RE: filmscanners: Nikonscan3.0 and LSIII

2001-04-26 Thread Rob Geraghty
any cleaning setting on Vuescan (any version) makes the output slightly softer. The results may be different on other scanners. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: No batchscanning with Vs7.0 Mac?

2001-04-27 Thread Rob Geraghty
> le 27/04/01 0:24, Rob Geraghty à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > Didier wrote: > >> I spent a couple of hours and failed in batchscanning > >> disk rawfiles (Vs7.0/Mac/324MbRAM) > > > > What scanner and what versio of Vuescan, Didier? > I'm scann

Re: filmscanners: Negatives vs. slides in new scanners

2001-04-27 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Alessandro Pardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the scene I chose for my test was a *bit* contrasty, still the slide was > well exposed, and details in the shadows were perfectly visible even by > holding up the slide against a window. I expect that *all* the Nikon scanners will fall down in shad

Re: filmscanners: LS4000 and sharpness

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Mikael Risedal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After some experiment with the scratched film I found out that the best way > to have optimal resolution from the scanner are to move the focus area half > way out from the middle of the picture to the side. > This means that the depth of field now co

Re: filmscanners: Nikonscan3.0 and LSIII

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Geraghty
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 4/27/2001 7:43:30 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I found by accident that there is a huge difference between 48-bit 2700 ppi scans on > > my LS-30 (where that should have been more than enough) and 64-bit, 2700 > > ppi settings. As in 64bit

Re: filmscanners: Negatives vs. slides in new scanners

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Geraghty
JF Mahony wrote: > i am very interested in negatives vs slides in contrasty situations. i shoot > a lot of tennis in the middle of the day with provia 100, E200 or fugi multy > speed. i have an LS-1000 and do have trouble losing the extreme highlights. > i like the color of slide film better than

Re: filmscanners: Negatives vs. slides in new scanners

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll have to get a Dual II 2820 DPI. "Vladislav Jurco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My experience with Supra 400 is very good. Very little grain-alliasing no > matter in which channel (skin, sky, greens) - especially absence in blue > channel sur

Re: filmscanners: LS4000 and sharpness

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Tom Scales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to be able to load a roll of film, go to bed, and wake up to 36 > properly exposed, properly focused scans. Why else have the roll film > adapter? Possibly Ed could modify vuescan to focus on a specific offset in the frame. Rob

Re: filmscanners: Noise correction algorithms

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Lynn Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since dust is always "white" on negs and always "black" on slides, while > "noise" is usually lighter and "grain" is usually darker than the > surrounding field of pixels, is this or can it be considered in the cleaning > algorithms? If you could characte

Re: filmscanners: LS4000 and sharpness

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Geraghty
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It focuses in the center of the scan region. I'll look into this some more > when I get a loaner LS-4000 from Nikon, hopefully in the next week or so. Thanks Ed! I was thinking of all the Nikon scanners, which supposedly have a capability to focus on a specific poin

Re: filmscanners: No batchscanning with Vs7.0 Mac?

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Geraghty
Didier wrote: > That's it. I try batchscanning rawfiles to make crops (and to save time) Hm. I'll have to try batch cropping from raw files. I wouldn't have thought of it! Rob

Re: filmscanners: LS4000 and sharpness

2001-04-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
her frame on the film and partially overlapped the last frame). I ended up having to turn the strip around and scan the frame as frame 1 rather than frame 5. No big deal but it would be nice if Vuescan reported somewhere how many frames were detected by the scanner. Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Cleaning slides (PEC tips)

2001-04-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
squeezed another image onto the end of the strip. Hopefully I'll be able to remove the fingerprint with some careful use of the cloning tool. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Scan for television screen

2001-04-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
> >Steve Bye > >> Maris >> Don¹t worry about dpi nor TV size, the image size is 720pixels x 480pixels >> regardless of whether you have a 16" or 32" TV. Best save the file as >an >RGB >> flat PS file, Mac PICT or TIFF. >> >> -- >> >> Regards >> >> Richard > > > Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: LS4000 and sharpness

2001-04-30 Thread Rob Geraghty
Ed wrote: > I'm thinking of adding a focus offset option, in millimeters, for the offset > from the center of the image. I could alternatively add a focus > position (%) option, which would put the focus position some percentage > of the way into a frame (50% would be normal, 30% would move the >

Re: filmscanners: Cleaning slides (PEC tips)

2001-04-30 Thread Rob Geraghty
ing grain if the colour balance in the image isn't "normal" daylight. I think this is one film I'll have to make raw scans from so I can experiment later with the best method of cropping. Otherwise I'm going to spend forever rescanning it! Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

RE: filmscanners: LS4000 and sharpness

2001-04-30 Thread Rob Geraghty
use it would require a refocus *after* the preview. Are scanners other than the Nikons able to set the position of the focus? Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Negatives vs. slides in new scanners

2001-04-30 Thread Rob Geraghty
Maris wrote: > Slide film is generally less grainy than print film > in scanning sky. Have you found any good print film for sky? Someone mentioned Supra 400. I wish someone would produce a 100 ASA print film optimised for scanning! Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Negatives vs. slides in new scanners

2001-04-30 Thread Rob Geraghty
pra 100 is apparently a previous emulsion rebadged? As far as apparent grain in sky is concerned, I haven't found Supra 100 to have any advantage over Fuji Superia 100 and the Fuji film is LOTS cheaper. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Negatives vs. slides in new scanners

2001-04-30 Thread Rob Geraghty
Edwni wrote: >How cheap is the Fuji? I usually buy 36 exposure Supra 100ASA for about >$2.89 USD. And, once again, it may not be optimized for scanning, but Supra >100ASA scans very well. I can get Fuji Superia 24 (not 36) for about US$1.50. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.0.16 Available

2001-05-02 Thread Rob Geraghty
ipped out look. Will the change in 7.0.16 affect the Canon as well Ed? And the LS30? I have also been posting about excessively saturated (and definitely clipped) reds on the LS30. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

RE: filmscanners: Cleaning slides (PEC tips)

2001-05-02 Thread Rob Geraghty
ing "we'll contact Japan about it". Nikonscan 3.0 doesn't resolve the issue. Thanks goodness for Vuescan or I'd be so annoyed I'd probably never buy another Nikon product. Regards, Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: greatpixin,greatpixout

2001-05-03 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Brian Bisset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And get yourself a proper Kodak target (Q-60 series or similar), and make it > the first frame every time, *especially* if you're shooting interiors under > mixed lighting conditions. Your scanner operator/printer will thank-you for > it (so will the cl

Re: filmscanners: Cleaning slides (PEC tips)

2001-05-03 Thread Rob Geraghty
hat the sales and support people in other countries and Nikon's own management have insulated the engineers from being able to resolve the issue. Fixing it would result in a whole bunch of happier users who would be more likely to buy future products. As it is, I'll probably look to Pola

Nikon jaggies was Re: filmscanners: Cleaning slides (PEC tips)

2001-05-03 Thread Rob Geraghty
* they could do physically to fix the problem. What is required is a software fix to a hardware design fault. Ed's done it, Nikon should be able to. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

RE: filmscanners: Medium format in a 35mm scanner?

2001-05-03 Thread Rob Geraghty
ch as the Epson Photo range which can scan larger film formats. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Kodak Q60, was greatpixin,greatpixout

2001-05-04 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Mark T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if you know anyone who looks after IT equipment, ask 'em.. Your average > business scanner user couldn't give a toss about how his/her scanner is > calibrated. :) Hm. All our scanners at work are HP. No targets. I could ask another guy who does tech s

Re: filmscanners: VueScan Long Exposure Pass

2001-05-04 Thread Rob Geraghty
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would anyone object if I removed the Long exposure pass > option from VueScan? No objection from me, although it was an interesting idea. Requires less patience than 8x multipass. :) Rob

Re: Nikon jaggies was Re: filmscanners: Cleaning slides (PEC tips)

2001-05-04 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Lynn Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In defense of the Japanese, I'd like to add the story about Corona and > Pinto: both cars had a bad tendency to explode and burn in a rear-end > collission. Was it "Cannonball Run" that featured a car just giving a Pinto the slightest touch and it explode

Re: filmscanners: Need Help Deciding

2001-05-04 Thread Rob Geraghty
DeVries wrote: > I'm in the market for a film scanner between US $500 and $1K. Doesn't the Polaroid SS4000 fit intot he top end of that range? Rob

Re: filmscanners: Sprintscan 35 plus and negs

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Geraghty
Robert Smith wrote: > I an a newbie on this list and I need to know peoples > opinions on which is the best software for me to use > to scan negs with my sprintscan 35 plus You could give Vuescan a try for starters. Go to http://www.hamrick.com Registration is only US$40. Rob

filmscanners: Paintshop Pro

2001-05-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
Someone recently gave PSP a plug on the list, and I was trying to remember the neatest features which PSP 7 has over Photoshop. Two which are extremely useful are: 1) The ability to rotate an image a fraction of a degree 2) The redeye tool. It allows you to replace the red eye reflection with

RE: filmscanners: Paintshop Pro

2001-05-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
Laurie wrote: >Image=>rotate_canvas=>arbitrary" indicates the exact rotation >necessary to make the horizon horizontal ... to a hundredth of a >degree! In which version? Is it true for PS4, PS5, LE? I don't know. I am assuming that you are using PS6. Rob Rob

RE: filmscanners: Paintshop Pro

2001-05-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
Sorry, that was Michael's message I was referring to. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Paintshop Pro

2001-05-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
PSP. I found that PSP would also crash if you use the salt and pepper filter on a large image, and some of the other photo editing tools. If you're using a demo of PSP, it's not worth the hassle, but if you have the full license it is definitely a good idea, especially if you're workin

RE: filmscanners: Book on Image Editing/Colour Correction

2001-05-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
ly recommend a title by Bruce Fraser. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Stellar ghosts and Nikon Coolscan IVED (LS40)

2001-05-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Harry Lehto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I scan an image containing black sky and bright stellar images with a > Nikon Coolscan IVED (=LS40) , then close to the edge of the field every > bright (saturated) stellar image has a faint ghost image separated from > the main image (by 20- 40 pixe

Re: filmscanners: Another Mission Completed

2001-05-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
"John Matturri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious how you, or others, store their cds. I have some folders with CD slip-sheets which I'm storing them in. Keeps them in a much more compact state than normal jewel cases. Rob

Re: filmscanners: Another Mission Completed

2001-05-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Lynn Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm happy to report that I've scanned and recorded to CD *all* my > significant negs and slides from 1949 to 1998--which were the ones I was > going for, archive-wise. Wow! I wish I had the time to scan a fraction of mine. Congrats! Keep in touch, Lynn

Re: filmscanners: Stellar ghosts and Nikon Coolscan IVED (LS40)

2001-05-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Harry Lehto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The original slide are good with no apparent ghosts. They were actually > taken with 50mm and 300mm camera lenses. Checked with a good slide > projector and separately with a microscope that the originals are OK. OK, it sounds like some sort of aberratio

Re: filmscanners: LS-2000 VS LS-40

2001-05-12 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Edwin Eleazer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version 3.1 of NikonScan will be out in the next week Hmm... I wonder if this might include some attempt at fixing the jaggies problem? Rob

Re: filmscanners: LS4000 and sharpness

2001-04-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
Ed wrote: >the focus distance until the contrast is maximized. The only real >option is the position of the scan line. But don't the Nikon scanners allow the user to choose an XY point on the frame as the focussing point? Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

RE: filmscanners: remove

2001-05-14 Thread Rob Geraghty
would have to be done by Tony Sleep, since it has been sent to the list and replicated from there. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

RE: filmscanners: Batchscanning with vuescan

2001-05-15 Thread Rob Geraghty
ning? What version of Vuescan are you using? Try renaming the existing vuescan.ini and allowing the program to create a new default one. Then try a troublesome strip of film and see if it makes a difference. Also, try using a different colour space like Adobe RGB not sRGB. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-19 Thread Rob Geraghty
Am I the only one who has problems with the crop outline in Vuescan? I have been wondering why it is so incredibly difficult to position correctly. I *think* it's mostly due to one aspect of behaviour. Let's say I'm cropping an image in Paintshop Pro. I click and drag to create a rough outline

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-19 Thread Rob Geraghty
Hi Ed! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try zooming into the image before dragging the crop outline. This helps a bit, but the crop box still has a tendency to jump around when releasing the mouse button after dragging. I don't want to *have* to use the zoom, as each step slows things down. The ten

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Joel Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup, works for me. My Crop|Buffer setting is 2% (I think the default) and > that seems to work well for my full frame crops. A person could probably > increase this to 10% to make sure the black can't influence the auto values. The default 2% often does

filmscanners: Size of scan files

2001-05-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
I was just going through the files on the computer to see what I could easily archive to CDR and noticed a huge difference in file sizes. I have some full frame scans from Fuji 800 print film that occupy 30MB as 8bit LZW TIFF files, yet I am going through Provia 100F scans at the moment which sta

Re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
ightforward as the click and drag behaviour in PSP. I'm not saying that to encourage a religious war about software. Thanks for letting me know how it's done in PS - I'll have to try it out. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

RE: filmscanners: Size of scan files

2001-05-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
well. I was just pointing out an advantage of a fine grained film like Provia which I hadn't realised before; that the higher resolution actually results in smaller file sizes. This is perhaps counter-intuitive. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Size of scan files

2001-05-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
0x200 pixels in 16 bit colour with another of 1024x768 in 8 bit colour. The first image can have a lot more tonal information, but the second has more clarity. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street

2001-05-21 Thread Rob Geraghty
graphs that I took quite legitimately. The really sad part is that they never spoke to me about the photos before they went to the lawyer. If they had, I would have sold them the films just to be rid of it all for less than the lawyer would have charged. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

RE: filmscanners: Fast, decent, low res scans

2001-05-22 Thread Rob Geraghty
ously doubt you will get "decent" results out of anything that cheap. There are flatbeds out there where you can put a large number of slides in a tray and batch scan them, but I don't know how good the results would be compared to a Nikon filmscanner. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Ektachrome E100VS bad?

2001-05-22 Thread Rob Geraghty
the film ended up with circular marks from the chemistry beading in the sprocket holes them drying away from them. The lab said that Kodak film did this, but Fuji film didn't. I'm sticking to Provia 100F. :) Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-23 Thread Rob Geraghty
John wrote: >Will it only overwrite a folder on the "C" drive if it is named C:\Vuescan? >Will it ignore any renamed folder ? Vuescan always installs into c:\vuescan. It has no effect on other copies. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Choice of film scanner

2001-05-25 Thread Rob Geraghty
t I don't have an APS camera. :) The LS40 would presumably do it as well, with slightly better results. I don't know if the Canon, Minolta or Acer scanners have APS adapters. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: The whole frame

2001-05-31 Thread Rob Geraghty
graphic print. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: which scanner for slides ?

2001-05-31 Thread Rob Geraghty
w) can be used flat or vertically. There are feet fitted in two sides of the case. I'm using mine flat so the film goes in vertically. This may also help to keep dust off the CCD. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: The whole frame

2001-06-01 Thread Rob Geraghty
es on the film, but I'm not certain of it, so I don't take the risk. But having taken photos the way you did, I can see why you would want to scan the entirety of the image out to the border. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: VueScan Question

2001-06-02 Thread Rob Geraghty
"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. Bu there's no nee

Re: filmscanners: Nikon LS-30 Coolscan III makes scratches on negatives

2001-06-04 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Walter Nowotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > scanning unit. The turn round is made by some plastics parts which probably > cause the scratches when the negatives are bent too much. I was satisfied > with that explanation and tried to smooth down the negatives before > scanning. However, processin

Re: filmscanners: which scanner for slides ? ( SCSI vs USB )

2001-06-04 Thread Rob Geraghty
"James Grove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dont think that will work, as many SCSI devices have to be seen by the > SCSI BIOS on boot up. It works with my LS30 and the Scanjet IIIc. Scanners shouldn't be a problem. The most likely devices that would need to be seen at SCSI BIOS load would be

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: RE: Nikon LS-40 Coolscan 4

2001-06-06 Thread Rob Geraghty
he mechanism for the new adaptor. My LS30 does the same thing. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Fast, decent, low res scans

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Geraghty
he same but the BIOS is different. Anyway, there's no relationship I'm aware of with Acer. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: New Nikon performance

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Geraghty
uld be identical with Kodachrome and B&W film because the behaviour with IR is the same. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: [OT] Olympus P-400 printer ???

2001-06-08 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Nick Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my order for the Epson 1280. Does anyone know whether the 1280 in north america is the same as the 1290 elsewhere? Rob

Re: filmscanners: New Nikon performance

2001-06-08 Thread Rob Geraghty
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My experience is that scanners with better focus show more dust > than scanners without good focus. For instance, take a SprintScan 4000 > and a Nikon LS-4000 and compare the raw scans. They show exactly > the same dust spots if you use the same slide on both, and bo

OT Epsons again was Re: filmscanners: [OT] Olympus P-400 printer ???

2001-06-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 780, 880 and 980 which are 2880 dpi 4 color (780 is new to me, so > I'm jumping to conclusions here) In Oz there's also a 480 and 680. > (in which case, I made an error in an earlier posting as I indicated > the 1280 as an upgrade to the 1270.

filmscanners: Infrared scan

2001-06-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
I just tried scanning a slide and outputting a colour TIFF and an IR one. It was very educational. Any sort of mark, scratch or dust spot is utterly black in the IR scan. Some of the image is also visible as is some of the grain, which probably explains why the image is softened by ICE. I haven

Re: filmscanners: [OT] Epson printers (Was: Olympus P-400 printer ???)

2001-06-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Tom Christiansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the advantage of 2880dpi lengthwise compared to 1440dpi? >From what I've seen it means less visible dithering and the result is closer to a photographic continuous tone. > Some people claim that you shouldn't send pictures to the printer us

Re: filmscanners: New Nikon and ICE feature

2001-06-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
"AR Studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just discovered with Nikon IV that ICE (normal setting, at least) will act > as ROC (color restoration) if you have an image that has a dominating color, > let's say a green forest or a field of yellow flowers. I've had a lot of trouble in the past with Ni

filmscanners: Infrared scans on different films

2001-06-09 Thread Rob Geraghty
As a followup, here's a basic comparison between several kinds of films and their behaviour with the infrared (IR) channel. The thumbnails are tiny I know, but they are big enough to show the important differences. In IR, the K64 slide shows quite a bit of image detail, especially on high contra

Re: filmscanners: Infrared scan

2001-06-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just tried scanning a slide and outputting a colour TIFF and an >> IR one. It was very educational. Any sort of mark, scratch or >> dust spot is utterly black in the IR scan. > If you look closer, you'll see that the dust spots aren't pure black, > but instead ar

Re: filmscanners: Colour fix problem

2001-06-10 Thread Rob Geraghty
Re: filmscanners: Colour fix problemRichard N. Moyer wrote: > He uses PSP, which I have no knowledge about, so some adjustments > may not be easily accomplished, such as Selective Color, which was > used to take the yellow out of the white floor. The colour correction tool in PSP 7 works very wel

filmscanners: Vuescan crop box goes mad. Film at 11

2001-06-12 Thread Rob Geraghty
I have no idea why, but Vuescan's crop box has gone loopy on me. I'm using 7.0.21. I've been attempting to scan some frames of 35mm colour neg film using the motorised film strip adapter in my Nikon LS30. I've been using the zoom function in Vuescan to adjust the edges to include the maximum am

Re: filmscanners: High Capacity Storage (was CD RW Deal)

2001-06-12 Thread Rob Geraghty
> on 6/12/01 5:41 AM, Dan Honemann at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How about the new Iomega Peerless portables (10 and 20GB, USB and Firewire)? > > Anyone tried these yet? My only comment here is future proofing. It's more likely you'll have a drive which can read a CDR in 5 years time than an I

filmscanners: Films for scanning was RE: filmscanners: Was New Nikon performance, now dust

2001-06-12 Thread Rob Geraghty
true" answer to which is better. The answer will depend a lot on what your personal tastes are, and what kind of photos you're taking. If this wasn't true, there would be a lot less types of film on the market. I'd still like to post some more film comparisons on my web s

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Was New Nikon performance, now dust

2001-06-12 Thread Rob Geraghty
um price for the Kodak film. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: High Capacity Storage (was CD RW Deal)

2001-06-13 Thread Rob Geraghty
ested setting up hard drives in hot swap configuration which is probably an excellent idea. I prefer to have my data on a write-once medium though. Kind of like making tape backups. But what's right for you is quite likely to what is right for me. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Films for scanning was Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Was New Nikon performance, now dust

2001-06-13 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Raphael Bustin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off, Supra is a C41 print film. Superia, > as I recall, as an E6 positive film. Fuji's > "equivalent" to Supra might be Reala, perhaps. No. Superia is a C41 print film. At least in Australia, all the Fuji retail (non pro) colour print films

filmscanners: Films for scanning

2001-06-13 Thread Rob Geraghty
did the scanner manufacturers choose 2700dpi if it's so prone to aliasing? Or are they clueless and simply picked it as a reasonable resolution to get an A4 print at 300dpi? This could get expensive... Rob PS Any idea what is happening to your subject lines, Tony? Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Films for scanning

2001-06-13 Thread Rob Geraghty
x27;m not sure how the slide of the AUD has affected the local cost though. Anyway, I'll make the time soon to try a variety of films on the SS4000 at work and see how the results compare with the LS30. I'm particularly interested to see what happens to the grain. Rob Rob Geraght

filmscanners: films for scanning

2001-06-14 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Tony Sleep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IME film type preferences under discussion here are 90% interactions > between scanner and film, and the nice thing about 4000ppi is that an > awful lot of the problems seen at ~2700ppi suddenly cease to exist. Which is useful to know but I for one can'

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Films for scanning

2001-06-14 Thread Rob Geraghty
"rafeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In terms of US $$, you have the same access to eBay > prices as everyone else, right? The cost of shipping makes ebay pricing irrelevent. I saw some unbelievable prices for Epson printers for example, but by the time you ship it, pay GST on import, and get a

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: BWP seeks scanner

2001-06-14 Thread Rob Geraghty
d try them on various scanners. IMO that's the only way you'll know whether you can get enough data out of the film to reproduce the images you want. There may be people on the list who could help out with providing access to a scanner or scanning a frame or two for you. Rob Rob Geraghty

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Diffused scanners...

2001-06-14 Thread Rob Geraghty
Marvin wrote: >At 04:43 AM 6/14/01, Rob Geraghty wrote in another thread (films for scanning): >>Silver based B&W films do not scan at all well with the LS30 > Often, I believe we are too concerned with overkill in specs. > Rob's remark triggered a question in my m

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: films for scanning

2001-06-14 Thread Rob Geraghty
een resolutions, but the grain is very obvious. Clearly they are underexposed compared to photos exposed in normal daylight. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Frustrating NikonScan 3.1 Problem

2001-06-15 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had any problems with NikonScan 3.1 in Windows 2000? Sounds like Nikonscan 3.1 is worse than 3.0 at least on W2K. Does anyone know whether 3.1 attempts to fix the jaggies problem, or is it still reading data in 64K

Re: filmscanners: Frustrating NikonScan 3.1 Problem

2001-06-16 Thread Rob Geraghty
"rafeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No problems over here with NikonScan 3.1. Well, at least it works on the 8000. Has anyone tried it on the LS30 or LS2000? Are there jaggies? Rob

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - illegal ops?

2001-06-16 Thread Rob Geraghty
John & Anne Mahany wrote: > I am having trouble with all versions of Vuescan since > V7-0-27 and including V7-1 Opening, or rather, trying > to open the program gives a series of "Illegal Operation" > boxes in Vuescan.exe. What scanner and OS are you using? Rob

Re: filmscanners: films for scanning?

2001-06-16 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Tony Sleep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > of Fuji 800 taken in full daylight > Best to rate at 640 IME, it helps keep grain under control, and cleans up > the shadows appreciably. I'll bear that in mind if I shoot a roll in the SLR. Unfortunately with disposible cameras I have no control over

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - illegal ops?

2001-06-17 Thread Rob Geraghty
"John & Anne Mahany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Win 98SE and SS4k. However, I don't think the scanner is relevant because > the "Illegal operations" box comes up instantly I click on "open". I presume you have the scanner switched on before you boot the PC. Vuescan should still start even wi

filmscanners: Underwater pictures was Re: filmscanners: films for scanning?

2001-06-18 Thread Rob Geraghty
osed at EI650 but in the low light conditions where I've tried it, the results are poor when scanned. It's cool to be able to take photos at all with some of the situations that Fuji 800 makes possible, but I generally find the grain objectionable. I just need to save up for that dedicate

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Scanner resolution (was: BWP seeks scanner)

2001-06-18 Thread Rob Geraghty
ake a few photos with a tripod, I don't think I'll know for sure. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Time to upgrade: Opinions wanted

2001-06-18 Thread Rob Geraghty
t grain film you can afford. At the end of the day, the quality of the source material will determine a lot about the quality of the scanned result. Choosing a scanner has a lot to do with what the buyer wants to do with the results. There's no single answer that is right for everyone. Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Scanner resolution (was: BWP seeks scanner)

2001-06-18 Thread Rob Geraghty
g did the leafscan take to produce the scan compare to the Nikon? How long from holding the piece of film to having the TIFF file on the computer? Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

filmscanners: Trying Nikonscan 3.1

2001-06-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
I've just tried Nikonscan 3.1 on my LS30 with a slide and a frame of Fuji Superia 100. Please bear in mind that's just two frames of film, so it's hardly exhaustive. I scanned the same frames using Vuescan 7.1 to produce 48bit colour and 16bit IR files of the same frames. Here's what I found...

Re: filmscanners: Skin tones

2001-06-20 Thread Rob Geraghty
"John Bradbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a raw scan file but its 74 meg at 2700 resolution! > I can reduce the res to give a smaller file. Is that OK? You'd need to crop it down to a smaller area. You also need to enable compression on the raw file. Rob

Re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.2 Available

2001-06-22 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I'm very pleased that you've separated the 'ice' and 'gem' features. Seconded! I was intrigued to find that the ICE feature was a binary option. Earlier versions of Vuescan gave me the impression that it was a variable effect. Rob

OT Discussion was Re: filmscanners: LED Illumination for Film Scanners

2001-06-22 Thread Rob Geraghty
Guys, could we please take the LED discussions off the list? While they may be interesting to the engineers amongst us, I don't think they're of much interest to those who are subscribed to discuss filmscanning? I think we can all agree that the mechanical components of a scanner are more likely

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