[filmscanners] Re: Problems with help file in Vuescan 7.5.29
At 22:43 28/05/2002 +0100, you wrote: I have just down-loaded and installed Vuescan 7.5.29 and I have problems with the help file. You are supposed to be able to launch this from within Vuescan, either by clicking on the help menu, or pressing [F1], but this does not work for me. The file is in HTML format, and will open if Internet Explorer is already running, but will *not* launch IE if it is not running. All my other HTML files launch IE alright, so it is not a problem with association of the HTM file extension. Has anyone else had this problem? I have had this problem in several versions of Vuescan, including 7.5.29. Maybe it's because I had Netscape set up as my default browser at one point, before removing it. Although I have set the associations back to IE, I see the same problem as you. One work around is to right click on the .HTM file in Windows Explorer and then choose Open with ... Mike Bloor Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Nikon Scan manual ?
I have downloaded Nikon Scan 3.1.2 to use with my LS30. Can anyone tell me where to download a manual ? Mike Bloor Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] RE: Clipping
At 17:44 08/01/02 +, Jawed wrote: Some software, unfortunately, makes it hard to tell where the histogram ends, if there are very few pixels of a given tonal value. Photoshop 6 is pretty clear. Paint Shop Pro 6 isn't at all. Is PSP7 better? What if the base line of the histogram were a different colour for the range where there were pixels, even if there were not enough pixels to show on the histogram plot ? That way it would be easy to set black and white points to include everything if you want, or to know if you were omitting anything. Over to you Ed. Mike Bloor Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
Re:Attachments, was filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.11 Available
At 00:05 04/12/01 +, Ian Lyons wrote - wrote: Mikael, Is there some reason why you must persist in posting attachments as part of your messages? I'm sure the info is useful but can it not be put somewhere for folk to go and look at (by chosie0 rather than have it shoved own our throats? I found the attachments very useful, and at 31KB each, they hardly took a long time to download. Mike Bloor
Re: filmscanners: LS-40/Vuescan cropping
At 09:25 03/12/01 +, Mark Otway wrote: However, I've got a particular set of negative strips which seem to have non-standard frame spacing (it's slightly wider than the frame-spacing on the Fuji film I usually use). Surely, the frame spacing has no relationship to the make of film. It should be a standard 8 sprocket holes. Any variance has to come from the camera. Some very cheap ones don't even register the sprocket holes and vary spacing throughout a film. Mike Bloor
filmscanners: VueScan cropping
In defence of Vuescan I should say that I have bulk scanned a large number of film strips (6 frames each) using my LS30 and the SA20 adapter which came with it. The only time Vuescan has not found the frames perfectly was where I took a film out of a camera in mid-roll and then reinserted it, leaving a gap that was not exactly a multiple of one frame. I simply scanned this strip a second time, putting it in the other way round (though this does confuse things with the + option on file names). Mike Bloor
filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc
Jack Phipps [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: He has used these to bluff his way past x-ray machines in Ireland, a tough place for security. I'm amazed. I live in Ireland, fly in and out regularly and have never been forced to have film X-rayed. If you think Ireland is tough try Stockholm, Perth (Australia) and Schippol (Amsterdam) airports. In general I have found the US amazingly lax on security and most places in Asia very helpful as regards film. I now try and buy film at my destination where possible. I have reliable source of refrigerated professional Fuji film in Budapest, Helsinki, Bangkok, Singapore and, of course, Galway. I would be interested in recommendations from list members for processing labs across Europe Asia and in Mexico. Does anyone know if it is still safe to post films to labs in the UK ? I normally send all my processing to a lab there. I don't want to get flamed for starting an off topic discussion. If anyone wants to contribute but thinks this is OT, please mail me off list. Mike Bloor
Re: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images
Preben, At 12:34 11/11/01 +0100, you wrote: Lastly, these stand alone Raid cards - unlike raid solutions on motherbords - have their own processors on board which takes over all the hard work, freeing up your system processor. I knew that RAID in software (e.g. as part of Windows NT4) worked on the main CPU, but I thought that PC's with additional RAID hardware on the motherboard (such as many of the Dell servers) off loaded these tasks. Mike Bloor
filmscanners: Bulk scanning with Vuescan
Rob Geraghty wrote: Is it possible to set the input directory and the output directory to different values? If so, can't you use identical filenames? I am doing exactly that at the moment, but am still limited to consecutive file names. Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote: The work-around would be to (temporarily) rename them so that all 3 sets are consecutively numbered - a program such as CKRename It seems to me that this would rename them easily one way, but not back again, so I would loose my film and frame IDs. Mike Bloor
filmscanners: Bulk scanning with Vuescan
Ed Hamrick wrote: It's a bit tricky, because I'd have to get this working for Windows, Mac OS 8/9, Mac OS X and Linux. All of these operating systems do wild cards slightly differently. I'll add this to my list of things to look into. Thanks Ed. I had thought of the wild card route. I don't have the experience with the non-Windows operating systems to appreciate the differences in how they do wild cards. To circumvent this, just processing everything in a directory (which I assume doesn't require interpretation of wild cards) would be a huge benefit to me. Mike Bloor
filmscanners: Vuescan raw file formats
Is there a quick way of telling the file format of a raw .TIF saved by Vuescan ? I have some where I don't know if I saved the infrared channel or not. They are compressed, so i can't tell from the size. Mike Bloor
filmscanners: Bulk scanning with Vuescan
I know that I can leave Vuescan to process a complete film of raw TIFF files into colour corrected, viewable TIFFs, JPEGs etc. by saying I want to process disk files -01+ and frames 1-36. Is there anyway I can get Vuescan to process all the files in a directory ? e.g. Take all the files in C:\RAW and process them into C:\DONE. Then 1234-01.TIF in C:\RAW would produce 1234.TIF and/or 1234.JPG in C:\DONE. This would allow me to leave a PC processing overnight. Ed - if this isn't currently possible, could it be done ? Mike Bloor
Re: filmscanners: Bulk scanning with Vuescan
Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote: You can later batch-process these raw files by changing the Device|Scan from option to Disk, and set the Device|Frame numbers option to 1-N. For instance, if you produce raw files named scan0001.tif, scan0002.tif, ..., scan098.tif, you can re-scan all these files without needing to insert the film again by setting the frame numbers to 1-98 and then using the Scan button. I am doing this at the moment, but as I understand it, this will only let me handle consecutively numbered files. If I have, say, three films - 1024-01.TIF to 1024-36.TIF 1025-01.TIF to 1025-36.TIF 1026-01.TIF to 1026-36.TIF I have to initiate three separate Vuescan jobs. I would like to leave a PC running overnight to process up to 200 frames at a time, without having to rename all the scans to do it. Mike Bloor
filmscanners: Speeding up bulk scanning
Bill Fernandez wrote Ed-- What about doing a very fast thumbnail-creation scan of the whole strip, then let the user click some buttons to tell you which way to rotate the images when you do the real scans? I'd suggest three little buttons next to each thumbnail: [rotate left 90deg] [rotate 180deg] [rotate right 90deg]. Or if it's fast enough you could just rotate the thumbnail itself 90deg each time the user clicks on it. Then the user just clicks until it's oriented correctly. This would be great but can I suggest two things - 1) The thumbnails should not be too small. I currently use Paint Shop Pro to create a set of thumbnails for a film and then open the ones that need rotating. In many cases (e.g. architectural details) I can't tell from the thumbnail and have to open the picture anyway to see. 2) Even if the processing would take longer, I would like the option to view and rotate thumbnails of an entire film at once (when going from raw file to processed). The attraction of my current set up is that it allows unattended scanning in an evening. I just load the appropriate INI file for Vuescan, set the film number and pop in the first strip of negatives. Every 10-12 minutes I go back to my office, take the strip that the scanner has ejected and insert another strip. After the last strip I load another INI file, set the file number again and the whole film is processed from raw TIFF to (first cut) viewable TIFF and JPEG. For an automatic approach, I like Ed's idea that most frames are lighter at the top. This would work even where there is no sky visible. Mike Bloor
filmscanners: Speeding up bulk scanning
I use Vuescan to scan one or more complete films at a time (I just sit there and put another strip of six frames in as each one is ejected), saving a 64bit RGBI file to disk from my Nikon LS30. I then leave the PC processing a film at a time to create a .TIF and a .JPG file from each frame using average settings. Then comes the bit that takes me ages - opening all the files created at the last step in Paint Shop Pro, and rotating half of them by 90 degrees. I know that I can tell Vuescan to rotate frames as I scan them, but that would make the first step take much longer as I would have to look at each frame and type the commands in. Is there a piece of software which will analyse images and make a good guess as to which need rotating - then do it ? It obviously would not be able to cope with all pictures, but surely it could look for a blue sky at the top of outdoor shots ? Maybe even an OCR type program could look for text and put it the right way up ? Could it be built into Vuescan Ed ? One last thing - if I load a JPEG into PSP, rotate it and save it again - does this reduce the quality. Thanks, Mike Bloor - Seratel Ltd. Computer Systems for Electronics Manufacturers Mulrany, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland. www.seratel.ie Telephone: + 353 (0) 98 36244 Fax: + 353 (0) 98 36024 -
filmscanners: Recommendations for page scanning software
I hope that page scanning is not off topic. Given the good advice I have had from the list on using my Nikon LS30, I thought I would try this - I have a HP6350C flatbed scanner. I want to use this for scanning company and personal documents. I want to be able to save the documents in folders (e.g. purchase orders) and to have an OCR pass made of each document so that I can search for documents by included words. I would also like to be able to back up the scans (and OCR text) to CD-R so that I am not limited by hard disk space. I then need to be able to look at them on CD without restoring to disk. Caere Pagekeeper came with the scanner. On paper, this looks as if it should do most of what I want. Unfortunately it is the most unresponsive and unreliable program I have used in many years. Added to this, I can't get any response to e-mail enquiries to the company who now own it. Does anyone have any recommendations ? Does anyone know what HP are currently shipping in case I can get an upgrade ? Thanks, Mike Bloor - Seratel Ltd. Computer Systems for Electronics Manufacturers Mulrany, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland. www.seratel.ie Telephone: + 353 (0) 98 36244 Fax: + 353 (0) 98 36024 -
