RE: VueScan 6.1.2 Available

2000-09-29 Thread Austin Franklin
Any plans on supporting the LeafScan 35/45? ;-) -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:VueScan 6.1.2 Available I just released VueScan 6.1.2 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. It can be downloaded from:

Re: Adjusting VueScan output

2000-09-29 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 9/28/2000 5:29:26 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For many scans, I find that an auto-levels in PS is all that is necessary. How can I tweak VueScan so that I can skip the levels step for non-critical scans? Set "Color|Color balance" to Neutral. Regards, Ed Hamrick

RE: Measuring resolution (was Re: Real resolution of a 4000 dpiscanner?)

2000-09-29 Thread Hemingway, David J
I don't know if its that bad. What optical density is to scanners; spot size is to film recorders. Everyone has there own method for determining it. In general the more money you spend on the base film recorder the better it is. A lot has to do with the film you are outputting on. 4x5 film is the

Re: Processor speed with the Nikon LS30

2000-09-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
=shAf= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One can wonder if comparisons can be made, but I use a LS-2000 with a PII/350 ... and an Adaptec 2940U2W controller and two Seagate LVD drives, and have never seen a hint of this problem. I'd say that your hard drives help a *great* deal. Once I get my

Re: Vuescan/Old Kodachrome Unable to Focus

2000-09-29 Thread Roman Kielich®
Rob, Kodachromes are the most transparent to IR. Just look at the spectral properties of the cyan dye. Kodachromes have significantly steeper downslope in the red than any other slide film, not to mention any neg. I am talking about near IR, just from 700 nm up. Further into IR, all the films

Re: New scanners rumor ?

2000-09-29 Thread Jay . Wiley
Art spoke: I spoke to a Nikon Rep who was at one of our local photo supply stores just last week, and he told me he knows of nothing coming through the system, but he also admitted they never tell him, so he can continue to blissfully sell the current models without feeling guilty with the

OT: RE: Processor speed with the Nikon LS30

2000-09-29 Thread Bruce Roberts
OT: -Original Message- I'd say that your hard drives help a *great* deal. Once I get my computer working with UDMA66 Now that's my area of expertise! Can I help? The most obvious thing that most people don't realise is that DMA must be turned on in the device manager in Win9x

Re: VueScan 6.1.2 Available

2000-09-29 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 9/29/2000 7:06:54 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any plans on supporting the LeafScan 35/45? ;-) No, there aren't enough of these on the market for me to make enough money at $40 per copy to make it worthwhile. Regards, Ed Hamrick

Re: Embed colour profiles in images

2000-09-29 Thread Andrew Brooks
shAf and Andrew Rodney wrote: simply open the Vuescan file into the appropriate color space and do an immediate save I tried that before I wrote the software! 1) it is very tedious 2) it is lossy (remember I said I was working with JPEGs) 3) how do I know what colour space the file was

Re: New scanners rumor ?

2000-09-29 Thread Marek Moi
Arthur Entlich wrote: [...] a newer, cheaper better model is just around the corner. Newer? - of course. Cheaper? - probably not. Better? - definitely YES. There are some rumors on the Nikon Mailing List about new LS3000 scanner, D3.6, 4000 dpi. According to some people, it's going to be

RE: Embed colour profiles in images

2000-09-29 Thread Bond, Alistair
=shAf= wrote: SNIP... using "NKLS2000LS30_P.icm" as the from profile and "AdobeRGB" for into. The resulting images were very much alike, however dissatisfactory with respect to purple greys. This would lead me to believe Ed is doing it right, but that Vuescan is not delivering a good "raw"