On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:46:00 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/23/2002 3:31:03 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The beta release crashes on my system following the scan. It finishes the
colour correction, then goes to output the file, whereupon it goes south.
LS-4000,
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From: Paul Chefurka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 9:21 AM
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [filmscanners] SS4000 on XP
I've got my SS4000 installed and running under XP. The problem I'm having
is that on startup the New Hardware
I've got my SS4000 installed and running under XP. The problem I'm having
is that on startup the New Hardware Wizard keeps detecting it as new
hardware and asking me to install drivers for it. If I just cancel the
Wizard everything works fine, but it's a PITA to have to do that every time
I
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:01:15 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just released VueScan 7.3.10 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X
and Linux. It can be downloaded from:
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
Th version I downloaded comes up identified as 7.3.9 on the top bar, even
though the link on the Web
should clear your browser's cache and try again - 7.3.10 showed up fine for me.
Maris
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From: Paul Chefurka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 3:13 PM
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: VueScan 7.3.10 Available
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:01:15
in your time of crisis. What a crappy
way to be spending Christmas!
Paul Chefurka
http://www.chefurka.com
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:01:12 -0500 , Wilson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good 19 monitor? I'm currently using a 17 NEC
XV17+ which is a very good monitor that I'm happy with but I have a 2nd
system that needs a monitor and I'd like something bigger.
I'm using a
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:09:52 -0600, Tom Scales [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Me too, with the Sprintscan 4000. I don't like the film at all.
Tom
I have had the same results as John with Kodak Supra 400 on the Nikon
LS-30 - grain aliasing.
Maris
Same here with the SS4000 and the LS-4000. It
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:43:16 -0800, Karl Schulmeisters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the idea is that since the bag will block say 50% of the photons,
that in essence it is like running the film through a machine 1/2 as strong
And if they double the intensity of the beam? Time to switch to
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:41:37 -0800, Ken Durling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Will it upgrade the existing version on my computer? Or do I DL and
replace with same reg#?
Just download it. The installation process overwrites the executable, and
you don't need to worry about the serial number - I
You don't need to uninstall. Just download the new version, it overwrites everything
in the folder. The only thing I do is before the download I save my old .ini file
with my preferred settings in it to another folder. After I've installed the new
version I just copy the saved vuescan.ini
I've used the SS4000 and LS-4000, and I'd agree that the Polaroid shows less dust than
the LS-4000. The common wisdom is that this is due to highly collimated light source
in the Nikon scanner - it shows up every last speck, where the gentler light source of
the Polaroid doesn't. It's kind
And
the crowd begins to chant: "Ham..rick Ham...rick Ham...rick"
:-)
Sorry,
couldn't resist...
Paul
-Original Message-From: Lloyd O'Daniel
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:47
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re:
filmscanners: Was: Silverfast
-sharpening action
anyway. Why would you want the scanner software to apply the sharpening, instead of
scanning raw and leaving yourself the option of matching the sharpening to the final
image size and use?
Paul Chefurka
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From: Ian Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent
So, if Silverfast will, at some unspecified time in the future deliver some limited
tone and colour edits on 16-bit images, but these are already easily achieved in
Photoshop, given that I want to edit high-bit in Phooshop, then Vuescan already gives
me at least as much as SF (gamma-corrected
I've seen this as well. I've stopped worrying about it, because the differences are
never larger enough to present a correction problem in PS.
BTW, since I'm talking about colour corrections, one recommendation I want to pass on
is for iCorrect from Pictographics. I learned about it from
As a people and street photographer, I'm somewhat less than enthusiastic. I live in
the 24 to 50mm range. To get the equivalent of my 28/2.0 lens I'd need a 20/2.0 -
anyone know where I can find one? I'll look at digital cameras when they have
full-size sensors, and not a moment before.
No,the LS-4000 onlyuses
Firewire.
-Original Message-From: Hersch Nitikman
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:43
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re:
filmscanners: New to Viewscan/Ed HamrickDoesn't the LS-4000 have an alternate connection mode?At
Provia 400F is my standard film these days. Great colour, good saturation, terrific
scannability. The only problem is that in bright light I need to stop down more than
I might like (gee, it's too fast - what a shame :-). For shooting available light on
slides, there's nothing like it.
On my LS-4000 scanning Provia 400F slides I usually end up at gamma 2.4, with a
brightness of 1.3 or so (white point 0.001). The histograms look fine when I get into
Photoshop. I wonder if the physical film type, or maybe the media type and color
balance settings change the gamma and
Well, here's a rave review of 400F. I'm totally overwhelmed by this film. It's got
good colour fidelity, natural saturation, moderate contrast, fine grain - it's the
best 400 speed colour film out there IMO. It frankly doesn't come up that short in
comparison to 100F, either.
Also IMO it's
: Thursday, August 02, 2001 12:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Supra 400 shadows
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 11:44:30 -0700 Paul Chefurka
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have the exact same problem with Supra 400 - red and green speckles in
the shadows. Like you, I can't get them
I use McAfee on my home machine. It's the same deal, $40 a year and daily updates. I
haven't noticed any impact on my system's performance and it's saved my bacon a number
of times.
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 03,
I have my doubts.
My (admittedly drastic) solution has been to stop using Supra 400. I've switched
entirely to Provia 400F slide film, and I find it scans just beautifully.
Paul Chefurka
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From: John Matturri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001
I'm using a PIII 800 with 768 MB and a Matrox G400 Dual Head under Win98SE. It's a
year and a half or so old now, and I'm still very happy with it. If I was building a
new one now, I'd do a gigahertz processor with 1 gig of the fastest RAM I could find,
a G500 card and maybe one of those new
Apparently they got the graffiti wrong back in the 60's - it wasn't Clapton who was
god after all :-)
It's been said before, but at the risk of embarassing Ed, it bears repeating: this
level of customer support is simply awe-inspiring.
I think the colours I'm geting off my negs aren't as good
Sounds to me like one of the CCD sensors is busted. Take a look at the image at full
size in whatever processing software you're using, and look to see if the line is
exactly one pixel wide. It's probably time for a trip to the shop.
Paul Chefurka
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available in this system.
Paul Chefurka
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From: Raphael Bustin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 7:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: BWP seeks scanner
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Arthur Entlich wrote:
You don't directly mention
This is a very good point. I wasn't aware of it until a while ago - for a graphic
illustration of colour channel sharpness differences, see John Brownlow's site:
http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/techniques/rgborgrayscale/rgborgrayscale.html
Paul
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From: Austin Franklin
viewing distances.
Paul Chefurka
Here is an interesting observation from Michael J. McNamara (PopPhotgraphy
July, p58)at the conclusion of the article on their scanner tests: ...Even
the best 4000 dpi scanners we've tested aren't capable of capturing all the
detail found in a 35mm color
How much is one of your arms or legs worth? ;-)
The Epson Stylus Photo 1280 is what you're looking for.
Is there a decent 12X18 inch printer available to print color photo's that
doesn't cost an arm and a leg?
the interface still sucks. Vuescan is still faster and better, amd I
even prefer the interface.
Paul Chefurka
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From: Ray Amos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2
Yep.
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From: Marvin Demuth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: VueScan and Occam's Razor
He paraphrases Sir
William's insight with the phrase that the simpler the explanation, the
more
I think Albert Einstein had a good handle on the concept:
Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler.
Paul
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From: Walter Bushell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 6:35 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: filmscanners:
,
especially at first.
I also think the new help files are a lot more helpful than the previous versions (pre
v7). Once I realized they had improved I went back and re-read them, and it helped a
lot.
Paul Chefurka
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From: Marvin Demuth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent
-correcting colour on each of them. Of course, they'd
both still be faster than an Imacon where you have to demount the slides before
scanning. High-speed production isn't the strong suit of a desktop scanner.
Paul Chefurka
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
I've just started down the LS4000 road, and I have yet to do any side-by-side scans
with the two scanners. However - I have rescanned a couple of slides, and my first
reaction is that believe the LS4000 is marginally sharper in the center (10%?), but
degrades more in the corners, at least
anyone else had this problem? Any trouble-shooting ideas? Should I consider
upgrading to Win2K?
Paul Chefurka
see a significant real world improvement in scans from the LS4000
over the SS4000?
Lloyd
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From: Paul Chefurka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: filmscanners: LS4000 reboot problem
I just got a Nikon LS4000
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