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[filmscanners] Re: Power Line Filter
Hello Austin et al, I stand upon my convictions here. The paper Howard alluded to described the guy buying an RFI filter! EMI interference should be taken care of by the engineer who builds the power supply. If the main voltage to the product is lacking, the power supply should accommodate the differences, plus or minus a few volts. If RFI interference is present then graphite beads or rings around the power cord will eliminate this. All in all the voltages being amplified in a scanner are nothing like audio preamp requirements. I still believe the audio nervosa syndrome is at work here. Oh yeah, it's still hogwash! Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) - Original Message - From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Power Line Filter This is absolutely NOT hogwash. It's called EMI, Electro Magnetic Interference. It is VERY well known to exist, and cause the exact problems mentioned. I have not experienced scanner noise with my scanner, but it is designed such that this will not be an issue. That does not mean that no scanners don't have these problems. It is very believable, and in fact, likely. The scanner has very sensitive analog circuitry in it, that operates at micro volts, and as such, poorly designed, is VERY susceptible to EMI. It is also very different than a log of the audio silliness with Shitake stones and magic wands. This is based on sound (or not so sound in the case of poor design) engineering principles. Austin Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Power Line Filter
I disagree! High quality sound can be heard by tin-eared as well as golden-eared audiophiles around the world! Ask them ;-) High quality sound does not necessarily cost a lot. Audiophilia does! It's like anything; Leica glass; Zeiss optics; Imacon scanners; etc. Once your bitten with the bug, it consumes you! Once you get what you want out of it, you return to reality and pay off the bank loans! Cheers, Owen - Original Message - From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 7:06 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Power Line Filter By the time most of use can afford audio equipment that actually has a detectable difference from the mainstream, most of us (will) have ears that can no longer detect it. ;-) Art Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Power Line Filter
I find this to be the hogwash of audiophilia! I once was part of all of this snakeoil, smoke mirrors, secret handshake garbage. You can convince yourself of anything and then bring some pseudoscience into the equation which convinces everyone else that your methodology works. Every audiophile knows that clean power is the secret to perfect sound; as are wires made of hexamethyl chicken fat coated titanium; as are the cones and sorbothane feet that hold up the house that your hifi lives and breathes in. Perhaps a little jaded, yes. I spent thousands of dollars over the years to eke out a less than 1% event change in the sound. I refuse to believe it makes a difference in the world of scanning photographs! Why? Because it really never changed the sound that much when applied to the world of audio components. ( Just in case anyone doubts the verity; I once owned an audio system worth over $35,000 and I was just beginning to get to the price point where one might actually get a rendition of real music in one's home; to get that you really needed to double my expenditure!) So, Howard I can tell you that your money would be better spent in a bottle of fine single malt scotch; just keep drinking until the scan looks better. At least you'll enjoy the experience and hopefully will forget about it in the morning. Cheers, Owen - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 9:39 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Power Line Filter Have you actually experienced scanner noise that you've been able to trace to power lines? I have a Canon FS4000 and have noticed some noise, nothing terrible but sometimes a bit more than others.then I saw this interesting post: http://www.normankoren.com/Tutorials/canoscan4000bbd/messages/96.html What do you think about the possibility? Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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Not receiving posts today?? Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: New Adaptec ASPI version 4.70 released- Not for W95
So, Are we correct in guessing that if we don't have an Adaptec SCSI card then we won't gain anything by downloading the Adaptec 4.70 software? On Ed's site, there are two choices for an ASPI download; the Adaptec for that type of SCSI card and the LSI site for other types of SCSI cards. I have used the LSI driver for my Advansys SCSI card and it works fine with Windows XP. Just reassuring myself because I am not sure if any of the Adaptec information concerns me? Thankyou, Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) - Original Message - From: Jeff Spirer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: New Adaptec ASPI version 4.70 released- Not for W95 At 04:13 PM 2/17/2002 -0500, wrote: So folks install a SCSI card, W2K/XP sees it and seems to install everything necessary for it's operation, but at least as regards many (most?) SCSI scanners, they won't function without ASPI layer. The excellent tech support at Polaroid helped me to get my SS120 working with an Adaptec card without ASPI. Interestingly enough, the useless tech support at Adaptech told me it wouldn't work and I needed a new card. Jeff Spirer Photos: http://www.spirer.com One People: http://www.onepeople.com/ 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: Adobe Gamma
Hi Colin, I once had the same problem as you are describing. It turned out that under the Display Properties; Settings;Advanced; Color Management...my default was set to the original setting of my PF-790. I was able to change the default to my Spyder Profile and all was well. Thereafter, it happened again. I found that under System Properties; Device Manager; Monitors...my PF-790 showed up twice. I removed one of these and all went well thereafter.Somehow, I'd loaded the monitor software twice? I recently upgraded to XP and needed the new Matrox G450 drivers. The software was several generations ahead of when I bought the card a year and a half ago. I have no problems at all now. Maybe a download of current software will work ? Good luck, Owen - Original Message - From: Colin Maddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:37 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Adobe Gamma My computer is set up to run Adobe Gamma on boot up, which it does, as I can see it kick in toward the end of the boot process, when the desktop is displayed. However, later, maybe a couple of hours later, I notice that the screen is definitely not the shade of grey that it should be, and Adobe Gamma has to be run again to restore it to the corrected state. There is a shortcut to Adobe Gamma on the desktop to let me run it easily. In other words the computer has reverted to the uncorrected gamma by itself. This odd behaviour doesn't seem to be associated with running any particular program that I know of, and certainly not with running Photoshop. The only programs that might have been run would be IE5, Outlook Express, VueScan, or ACDSee, but I can't find a tie up. Has anyone ever noticed anything like this behaviour? I feel it is associated somehow with the graphics card, as accessing Desktop Properties - Settings - Advanced - Color tab will certainly override Adobe Gamma, but I am not in the habit of doing this. Using W98SE, Matrox G450 graphics card. Colin Maddock 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: Vuescan 7.4.2 and saving RAW files
I'm with Wolf on this one. I use an SS4000 at 4,000 dpi most of the time and I am now waiting an extra long time to catch a Save. Since my viewer is set to Photoshop as the default viewer, I now must add this to the extra read time for the Tiff in Photoshop and I am really waiting a longer time. It isn't impatience, it's just that it now takes longer than it used to. Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3 - Original Message - From: Wolf Eilers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:07 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Vuescan 7.4.2 and saving RAW files Recently I sent a note to Ed asking about a performance feature that I believe no longer exists in the 7.4+ versions of VueScan. I stated: In previous releases of VueScan (versions 7.3.7 and up) saving a RAW file was significantly improved by scanning and writing files at the same time. With version 7.4 and up this very important feature seems to have been removed. Perhaps the disappearance is because of the enhancement that applies Infrared cleaning and Size reduction filters to RAW files before saving them. However, if Infrared clean is set to None and Size reduction set to 1, then VueScan should still (as it did in the past with version 7.3.13) save RAW files while scanning. Ed kindly and promptly replied indicating that the performance should be a bit better in 7.4.2. Unfortunately, VueScan 7.4.2 still seems to scan the image, then apply whatever filters are appropriate, then save the RAW file to disk. It does this even if all filters are set to none. Saving a large RAW file to disk can take considerable time -- 40 seconds with tif compression on my machine. In contrast, release 7.3.13 of VueScan saves the RAW file to disk synchronously with the scan. When the scan completes, the RAW file is on the disk. On my Nikon LS40 with VueScan 7.3.13, I can scan and save a full resolution (2900 dpi) 64 bit RGBI file (59 MB) in 137 seconds. With VueScan 7.4.2 the time to scan and save is 175 seconds -- an extra 40 seconds. Please note that I set no filters (like infrared cleaning) or size reduction to the RAW scan. Am I the only one who misses the scan/save performance feature of 7.3.13? By the way, I am also in the camp that does not want any processing (infrared cleaning or otherwise) applied to RAW files. Wolf Eilers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: Select no compression in VueScan
Hi Reg, In version 7.4.2; you can turn off the Tiff compression with a check box under Files. If you do want to use it, you can decide on the amount of compression by Changing the Tiff size reduction box number. The version the user's guide are synchronized. Also don't forget to choose Advanced under the Device tab. Hope this helps. Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 2:05 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Select no compression in VueScan After purchasing VueScan many updates ago, and now finally trying to learn it, I find that with the 7.4.1 I have loaded, the User Guide descriptions of functions available under the different tabs do not match what actually appear to be available. My particular problem is that I wish to turn off LZW TIFF compression because the image editor I am using (Wright Design) cannot open LZW compressed files. I remember a similar problem with ACDSee discussed in early Sept/01 and Rob Geraghty wrote that one can turn off compression in VueScan. When I look under the FILES tab and select TIFF, I only see options for filename and TIFF Size Reduction. I cannot find all the other options described in the user notes; one of which is TIFF Compression. Furthermore, other options described in HELP are not under tabs like DEVICES or PREFS. I cannot find many of the choices in the actual program that I read about in HELP. I am using a CanoScan FS2710 on a PC w/Win98SE. Any ideas? I've clicked everywhere! Reg Quiring Late at night from the frozen Canadian Prairie, could explain a great deal :) 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: Vuescan 7.4.2
My apology. I had to reset the Media to colour slide when I scanned the Kodachrome and then set the colour for Kodachrome. For all the Fuji slides I use Image. Owen - Original Message - From: Dan Honemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 5:59 AM Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Vuescan 7.4.2 I scanned 4 slides: 2 Fuji F100; 1 Fuji Velvia and 1 Kodachrome since installing version 7.4.2 What are you setting the media to? Image or color slide? Thanks, Dan 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: Video card for imaging
Hi Dan, Unlike Tony, I am using a Matrox G450 ( current card is a G550) with great success. My buddy uses a G400 with great success. These are dual monitor cards.We both work with 48 bit scans and our res is set to; 1152 x 864. I use a laptop CRT for now as the second PS Tools monitor so I can't tell you about the resolution on the second screen. My buddy uses two crts (Viewsonic PF 795 a 15 inch for PS Tools) and his images are sharp on both. That said, I just tried 1600 x 1200 and the resolution is poor. This is on an XP system with a Viewsonic PF790 crt So you should pursue the dual G200 cards if it works as well as Tony says. Owen - Original Message - From: Dan Honemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:16 AM Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Video card for imaging Matrox G200 are superb cards for photo editing at up to 1600x1200 24bit. Later Matrox cards with more features and twin monitor capabilities are, if anything, slightly less sharp and with some driver issues. Is it possible to put two G200 cards in a Win 2k or XP box and have dual monitor capability for Photoshop? Dan 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:Vuescan 7.4 Beta 3
Hi Ed et al, I have now downloaded and used the Beta.2 version of 7.4 That said, you have just released the Beta.3 version and I have not yet decided whether or not I like all of the new implementations in the first Beta version. So I can't respond other than to say that I saw no scanning problems with the Beta.2 version and I liked some of the new features. Given that this is a work in progress, I have reloaded 7.3.13 to wait for the final 7.4 version to be released. My suggestion is to be patient with each release and let it sink in a little. If you change the Beta too quickly, some of us will like something and you'll remove it too soon. I hope the final 7.4.1 version releases so that I can judge what the real product will be. Regards, Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3 Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
Re: filmscanners: Re: Dynamic range
Hi Ken, Wayne Fulton does a great job of answering your question. Go here: http://www.scantips.com/basics14.html Owen - Original Message - From: Ken Durling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:09 PM Subject: filmscanners: Re: Dynamic range What is the dynamic range figure - i.e.3.2, 3.4 or whatever - a measurement of? Or maybe I should ask, what is the unit of measurement? Ken Durling Photo.net portfolio: http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=402251
filmscanners: Silverfast Ai and Silverfast HDR
Hello everyone, I have a Polaroid SS4000 which I've had for 10 months. It came bundled with Silverfast Ai version 5 and Silverfast HDR version 5. With all of the press recently about how much better the product was I went to the website on Sunday and paid $45 for the download. What was not clear on the website was that you have to pay $45 for Ai and $45 for HDR. On Monday, I read the post in this group by Mr. Lloyd O'Daniel where he said that he received the HDR update for free. So I went back to the site and tried to download the HDR 5.5 software by registering my original serial number. A password was sent to me but it didn't work. I e-mailed Lasersoft that day and asked why. The reply I received is as follows: Dear Owen, the upgrade to 5.5 for HDR is a separate purchase. You registered the HDR version, and got the username/ password to download an upgrade for 5.2, which is free. If you'd like to upgrade HDR to 5.5 also, you'll have to go back to the purchase 5.5- upgrade online- page and enter your HDR- number there. Best Regards, Martin Leschke Lasersoft Imaging Inc. 5350 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Suite 201B Longboat Key, FL 34228 So I wrote back the following: Mr. Leschke, This is not a fair representation of the products. In that Ai HDR came together as a package when I bought the Polaroid scanner and are required for the hi bit scans that I make with the scanner. I need both of your products and I was lead to believe that by paying the $45 FEE, I'd be upgraded on both. Your website does not differentiate the payment being made for each software package. I refuse to be gouged for the extra $45 in that I need both to make the darn stuff function with the scanner that I own. I would like a refund for the $45 I spent on software that I can't use. This issue was discussed on the international mailing list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] by a Mr. Lloyd O'Daniel. You gave him a free update for his HDR software and you hold out on me. I am offended and demand a refund. Owen Today I had not had a reply so I sent a second notice and I received a telephone call this afternoon from their customer service. They do not give HDR updates for free! They will refund my $45 and we are finished. The customer service rep, Annie, was very pleasant and firm with the policy. She felt that maybe Mr. O'Daniel may have been dealing with Germany because Lasersoft Imaging Inc. of the USA will not do this! There you have my experience. As for me; I'm sticking with Vuescan like I have all year and who updates the product on a weekly basis...FOR FREE! Sorry for the long post. Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3
filmscanners: re:NewNewPolacolorInsight ColorSlide Profilefor SS4000 +
David you hurried the address and it doesn't work like this: ftp.polaroid.com/pub/imaging/input/ss4000/NewColorSlideProfile but it works from yesterday like this: ftp://ftp.polaroid.com/pub/imaging/input/SS4000/NewColorSlideProfile/ Hope this helps, Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3
filmscanners: re:NewNew Polacolor Slide 2b profile
Hi David, I tried the fix this evening and it works quite well! Thanks for the quick fix. It definitely looks better than the regular Slide profile and last night's disappointment. Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our Nation's Capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3
Re: filmscanners: New PolaColor Insight Color Slide profile for Sprintscan 4000 4000+
Hi David, I was able to copy the file from your ftp site but I don't know where to place it in my Insight directory so that it works. I tried to double click it and was denied access to opening it?? I work in Windows 98SE? Any word on the release of Insight 5.5? Thanks for the help. Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3 - Original Message - From: Hemingway, David J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 4:01 PM Subject: filmscanners: New PolaColor Insight Color Slide profile for Sprintscan 4000 4000+ I have put on my ftp site a new pre-release color slide profile for the Sprintscan 4000 4000 Plus and PolaColor Insight. This new profile greatly improves performance in shadow area. It will show up as ColorSlide2 in the Insight profile box. Please let me know how you like it. ftp://ftp.polaroid.com/pub/imaging/input/SS4000/NewColorSlideProfile/ ftp://ftp.polaroid.com/pub/imaging/input/SS4000/NewColorSlideProfile/ Regards David
Re: filmscanners: FW: New PolaColor Insight Color Slide profile for Sprintscan 4000 4000+
Hi David, I loaded the profile; previewed a slide I know very well (it's a bit underexposed with extremely rich red coloured flowers)and the preview was a rendition of the slide; I could tell it was in the ballpark. Then I scanned a 12bit 4000dpi scan and viewed it in Photoshop as well as in Insight. Both scans turned very Orange and were Very bright and the highlights were totally blown out. I could not get the scan to look good at all I'll try a couple more tomorrow but for now; this is not very good at all! Sorry, Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3 - Original Message - From: Hemingway, David J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 6:08 PM Subject: filmscanners: FW: New PolaColor Insight Color Slide profile for Sprintscan 4000 4000+ Forgot to say where it goes on PC's. If Insight is installed on your C drive. As follows. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Polaroid Imaging\Profiles Sorry for the omission David -Original Message- From: Hemingway, David J Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 4:01 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: New PolaColor Insight Color Slide profile for Sprintscan 4000 4000+ I have put on my ftp site a new pre-release color slide profile for the Sprintscan 4000 4000 Plus and PolaColor Insight. This new profile greatly improves performance in shadow area. It will show up as ColorSlide2 in the Insight profile box. Please let me know how you like it. ftp://ftp.polaroid.com/pub/imaging/input/SS4000/NewColorSlideProfile/ ftp://ftp.polaroid.com/pub/imaging/input/SS4000/NewColorSlideProfile/ Regards David
Re: filmscanners: Silverfast Help- Cant find Scanner
When you installed Silverfast, did you install it into Photoshop? Did you upgrade your Silverfast to the latest drivers, prior to 5.5 because the Silverfast requires an update to work with PS 6.0.1 Hope this helps. Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:45 AM Subject: filmscanners: Silverfast Help- Cant find Scanner Just purchased Polariod 4000. Installed Polarcolor and it works, installed Silverfast and software says Error - Cant find scanner. OK, I give - help appreciated. Thanks
Re: filmscanners: Emulsion flaws (was dust in SS4000)
Hi Martin, I can tell you that dust is everywhere! If you handle slides with cotton gloves, the slides become filthy. If you place the slide into the slide holder it will grab any dust that you let get on the holder while it sat on the table. The minute the motors start whirring in the scanner, the electrostatic charges pull dust in from all around the scanner. I scanned a slide which I made a year ago and compared it to the scan of it I made 10 months ago. The slide sat in its Print File sleeve for 10 months. I cleaned the slide with a sable artists brush, then compressed air ( Dust Off ) and scanned it. The scan looked like I dumped an ashtray on the slide??? Compared to the first scan I made, it was worse. My theory is that the slides themselves not only attract dust electrostatically, but degrade and crack over time. These micro-cracks aren't seen when we project the slides but under the microscopic scrutiny of the scanner, become larger than life. Once the cracks open to the atmosphere, all sorts of things can get into the emulsion layers of the slide. Art Roger are taking the manufacturers to task in their theories; I'm just accepting the chemistry physics. Again, when we blow these slides up in Photoshop, they are magnified beyond the 8 x 10 or 13 x 19 prints that we make so the spots become exaggerated on the screen not in the prints. I've printed a lot of scans from the SS-4000 to an Epson 2000P printer in the past 10 months and I don't see the crud in the print; only on the CRT of the computer. Just my two cents worth of opinion. Regards, Owen Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3 - Original Message - From: Barbara Martin Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 8:46 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Emulsion flaws (was dust in SS4000) Art, Roger and others What you have found offers a plausible explanation for the junk that has been plaguing many of us although not seen or of concern to others. I just finished removing at least one thousand spots from a scan. This was from a pristine, perfect slide scanned on an SS 4000, blown up for a 13x19 print, and rubber stamped in Photoshop. Clearly, they were not the result of dust. Nor was it from my brand new scanner. The slide was processed by an excellent lab. The only explanation for this is that they are in the emulsion. Martin
filmscanners: Polaroid SS4000 Vuescan
Good evening everyone, I'd like to take this opportunity to tell everyone that I had a scanner with a major problem. I spoke recently of a coincidence of the problem with an upgrade of Vuescan software. There is nothing wrong with Vuescan!! My Scanner was in the last throws of survival; I think. I sent my scanner back to Polaroid yesterday for repairs and my best friend offered me the use of his SS-4000 because he has another scanner presently. I plugged this into my computer system this evening and changed nothing else. The scans from Vuescan and his SS-4000 are a great deal better than what I was getting with my sick scanner. I look forward to the return of mine once it is working well again. I apologise to Ed Hamrick for any negative inference made in my earlier post of this week. Thankyou for your time. Owen By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique; But by concentrating on technique, one does not arrive at precision. -? Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our Nation's Capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3
Re: filmscanners: Sprintscan 4000 Rebate extension
Hello Art et al, The SS 4000 can be had for under $1,500 here in Ottawa. I purchased mine last December for $1,900.00 I am just returning mine for service after scanning about 1,000 slides and 300 negatives. The unit developed a strange indexing problem and won't scan position 3 nor 4 if I start scanning with number 1 and sequentially move to 4. At 3 or 4 the scanner ejects the carrier and then tries to draw it back in.??? I have spoken to Polaroid's Canadian service department and after downloading the Version 1.4 firmware and Polacolor Version 5 software plus cleaning the sensor with their carrier upgrade; a cute little brush; no change. Back to the factory for repairs. Prior to this the unit worked flawlessly out of the box for 10 months. Caveat; I have checked with Ed Hamrick and he hasn't changed any code but this behaviour started (coincidentally?) when I downloaded Vuescan 7.1.13; 14 and now 7.1.15. I figure it's the scanner and not the software as was indicated to me by Ed, who was the person that informed me of the upgrade brush. Hope this helps, Owen - Original Message - From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 5:34 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Sprintscan 4000 Rebate extension David, Can you confirm if the rebate is available to Canadians from Canadian addresses? The coupon I saw via ecost only mentioned US purchases. Also, do you have any idea why Canadian retailers are not moving from their original list price of about $2200 CAN on the SS4000, while it is selling for $665 US in the US...? Art Hemingway, David J wrote: The rebate program on the Sprintscan 4000 has been extended until the end of the year. Some of you have asked about the receipt. A receipt is required. I have no direct knowledge on how ecost works but as a avid rebater I often have to contact the vendor and have them send me via fax or email a receipt for an omline purchase. I have never found any company not able to fullfill the request. David
