your pain--LRA
From: Lawrence Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to learn much about web presentation--set your parameters (file
sizes, etc) and I'll try to comply.
Best regards and luck--LRA
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Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Hi, Dan--
That looks like Posterization to me (at least, tha's whut ah calls it! :-)
--cf definitions (-:|:-) ). I'd say it's probably a result (in this case,
anyway) of pushing the sizing and JPEG compression too far. A good reference
is Larry Berman's Compression Comparisons
Norman wrote:
I played with my exposures to see how the film would react to slight
under-exposure in an attempt to heighten the contrast a bit but only went
under by 1/2 stop. The film's latitude must be very wide as I couldn't
really detect any difference from 'properly' exposed shots.
I once
Hi, Tony--
Turns out we were both trying to throw water on a grass fire, so to speak.
I've made apologies all round, and apologize to you, as well. :-)
Best regards--Lynn Allen
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Sleep)
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanners
Rafe wrote:
I was able to get a parts manual quite easily for
my Mamiya 645E. $20 and it's a done deal.
Only trouble is, when I called up to order
specific parts, not one of the critical parts
was in stock.
Well *that's* reassuring as hell! :-)
This is even worse than I thought. Well, thanks
Tony wrote:
MS newest technology for interchange of data between applications, sort of
DDE/OLE Plus. I think. For W95 it was an add-on separate install, with W98
it's part of Windows itself.
Doubtless this is a hopelessly wrong or inadequate explanation, but who
cares, on a filmscanner list?
IMHO, and speaking this time as a one-time Art Director, I'd suggest that
anyone dealing with RGB, CMYK, Lab colors, and printers (of the
press/magazine/newspaper type), copy this post and save it to HD (and to
personal memory, as well). It's gut-written and honest, and therefore will
give
Tony wrote:
You misheard. They said 'hostility'.
That's what they 'said,' of course, but not what they said.
Point remains. :-)
Best regards--LRA
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Excellent insight, Rafe. This isn't one of those I Agree posts, it's one
of those Take another look at this posts.
So don't just *sit* there--Take Another Look! :-)
Best regards--LRA
From: rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners:
This is a horror story that many people in the industry could have written,
myself included (although I was usually submitting reflective art, not
digital). One answer might be to go in and work the Macs yourself (but I've
never seen a repro house that would allow that). Since I mostly worked
Rafe wrote:
Dan insists that you could use a monochrome monitor
to do color corrections. Now, I admit I haven't
tried that. But it is quite a provocative claim,
and follows logically from Dan's numerical approach.
This is absolutely true--if you've been trained in the classic (largely Old
I'll give HP another try, Austin. What I got from my last requests (reading
between the lines, that is) wouldn't be fit to send over the Internet. ;-)
Best regards--Lynn Allen
From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanners
Art wrote:
We require fuzzy logic, and we incorporate it into our machines
because they can think better (as we do) that way. Since we program
them, we tend to use our type of logic, which in turn probably slows
them down, but by introducing the fuzzy part, we make them more able
to function as
, and replaced it, and got credit toward the old one
when you turned it in.
Art
Lynn Allen wrote:
tflash wrote:
I like the leaf, I'm glad I bought it, but mine has some problems, and
the
cost for shipping and repair is prohibitive. So I live with it in it's
compromised condition
Surely the bottom line is : if a bit of kit works for you, gets you where
you want to get to, that's all that needs to be said. It's not an ego
issue.
Thank you, Tony. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! :-)
--LRA
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Is that Agfa Arcus, Tomasz, or Argus? I'll be damned--what goes around
comes around, even if you change the spelling. :-)
Best regards--LRA
From: Tomasz Zakrzewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: filmscanners: flatbed for contact-sheets
Date: Tue,
Someone wrote:
And none are as good as Contax with Zeiss g
Pissing contest. Admittedly funny, but it takes up Tony's bandwidth.
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Austin wrote:
I believe, and I could be wrong, that companies are required to provide
sufficient documentation for a product such that one can maintain it ones
self, of course with sufficient technical skills.
I believe that they *should* be, but my HP scanner came with a setup card
and an
tflash wrote:
I like the leaf, I'm glad I bought it, but mine has some problems, and the
cost for shipping and repair is prohibitive. So I live with it in it's
compromised condition.
OK, I've seen many posts similar to this in the last few months (even made a
few, myself). If it's a given
Rafe wrote:
Dan's approach is to go by the numbers
(RGB values, or L*a*b values, or CMYK values)
rather than the appearance of the image on the
screen. So in a way, Dan's approach is quite
absolute and mathematical, if followed rigorously.
My question in all of this is that if you don't go by
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