I just came in on this discussion on this note. Interestingly and
coincidentally, I was reading Photogaphy Until Now by John Szarkowski
this morning. My historical comments will of course be colored by what
Szarkowski chose to tell me...
Part of the popularity of Daguerre's method was the
Walter Bushell wrote:
Dear Mr. Hamrick:
Is it necessary to rescan with infrared every time, IOW, when doing
multiple scans of the same film is it necessary to do an IR scan every
time?
With my ScanWit 2740 scanner it takes about 35 minutes to do a 16 pass
scan (including the 16 IR
Karsten Petersen wrote:
It sometimes makes subtle stripes in the very dark areas of a slide (that's
the reason why I recently bought a Polaroid SS4000... quite happy with it!).
I had it serviced by Nikon a couple of weeks ago (cost me DM351), they say
these results are normal and due to
Hello,
I'm using NikonScan 3 on CS - IV as a plugin inside photoshop and it never
crashes, but I have problems saving cropsettings, It seems that NS is
loosing its settings when I switch to another picture or even when I rotate
the same picture, then I have to load the desired settings again.
So
All of the Nikon F series, the Canon F1, and the Topcon had 100% viewfinder
coverage. One of the reason most SLR did not was because registration
(viewfinder/film image coincidence) did not need to be as precise.
Jim Sims
Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) wrote:
At 23:40 02-06-01 -0700,
Rob writes ...
Walter Bushell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it necessary to rescan with infrared every time, IOW, when
doing
multiple scans of the same film is it necessary to do an IR scan
every
time?
If you want to have the cleaning features in Vuescan work, you need
the IR channel.
In a message dated 3/6/01 1:50:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought I read long ago that there was a patent taken out in England a
short time before the French government bought the rights to the process and
it was the patent that stopped the English using the process.
Was it the
I received several replies with helpful information from my original email.
My choices seem to be
Acer 2740
Canon FS2710
Minolta Scan Dual
The Acer and Canon are SCSI connections and the Minolta is USB. I think I
remember reading that slide scanners with USB sometimes cause problems.
There
B.Rumary [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
big snip
Ansco managed to hold out
the longest, but is gone now except for the name.
I think Ansco were killed by the fiasco of Anscochrome colour film. As I
understand it this was brought out in the fifties. Photographers thought it
was wonderful, as
I bought the Minolta Dual Scan II (note not Dual Scan...but the newer
version) about two weeks ago (it is around the same price range as the Canon
FS2710) and I haven't had any problems.
Unfortunately nobody in my area sold the Acer, so for me it was choice
between the Minolta vs. Canon. If you
3. Minolta may be USB, but USB devices has the advantage of being
hot-swappable which means they can be turned on after the computer has
been
booted, and it will be detected. If I remember correctly, SCSI devices
need
to be turned on before you boot the system, in order for the SCSI
A lot of people who talk about evading patents are confusing them with
copyright, which is another thing entirely.
While many people do confuse the two, one must be careful not to assume that
the distinctions and uses of the two which exist in one country hold for
another. I made that mistake
Bob Croxford wrote:
All my books are packed away pending a move but I vaguely remember that one
businessman persuaded Daguerre to take out a British patent. This man then
set up a Daguerrotype studio in Holborn in London and made a small fortune
because he had bought the sole licence. I
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