Maris writes ...
From: Ramesh Kumar_C [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Maris V. Lidaka, wrote:
| Based on your statement, following is my understanding.
|
| Minolta will have provided a Profile file, which will be laying
some where
| in my PC. Vuescan will use this profile when Device RGB is
selected
Karsten Petersen wrote:
Hi Art,
Can I ask you two silly questions?
1) Why did Nikon charge you DM351 to fix a scanner which was operating
within the normal technical limitations of the scanner?
They claimed that they have cleaned it, and that it was working properly
AFTER their
Dave Suurballe wrote:
Good idea; certainly worth considering...
I'm scanning now with a Kodak RFS 3600, and it doesn't scan outside the
standard frame dimensions.
Dave
Speaking of the RFS-3600, Kodak is again lowering prices on it. They
are now offering 3600 frames of film (100
Jim Snyder wrote:
on 6/5/01 7:01 AM, Larry Berman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just read in PC World Magazine (July issue page 58) that there is going
to be a shortage of CDRW's and prices will triple this summer by July. Buy
em while you can.
or wait until September when the
Larry Berman wrote:
I can't be the only one with this magazine.
The shortages are blamed on three things:
Soaring demands
Consolidation among CD manufacturers
High patent royalties
Larry
Well, it is pretty obvious they have been dumping them on the market.
The prices here in
In a message dated 6/5/2001 11:11:38 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I noticed a deep scratch in one of my negs, so I turned on Light Clean
in the Filter tab and scanned from Disk again.
The scratch disappeared.
Yes, this is what should happen.
So I suppose my question is: if Clean
Larry wrote:
I can't be the only one with this magazine.
The shortages are blamed on three things:
Soaring demands
Consolidation among CD manufacturers
High patent royalties
There was another signifficant reason listed: a lot of small companies geared up their
factories and went b*lls-out to
Hi, Art--
This is a test, and actually has nothing to do with CD RaW Deals. :-)
You said my earlier msg was nearly unanswerable, because of the curious wrapping. In
my limited experience, Reply's generally follow the original formatting (e.g. if the
mode is set at Replace rather than Insert,
Hi Lynn,
Do you live near Columbus? We'll be exhibiting at the Columbus Arts
Festival this week that starts tomorrow.
The article did say that despite the rock bottom prices, the companies
still had to pay an 8.3 cents per CD royalty for every CD made.
Larry
The shortages are blamed on
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 02:29:20 EDT, you wrote:
This is controlled by the Device|Bits per pixel setting. If you can
with it set to 64 bit RGBI (the default), there will be an infrared
channel in the raw scan file.
Great, thanks: that answered my question perfectly.
Umm when the motors move i cant say its really noisey just loader than
my Minolta was! You can here the motors whirring (is that a word?) when
you put the film adaptors in.
I just want to know whether they are supposed to whirr?!
--
James Grove
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am picking up bits and pieces of information on getting started with
VueScan from reading the messages and the help file information.
Surely there is more efficient way to be introduced to VueScan.
Can anyone refer me to other VueScan information?
Marvin Demuth
Hi All
We have been using the LS2000 for some time now and have been very pleased
with the results. Just recently however we have put through a batch of slides
with subjects against black backgrounds. The scans have all got a hazy halo
round all the bright areas such that on an A4 print there
A stupid question no doubt but I have to be sure before I spend the money:
I am in the PC world. My son the film student needs a Mac for film editing
so I'll get him a Power Mac G4 dual processor. Any concerns in monitor
compatibility - i.e. can we just pick the monitor and it will work or
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Laurie Solomon
wrote:
currently copyrights in the US are valid for the
life of the originator even if assigned to someone else, I believe, and are
renewable for a limited length of time only once.
I think you may be confusing copyrights for an artistic works, such as a
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:
Studios were widespread throughout France and made a quick fortune. 400
pounds a day was achieved which was a small fortune in the mid 1800s. Some
photographers are not able to charge that now!
400 pounds a _year_ was a small fortune in those days! Are you
Art wrote:
You have my sympathies. They must have international training for their service
people. Your story was repeated here by Nikon Canada in my dealings with them with
their camera service division.
I'm not big on International Conspiracy Theories, so I have to defer to Ed's comment
Although I'm getting totally off-topic here (again!!), I think it's appropriate to
mention that Kodak is a *film specialist* and has been since the 1880's. Their
ventures into hardware have largely been to sell film, right from the git-go. If
I've seemed hard on Kodak, it's because I love 'em
- Original Message -
From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: CD RW Deal
Jim Snyder wrote:
on 6/5/01 7:01 AM, Larry Berman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just read in PC World Magazine
James,
I don't know how a minolta sounds, but my first filmscanner was an LS-20 and
that machine moves the complete filmstripholder in en out during the scan
stage and was very noisy especially the focus machanism, the LS-40 doesn't
make so much noise as far as I can hear.
I'm only complaining
Unfortunately, I don't think there's a better way. The best thing is to play with all
the settings, doing repeated previews from memory, until you get an understanding of
how the system works and what all the choices do. Frankly, I've been using it for a
couple of years now, and I just got
Surely you can get a full working demo at:
www.hamrick.com
Well it does leave criss crosses on the scan till you buy it for a measly
$40.00
Ira
Ira Beckoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Marvin Demuth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001
The connector for Macs and PCs is the same physically,
but the pinout or timing is slightly different (think
different!), but the good news is that almost all but
the lowliest budget monitors come with the Macintosh
connector adapter in the box. I am 99% certain the
Mitsubishi would (and I really
Nikon Scan V3.1 is out soon, dont worry the bugs are fixed, well most of
them anyway!
--
James Grove
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.jamesgrove.co.uk
http://www.mountain-photos.co.uk
ICQ 99737573
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jan Copier
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote:
I am in the PC world. My son the film student needs a Mac for film
editing so I'll get him a Power Mac G4 dual processor. Any concerns in
Great choice. The dual-processor really cranks through the video
rendering. Look around for deals on
Robert E wrote:
There are two Minolta profiles on your system (c:\windows\color if using a
PC).One for negative and one for positive images.
Yes, there should be 2 profiles, I can see 2 profiles in PS6.
The Vuescan help file states that Device RGB is only useful if you
select
image as the
In a message dated 6/6/2001 12:28:18 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have to defer to Ed's comment that Incompetence is more likely than
Malice--
I can't quote Ed's exact text because an International Conspiracy ate my
email-files! ;-)
I happen to live near Ockham, and have always
Hi
I am also new to scanning and Vuescan.
I used the help given with Vuescan software as documentation.
These help files are very informative compared to what Minolta help gives.
But there will be some issues un-addressed and this list has helped in
clearing such issues.
Please, let me know
I think the bits and pieces you are picking up are primarily fine-tuning
suggestions. Perhaps the easiest way to start is to just leave it at the
default settings except the Color tab where you can select your film type,
the Files Tab where you may wish to select the default folder for saving
Hello All,
Two weeks ago I e-mailed the list to ask you all about making fast, decent
low res scans.
I went ahead and purchased the Acer Scanwit 2740S.
I spent the first half of this day struggling with SCSI drivers and Acer
scanning software. I could not get the scanner to work. Finally, I
No limitations whatsoever. Monitor cables same as on PC, on new Macs,
and most monitor companies send along a DB15 adapter (DB15 to HDDB15)
for earlier Macs. There are also some very interesting all digital
monitor possibilities, which you can read up on the Apple website.
But analog
I am not sure this has changed but I think so - perhaps Ed will answer this.
It may have changed when he (not too long ago) added the Device Profile
option to the color space menu for this very reason. I believe it picks up
the scanner's color profile selection because I had set my Nikon LS-30
In response to a question posted on another forum from somebody wanting to
scan a lot of old slides, I wrote the following advice and roundup of
low-cost scanners. I thought there are probably lurkers on this list that
are looking for the same type of information, so I'm reposting it here, at
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Phil wrote:
It turns out that the SCSI PCI card they include with the scanner only works
on PCs I can't use this scanner on my Mac G4 without paying almost $300
additional for a new Mac compatible SCSI card.
Sorry for your struggles. However, you can get SCSI cards
In a message dated 6/6/01 6:26:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In most of the world
artistic copyright now extends to 70 years after the death of the author. The
copyright can be sold or transferred to another person or a company, or
passed to the authors descendants but it still only
Ed Hamrick wrote:
I happen to live near Ockham
Is that the same Ockham as the place William of Occam was born in?
Colin Maddock
In a message dated 6/6/2001 4:07:36 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ed Hamrick wrote:
I happen to live near Ockham
Is that the same Ockham as the place William of Occam was born in?
Yes, it's just down the road from where I live. I need to get a picture
of me standing next to the
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 08:00:21
Marvin Demuth wrote:
I am picking up bits and pieces of information on getting started with
VueScan from reading the messages and the help file information.
Surely there is more efficient way to be introduced to VueScan.
Can anyone refer me to other VueScan
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:17:36
Larry Berman wrote:
Hi Lynn,
Do you live near Columbus? We'll be exhibiting at the Columbus Arts
Festival this week that starts tomorrow.
DARNIT! We'll be down that way in 2 weeks, (we're closer to Cleveland), and we have
immutable plans for this weekend.
I think that everyone here can see that this is another Ooops! I'm trying to sort
out a new email address, since the last one crashed badly. Mia Culpas all around,
and I'm sorry I helped clog your mail boxes. (and boy, my face is red--again!!)
Best regards--LRA
--
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:27:32
Define soon :-)
Maris
- Original Message -
From: James Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:29 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: RE: Nikon LS-40 Coolscan 4
| Nikon Scan V3.1 is out soon, dont worry the bugs are fixed, well most of
| them anyway!
Polaroid is developing a new scheme for negative profile's. I am looking
for any Sprintscan 120 user who would like to help evaluate this new scheme.
Please contact me directly OFF LIST
Thank you
David Hemingway
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maris writes ...
I am not sure this has changed but I think so -
perhaps Ed will answer this.
It may have changed when he (not too long ago) added
Device Profile option to the color space the
menu for this very reason. I believe it picks up
the scanner's color profile selection because
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
Sorry about the off topic post, but I think that most everyone
that uses a film scanner also has some printer experience.
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
Ramesh wrote:
I am not planning to use Device RGB as workingspace. I am new to this
scanning and
still in the process of finding out the workflow. Initially I was thinking
of archiving in
Device RGB and now this seems to impossible because I have negatives.
I'm pretty sure to get in trouble
- Original Message -
From: James Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: RE: Nikon LS-40 Coolscan 4
Umm when the motors move i cant say its really noisey just loader than
my Minolta was! You can here the motors
This is specious experience to say the least, but I
looked at the output (in the form of the sample book,
and what Olympus likely feels is flattering to the
product) from the Olympus at the store the other day
and I was seriously underwhelmed by the quality of
it's output. Images were uniformly
Phil wrote:
I can't use this scanner on my Mac G4 without paying almost $300 additional for a
new Mac compatible SCSI card.
Ouch! I don't think that I, for one, realized that Phil's G4 wouldn't use a standard
SCISI card. Aparently, Acer didn't, either.
Phil, if I can apologize, I certainly
You can get Kodak CD-R Ultima 80 (Gold/Silver 700MB, 80 Min) with
InfoGuard (with printable surface) in 100 pack spindles for $59. $65
delivered. Sure others can quote equal to or better.
From: Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mine are costing me about $1.50 (for CD-R's) to $3.50 (for RW's),
and
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:36:44
Collin Ong wrote:
In response to a question posted on another forum from somebody wanting to
scan a lot of old slides, I wrote the following advice and roundup of
low-cost scanners. clip
Scanning 500-1000 negatives or slides will turn into a very time consuming
I think you might be talking about the Super Kodak 620,
which was apparently the first automatic exposure camera. It had a big
sensor array above the lens area. It was a folder, also. Very 'advanced',
but died out before long.
At 02:27 PM 06/04/2001, you wrote:
Richard wrote:
What was that
James wrote:
Umm when the motors move i cant say its really noisey just loader than
my Minolta was! You can here the motors whirring (is that a word?) when
you put the film adaptors in.
I just want to know whether they are supposed to whirr?!
Yes. The scanner is readjusting the mechanism for
Larry, et al, it is my understanding that the 'tripling' of
cost is from the 'fire-sale' prices currently in existence. However, that
appears to also be primarily in the 'junk' CD-Rs now selling as low as
10ยข each. They might be useful for temporary storage. Tripling those
numbers brings one back
Polaroid is developing a new scheme for negative profile's. I
am looking
for any Sprintscan 120 user who would like to help evaluate this
new scheme.
Perhaps you could explain exactly what you mean by negative profiles, and
why one would need them.
David,
That is what I believed you would say, and I completely disagree with that
philosophy. Films have certain characteristics that photographers use
particular films for. I don't want every film to give me the same results!
People never did this in the darkroom, so why do it in digital?
I have tested 3 different LS4000 (for sharpness. se earlier messages) and
one of them had a terrible sound and noice in the scanner mechanism.
If you have that problem - return the scanner to Nikon.
Mikael Risedal
Photographer
Lund
Sweden
About Nikon Scan V3.1.
I have been using LS 4000 + NikonScan plugin 3.1 (version nr 3.2.0 1001)
since april and it is not much better then 3.0 . lots of bugs and hopeless
slow compare to Silverfast 5.2 (LS4000 demo).
Something much better must come out from Nikon then a uppgrade to 3.1.
It turns out that the SCSI PCI card they include with the scanner only works
on PCs I can't use this scanner on my Mac G4 without paying almost $300
additional for a new Mac compatible SCSI card.
I can't use this scanner on my Mac G4 without paying almost $300
additional for a new
on 6/6/01 1:30 AM, Arthur Entlich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Snyder wrote:
on 6/5/01 7:01 AM, Larry Berman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just read in PC World Magazine (July issue page 58) that there is going
to be a shortage of CDRW's and prices will triple this summer by
Austin,
I think we may be talking by each other a bit. ICC profiles do contain
several LUTS including sophisticated 3d luts. These negative profiles will
be similar wich ring around sub sets to correct for specific conditions
such as over exposure, underexposure, high or low contrast, over and
Austin,
All scanning software characterises film in some way as an attempt to get
you near where you want to be. You can still use your individual artistic
talents to effect the final product.
In no scanner software of which I am aware will give you by
default the raw
data from the ccd.
Austin,
All scanning software characterises film in some way as an attempt to get
you near where you want to be. You can still use your individual artistic
talents to effect the final product.
In no scanner software of which I am aware will give you by default the raw
data from the ccd. The raw
Lynn Allen wrote:
Advantix, it seems to me, is a perfect example of over-reaching.
It's a wonderful concept,
but they have few real cameras to back it up--and established
camera-makers are not *about*
to forget 110 and The Disc. Their digital cameras and systems show
similar
Lynn Allen wrote:
There was another signifficant reason listed: a lot of small
companies geared up their factories and went b*lls-out to produce
discs without purchase orders. Then they were stuck with inventories
which they sold at bankrupcy prices (in fact the case with many
Phil wrote:
Hello All,
Two weeks ago I e-mailed the list to ask you all about making fast, decent
low res scans.
I went ahead and purchased the Acer Scanwit 2740S.
I spent the first half of this day struggling with SCSI drivers and Acer
scanning software. I could not get the
Before we get into an argument that may be based in a) use of terms or b)
the nature of laws in different countries, I agree with you on the specs you
gave for copyrights. As for trademarks, I am not confusing them with
copyrights; in the US they are two quite separate and distinct laws and
Lynn Allen wrote:
There was another significant reason listed: a lot of small
companies geared up their factories and went b*lls-out to produce
discs without purchase orders. Then they were stuck with inventories
which they sold at bankruptcy prices (in fact the case with many
1st question:
How many people smoke near where the scanner is located? Or cook fried
foods? Or was the unit moved that day from a cold to warm place?
The most common cause of halos in a scanner which seemed fine in the
past, is an accumulation of residue on the lenses optics of ccd surface.
Mine whirrs and grinds, but not objectionably.
- Original Message -
From: James Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:44 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: RE: Nikon LS-40 Coolscan 4
Umm when the motors move i cant say its really noisey just loader
These negative profiles will
be similar wich ring around sub sets
What's a ring around sub sets?
to correct for specific conditions
such as over exposure, underexposure, high or low contrast,
But isn't that what a tonal curve adjustment box is supposed to do, or are
you saying you will
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