[filmscanners] Re: Profiles
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:17:09 -0230 michael shaffer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Although print spaces shouldn't be considered to have a "larger" gamut, > some of their color capabilities (cyan-green-yellow) are considered > outside > typical monitor spaces. Therefore, most consider sRGB to have too small > a > gamut for anything other than wwweb presentation. I do wonder sometimes if some of the purists have ever actually tried printing sRGB. IME not too many photos include colours which will inhabit the difference between sRGB and Adobe 98, but there are certainly peculiarities about the gamut of Epsons which I quite often find uncomfortable and afflict quite a lot of images in any colourspace. Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner info & comparisons Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: IT8 calibration & SS 120
Simon, In SilverFast there is a button on the image panel (six down) called "Job Manager" that will permit you to preview and scan all four images in the carrier. Make sure you click the "6X6" and then click the third button from the left at the bottom of the "Job Manager" panel. Another applet will appear and it's fairly self explanatory. Jim Simon Lamb wrote: > Jim > > I am just being paranoid about flatness. The scans are tack sharp. I will > definitely look into the glass carrier though. > > Here is a suggestion for anyone from Lasersoft who may be listening. Can we > have a 6X24 option so that we can scan a whole four image strip please? > Insight has it and it means I can actually scan all frames on a four frame > strip of 6X6. > > Simon > > On 21/4/02 1:08 am, "James L. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Simon, > > > > I have not noticed a flatness problem with the SS 120 MF carrier. According > > to Polaroid, > > however, they will have a glass carrier available within about a month. > > > > I am having an indexing problem, when using VueScan, with MF carrier. I have > > devised some > > work-arounds but it's still a hassle. All the carriers work well with Insight > > and > > SilverFast. > > > > Jim > > > > Simon Lamb wrote: > > > >> Chris > >> > >> How do you find the film flatness in the MF holder? It does not look flat > >> to me although the images seem to be in focus. I seem to try a few times to > >> get a strip to lay flat. Any tips? > >> > >> It is also impossible to scan every frame on a four frame strip. > >> > >> I like the 120 although the film flatness of the MF is an issue. > >> > >> Simon > >> > >> On 20/4/02 9:12 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Does an IT8 calibration slide come with the Silverfast Ai version 5 software > >>> supplied with the Sprintscan SS 120 in the UK? > >>> > >>> It does. Or is supposed to; my first SS120 didn't have one (the machine was > >>> returned due to other reasons) and second also didn't. So both times I had > >>> to call the retailer - who got Polaroid to send one out. The first slide > >>> they sent looked liked it had been dragged across a floor under someone's > >>> foot - but both the retailer and Polaroid sorted everything out. Took a few > >>> days - so the moral of all this? Check the box/contents before driving the 3 > >>> hour journey home. > >>> > >>> Craig Auckland | Photographer > >> > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: IT8 calibration & SS 120
Jim I am just being paranoid about flatness. The scans are tack sharp. I will definitely look into the glass carrier though. Here is a suggestion for anyone from Lasersoft who may be listening. Can we have a 6X24 option so that we can scan a whole four image strip please? Insight has it and it means I can actually scan all frames on a four frame strip of 6X6. Simon On 21/4/02 1:08 am, "James L. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon, > > I have not noticed a flatness problem with the SS 120 MF carrier. According > to Polaroid, > however, they will have a glass carrier available within about a month. > > I am having an indexing problem, when using VueScan, with MF carrier. I have > devised some > work-arounds but it's still a hassle. All the carriers work well with Insight > and > SilverFast. > > Jim > > Simon Lamb wrote: > >> Chris >> >> How do you find the film flatness in the MF holder? It does not look flat >> to me although the images seem to be in focus. I seem to try a few times to >> get a strip to lay flat. Any tips? >> >> It is also impossible to scan every frame on a four frame strip. >> >> I like the 120 although the film flatness of the MF is an issue. >> >> Simon >> >> On 20/4/02 9:12 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Does an IT8 calibration slide come with the Silverfast Ai version 5 software >>> supplied with the Sprintscan SS 120 in the UK? >>> >>> It does. Or is supposed to; my first SS120 didn't have one (the machine was >>> returned due to other reasons) and second also didn't. So both times I had >>> to call the retailer - who got Polaroid to send one out. The first slide >>> they sent looked liked it had been dragged across a floor under someone's >>> foot - but both the retailer and Polaroid sorted everything out. Took a few >>> days - so the moral of all this? Check the box/contents before driving the 3 >>> hour journey home. >>> >>> Craig Auckland | Photographer >> Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: IT8 calibration & SS 120
I wont ;-) It all seems fine so far, sharp as a tack and the nicest smooth grain I have so far seen. Between Silverfast, Insight and Vuescan I think I have all the film bases covered. Simon Simon On 20/4/02 11:22 pm, "Dave King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A big advantage to the SS120 -- depth of focus!! If it doesn't have to be > perfectly flat, don't fix it if it ain't broke:) > > Dave > > - Original Message - > From: "Simon Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 5:54 PM > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: IT8 calibration & SS 120 > > > Chris > > How do you find the film flatness in the MF holder? It does not look flat > to me although the images seem to be in focus. I seem to try a few times to > get a strip to lay flat. Any tips? > > It is also impossible to scan every frame on a four frame strip. > > I like the 120 although the film flatness of the MF is an issue. > > Simon > > On 20/4/02 9:12 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does an IT8 calibration slide come with the Silverfast Ai version 5 > software >> supplied with the Sprintscan SS 120 in the UK? >> >> It does. Or is supposed to; my first SS120 didn't have one (the machine > was >> returned due to other reasons) and second also didn't. So both times I had >> to call the retailer - who got Polaroid to send one out. The first slide >> they sent looked liked it had been dragged across a floor under someone's >> foot - but both the retailer and Polaroid sorted everything out. Took a > few >> days - so the moral of all this? Check the box/contents before driving the > 3 >> hour journey home. >> >> Craig Auckland | Photographer Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: SS4000 Plus not to Europe!
<< I tried to get one here in England but with no joy. Can anyone who has one say if a US model has a 230v selection or auto selection switch which would make a personal import viable? Regards Philip Elkin >> Well, unfortunately I can not get mine to run on Windows XP thus far, but I can tell you what it comes with. There are 3 separate power cords, one for the US and I don't remember what the other 2 were and I don't have the scanner immediately availablebut I think one of the cords was for England if I remember correctly. Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: SS 4000 Plus
<< I'm only half joking when I suggest that you keep the scanner, dump your Windows XP machine, and get a Mac. I too have a new SS 4000 Plus, and it works flawlessly on my G4 running OS 9.2. Plus, it connects via firewire. >> Well, given that I can't dump the computer, I assume that the OS recognizing the scanner would fare no better if it were connected via Firewire. It does come with a firewire card, though I don't know if it is one supported by XP. Howard Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: IT8 calibration & SS 120
Simon, I have not noticed a flatness problem with the SS 120 MF carrier. According to Polaroid, however, they will have a glass carrier available within about a month. I am having an indexing problem, when using VueScan, with MF carrier. I have devised some work-arounds but it's still a hassle. All the carriers work well with Insight and SilverFast. Jim Simon Lamb wrote: > Chris > > How do you find the film flatness in the MF holder? It does not look flat > to me although the images seem to be in focus. I seem to try a few times to > get a strip to lay flat. Any tips? > > It is also impossible to scan every frame on a four frame strip. > > I like the 120 although the film flatness of the MF is an issue. > > Simon > > On 20/4/02 9:12 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does an IT8 calibration slide come with the Silverfast Ai version 5 software > > supplied with the Sprintscan SS 120 in the UK? > > > > It does. Or is supposed to; my first SS120 didn't have one (the machine was > > returned due to other reasons) and second also didn't. So both times I had > > to call the retailer - who got Polaroid to send one out. The first slide > > they sent looked liked it had been dragged across a floor under someone's > > foot - but both the retailer and Polaroid sorted everything out. Took a few > > days - so the moral of all this? Check the box/contents before driving the 3 > > hour journey home. > > > > Craig Auckland | Photographer > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: My Public Apology
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:30:11 -0700 Tris Schuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You see one thing while your audience might well > (often does) see something else. Close but no cigar, so why the angst? No angst, unless the client or printer produces something ghastly. I can't say I worry about monitor variability much. Most half-decent monitors give a reasonably close approximation IME, and we have, um, 4 here + 1 TFT, all different makes and ages, only one 'good' and calibrated. They're all OK. Ultimately it's up to the viewer. Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner info & comparisons Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: IT8 calibration & SS 120
A big advantage to the SS120 -- depth of focus!! If it doesn't have to be perfectly flat, don't fix it if it ain't broke:) Dave - Original Message - From: "Simon Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 5:54 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: IT8 calibration & SS 120 Chris How do you find the film flatness in the MF holder? It does not look flat to me although the images seem to be in focus. I seem to try a few times to get a strip to lay flat. Any tips? It is also impossible to scan every frame on a four frame strip. I like the 120 although the film flatness of the MF is an issue. Simon On 20/4/02 9:12 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does an IT8 calibration slide come with the Silverfast Ai version 5 software > supplied with the Sprintscan SS 120 in the UK? > > It does. Or is supposed to; my first SS120 didn't have one (the machine was > returned due to other reasons) and second also didn't. So both times I had > to call the retailer - who got Polaroid to send one out. The first slide > they sent looked liked it had been dragged across a floor under someone's > foot - but both the retailer and Polaroid sorted everything out. Took a few > days - so the moral of all this? Check the box/contents before driving the 3 > hour journey home. > > Craig Auckland | Photographer Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: IT8 calibration & SS 120
Chris How do you find the film flatness in the MF holder? It does not look flat to me although the images seem to be in focus. I seem to try a few times to get a strip to lay flat. Any tips? It is also impossible to scan every frame on a four frame strip. I like the 120 although the film flatness of the MF is an issue. Simon On 20/4/02 9:12 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does an IT8 calibration slide come with the Silverfast Ai version 5 software > supplied with the Sprintscan SS 120 in the UK? > > It does. Or is supposed to; my first SS120 didn't have one (the machine was > returned due to other reasons) and second also didn't. So both times I had > to call the retailer - who got Polaroid to send one out. The first slide > they sent looked liked it had been dragged across a floor under someone's > foot - but both the retailer and Polaroid sorted everything out. Took a few > days - so the moral of all this? Check the box/contents before driving the 3 > hour journey home. > > Craig Auckland | Photographer Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] SS 4000 Plus
I just received my SS 4000 Plus and can not get it to run on Windows XP. It is connected via USB. I have tried Insight 5.5, 5.5.1, and even, as was suggested a week or so ago 5.0 (though this only contains the 4000 drivers and not the 4000 plus drivers) with no luck. When I use the Add Hardware Wizard the drivers are not found. When I show it what folder the drivers are in it sees the folder as empty, though if I look in the folder outside the Wizard I see the files are there and I can even start Insight, though it tells me no scanner is connected. Polaroid has not responded yet. Anyone have any other ideas...otherwise the scanner will have to go back. Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: my XP laptop is driving me crazy
An update on what I've learned about my laptop problem, thanks to Cary. As you can see from Cary's email quoted below (for grins, check out the paragraph starting with "This error"), apparently it's not a hardware issue, but rather more likely application or OS related. I can imagine it's either, since PS6 is not "native" to XP, and I'm running upgrades 5.5 and 6 on top of v. 5. Another potential problem is I may have procured XP at the worst possible time, coming as it did on the heels of Microsoft's decision to address the security issues, and I have downloaded/installed at least 10 patches. In general I think XP's vaunted stability is BS given how much crashing it's done on my laptop, and not just with PS. I've since installed Win 2000 on my PIII 500 Dell in a dual boot config, and vastly prefer it to XP so far, so I may eventually dump XP on the laptop and put 2000 on it too. If I do I'd like to network the two using firewire, or should I add an Ethernet card to the desktop and use that? I know nothing about networking - any suggestions? The LS-8000 scans much slower on the PIII 500 than on the Athalon 1.2, but at least I can get back to work. Dave - Original Message - From: "Cary Enoch R... aka Enoch's Vision, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:23 PM Subject: RE: [filmscanners] my XP laptop is driving me crazy > According to my son (the last paragraph nails it)... > > An excerpt from MSDN: > > C Run-Time Error R6025 > pure virtual function call > > No object has been instantiated to handle the pure virtual function > call. > > This error is caused by calling a virtual function in an abstract base > class through a pointer which is created by a cast to the type of the > derived class, but is actually a pointer to the base class. This can > occur when casting from a void* to a pointer to a class when the void* > was created during the construction of the base class. > > This documentation is talking about C++ specifically. It tells me that > it was not a hardware problem, nor was it operator error. In layman's > terms, these described symptoms are the result of how XP is handling a > Photoshop-specific design implementation. By that I mean a reinstall of > either XP or Photoshop is in order. By the way, I have never run across > this issue in my experience. > > > Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia > http://www.enochsvision.com -- "Behind all these manifestations is the > one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to > reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Cary Enoch R... aka Enoch's Vision, Inc. > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, 19 April, 2002 10:26 > > To: 'Dave King' > > Subject: RE: [filmscanners] my XP laptop is driving me crazy > > > > > > > It seems I may have spoken too soon:( Today it's back to > > > freezes and crashes. Some of the error messages I've seen > > > are "Could not complete request because of program error"; > > > "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error, Program: > > > Photoshop.exe"; "R6025-Pure Virtual Function Call". > > > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] RE: IT8 calibration & SS 120
Does an IT8 calibration slide come with the Silverfast Ai version 5 software supplied with the Sprintscan SS 120 in the UK? It does. Or is supposed to; my first SS120 didn't have one (the machine was returned due to other reasons) and second also didn't. So both times I had to call the retailer - who got Polaroid to send one out. The first slide they sent looked liked it had been dragged across a floor under someone's foot - but both the retailer and Polaroid sorted everything out. Took a few days - so the moral of all this? Check the box/contents before driving the 3 hour journey home. Craig Auckland | Photographer [ Telephone ] +44 (0)7930 337 226 [ Facsimile ] +44 (0)7931 607 428 [ Electronic mail ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Online portfolio ] www.aucklandphotographer.co.uk The studio, 17 Elton Road, Kingswood, Bristol, BS15 1NG Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Scanning B & W
Hi everyone... Am just starting to scan B&W... now, i realise there are some obvious issues... ICE for instance... but what i'd like are a few basic tips that'll save me having to reinvent the wheel :) (Am using a Nikon 4000ED) 1/ Realise that Nikon scans in RGB and then converts to Greyscale. Question: Therefore, would it be better to scan in RGB and do the conversion in Photoshop, etc.? 2/ I like grain one of the reasons i mainly shoot on TriX for my personal stuff... what are the issues here? How do i keep the grainy look? Or will it get overaccentuated? 3/ Eg. The screen seems to show a nice mix of black to white and greys... but the histogram shows white peaking at the 255 level...ok... but the black falls short of the 0 level. Am i therefore, setting the analog gain too high? Just a few questions, but any tips and further suggestions are very, very welcome... :) Thanks in advance... SD Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Profiles
Michael writes: > I remember Adobe's Chris Cox commenting on > sRGB being represenative of "cheap" monitors. As I recall, sRGB was largely based on NTSC gamut, which is indeed pretty "cheap" compared to what good monitors are capable of displaying. sRGB was sort of a lowest common denominator. > Why convert your archived scan to anything? You don't have to convert it, but you should prepare it in an identified color space and store that information in the archived image, so that anyone retrieving it later can get the colors as you left them. Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: SS4000 Plus not to Europe!
Hi Harald, I expect little isn't written in stone with Polaroid's scanner division at this point. It is in the midst of being sold and the future of distribution is unclear at best. What might have been intended by the answers to your questions is that Polaroid's European distributor might not be the one who will be bringing this scanner in. Since the scanner division will become a separate company, Polaroid's distribution channels may not be directly involved in importation of the scanners once the company is sold off. I can think of some reasons why the scanner might not be made available in Europe. The cost of bringing such a product in goes further than just shipping it over. The distribution chain needs to be provided with training, as do the stores, ditto for the tech support and repair people. Parts have to be stocked, and probably more costly, all the manuals have to be translated into numerous languages, and the item may have to go through safety licensing. All of this costs money to do, and that isn't even considering any promotion and advertising, which again requires translation. As you likely know, certain trade laws require the packaging and manuals to be translated into many European languages for import. If you are so set on getting the scanner, and it turns out Polaroid (or whomever) isn't going to export to Europe, you may consider exporting one yourself, I suppose. Art Harald E Brandt wrote: > Two days ago, I spoke to Scandinavian Photo (with Roger, a guy I have spoken to MANY >times the last few months) who had just spoken to Polaroid who said that Polaroid did >not intend to sell SS4000 Plus at all in Europe!! > > I was stunned, amazed, disappointed, > > The reason for not taking it to Europe was of course the Economic problems of >Polaroid, that they couldn't afford to market the machine. But to me, I thought that >the SS4000 was so well known that the Plus version didn't need any new marketing - it >is just a very good upgrade of the well respected SS4000 (which is not sold any more)! > > I have been waiting for that SS4000 Plus ever since November last year, ever since I >heard of that it was "soon to be released". What a waste of good technology not to >sell the nice machine in Europe! What a waste of potential income for Polaroid! I >simply can't understand Polaroids decision. Is it expensive to sell a machine already >in production? A machine people already are waiting for? Then why keep selling the >120 version which is such a low volume thing? Strange! Now I have to rethink and buy >something else > > Or is the above information actually misinformation? > David, please tell me that it is all wrong. > (But I can't wait another half a year.) > > > __BragIt___ > Harald E Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bragit.com > > > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: SS4000 rebate
Enjoy the extra film rolls and processing you can invest in now. I've had much worse horror stories with rebates than this. The winner was a 6 month wait on a rebate that was supposed to take 8 weeks. That one took about 10 phone calls. Art Thomas B. Maugham wrote: > Loyal Scanners: > > I received my $200 SS4000 rebate from Polaroid today. I sent the paperwork > to Polaroid on January 9, 2002 and they said to allow 4-6 weeks but 14 weeks > is better than nothing. It cost me $700 before the rebate which I believe > would still have been a good deal so receiving the rebate is, to me, just > icing on the cake! > > I remain a Happy Scanner! > > Tom > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Canned Air
Hi Tony, I guess what I am saying is that I DO live right smack in the middle of a Pacific Northwest Temperate Rain Forest (a highly endangered one, at that), so yes, about 8 months of the year it is very damp. I use a dehumidifier to keep the moisture down. One advantage is we get very little static, and therefore not much dust sticking to film, ;-) Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:31:36 +0200 Anthony Atkielski > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >>>Yes, I am aware of that. I was suggesting >>>that your "hurricane blasts of wind" might >>>cause dampness if the air wasn't dry ... >>> >>I use canned air, so it should be dry and dust-free. >> > > I guess he's saying that the expansion of the gas as it leaves the nozzle > could cause adiabatic chilling of the air to the point that moisture > condenses out and rains on your film. It's a beautiful and logical theory > which isn't a problem in practice, though who knows, it may be if you scan > in the rainforest where humidity is absurd. OTOH you'd need to blow the > fungus off the film somehow... :) > > Regards > > Tony Sleep Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Canned Air
As I probably mentioned before, HP provides an ear syringe with their S-10/20 series film scanners. It is a lovely dark blue. Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 06:28:06 -0400 Julian Vrieslander > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >>In practice, I find that my Bausch & Lomb ear syringe works just fine for >>blowing dust from film and optics. >> > > Wonderful. I feel better now. I got laughed at the other day for admitting > elsewhere that I use a roofer's T-square for cutting up mount board and > occasionally prints. Dirt cheap painted steel from a builder's merchant and > about 18" X 24" > > BTW the traditional poor man's duster is a turkey baster, so yours is > positively upmarket. I don't want to start a baster vs. ear syringe dispute > however. > > Regards > > Tony Sleep Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] RE: Scanner calibration
Alex writes ... > Recently I was given the IT8 35mm slide to try out my > IV ED calibration, but I have no calibration software > to handle IT8 pattern. > ... Use littleCMS with care http://www.littlecms.com/ ... the results seem to be respectable, but I doubt if it will produce anything better than the CLUT profiles which cane with your scanner. What scanning software are you going to use it with? What settings? cheerios ... shAf :o) Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland www.micro-investigations.com (in progress) Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Profiles
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:05:44 +0200 Alex Zabrovsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I get your point correctly, you claim that monitors cannot display > wider > gamut then ordinary sRGB regardless of particular display qualities, Correct > which > mean, there is no point to scan and save in Adobe 98 RGB which is wider > and > thus resulting in larger files. > Am I wrong ? There is a point, if you intend output to a wider-gamut device than a screen at some time - for instance photo inkjets such as Epsons. Using a wide gamut space can have disadvantages. Obviously you can't see on screen the exact colour values of the image file because the monitor is constrained to sRGB, and if you need at some point to output to CMYK, you risk more colours being out of gamut. If CMYK is the eventual destination, Colormatch RGB is a closer match. > What about scanning for archive ? Yup, a good choice and many people do. Ultimately what you do depends on your intended use. Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner info & comparisons Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:46:07 -0500 Joe Tait ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can you give me some advice on good film types/dev? I have been shooting > T-Max 100, dev in D-76 1:1, 68c in a Jobo Expert Drum, hand inversion. > The > shooting is 70% studio, 30% outdoors. Chromagenic B&W such as TMaxCN and XP2 are about the only near-certain way of avoiding the problem. Unfortunately what works fine on one scanner can cause big trouble on another, its an interaction between grain size and pixel size and spacing akin to Moire. You can even have a situation where some areas are fine, but others of different exposure are not. I can't see any way to predict which film and dev combinations will cause problems beyond generalising that slow fine-grain films should be better, and devs with a fair degree of solvent action like D76 should be less problematic than active, high acutance formulae like Rodinal. TMax100+D76 is a low risk combination, but you'll still need to test it on the scanner you choose. > Just in case you have some other advice, my purpose in scanning the negs > is > to get enlarged negatives for contact printing w/ various alt photo > processes. I have no direct experience here so can't comment. Except I do know of people getting good results by producing an interneg via inkjet printing on acetate. This sort of thing gets discussed a lot on the alt-photo-process list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner info & comparisons Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] SS4000 Plus not to Europe!
Two days ago, I spoke to Scandinavian Photo (with Roger, a guy I have spoken to MANY times the last few months) who had just spoken to Polaroid who said that Polaroid did not intend to sell SS4000 Plus at all in Europe!! I was stunned, amazed, disappointed, The reason for not taking it to Europe was of course the Economic problems of Polaroid, that they couldn't afford to market the machine. But to me, I thought that the SS4000 was so well known that the Plus version didn't need any new marketing - it is just a very good upgrade of the well respected SS4000 (which is not sold any more)! I have been waiting for that SS4000 Plus ever since November last year, ever since I heard of that it was "soon to be released". What a waste of good technology not to sell the nice machine in Europe! What a waste of potential income for Polaroid! I simply can't understand Polaroids decision. Is it expensive to sell a machine already in production? A machine people already are waiting for? Then why keep selling the 120 version which is such a low volume thing? Strange! Now I have to rethink and buy something else Or is the above information actually misinformation? David, please tell me that it is all wrong. (But I can't wait another half a year.) __BragIt___ Harald E Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bragit.com Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Scanner calibration
Hi friends. Recently I was given the IT8 35mm slide to try out my IV ED calibration, but I have no calibration software to handle IT8 pattern. I was able to download some free calibration software, but it turned to be one based on their own calibration transparency which must be purchased separately. Can anybody recommend the software for download working with regular IT8 slide ? I wouldn't mind to pay a reasonable amount for a quality one which would be able to generate precise profile based on ordinary Kodak's Q-60 IT8 35mm slide. Regards, Alex Z Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
