Re: filmscanners: Image databases?

2000-11-16 Thread Elroy Eckhardt
Dear Rob, I find extensis porfolio 5.0 does exactly what you need. Elroy Eckhardt - Original Message - From: "Rob Geraghty" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 12:12 AM Subject: filmscanners: Image databases? I know this subject has come up

Re: filmscanners: Chemical Film Resolution.

2000-11-16 Thread Roman Kielich®
At 20:22 15/11/2000 +, you wrote: Hi Chris. At risk of starting World War 3, what is the resolution of Chemical Film? it depends, how do you measure it, or how do you express it? Was this an idle enquiry, or is it meant to imply some comparison with pixels and digital images?

Re: filmscanners: Chemical Film Resolution.

2000-11-16 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
Roman Kielich® wrote: At 20:22 15/11/2000 +, you wrote: [SNIP} if it is not visible, then it is not light. We call it radiation - infrared, ultraviolet, gamma, etc. Only light is visible, by definition. Absolute rubbish, I suggest that you get a textbook out on the subject. near

Re: filmscanners: Image databases?

2000-11-16 Thread Jake
Rob. I recommend, since I use it, ImageAXS Pro. Here's an article that I just found doing a search that someone did about the program so you can get an idea about it. I believe the price is about the same as Extensis Portfolio, though not sure how they compare directly these days. When I got

Re: Kodak RFS 3600 (was: filmscanners: Side Step, Have a question)

2000-11-16 Thread Trozzo
I had one. I sent it back for the SS4000. I may have had a bad unit, but it crashed my Mac G3 every third time I tried to acquire the scanner's software from within Photoshop. It seems to be memory hungry. My unit sounded like a jack hammer when it scanned. It could have had an internal problem.

Re: Kodak RFS 3600 (was: filmscanners: Side Step, Have a question)

2000-11-16 Thread Dan Kimble
Bob, the way I found to handle 37 or more frames is to do the first 36 frames and then do the others, it is not really a problem. The RFS 3600 leaves the filmstrip on the last frame scanned so you can just restart from there. I mentioned scanning more than 36 frames to Kodak and I was told that

Re: filmscanners: Chemical Film Resolution.

2000-11-16 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
Roman Kielich® wrote: At 09:40 16/11/2000 +, you wrote: Roman Kielich® wrote: At 20:22 15/11/2000 +, you wrote: [SNIP} if it is not visible, then it is not light. We call it radiation - infrared, ultraviolet, gamma, etc. Only light is visible, by definition.

RE: filmscanners: Profiling, Ilford XP2 and Vuescan.

2000-11-16 Thread Oostrom, Jerry
-Original Message- From: Laurie Solomon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 6:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: Profiling, Ilford XP2 and Vuescan. Thanks for the clarification. I am trying to say, because colour neg films

Re: Kodak RFS 3600 (was: filmscanners: Side Step, Have a question)

2000-11-16 Thread Dynax N
--- Bob Shomler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have a quick start guide, but no manual. It is a .pdf. I LIKE paper in this respect. Is it too large to print? If you have any specific questions, feel free to e-mail me. I read an inquiry some time back asking if it could accept an

Re: filmscanners: Image databases?

2000-11-16 Thread Larry Berman
I spoke to the ACDSee (http://www.acdsystems.com/index.htm) people at Comdex yesterday. They are coming out with a completely searchable database version before the end of the year. It seems that they see the need to be able to archive images off the computer and be able to find them. They

RE: filmscanners: Image databases?

2000-11-16 Thread shAf
Rob writes ... ... are there any decent and reasonably cheap image databases out there? ... I use ThumbsPlus v.4. Its database will suit your needs, allow keywords, and keep track and cache the thumbnail images of files which exist on CDs on your shelf. It isn't expensive and its

Re: Kodak RFS 3600 (was: filmscanners: Side Step, Have a question)

2000-11-16 Thread Dana Trout
What scanners news group? Would you please provide info on how to access it? --Dana -- From: Dynax N [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Kodak RFS 3600 (was: filmscanners: Side Step, Have a question) Date: Thursday, November 16, 2000 7:31 AM --- Bob Shomler [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Minolta Scan Dual II grainy scans and other problems

2000-11-16 Thread Wei Hua
I bought a ScanDual II two months ago and it had the same grainy problem. Not only grainy on underexposed negatives, but also on dark sections of normal exposed negatives (Kodak G400). I spent 3 weeks tweaking, but could never get accurate color from negatives. Finally, I returned it and bought a

RE: Kodak RFS 3600 (was: filmscanners: Side Step, Have a question)

2000-11-16 Thread Hemingway, David J
The articles were on the "usenet" alt.comp.periphs.scanner You can access the Usenet through your browser news function. I you have not done so already you will need to get the name of your ISP's news server. It is usually news.ispname.com but sometimes can be different. Your ISP should have a

Re: filmscanners: Image databases?

2000-11-16 Thread Gordon Tassi
I would also like to hear about this. Especially, the cross referencing aspect of it. Gordon Rob Geraghty wrote: I know this subject has come up before but I'll ask again anyway - are there any decent and reasonably cheap image databases out there? I already have hundreds (thousands?) of

filmscanners: Color spectrum

2000-11-16 Thread James L. Sims
Printer inks, film dyes, source light, and CCD spectrum sensitivity all have a direct bearing on color content. I would think inks and dyes would have a very limited color spectrum. Artificial source light can also be limited in color content. Tungsten, for example, favors red – typically

RE: filmscanners: Profiling, Ilford XP2 and Vuescan.

2000-11-16 Thread Laurie Solomon
I will not attempt to explain what the anti-aliasing layer is or does since I doubt if I caould do so with adequate clarity. There may be others on the list who can speack to that subject. As for the rest of what you have said, you are right, it would take on a cast of the opposite color if

Re: filmscanners: Chemical Film Resolution.

2000-11-16 Thread Rob Geraghty
Roman Kielich® [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if it is not visible, then it is not light. We call it radiation - infrared, ultraviolet, gamma, etc. Only light is visible, by definition. Not to be too picky here, but infra-red and ultraviolet radiation are often called "light". :) Rob

Re: filmscanners: Chemical Film Resolution.

2000-11-16 Thread photoscientia
Roman Kielich® wrote: if it is not visible, then it is not light. We call it radiation - infrared, ultraviolet, gamma, etc. Only light is visible, by definition. Thanks for pointing out my redundant use of the word visible, Roman. Perhaps you ought to try to correct the thousands of others,

Re: Kodak RFS 3600 (was: filmscanners: Side Step, Have a question)

2000-11-16 Thread Dan Kimble
Please let me know what you think about the noise generated by the SS4000. I'm curious because I returned a SS4000 because I felt it was noisy and did not sound good mechanically. I'm happier with the RFS 3600 Dan Kimble Trozzo wrote: I had one. I sent it back for the SS4000. I may have

RE: filmscanners: Profiling, Ilford XP2 and Vuescan.

2000-11-16 Thread Laurie Solomon
u wouldn't be referring to the "anti-halation" layer, would you ? Yes, that is exactly what I was referring to. I somehow got my words twisted; truly sorry about that and any confusion it may have caused. Thanks for the correction. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: filmscanners: Chemical Film Resolution.

2000-11-16 Thread Jim Snyder
Jonathan Buzzard wrote: Roman Kielich® wrote: At 20:22 15/11/2000 +, you wrote: [SNIP} if it is not visible, then it is not light. We call it radiation - infrared, ultraviolet, gamma, etc. Only light is visible, by definition. Absolute rubbish, I suggest that you get a

Re: filmscanners: Image databases?

2000-11-16 Thread Craig W. Shier
I've been using JASC Media Center plus for several months and found it quite useful. They have a free demo versions. See www.jasc.com --- Red Dwarf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one that I've been working on for a while now, its still not snip - Original Message - From: "Rob

Re: filmscanners: Image databases?

2000-11-16 Thread lcbuse
I'm using Canto Cumulus that was attached to Corel photo-paint 9.0 digital edition at about $50 US. It seems to do all you ask plus has provisions for attaching keywords to each image that can also be searched. I have a couple of hundred images on one disk indexed so far. I haven't yet gone

RE: filmscanners: Profiling, Ilford XP2 and Vuescan.

2000-11-16 Thread Oostrom, Jerry
Sorry, the scans will have to come later (begin of next week), something came in between... -Original Message- From: Oostrom, Jerry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:19 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: filmscanners: Profiling, Ilford XP2 and

Re: Sv: filmscanners: VueScan TODO list

2000-11-16 Thread EdHamrick
Thanks! Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: Chemical Film Resolution.

2000-11-16 Thread Roman Kielich®
At 23:03 16/11/2000 +1000, you wrote: Roman Kielich® [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if it is not visible, then it is not light. We call it radiation - infrared, ultraviolet, gamma, etc. Only light is visible, by definition. Not to be too picky here, but infra-red and ultraviolet radiation are

RE: filmscanners: Chemical Film Resolution.

2000-11-16 Thread Austin Franklin
Wasn't Alan Turing, the mathematician and 'father' of computer science, a scientist? No, he was a mathematician. Early computers did not use 8 bit words. This is like Philips' argument of limiting the sampling rate of CD audio to 44.1 KHz. Theoretically it's all you need, but to many