[filmscanners] Blue Screen of Death--Reading Messages

2006-06-03 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! If you can't read the BSOD error message, you need to set your machine NOT to reboot after crashing. Control Panel-System-Advanced-Startup/Recovery-Settings. UNCHECK "Automatically Restart" and hit OK a lot. Les -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version

[filmscanners] RE: Neat Image with Nikon scanners?

2004-11-09 Thread Les Berkley
NI allows you to create profiles for devices, emulsions, etc, and gives you controls over color noise, luminance etc. Les > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Verkaik > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

[filmscanners] RE: Cheapo scanner for contact prints

2004-10-19 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! I use an Epson 1600 for MF work. The supplied carriers don't permit making a contact sheet for a full 35mm roll, but they are beautifully made and produce good film flatness. For a contact sheet, you could just lay the negs on the copyboard. I have read of people doing that with excellent resu

[filmscanners] RE: Vuescan/scanners/windows XP

2004-10-19 Thread Les Berkley
AFAIK, VueScan works by using low-level calls to the scanner's interface, and is independent of the OEM driver software. Ancient SCSI scanners work perfectly on my XP box (with the ASPI layer installed). Les > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh

[filmscanners] RE: Nikon LS4000 alignment -> Scan multipro?

2004-08-09 Thread Les Berkley
I got a Dmax-Dmin of about 3.4 with my LS-2000; I would expect better from the 4000. Les > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W Shumaker > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 11:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Nikon

[filmscanners] RE: Device interface and Windows 2000

2004-02-19 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! Not sure about Win 2K, but under XP, there is a "Safely Remove Hardware" icon that shows up in the Taskbar. You select the piece of hardware you want to remove, and a few seconds later, it tells you it is OK to remove it. Les > -Original Message- > Subject: [filmscanners] Device i

[filmscanners] RE: Scanning 8X10 negs

2004-01-17 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! Sounds like you need the tranny head for your Expression 800! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2779702807&category=44977 Have a look-- if you can pick this up, your problem is solved. If not this one, others show up all the time on ebay, and in used equipment stores. > ---

[filmscanners] RE: Kodak dropping 35mm and APS cameras in N.A.

2004-01-16 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! You know, back when Great Yellow Father was a (virtual) monopoly, they were a wonderful company. They actually CARED about their professional customers, and made wonderful products like the Electric Brush, which I wish I could still find. It makes dust fall off film. And they maintained pro

[filmscanners] SS 4000 Questions

2003-12-02 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! After my LS-2000 went west, I managed to pick up a refurb Polaroid SS-4000 on ebay for $300 US. It is working very well, but I have a few questions. First, does the lamp have an auto shut off feature, or should I be very careful to shut the scanner off so as to conserve the lamp? It appears th

[filmscanners] RE: LS2000 dead

2003-09-02 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! Don't know about things in your wombat-haunted lands, but you can get the NK Coolscan IV (with slightly better res than the 2000) for $440 US online. That's tempting, and probably not much over the repair costs...! Les > "Les Berkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

[filmscanners] RE: Carriers for Epson 2450

2003-02-16 Thread Les Berkley
Hi! Unless you can find oversize ones, they won't do for 8x10-- width is only 8". There are (I believe) larger magnetic sheets available for commercial purposes such as mass production of "magnetic business cards. Don't know a source... Les > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[filmscanners] RE: Carriers for Epson 2450

2003-02-15 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! By chance, I happen to be heading off to Home Despot (sic) today. Will look for these covers. Sounds like an excellent idea. Les > Hi Les: > > Here's a little secret-I didn't invent the idea, but it works > very well with the 1680. Buy the heavy magnetic register > covers at home depot. >

[filmscanners] RE: Cleaning slides and negs prior to scanning

2002-12-25 Thread Les Berkley
> -Original Message- Hi! Back in my wet darkroom days, we used the Kodak Electric Brush. Expensive, but the dust positively FELL OFF! Les Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe

[filmscanners] RE: LS2000 Coolscan shadow noise issues getting worse?

2002-05-03 Thread Les Berkley
> -Original Message- > > Also a general loss in "vibrancy" of > > images if a general and even haze on it. > > The symptom I've seen of a dirty mirror on a LS-2000 is a sort of mystic > glow around everything, particularly bright areas in the image. It > happens > so slowly that you don

[filmscanners] RE: Supra for scanning?

2002-02-24 Thread Les Berkley
Apologize for this repost. Seem to have been "unsubscribed" somehow, and don't know if my original post made it. Les Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscrib

[filmscanners] Supra for scanning?

2002-02-24 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! On their site, and in their literature, Kodak extols the virtues of Supra for scanning. Does anyone have experience with this film? I like Fuji Superia a lot, but I do get some grain aliasing problems with the 400 ISO, and VueScan doesn't have a profile for it ! I will shoot a few rolls o

[filmscanners] Supra for scanning?

2002-02-24 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! On their site, and in their literature, Kodak extols the virtues of Supra for scanning. Does anyone have experience with this film? I like Fuji Superia a lot, but I do get some grain aliasing problems with the 400 ISO, and VueScan doesn't have a profile for it ! I will shoot a few rolls o

[filmscanners] RE: Multi-coloured lines in images...

2002-02-11 Thread Les Berkley
> -Original Message- > Good evening from Italy. > > I'm experiencing between one and four thin lines in almost half my images. > The length, position and orientation seems completely random. The colour > is > dependent of the background colour (it is the complimentary colour more or > l

[filmscanners] Orange Micro SCSI + 1394 cards

2002-01-11 Thread Les Berkley
Hello! Is anyone using one of these bears on Win XP? I'm down to my last slot, need SCSI for my Nikon LS-2000, flatbeds, Zip, etc and would also like to have 1394 for all of the wonderful gadgets I will no doubt acquire. Price is very right on this card right now, so I hope I get some positive fe

[filmscanners] Re: Fwd: Anyone Have Experience WithGrainSurgerySoftware?

2001-12-29 Thread Les Berkley
On 12/27/01 3:28 PM, "William Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using Grain Surgery for a couple of months now. There is a > noticeable and pleasing effect on image quality. I now use it on all images. > >> >> Found this software on the web the other day and gave it a try. >> Tried th

Re: filmscanners: Rescans and archiving

2001-12-11 Thread Les Berkley
On 12/11/01 9:25 AM, "Mário Teixeira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | Personally, I trust my film to maintain most of its integrity for many > | years to come, so I'm not panicking to get everything on CD-R. > | > | Art > > Me too, I trust my color

filmscanners: Serious SilverFast Frustration

2001-10-23 Thread Les Berkley
Hello all! I simply cannot make SilverFast work well. (Version 5.5.0r14, NK LS-2000, Mac OS 9.1, PS 6.0.1) Negatives scan with a nasty green cast and are usually too dark and muddy. I have set up color management correctly in PS; I believe I have also done so in SF (the manual is gibberish, but a

Re: filmscanners: Merging multiple scans in Photoshop to dealwith very high-contrast scenes

2001-09-26 Thread Les Berkley
>> Les >> > > > > ** I M P O R T A N T R E P L Y I N F O > Please adddress ALL offlist messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This hotmail.com email address is ONLY used for this mailing list > subscription and I will probably not notice any private message

Re: filmscanners: Merging multiple scans in Photoshop to dealwith very high-contrast scenes

2001-09-25 Thread Les Berkley
On 9/25/01 10:26 AM, "Anthony Atkielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone here done any significant work with merging multiple scans to > overcome limitations of film in high-contrast scenes? I'm talking about > exposing exactly the same scene over a couple of frames with different EVs, >

Re: filmscanners: Genuine Fractals Help?

2001-09-20 Thread Les Berkley
On 9/20/01 6:07 PM, "Mike Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If you are outside the United States, and you have purchased the Nikon >> 4000, >>> can you please tell me if your scanner came bundled with Genuine Fractals? >> >> I can tell you that the Nikon scanners sold in Canada do not come

Re: filmscanners: NikSharpener Pro

2001-09-10 Thread Les Berkley
On 9/10/01 6:59 AM, "Ron Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Les, I looked but couldn't find it. Where on Katrin's web site did you > find it. Regards Ron Hi! It's in the "Tutorial Files" section under one of the later chapters (I forget which). It is called "smartsharpen.atn" or something

Re: filmscanners: NikSharpener Pro

2001-09-09 Thread Les Berkley
On 9/9/01 9:35 PM, "Brian D. Plikaytis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom, > I find your comments intriguing. Could I ask a few questions? I find > that when I sharpen using Photoshop tools, there is oftentimes an artificial > dark or light line (sharpening artifact) that appears at the juxtapos