Pending??? I think "speculated" would be more appropriate.
David
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From: Ray Amos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Good As Gold Guarantee
> Not that I'm returning
Off topic :)
David
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From: Gerry Kaslowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:10 PM
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Subject:Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED
or they file for bankruptcy
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From: Shough, Dean <
David,
Thanks for your interest.
I am pretty sure Vuescan does support the SS120.
Polacolor Insight has a software dust removal feature that is about 80 to 85
percent as effective as the hardware based digital ICE. That being said you
should realize that any dust removal feature has a softening ef
Polaroid Secures Loan Extensions,
Plans to Explore Merger or Sale
A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE News Roundup
Polaroid Corp. said Wednesday it would explore a merger or sale as the
camera and film maker tries to dig out from beneath a mountain of debt.
The company announced a waiver on a $363 mil
Bankruptcy doesn't entail an end to service agreements, etc. It merely puts
creditors on hold.
True, one would like to deal with a company that is solid financially. I
think Polaroid will probably make some radical cuts -- the usual get lean
and mean approach. I've also hear that the company stil
Thanks Steve. I've sent it three times to the list. I guess it was too
large. To bad I didn't think of LZW.
Jack Phipps
Applied Science Fiction
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From: Steve Greenbank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm using a Nikon 4000 as we speak on a Mac G4 with 8.something OS. Digital
ICE, Digital ROC and Digital GEM are working just fine.
Jack Phipps
Applied Science Fiction
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From: Chuck Phelps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROT
> BTW, a few times the
>> Silverfast software has not recognized my scanner, but then I start up
>> Polaroid's software, and then try it with Silverfast's again and it does
>> recognize it. Next time it happens I'm going to contact Silverfast with the
>> details. (I'm working on a Macintosh G4
I think so too rafe. I can't really imagine them disappearing. But it does
bring a certain amount of uncertainty to the issue. As for the machines, it
was really a toss up. They are both great.
Lawrence
>
> In all fairness, I suspect Polaroid will
> find some way to continue operations.
> M
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Lawrence Smith wrote:
> Here's the latest. My SS120 is on it's way back to the vendor for a refund.
> I am getting another 8000 tomorrow to try. Hopefully the banding issue will
> be solved with this new one. It must be said that I REALLY like the SS120.
> I was getting
Here's the latest. My SS120 is on it's way back to the vendor for a refund.
I am getting another 8000 tomorrow to try. Hopefully the banding issue will
be solved with this new one. It must be said that I REALLY like the SS120.
I was getting superb scans for the most part. I did have a slide th
Title: Polaroid Good As Gold Guarantee
I don't know how good this
guarantee is after reading this:
http://public.wsj.com/news/businessbox/article1.html
Hey, Lawrence, how are you making out with the SS120? I'm liking mine
better and better, now that Ian's giving me a few additional pointers on the
SilverFast software. I am a bit concerned about Polaroid's economic
problems and support; hopefully they'll sell a bunch of them so someone will
cont
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Shough, Dean wrote:
> > I'd have bought a Polaroid SS4000 in the blink of an eye if it had the
> same functionality.
> >
>
> I am waiting for Polaroid (or someone else) to release a 4000+dpi 35 mm
> slide scanner with ICE^3. Looking at the current prices on the SS4000 ($9
> Not that I'm returning my scanner, but I'm curious.
>
> Does anyone know how this works? Normally the merchant I purchased
> the scanner from has a 14 day return policy. However, it sounds like
> Polaroid is cutting the merchant a break so therefore it should
> trickle down to me and I should
Hi
I use Scan Dual II & VS on Win2K and it works fine.
I will follow procedure given below.
1) Switch on the scanner, leave for 1-2 minutes. Make sure that the door of
the scanner is closed.
2) Launch VS(You should hear some sound ).
3) Insert the film/slide holder.
4) Continue scanning.
Hop
At 14:25 11-07-01 -0400, Raphael Bustin wrote:
>Vuescan "recognized" my 8000, over Firewire,
>although it didn't get much farther than that.
>In a couple of back-and-forths with Ed, there
>was no indication that the Firewire connectivity
>was an issue.
Vuescan recognizes my LS4000/firewire but i
> I suspect I need to take back my comment about the 1800 being unable to
scan
> mounted slides. I could get it out of the box and try to fit a slide in
> there, just to be sure. Maybe I'll bother in an idle moment.
I have a PrimeFilm 1800i sitting in the closet. It definitely can scan both
fil
or they file for bankruptcy
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From: Shough, Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED
> > I'd have bought a Polaroid SS4000 in the blink of an eye if it had the
> same function
Vuescan does not work with firewire and MAC OS 9 or earlier.
Ed is on weekation in London but have told me that he will write
Vuescan to Mac Os X later on.
Mikael Risedal
>From: Raphael Bustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: filmscanners: Nik
What about the ls-4000?
> I am waiting for Polaroid (or someone else) to release a 4000+dpi 35 mm
> slide scanner with ICE^3. Looking at the current prices on the
> SS4000 ($950
> according to CNET) and the $200 rebate currently being offered, I expect
> something soon.
> I'd have bought a Polaroid SS4000 in the blink of an eye if it had the
same functionality.
>
I am waiting for Polaroid (or someone else) to release a 4000+dpi 35 mm
slide scanner with ICE^3. Looking at the current prices on the SS4000 ($950
according to CNET) and the $200 rebate currently bein
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Chuck Phelps wrote:
> Is anyone using the Nikon 4000 on a mac with a scsi converter. I would
> like to use Vuescan with this scanner but Vuescan will not work with firewire.
Is that a fact? I never heard that from Ed
Hamrick.
Vuescan "recognized" my 8000, over Firewir
I too have a Scan Dual II and never had a problem using it with Vuescan.
It's always found the scanner, no problem. However, I need to make sure the
scanner is on first, then fire up Vuescan.
Norman Unsworth
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On B
Title: Polaroid Good As Gold Guarantee
Not that I'm returning my scanner, but I'm curious.
Does anyone know how this works? Normally the merchant I purchased the scanner from has a 14 day return policy. However, it sounds like Polaroid is cutting the merchant a break so therefore it should
For your information. Copied from a post to the EOS usergroup from B&H
Photo. Enjoy. Ray Amos
***
Read http://public.wsj.com/news/businessbox/article1.html from the Wall
Street Journal about Polaroid's financial difficulties. The article says
Polaroid, "...i
> For instance, is there a way to zoom into an image in Lasersoft (HDR --
> because that's where I'm doing my editing of hi bit images) other than
> recropping?
You must create a new "frame" or resize the original frame (marching ants).
You seem to have discovered one or other, not sure which as
I suspect I need to take back my comment about the 1800 being unable to scan
mounted slides. I could get it out of the box and try to fit a slide in
there, just to be sure. Maybe I'll bother in an idle moment.
When I tried (with a friend's slide - I don't shoot slides) we could see no
way to fi
> >Your complaint regarding NikonScan 3.1 being "buggy"
> >is surprising to me. I had some initial problems
> >getting NS installed, but it has not been remotely
> >buggy since then. The installation issues turned
> >out to be due to device conflicts.
> >
> >Which leads me to suspect that a good
This is what Jack sent to me - except I've used LZW compression. I've never
seen it manage compression ratios > 20:1 -although its not surprising when
you see the image.
Steve
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From: "Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July
At 07:09 11-07-01 -0400, I wrote:
>It was admittedly difficult for me to be objective because of prior bad
experiences with an LS4000
>and Nikon technical support. From list feedback it seems that times have
changed for the better to
>some degree. I'd have bought a Polaroid SS4000 in the blin
At 06:36 11-07-01 -0400, Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) wrote:
http://www.splashofcolor.com/pages/praxisoft/compassprofile.html
>http://www.picto.com/colorsynergyA.html
>
>Google hasn't gotten so good these days that you can find product names
>like this immediately. I wanted to check the
Is anyone using the Nikon 4000 on a mac with a scsi converter. I would
like to use Vuescan with this scanner but Vuescan will not work with firewire.
chuck
I would like to express my deepest thanks to all those who provided me with
such helpful information. You have saved me probably weeks of frustration.
Hopefully I will now only have hours of frustration figuring out how to
implement your suggestions .
I believe the attachment Jack mentioned was the copied
text from the other ASF employee, a posting to the
LivePix newsgroup detailing the issues with dithering
routines.
Pat
--- "Mark T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I didn't see anything attached to the post either..
>
> As a 1270 owner who ha
I did not receive it either.
Gordon
Arthur Entlich wrote:
> > Jack Phipps wrote:
> >
> . The attached file has
> > several very fine lines at certain angles.
> >
> > Jack Phipps
> > Applied Science Fiction
>
> I didn't find the attachment with your post, am I the only one?
>
> Art
Ian's tip about changing the Auto threshold for highlight and shadow did the
trick for 48 bit editing in Lasersoft. I'm now much better able to control
the values in the blackest blacks and whitest whites. . . . So, other than
waiting for Ian to write more tutorials, or just experimenting for co
I didn't see anything attached to the post either..
As a 1270 owner who hasn't really done much experimenting yet to see if it
has a sweet spot, I wouldn't mind trying them out, if Jack wants to try
again or give a web-reference..?
MT
At 09:05 PM 10/07/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > Jack Phipps wr
At 11:16 PM 7/10/01, Jeff Goggin wrote:
>Perhaps someone can clarify something for me ... how do the new Nikon and
>Polaroid scanners achieve their claimed 4000dpi resolution for multiple
>formats? Unlike most film scanners that accomodate multiple formats, the
>claimed resolution of these scann
At 06:51 AM 7/11/01 -0400, Cary Enoch Reinstein wrote:
[Rafe B:]
>>Your complaint regarding NikonScan 3.1 being "buggy"
>>is surprising to me. I had some initial problems
>>getting NS installed, but it has not been remotely
>>buggy since then. The installation issues turned
>>out to be due to d
> So, the "very old" 'caveat emptor' should always be in force with ebay
> purchases.
The best one I saw was
"Playstaion 2 Box and Receipt"
Bidding started at $1 and I think there was no reserve.
There were many bids and eventually someone had the winning bid of $425. A
little over the top b
At 10:31 PM 7/10/01 -0700, Art wrote:
>It sounds to me that this is a heads up to companies like Polaroid and
>others that it might well me worthwhile to consider production of at
>least one scanner line with D-ICE or equivalent type products with an
>infrared channel.
"ICE" was a non-issue for
"Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Google hasn't gotten so good these days that you can find product names
> like this immediately. I wanted to check them out also. Enter ColorBlind
or
> ColorSynergy in Google's search box and you've got it. Unfortunately,
> they
At 22:31 10-07-01 -0700, you wrote:
>"Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...)" wrote:
> > On 10-04-98 I posted the following to this list:
> > "Let's not forget the corollary to that expression is "with Nikon you don't
> > get what you pay for." By that I mean customer support. I learned that
> > u
At 07:39 PM 7/10/01 -0700, Art wrote:
>As those who bother reading my comments know, I am an advocate of buying
>used equipment and non-bleeding edge. It saves money, it sometimes even
>protects you from the "first buyer screw" which means you end up paying
>the most for a product which isn't pe
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:41:49 -0400 Dave King ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> However, I find that, while the color calibration is
> very good,
> > it has some shortcomings, depending on the particular slide, with
> the
> > yellows and magentas; sometimes the yellows are overemphasized and
> the
>
At 20:43 10-07-01 -0700, you wrote:
> > It's best generally to use CD-R as they are generally more reliable
> than CD-RW and they are cheaper too.
>
>
>Can you supply me with any references for this statement, in terms of
>reliability?
>This concerns me since I use CD-RW for most of my CD file st
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:49:24 -0400 Norman Unsworth
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> FWIW, I just hit your site at http://www.halftone.co.uk , no problem.
Yes, thanks, it appears to have been a transient DNS problem which only
affected people going through the root nameservers, and has now been fi
At 20:30 10-07-01 -0400, rafeb wrote:
>Your complaint regarding NikonScan 3.1 being "buggy"
>is surprising to me. I had some initial problems
>getting NS installed, but it has not been remotely
>buggy since then. The installation issues turned
>out to be due to device conflicts.
>
>Which leads m
At 10:15 11-07-01 +1000, you wrote:
>Ian wrote:
> >It is and so is CompassProfile Scanner and ColorSynergy, etc.
>[snip]
> > Dan and Franz from ColorBlind fame and all their products are
> > real cool and quite reasonably priced.
>
>Ian, do you have some URLs for these products?
http://www.splash
At 12:15 11-07-01 +1200, Paul Hillier wrote:
>I haven't been on this list for a long time, so I hope this question
>hasn't been asked recently.
>
>I am trying to set up a Nikon LS-1000 slide scanner with Windows 2000,
>is this possible?
There aren't any drivers for the LS1000 in Win2K. You might
"Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...)" wrote:
>
> On 10-04-98 I posted the following to this list:
> "Let's not forget the corollary to that expression is "with Nikon you don't
> get what you pay for." By that I mean customer support. I learned that
> unhappy lesson with my first film scanne
Dear Burt,
Dell is being more honest with you than the companies that make and sell
CD-R burners.
Basically, if you are burning a regular CD-R (and not one preformatted
as
a "Direct CD", which BTW, don't work that well either) you should not
expect to be able to burn from any source that is slo
> It's best generally to use CD-R as they are generally more reliable than CD-RW and
>they are cheaper too.
Can you supply me with any references for this statement, in terms of
reliability?
This concerns me since I use CD-RW for most of my CD file storage.
Art
Steve Greenbank wrote:
>
> In the UK I think this scanner is available under several brand names
> Jessops 1800U ,Black widow filmscan 2000 and Microtek Filmscanner 35. I
> would suspect of these Microtek may be the real manufacturer.
It is not produced by Microtek, and I do not believe the Mi
As those who bother reading my comments know, I am an advocate of buying
used equipment and non-bleeding edge. It saves money, it sometimes even
protects you from the "first buyer screw" which means you end up paying
the most for a product which isn't perfected, and end up playing beta
tester wit
> Jack Phipps wrote:
>
. The attached file has
> several very fine lines at certain angles.
>
> Jack Phipps
> Applied Science Fiction
I didn't find the attachment with your post, am I the only one?
Art
"Slavitt, Howard" wrote:
>
. At 4000 dpi, this gives me files of about 660 Megabytes in 10
> minutes! If I scan at 1/2 maximum resolution, 2000 dpi, the scan time drops
> to only 2 minutes or less for 6 cm x 9 cm slides, and I get an excellent 160
> MB 48 bit file, which is 80 MB after reduce
Herm wrote:
>
> I have seen MANY ups that did not work.. some of them come with the internal
> battery disconnected for shipping and the user never read the instructions.. and
> has never tested the unit!
>
Now that's downright funny stuff! How about a big sticky label on the
device "this u
Jawed Ashraf wrote:
>
> I have a 1800. It is made by a company called Pacific Image whose website is
> at:
>
> www.scanace.com
>
> The scanner can only take bare strips of film - it won't accept mounted
> slides.
The units sold in North America scan slides as well. It is both stated
in
I resend it again, the first time failed through problems at the mail
server. Sorry it arrives late.
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Geraghty [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: PS 6.0 v. PS 5.0 LE v.
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