[filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Alan Tyson
I understand why Ed has gone to html pages for the 'manual'. Speaking as a former 'Help' author, I know that's it's a major task to keep a complete conventional Help file maintained and updated, when changes are occurring all the time. Obviously it's less important than the program itself, when yo

Re: filmscanners: Album software

2001-12-18 Thread Alan Tyson
Paint Shop Pro 7 has a facility called "print multiple images" that does most of what you require, but you'd have to create the captions as separate images using PSP7's text tool. - Original Message - From: Ian Boag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2

filmscanners: Re**n: Rescans and archiving

2001-12-14 Thread Alan Tyson
stry as well as everything else. Regards, Alan Tyson - Original Message - From: Rob Geraghty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 12:05 AM > I've heard that too, although I don't understand what difference it makes > when t

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanners: OT: E-mail virus

2001-12-12 Thread Alan Tyson
I'm a Freeserve user, yet I've had these messages. I spotted the offending virus-containing message as dodgy and deleted it immediately on arrival. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Steve Greenbank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:

Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help

2001-11-13 Thread Alan Tyson
uming to achieve high quality or to do large numbers of images. Regards & good luck, Alan Tyson - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:12 PM Subject: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help > .

Re: filmscanners: Best scanner software

2001-09-30 Thread Alan Tyson
> BTW, do you think 2800-2900 dpi is good enough for quality A3 sized print > (about 260-270 dpi > and that size) Yes, if it's an inkjet print, because the printer resolution is less than this (approx 200dpi sent to the printer). But remember you may wish to crop a frame, and still print at A3, s

Re: filmscanners: FW: DIGITAL CAMERA SCANS

2001-09-30 Thread Alan Tyson
Title: FW: DIGITAL CAMERA SCANS I have copies of a friend's results using an modest 2yr old Sony consumer digital camera on a 6x6 Hasselblad slide, and they're excellent, so I expect an upmarket digital camera on a 35mm slide would be pretty good.   As usual, it depends how fussy you are.  

Re: filmscanners: VueScan tutorial?

2001-09-29 Thread Alan Tyson
I suggest reading Vuescan's own Help file right through, using the Browse buttons (>>). It's concise, and everything is there. I think there are fewer than 50 pages, and quite a few of those are details of scanners, so it doesn't take long. If you have a raw scan file saved on disk, you can experi

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Scan & VS Negative dynamic range

2001-09-26 Thread Alan Tyson
I set my default Vuescan buffer to 20%, on the grounds that that's the sort of thing most of us live with quite happily in centre-weighted exposure metering systems (grins & ducks while hoping that endless off-topic discussion on centre-weighted meters does not ensue). However, I've never got rou

Re: filmscanners: Emulsion flaws (was dust in SS4000)

2001-09-21 Thread Alan Tyson
Roger, I have seen something similar recently (5K Scanwit/Vuescan positive clip attached) on a neg film processed in a brand-new Kodak minilab in my local Tesco store. The bubbles on mine are about 140 microns diameter (15pixels @ 2700ppi), but I can't tell the size of yours without knowing how t

filmscanners: Re: Autoexposure problem in Vuescan

2001-09-20 Thread Alan Tyson
I have taken to leaving a deliberately blank frame on every film in order to scan it for the mask. Sometimes I find Vuescan's results better with these settings, and sometimes not; I have to try it and see. Perhaps this is because I have a Scanwit, on which Vuescan can't control the exposure. BTW

Re: filmscanners: brandnew user queries

2001-09-17 Thread Alan Tyson
>I've heard rumor that these canned air >products might not be good for film, but so far >I've had no visible problem. As you say, care is necessary to avoid squirting propellant on the film. Another hazard to avoid is chilling the film and causing condensation to appear. The spray will be rather

Re: filmscanners: brandnew user queries

2001-09-17 Thread Alan Tyson
David Lewiston [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote on Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:57:58 -1000 > > ...buy an enema bulb. I've used one for years (only for my negs and > tranies you understand) and don't have a dust problem. Alan T says Last time David L suggested this, I tried hard to buy one from many pharmac

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan Problem

2001-09-04 Thread Alan Tyson
JASC hasn't taken compression/decompression of 48-bit images seriously because PSP can't work with them. If you do load a 48-bit image you can only save it as 24-bit. For 'serious' users (which doesn't include me) this is a bad drawback, and means you're stuck with Photoshop or similar. I used to

Re: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography

2001-08-23 Thread Alan Tyson
Ian, Ignoramus? Rubbish! Take a Nobel Prize, or at least a D.Sc for having done the experiment; tried it out! I have a friend with a digicam who keeps finding out things like this. He's a professional who likes to do things properly for the paying customers, but will also do the experiments. You

Re: filmscanners: re: filmscanners: Vuescan

2001-08-23 Thread Alan Tyson
Not all versions of Vuescan behave the same with respect to SCSI refreshes. I had the following exchange with Ed on 3Mar01... > I notice that in the current Vuescan v6.7.5 on Win98, I no longer have to > refresh the SCSI interface

Re: filmscanners: Silverfast and LS1000

2001-07-09 Thread Alan Tyson
Frank, I bet you're right, and this explains the wide divergence of view here on Scanwit multiscanning accuracy which we've discussed at least twice over the last year or so. If using Herm's subtraction method to identify discrepancies, the experiment to do is to compare several different single

Re: filmscanners: Silverfast and LS1000

2001-07-09 Thread Alan Tyson
When I've tried multiscanning on my 2720S, I've found it hard to detect any degradation. Misalignment is of the order of one 2700 ppi pixel on mine, or less, so it wouldn't bother most people. I can see it might mess up star locations. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Herm <[EM

Re: filmscanners: PS 6.0 v. PS 5.0 LE v. Jasc Paintshop Pro 7.02

2001-07-09 Thread Alan Tyson
I use PSP7.02 routinely, but still have occasional recourse to the following features in PS5LE 1. PS5LE's 'Variations' screen, where you can compare different twiddles alongside each other, with adjustable degrees of aggressiveness. 2. The PS5LE pick tool for selecting white point and black

Re: filmscanners: Stains and Grains (was Yellow Stain)

2001-07-05 Thread Alan Tyson
I also have the yellow stain on my 2720S, but it is seldom a problem. I have followed the discussion with interest. I fear it's what we have to put up with in this very good value downmarket product. Vuescan shows the problem more than Miraphoto simply because it's better at recording what's put

Re: filmscanners: Film base deterioration (was Digital Shortcomings)

2001-06-29 Thread Alan Tyson
I haven't seen any film base deterioration yet in any of my negs from the last 42 years (starting at age 10). I live in the cool, moist UK, and they've been stored with no special precautions. My octogenarian parents have lots of negs stacked together in good condition in the original paper wallet

Re: filmscanners: ACER Scanwit 2720S problem

2001-06-27 Thread Alan Tyson
Frank, I've often failed to snap 'the center "snaps"' correctly on my Scanwit 2720S, but scanning the wrong frame wasn't the result - I got fatal failure to focus in Miraphoto, and 'hangs' in Vuescan. So I hope clicking the carrier properly fixes your problem, but I don't think I've had the 'wro

Re: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-26 Thread Alan Tyson
electively bleached out during processing. It is thus inherently easier in the latter processes to use permanent dyes; the colour chemists have fewer constraints because they don't have to meet the requirements of developer chemistry as well as everything else. Regards, Alan Tyson - O

OT:Re: filmscanners: brief density math lesson...

2001-06-17 Thread Alan Tyson
"mnemonic" ? Can't remember what that means. ISTR I could even spell it on demand, a long time ago. SWALK Alan T - Original Message - From: Todd Radel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:47 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: brief density math lesson...

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - illegal ops?

2001-06-16 Thread Alan Tyson
I had lots of trouble with Vuescan yesterday, but  attributed it to my recent hard disk failure then upgrade, change from Win98 to Win98SE, and rebuild of my software. This is with a Scanwit and 192MB RAM.   I had many crashes, not on opening Vuescan, but during operation. I tried versions 7

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-20 Thread Alan Tyson
It sounds to me as though your backup software may be keeping a record of everything that has been installed since the last backup, and trying to recreate it when you restore, and also trying to verify that this will be possible. If this is the case it's a superficially good but naive idea from t

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-18 Thread Alan Tyson
Just to add an alternative, broader view to the discussion I agree that scanning the negative always has the potential for a better result, and that's what I always do myself as first choice. BUT let us not forget that simple flatbed print scanning has its place, because.. 1. It's very q

Re: filmscanners: Paintshop Pro

2001-05-10 Thread Alan Tyson
Thanks Rob, and Dail&Gail, for the lists of fixes in the PSP7.02 patch. I use PSP7.0 almost every day on 2700ppi filmscans, and luckily I haven't hit any of these problems. I've had it since the UK launch (about a year ago?). This is on a 400MHz Pentium II with 192MB RAM. I use the clipboard a l

Re: filmscanners: Paintshop Pro

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Tyson
> PS If you get PSP 7 make sure you download the appropriate 7.02 patch. Rob, Do you know what's in the 'patch'? You inspired me to take a look, and it's a 10MB download for the International English version, so I don't want it unless I really need it. I haven't yet found anything myself that

Re: filmscanners: Cleaning slides

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Tyson
> B&W prints and full strength household > ammonia dissolved the emulsion right off the print. Arthur, Ammonia is also quite a good solvent for metallic silver, especially finely divided as in B&W images, so I presume the idea was to remove an unwanted relative, politician or other bystander fr

Re: filmscanners: AcerScanwit but also generic calibration

2001-04-04 Thread Alan Tyson
AIUI, there is no software control of *exposure* available to the Scanwit programmer, so you're stuck with the automatic exposure that the machine decides is appropriate for the frame being scanned. All Vuescan (or any other software) can do is twiddle the raw scan after scanning. So scanning 'bla

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Tyson
No-one has commented on the difference between my results a bit of lace jpegged 10 times), posted on 30Mar, and Henk's image of a letter on a plain background, similarly treated. I can assure folk that I saved each image under a new name and only *then* closed it before reloading it. Is it perha

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Tyson
I tried it with ten iterations in PSP7, and saw no visible degradation, so my finding was different from Henk's. Attached: two 6K jpeg clips of a bit of lace, clipped out of 400x250 29K clips from an original 2700 dpi scan. The first is a clip from a PSP7 '15%' jpeg photograph, resaved once as

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Tyson
> A program opens and re-adjusts the image for viewing; >I've seen both PS > and PP8 change the size values on a subsequent Save I have never seen Paint Shop Pro do this for an unedited image. The file size is likely to be different, however, if the first image came from a different package's jpe

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Tyson
Maris said: > Just a note on LZW compressed image portability - I have run into one > instance where an LZW compressed image was not portable - when exporting a > 48-bit compressed TIFF from Vuescan to Corel PhotoPaint 9 it opens but the > image is unrecognizable. If exported uncompressed there

filmscanners: Re: Own brand neg films; Was: Neg film for scanning

2001-03-26 Thread Alan Tyson
Ah! Several people have told me that Tesco & Jessops film is likely to be Konica, and if Konica manufacture in Germany, that tallies. I think these two brands are the same, and the same as "Activa" films supplied by the Bonusprint D&P firm. They have similar markings on the neg top edges, includin

Re: filmscanners: Neg film for scanning

2001-03-25 Thread Alan Tyson
I have in my hand a Tesco (leading UK supermarket chain) pack of 8x36 400ASA neg films, which cost me 12 ukpounds. This is 30% of the cost of Kodak Supra 400, which, I've been tempted to try because of its anti-scratch coating. I get lots of random scratch trouble from several different labs. The

filmscanners: Neg film for scanning

2001-03-23 Thread Alan Tyson
I've been trawling in the archive (http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/htdig) for the discussion I remember here 3-4 months ago about Kodak's "Supra" neg films, with allegedly good characteristics for scanning, and a protective layer. The conclusions were ambiguous then. Like Michael Wilkinson who's rep

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan

2001-03-23 Thread Alan Tyson
> >don't you reckon, Vuescan lacks of good tutorial, help file, manual? Speaking as a former Help author, I think Vuescan's Help is very good for a program that has evolved so rapidly. The way it's structured at the moment lends itself to quick & easy amendment of individual topics, without a maj

Re: filmscanners: cleaning neg's, sharpening

2001-03-19 Thread Alan Tyson
As usual, the physics & chemistry is more complicated than one would expect. If we're after something that has as little effect as possible on the chemical balance of the emulsion, pure water probably isn't the best thing. It has zero concentration of almost everything except water (it's a 55 Mol

Re: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for archiving

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Tyson
Googling on "Hanimex Rondex" was in fact my first stop, but I found nothing relevant in the UK. Most of the hits I got were second order hits on Hanimex lenses. I imagine intercontinental transportation costs would be prohibitive, and probably not worthwhile on something that's worth considerably

Re: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for archiving

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Tyson
Dear Arthur, I've just experienced yet another photographic archiving lesson, this time rather a painful one, with a lesson for all of us about dependence on current technology. I have thousands of colour slides, taken from approx 1970-1991, and about 7800 of these are stored in Hanimex Rondex 1

Re: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for archiving

2001-03-12 Thread Alan Tyson
Khalid said: > > 2-What file Format should I use to save? > Arthur said: > TIFF or any other you think you will be able to read years from now, > which is lossless. That precludes JPEG Alan T says: Arthur, Khalid didn't give us any clues on just how perfect an archive of his negs he want

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-10 Thread Alan Tyson
As Henry says, CLI means "Command Line Interface". (Like DOS and native Unix, and millions of programs running under them.) To assist my filmscanning, I still use only one example regularly: Open a DOS window, and type the drive letter for your CD-ROM drive. Type "DIR /s >C:\files.txt". This put

Re: filmscanners: Kodak Color Input Targets

2001-03-07 Thread Alan Tyson
>But the biggest > problem area in *both* media is where the dynamic range is >wide, e.g. in > But seriously, how are other users handling this problem?- Not very well, in general, myself. I frequently resort to burning in highlights and/or dodging shadows using PaintShopPro's 'smart edge se

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Alan Tyson
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Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Tyson
- Original Message - From: shAf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:45 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea > Myself, I think I'd have a problem with not seeing the controls > I'm presently using while I acquire subse

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Tyson
I should be happy to have a single group of tabs, provided that you don't use the dreadful standard MS tab system, where the tabs rotate apparently at random, so that I can't remember which ones I've just looked at. PS: I still remember & love 'Vuescan Classic' where all settings were visible on

Re: filmscanners: Kodak Color Input Targets

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Tyson
I have a Scanwit 2720s, with which I am well pleased. It's much the best budget scanner, by all accounts. However, even with Ed Hamrick's Vuescan (a nearly essential $40 accessory for most scanners) you can exert only limited control over its initial output. You'll get its own automatic exposure

Re: filmscanners: File sizes, file formats, etc. for printing 8.5 x 11and 13...

2001-02-28 Thread Alan Tyson
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:18 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: File sizes, file formats, etc. for printing 8.5 x 11and 13... > If you save in JPEG once, re-open to work on it once, and then save it as a > TIFF,

Re: filmscanners: File sizes, file formats, etc. for printing 8.5 x 11and 13 x 17...

2001-02-28 Thread Alan Tyson
Thanks, Arthur, for a clear exposition, as usual. So the answer to Marvin's question 1 part 2 is... "Use the resolution you got from the scanner, and let the printer driver do the work." This is what I've always done myself with my 2700ppi scanner. I can't tell the difference in a print from re

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 6.7 Available

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Tyson
A couple of times a while back I had actually seen Ed's web page updated to a new version number, but still got the old version when I clicked the link. Both were correct at the time so far as Ed was concerned. I think maybe some of the servers between Ed & me had been caching & occasionally updat

filmscanners: A funny Scanwit story

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Tyson
I made a stupid mistake today that made me think the focusing mechanism on my 1-year-old Scanwit had failed. When trying to scan frame 3 of a strip of negatives, Vuescan just kept on saying it was busy, indefinitely, and there was no sign of the expected focusing step. Miraphoto (the Acer-supplie

Re: PSP and 48 bit was Re: filmscanners: Re: Scanning problems

2001-02-06 Thread Alan Tyson
> Ah, yes. I think PSP may also read a 48bit uncompressed > file? I'll have to try it. I'll try raising the issue > with JASC. Yes it does (see my message of 13:33 GMT 6Feb). Ed has now explained why PSP can't read his compressed 48-bit ones as opposed to Adobe's allegedly compressed but lar

Re: filmscanners: Re: looking at the Sun

2001-02-06 Thread Alan Tyson
>All glasses strongly absorb UV radiation Oh good. That's what I was trying to tell people. Thanks. We could also mention the effect of path length, i.e., a window pane vs a 14-element lens. Alan T - Original Message - From: Shough, Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent

Re: filmscanners: Re: Scanning problems

2001-02-06 Thread Alan Tyson
Sorry, I should have been more specific and explicit. The context of the discussion was loss of high-bit colour information (or not) started by someone who expected a 50MB tif and got a 7MB jpeg. We then wandered off into jpeg compression viewers. PSP7 will not read the compressed 48-bit tif file

Re: filmscanners: Re: Scanning problems

2001-02-06 Thread Alan Tyson
shAf already mentioned that he had JPEG software that allowed him to preview & compare uncompressed and compressed images. Perhaps it's worth mentioning that PaintShopPro7 also has an excellent JPEG compression magnifying preview facility, when you choose "File..| Save as..| jpg...| Options...| R

Re: filmscanners: Re: looking at the Sun

2001-02-05 Thread Alan Tyson
UV is dangerous through breaking chemical bonds directly; IR is dangerous through cooking (breaking chemical bonds by heating as in a grill or a toaster). The sun's radiant energy has lots and lots of both. Your retinal heat receptors (if any) won't be quick enough to prevent damage if you put a

Re: filmscanners: Re: looking at the Sun

2001-02-04 Thread Alan Tyson
Infrared is also a serious, if not worse, hazard. Glass is fairly transparent to it, as shown by greenhouses, passive solar panels, the burning of holes with magnifying glasses, and the feasibility of IR photography with ordinary lenses. Most glasses absorb UV much more strongly than IR. Most of

Re: filmscanners: This Gamma Thing...?

2001-02-03 Thread Alan Tyson
Tom, A while back, I went through all the monitor calibration stuff on several different sites and found it very easy to make things much worse. Then I found that the best match between my Taxan Ergovision 735TCO99 monitor and HP710C printer (using Vuescan and PaintShopPro7 or Photoshop 5LE, mos

Re: Compression: was: filmscanners: real value?

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Tyson
Michael, For those of us working at 2700dpi When you've got a final image with which you're really happy, I find Ed Hamrick's choice of "90% jpeg quality" or my own choice of "15% compression" in PaintShopPro to be barely distinguishable at a pixel level from the original. This typically sa

Digital film: was:filmscanners: real value?

2001-01-30 Thread Alan Tyson
Roman said... >Unless we can get a decent copy directly onto > a photographic paper. I think he's hit the nail on the head there. The output stage is the key. All of us on this list know the hassles to be suffered plugging gadgets into our computers and getting satisfactory photographic out

Re: filmscanners: Re: computers, scanners

2001-01-29 Thread Alan Tyson
This is what our esteemed Tony's web site said when I saved it last on 11th October >>PhotoCD is a cross-platform format, and film sizes from APS to 5x4" may be scanned in a variety of resolutions from 128 x 192 pixels (Base/16) to 2048 x 3072 (16 Base). A higher resolution and more tightly c

Re: filmscanners: Home C-41 processing

2001-01-29 Thread Alan Tyson
I've a lot to say about this. Those here last June may remember an 'animated discussion' . I've mailed Michael & Tim off-list. If anyone else is interested drop me a private message. Alan T - Original Message - From: Michael Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon

Re: filmscanners: Image alignment/registration

2001-01-26 Thread Alan Tyson
>so the question is... How do you >accurately register multiple scans of different negs of the >same subject? I have tried this only when matching the overlaps of panoramic shots when I *have* moved the camera, on a tripod pan head. I haven't found it too difficult myself to match the edges of sh

Re: filmscanners: OT - Software for image correction

2001-01-26 Thread Alan Tyson
Paint Shop Pro 7, and probably other programs, have 'geometric effects' which will allow you to stretch the image in one dimension. In PSP7 it's called horizontal and vertical perspective. I've used it successfully when I photographed a painting propped against a wall, and stupidly failed to get

Re: filmscanners: DUST (was Scratched Negs & Home C-41 processing)

2001-01-25 Thread Alan Tyson
> One small addition..If you run the shower a short time before you dry > your film, the dust seems to get stuck down, and you have even less of a > problem, I remember seeing this suggested many years ago, and it did seem to work for my film drying operations. I had little trouble with negs

Re: filmscanners: ADMIN: Power Crisis STOP THIS THREAD NOW PLEASE

2001-01-25 Thread Alan Tyson
"Liberty is precious; so precious it must be rationed." [Bakunin (a Russian revolutionary)] This seems a good motto for OT posters and list administrators. Alan T - Original Message - From: Arthur Entlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 24,

Re: filmscanners: Scratched Negs & Home C-41 processing

2001-01-25 Thread Alan Tyson
> stir in about an > ounce of boiling water from a measuring cup every 30-60 seconds, > as needed. Crude but fairly effective. I can keep the temperature > between 99.5 and 100.5 for three minutes without difficulty. Thanks very much for the hints & info. That's the sort of thing I did fo

Re: filmscanners: Scratched Negs & Home C-41 processing

2001-01-24 Thread Alan Tyson
I've been considering doing my own E6 processing for some time, for all the reasons mentioned in this thread. I did my own E6 for many years, using several different chemistries, and rudimentary equipment, including several thermometers. I'm a retired chemist, so I could do with the experimental p

Re: filmscanners: Fw: Color Profiles for Scanners

2001-01-21 Thread Alan Tyson
And we should also, perhaps, remember that different persons' colour perceptions (Mk1 eyeball + brain software) may differ. For example, my own blue sensitivity or perception clearly differs from the rest of family, because they are wont to say, on nice sunny days, "look at that beautiful blue la

Re: filmscanners: Nikon scanner selection

2001-01-18 Thread Alan Tyson
> But do some of you have the idea to switch to digital for everyday > photography? That would seem strange to me. Yes, I do, as and when I can afford digital 3600x2400 pixel frames, as I get from my scanner (probably in a decade or so), because of.. 1. immediacy of seeing a preview, so I can ta

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 6.4.x suggestion

2001-01-15 Thread Alan Tyson
Alan, Don't you find that the colour balance is markedly altered when you crop the preview and then scan it? I find that my principal subject, somewhere inside the frame, is often more colourful than its surroundings. I find this on my own Scanwit. For this reason I alter the 'Crop|Buffer%' stri

Re: filmscanners: orange mask

2001-01-15 Thread Alan Tyson
Pete, Do you reckon this method will work even when, as on the Scanwit, the exposure given by the scanner for each raw scan will vary from frame to frame? If I want to try this method, should I work on each of the R,G,B histograms separately, and set the B & W points to the same value, or what?

Re: filmscanners: Acer ScanWit 2740S

2001-01-09 Thread Alan Tyson
Mike, I too am very happy with my Scanwit 2720S, regard it as excellent value for money, and am delighted with its results. We should, however, mention to prospective purchasers that it gives its own automatic exposure, calculated for the whole frame, whether you want it or not. For this reason,

Re: filmscanners: RE: cd storage

2000-12-09 Thread Alan Tyson
Maybe soaking in water to assist peeling of misplaced labels, followed by slow & gentle drying, wouldn't do any harm. Has anyone tried it? Alan T - Original Message - From: Dieder Bylsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alan Tyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, D

Re: filmscanners: RE: cd storage

2000-12-08 Thread Alan Tyson
Tim, You could always peel off the label and try again, if a disk doesn't read correctly. Surely an imbalance will show immediately. Everyone should test their CD-Rs after writing them, preferably in another drive. That 's a different issue from the longevity of the data. Have your conservation

Re: filmscanners: RE: cd storage

2000-12-08 Thread Alan Tyson
Michael, All this stuff about CD-R durability is speculation at the moment, sometimes well-informed, and sometimes ill-informed. I'd give your support person's views a lot of weight if I knew he'd properly researched the field, and had some data or reasoning to back his judgement (rather than he

Re: filmscanners: RE: cd storage

2000-12-06 Thread Alan Tyson
Excellent summary info, thanks very much. I still think the attenuation of visible & UV through the top reflective layer will be enormous, so as to render it insignificant relative to the other side. In summer '99, for the total eclipse, I experimented with viewing the sun through CDs, and found

Re: filmscanners: cd storage

2000-11-29 Thread Alan Tyson
Dear Jerry, It would be fascinating to see the list, but even more interesting to read the details of the results. I assume the article's only available in Dutch, is it? I hope they used very big sample sizes. I should expect the failure rates to be so low as to need samples of hundreds per bran

Re: filmscanners: What would you recommend?

2000-11-27 Thread Alan Tyson
Suggestions for a gentle (and low cost) introduction to film scanning... While your dad learns about digital imaging, any old flatbed will do, on which he should scan his old prints (6x4 or bigger) to start with, and make some enlargements. He's likely to be pleased with the results, unless he's

Re: filmscanners: Prints using Acer ScanWit

2000-11-14 Thread Alan Tyson
I too am a happy Scanwit user, and before that I used to scan 6x4 enprints on a flatbed. On scanning prints on the flatbed, I found that I could see an improvement on altering scanner resolution from 300 to 400 pixels/inch, but none beyond that. Your 2550x3720 scan on a 7x10 print is about 360 p

Re: filmscanners: Selective LCD masks in colour printing

2000-11-09 Thread Alan Tyson
I don't think I've made myself clear. I *think* they may be identifying relatively underexposed *regions* & boosting the (printed) brightness locally in just those areas of the image, giving the same effect as wet-chemical-age dodging. Art suggested a means of doing this in his reply to my messag

Re: filmscanners: Selective LCD masks in colour printing

2000-11-08 Thread Alan Tyson
> This technique is totally unnecessary with scanning Alan. > It doesn't do anything that you can't do better with the curves or > levels in Photoshop. Yes, true, if it's a simple adjustment mask across the whole image, but if it operates selectively on patches (cleverly identified somehow) of pr

filmscanners: Selective LCD masks in colour printing

2000-11-07 Thread Alan Tyson
labour with selection tools, and selective histogram adjustments. What do all you experts out there think? Alan Tyson

Re: filmscanners: (monitors)

2000-11-07 Thread Alan Tyson
Every few months I am persuaded to try again to calibrate my monitor, using the various tools from an assortment of websites. My monitor (Taxan Ergovision 735 TCO99) has software to adjust its RGB curves individually to get the various dithering patterns to match. The results from the various too

filmscanners: Reposted: RE: Distribution SW

2000-11-06 Thread Alan Tyson
o try asking him if he has a solution for your problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Good luck, Alan Tyson - Original Message - From: PC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:23 PM Subject: filmscanners: Distribution SW > I'm looking for a way to place images on a CD ROM along with whatever > else would be needed

OT: List acronyms

2000-10-18 Thread Alan Tyson
Tony, Years ago, when I and my pals were on CIX, ISTR a concise dictionary of all the common and many rare mailing list acronyms. You haven't seen it anywhere lately, have you? I fear this ancient language may have become extinct like Anglo-Saxon and Latin, pushed out by modernisms such as "USB"

Re: questions

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Tyson
Come on! Tell us how you came to microwave a print by accident. You didn't use it to oven wrap the neighbour's cat, did you? Alan T - Original Message - From: jeremy spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 10:16 AM Subject: Re: questions > I a

Re: Vuescanwit tip

2000-10-06 Thread Alan Tyson
Jerry, I wasn't aware that the Scanwit was particularly bad at registration, as I found multiscanning worked well on the few occasions I tried it. I think I remember someone here 6-9 months ago saying it was quite good. Inspired by your message, I just tried it again with single scans before and

Re: Selection Shape in Photoshop?

2000-10-03 Thread Alan Tyson
Collin, The crop tool and selection tool in Paint Shop Pro display the aspect ratio on the status bar as you drag the box or its edges. They also show the coordinates of top left and bottom right, and the selected pixel dimensions. I've just upgraded from PSP version 5 to v7, which has a full se

Re: labelling archive cdrs

2000-09-20 Thread Alan Tyson
I used Neato labels, applied with the supplied polycarbonate centring device, on over a hundred CDRs sent in 1997-99 to a wide range of users. All them will have been used at least once . No-one has complained about unplayable disks, and this doesn't surprise me. It was difficult or impossible t

Re: Group Scan site has posted SS4000 scans

2000-09-20 Thread Alan Tyson
Yes, but it seems to me the useful output will be *combinations* of subject type, film, exposure, processing, and scanner that have been demonstrated to give good results. Extrapolating from those to different combinations will be rather difficult. This is normal in the world of R&D. Almost no-o