Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan 4000ED Review

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:33:24 Mikael Risedal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There is a problem with the film holders and flatness of the film. No film are exactly flat, and ED 4000 overall sharpness are not good because of curved film.. The only scanners I have ever seen this problem on

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishin

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:49:09 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Actually the only reason it may be necessary is that one of the changes in Paintshop Pro 7 is that it (unlike 6) doesn't seem to be able to change the dpi without resampling. :-7 Otherwise getting a file out of

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:39:55 -0500 Gordon Tassi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have found that I get a better transition from scan to PS to print using Vuescan, PS and Hammermill Jet Print Ultra Glossy and Epson's Matte papers. Polaroid's inkjet glossy is good, and more neutral and saturated

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:35:10 -0800 shAf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: That being said, and altho I trust Ed, I know little about PCD RGB, and there seems to be little available regarding comparisons with the common working spaces (if comparisons can be made ... some of what I've found

Re: filmscanners: Color saturation with Vuescan

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:54:15 -0800 (PST) Jon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jim, I noticed I get "better looking" results scanning my Kodak Supra 400 with Generic Neg setting. Info posted on another thread indicates that Vuescan attempts to make all neg films "accurate" to a Kodak target, which

Re: filmscanners: AcerScanwit

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:04:01 -0600 Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There was a message on the comp.periphs.scanners group that the 2740S was not supported Probably the extra pass for IR is more coding than is justified, since no other scanner requires one. Regards Tony

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Henk de Jong
Each time there would be some generational loss. Not necessarily true. If you open and close ( or resave) the compressed file without changing the compression from one quality level to another in the case of .jog or without resampling the image prior to closing or resaving the file, there

Re: filmscanners: Color Calibration

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:44:48 -0700 Michael Moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This why I use the Fuji emulsions... REALA in 35mm and NPS/NPL in 4x5... I shoot in mixed light (daylight/tungsten/flourescent) with NO FILTERS and get great results... Same here, Reala, Superia 100, 400 :-)

Re: filmscanners: TOtally OT: re copyrights

2001-03-30 Thread Dicky
Mr Moderatorwould you please sort this berk out... Richard Corbett - Original Message - From: "Lynn Allen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 7:09 PM Subject: filmscanners: TOtally OT: re copyrights Since this post is mostly "FYI" coupled

RE: filmscanners: JPEG Loss - File format

2001-03-30 Thread Mark Thomas
Maybe it's because it is Friday pm here:), but the explanation below doesn't sound right to me. The losses to the image occur when you *save* it.. (So sure, if you just keep *re-saving* that same on-screen file, the image won't degrade further - but why would you do that?) But as soon as

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan 4000ED Review

2001-03-30 Thread Mikael Risedal
Agree with you Tony. I have not the problem with my old Sprintscan 35+ ( best scanner to scan black and white film with) I explained to the Nikon scanner people at Photokina 2000 about the problem with curved film and the film holders and they where aware about the problem. The only way to

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Tyson
Maris said: Just a note on LZW compressed image portability - I have run into one instance where an LZW compressed image was not portable - when exporting a 48-bit compressed TIFF from Vuescan to Corel PhotoPaint 9 it opens but the image is unrecognizable. If exported uncompressed there is

Re: filmscanners: Color Calibration

2001-03-30 Thread Arthur Entlich
Tony Sleep wrote: Incidentally, glass filters seem to be extremely variable between makes, no two manufacturers make an 81a which is anything like anyone else's. Warm-balanced film like E100SW seems to work better than 81 series do, unless it's very blue light. It's a major reason

RE: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Mikael Risedal
I think there are some myths about jpg. tif. psd. and high quality printing pictures. We (printing company, myself and a medical company picture bank) have done tests about saving pictures that later can used to print out on high glossy paper. All files are scanned in 350 ppi We compared a

Re: filmscanners: Re: Canon FS2710 vs Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II

2001-03-30 Thread Arthur Entlich
OK, so at current exchange rates, I now know that the Canon purchase will cost me an extra $70 CAN, for Vuescan. Does the Minolta Scan II also require Vuescan to reach its "zenith"? Art Roger Smith wrote: At 11:34 AM +0100 3/28/01, Robert Logan wrote: I have found using Vuescan with

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan 4000ED Review

2001-03-30 Thread Arthur Entlich
Mikael Risedal wrote: Here are some conclusions regarding Nikon ED 4000. and 3 weeks try out. Mikael, Thank you for your interesting and detailed review of the new Nikon ED 4000 scanner. I think this is something many people were waiting to hear about, and you have probably helped

Re: filmscanners: Adobe Elements

2001-03-30 Thread Arthur Entlich
One more Windows only application... Macintosh users have made Adobe's reputation but they are now treated as second class clients. I know what I'm talking about as I'm a Photoshop power user since v.2 now working with a buggy 6.0 version... Believe me, the PC versions of Photoshop

Re: filmscanners: scanning/photoshop workstation (long)

2001-03-30 Thread Arthur Entlich
James L. Sims wrote: I agree that there were issues with 95, 98, and 98SE but ME was rock solid right out of the box (purchased last September). There were issues with device drivers, and some products still do not have ME drivers, but the OS itself is rock stable - never a blue screen,

Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..

2001-03-30 Thread Mark T.
So Dicky, let me get this quite straight. It's OK for you to post a completely worthless comment about Unix, because you're just testing the moderator.. But if someone else goes off-topic they get a public insult and a request to Tony. In my not-so-humble, but non-insulting (!) opinion,

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-30 Thread Arthur Entlich
Richard, From my reading of info on Vuescan, it does indeed use the PCD colorspace, and I don't think any violation of anything is occurring. The color space of PCD could easily include all of the film types you speak of, regardless of a bias (filter) used during the scanning process.

Re: filmscanners: PhotoCD format

2001-03-30 Thread Arthur Entlich
Richard, Kodak themselves used to offer a number of programs in their shoebox and Build It series which provided several levels of ability to produce Photo CD files and disks. After they discontinued those programs, they licensed the format to a number of software companies to provide

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:49:05 +0800 httin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Did any one knows whether is there any informations/details loses when store in compressed JPG format in maximum quality 10 and while you keep opening and saving the same file many times? If you merely open and save a

filmscanners: OT (was: PhotoCD format

2001-03-30 Thread Lynn Allen
Larry wrote: Graphics Workshop Professional can write the Kodak PhotoCD format, as I previously posted. clip While Kodak has licensed us the technology to create PCD files – a useful format for high quality imaging – they have thus far refused to disclose the details of the other bits required

Re: filmscanners: Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:13:43 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think I just have to accept the limitations of neg film, in that the greater exposure latitude is at the cost of much more grain. But it isn't! I am 100% certain that what you are seeing as grain, especially from

Re: filmscanners: Bulk scanning

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:14:56 -0600 Tom Scales ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is the main reason I am considering selling my Sprintscan 4000 and buying a Nikon 4000ED. The ability to drop a 36 exposure roll of 35mm film in and walk away. And go on holiday, to come back and find the disk

RE: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:15:38 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It's all just smoke and mirrors - "this setting works for me". Advice from a manufacturer would save a lot of wastage in test prints. The dither pattern makes such hard figures genuinely elusive. About as much as

Re: filmscanners: Printdpi A3 from 2720

2001-03-30 Thread Lynn Allen
Mark wrote: by crikey your original needs to be spot on!) That always works best in *all* scanning situations, IMHO. :-) The problem remains: what to do about the many otherwise-good pics that *aren't* "Spot On?" (and in my case, there're quite a few! ;-) ) Skill and Time are required of

filmscanners: Re: Canon FS2710 vs Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II

2001-03-30 Thread Roger Smith
At 4:23 PM -0800 3/29/01, Arthur Entlich wrote: OK, so at current exchange rates, I now know that the Canon purchase will cost me an extra $70 CAN, for Vuescan. Does the Minolta Scan II also require Vuescan to reach its "zenith"? From what I read on this list, any scanner can benefit

Re: filmscanners: Bulk scanning

2001-03-30 Thread Tom Scales
Disk space I've got :) Now that I've read about the focusing problems, though, it sounds like I may just keep my SS4000. At one point there were posts from Polaroid here about their developing such a loader for the SS4000. As far as I can tell, that never happened. Any more word on it?

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishin

2001-03-30 Thread Derek Clarke
I always scan at maximum resolution and resize a copy later if needed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Geraghty) wrote: Derek wrote: [epson stuff snipped] If you scan a 24x36mm negative or slide at 300 ppi and then print it at 300ppi, what will be the size of the resulting picture? 24x36mm!

filmscanners: Side comment: Adobe Elements

2001-03-30 Thread Lynn Allen
Tim Atherton wrote: I think MAC users are going to become more like 4x5 users - Ilford has discontinued Delta 400 in sheet film "due to lack of demand for the product". A dying breed :) Tim a Who knows, we may all end up using OS X before long. Art Lord, let's hope not!!! ;-) LRA

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house

2001-03-30 Thread Derek Clarke
The trouble being that a 700/740 uses different inks to a 750/1200, which is different again to a 790/870/890/1270/1280/1290! I've never tried to use non-Epson papers because I don't fancy wasting the pack price for a paper that might not work, but then I'm a cowardly custard! [EMAIL

filmscanners: OT:Warrantees (was:Canon FS2710 vs Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II

2001-03-30 Thread Lynn Allen
Art wrote: What worried me somewhat is that they came with "only" a 6 month warranty, but this might be the status quo in the US for this item new, I don't know (Maybe someone can answer that who bought one down there)?? The US is getting very "stingey" with warranty guarantees and other

Re: filmscanners: scanning/photoshop workstation (long)

2001-03-30 Thread Derek Clarke
In my case the motherboard I picked (Abit SP7) has a RAID controller built in as well as a standard IDE controller, but you can do the same thing with a Promise plug-in. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lynn Allen) wrote: Derek wrote: I've just built my current most powerful box with a RAID 10 array of

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Ezio
Conclusion: This must means? that we photographers are "over do it " when we are delivering pictures in big tif or psd files. Yes, it is simply excess of PASSION ! ;-) Sincerely. Ezio www.lucenti.com e-photography site - Original Message - From: "Lynn Allen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-30 Thread Richard Starr
--- Tony wrote: Getting the bl**dy colour spot-on is another matter... --- end of quote --- So how do you approach this important issue? I am constantly tweaking the color settings in the printer driver, trying to match my screen colors and tonal values. Rich

filmscanners: Quickscan

2001-03-30 Thread Richard Starr
There are a few refurbed Minolta Quickscan 35s on ebay for a good price ($269 US, buy-it-now). Tony's review for the Minolta Dualscan is quite positive. Does anyone know how this machine compares? The Acer has Ice. Does that make a big difference when considering a purchase on the low end?

RE: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Laurie Solomon
A well known medical newspaper printed on high glossy paper wants their pictures files in .jpg level 5 .!!They must also have done some test there jpg.5 level seems to suite there needs. Lynn, your example leave the reader to make a lot of assumptions with no real empirical basis for making

Re: filmscanners: Bulk scanning

2001-03-30 Thread Lynn Allen
Tony wrote: And go on holiday, to come back and find the disk filled up after the first 3 frames :) Priceless!! LOL Mine usually crashes when I go to the bathroom! ;-) Keep on keepin' on, Tony--LRA . On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:14:56 -0600

Re: filmscanners: Grain aliasing

2001-03-30 Thread Bob Shomler
I've read (but haven't had a need to try it so far) that grain in sky areas can be corrected/retouched using the blue chanel as a mask. I'd be interested in hearing from those who've used that technique. I have read about performing some filter operations just on the blue channel but have not

RE: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Laurie Solomon
Out of curiosity, how many timed did you do this and what sorts of changes did you see? Have you tried the same experiment using another image editing program to eliminate the possibility that it might be more a by-product of what PSP is doing than what is generic to JPEG compressions?

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-30 Thread shAf
Tony writes ... On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:01:09 -0800 shAf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ... so Ektaspace is an easily accepted compromise. Ektaspace is also respected for its editabilty, and its wide gamut is very suitable for highbit editing. Its gamut is also sufficiently wide for

RE: filmscanners: JPEG Loss - File format

2001-03-30 Thread Laurie Solomon
So the image DOES degrade with each iteration, whether or not it is changed. Aside from the fact that this does not sound right to me nor has it been my experience or in the things that I have read on the subject, such degradation that you suggest in the case in question - if it takes place - is

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Lynn Allen
Tony wrote: If you merely open and save a JPEG at the same compression, without editing, you lose nothing. If you edit, you lose information. It's impossible to quantify how much, since it varies depending on the image and what you do to it. That's right in theory, but I'm not so sure that's

RE: filmscanners: Bulk scanning

2001-03-30 Thread Kurt Simpson
You know I've spent a lot of time lurking on this list and I wonder if the experts could give a bit of a gift to those of us who are beginners but want to put our feet down on solid ground with a good purchase choice. I have an HP S20xi Photosmart that is on the blink and ready for replacement.

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan 4000ED Review

2001-03-30 Thread Dicky
- Original Message - From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 8:46 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan 4000ED Review On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:33:24 Mikael Risedal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There is a problem with the film

Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..

2001-03-30 Thread Dicky
- Original Message - From: "Mark T." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:58 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form.. So Dicky, let me get this quite straight. It's OK for you to post a completely worthless comment about Unix,

Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..

2001-03-30 Thread Dicky
- Original Message - From: "Austin Franklin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 4:16 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form.. ...Dicky... First swearing, racism and insults, now just insults.. That's not what I am here to see.

RE: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-30 Thread Jon
Here is a link to Epson's recommendation http://support.epson.com/webadvice/wa0216.html I don't know why they made it so hard to find. Jon It would be nice if we could get definitive responses from the manufacturers on this sort of issue. I haven't seen any such response even on the

Re: filmscanners: Grain aliasing

2001-03-30 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
Repairing Digital Photographs is still available online at http://www.jtgraphics.net/sample/DIGITAL_PHOTO_REPAIR.pdf Maris - Original Message - From: "Bob Shomler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:13 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Grain aliasing

filmscanners: Re: Canon FS2710 vs Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II

2001-03-30 Thread Roger Smith
At 10:44 AM -0500 3/30/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe slightly OT, but using the Nikon LS-30 as a benchmark, how does the Canon FS2710 compare? That is, WRT any parameters you care to mention. I'm most interested in the Canon vs Dimage question, but every bit of information helps.

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Tyson
A program opens and re-adjusts the image for viewing; I've seen both PS and PP8 change the size values on a subsequent Save I have never seen Paint Shop Pro do this for an unedited image. The file size is likely to be different, however, if the first image came from a different package's jpeg

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-30 Thread shAf
shAf previously writes ... Something else has just occurred to me. My "test" was based on a fresh installation of VS7 while my LS-2000 is now put away. That is, my test was based on a previously acquired "raw" scan 64bit TIFF, and VS7 had no way of knowing which scanner scanned it.

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan 4000ED Review

2001-03-30 Thread Mikael Risedal
Maybe its because Im from Sweden . I don't understand Mr. Corbets replay! It cant be so hard to build a scanner with depth of field who can take care of a curved film or a better film holder. Mikael Risedal From: "Dicky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house

2001-03-30 Thread Michael Moore
I've used the Kodak papers on my HP 932C as well as my Epson, and the results are always outstanding... much better than any other third party papers I've tried... It is worth the try if you are looking for a paper that looks and feels like a "real" photo print... It's also less money. Mike M.

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Tyson
I tried it with ten iterations in PSP7, and saw no visible degradation, so my finding was different from Henk's. Attached: two 6K jpeg clips of a bit of lace, clipped out of 400x250 29K clips from an original 2700 dpi scan. The first is a clip from a PSP7 '15%' jpeg photograph, resaved once

Re: filmscanners: Quickscan

2001-03-30 Thread Michael Moore
Richard: You will no doubt be deluged with lots of answers to this and your previous question. It appears that you are about to take the plunge into the swamp of filmscanning... To answer your last question first.. 1. ICE is always better than no ICE... That then leaves the question of how much

RE: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..

2001-03-30 Thread shAf
Dicky writes ... A head in the sand approach is not untypical for an American, all you have to do is listen to George Wobbly Bush on global warming. ... Actually, and entirely off-topic, I might just suggest that the moderator chuck off this list every member of the USA'ish persuasion

Re: filmscanners: Bulk scanning

2001-03-30 Thread Michael Moore
My personal choice, which has given me excellent results for almost 6 months, is the Minolta Scan Elite... comes with ICE, 2820 DPI, good bundled scan software and is supported by VueScan... FWIW Mike Moore Kurt Simpson wrote: You know I've spent a lot of time lurking on this list and I

filmscanners: Vuescan 7.0.8 fast!

2001-03-30 Thread jimhayes
Yikes! I sent Ed my log file from running Vuescan 7.07 and getting nasty hangs on my SS 4000 in Windows98SE- it froze everything up, so I had to do power off/on reboots. Within 12 hours he sent me a test file, and about two hours after I e-mailed him telling him it now works, he releases it (

RE: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Laurie Solomon
That's right in theory, but I'm not so sure that's what happens in practice, Lynn, you are right that the way any given application implements a compression program (be it .jpg or some other compression program) will often effect what happens in terms of files sizes, production of artifacts, and

RE: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-30 Thread Austin Franklin
That's really useful: "If you are going to increase the size of the printed image then you should scan at a higher dpi resolution." Here is a link to Epson's recommendation http://support.epson.com/webadvice/wa0216.html I don't know why they made it so hard to find. Jon It would be

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-30 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Bob Shomler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: "device RGB" Vuescan has an option to tag files with the selected color space profile (except for Device RGB, which according to

filmscanners: OT: Object Lesson (was: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Lynn Allen
They wrote: A well known medical newspaper printed on high glossy paper wants their pictures files in .jpg level 5 .!!They must also have done some test there jpg.5 level seems to suite there needs. Lynn, your example leave the reader to make a lot of assumptions with noreal empirical

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan 4000ED Review

2001-03-30 Thread Dicky
- Original Message - From: "Mikael Risedal" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 6:18 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan 4000ED Review Maybe its because Im from Sweden . I don't understand Mr. Corbets replay! Do not worry my tall, thin and

filmscanners: Re: shAF: OT - Dicky returns to form..

2001-03-30 Thread Lynn Allen
shAF wrote: I have to admit being more than embarrassed my the country's international policies sometimes ... but no more embarrassed than this list including Mr Dicky as one of my film scanning peers. I may have little control over republical policies, but I hope my vote gets counted again

Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..

2001-03-30 Thread Tom Scales
To the moderatorL I'm kind of new here, and look forward to learning a lot. I sincerely hope this is the last post by this guy, immediately before you ban him. Tom - Original Message - From: "Dicky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:42 AM Subject:

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan 7.0.8 fast!

2001-03-30 Thread Lynn Allen
Jim wrote: Yikes! I sent Ed my log file from running Vuescan 7.07 and getting nasty hangs on my SS 4000 in Windows98SE- it froze everything up, so I had to do power off/on reboots. Within 12 hours he sent me a test file, and about two hours after I e-mailed him telling him it now works, he

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-30 Thread Richard N. Moyer
- Original Message - From: Bob Shomler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: "device RGB" Vuescan has an option to tag files with the selected color space profile (except for Device RGB, which according to

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Henk de Jong
Laurie Solemon wrote: Out of curiosity, how many timed did you do this and what sorts of changes did you see? I took a picture, saved, closed and re-opened it ten times. After every step (save, close and re-open) I compared the new image with the original and found small differences, we all

Re: filmscanners: TOtally OT: re copyrights

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:31:51 +0100 Dicky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Mr Moderatorwould you please sort this berk out... Richard Corbett I am *asking* people to stay on-topic. As I previously explained I have far less tolerance of abusiveness. Indeed I am *insisting* that people be

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-30 Thread Bob Shomler
What color space does Photoshop (6) open a file tagged ProPhoto RGB into? Depends on the Photoshop 6 Color Settings [Edit Color Settings]. It should act as set for a profile mismatch. If you have 'ask when opening' checked for profile mismatches it should present a dialog box on opening the

RE: filmscanners: JPEG Loss - File format

2001-03-30 Thread Laurie Solomon
My personal work flow is sort of like you suggest. I save the original as a raw .tif or as a .psd and only use .jpg for the internet. If I am going to save a working version of the image, I save that with GF as a .stn file. However, my experiences with .jpg files has not been along the lines of

RE: filmscanners: JPEG Loss - File format

2001-03-30 Thread Larry Berman
I was the first to answer this question and now I question myself for letting this go on this long. Everyone that saves their scans as a JPEG raise your hand. Case closed. Larry So the image DOES degrade with each iteration, whether or not it is changed.

Re: filmscanners: Re: shAF: OT - Dicky returns to form..

2001-03-30 Thread Michael Moore
I'm not sure Dicky should be banned... I agree that his speling is horible :) and his use of old Anglo Saxon words is probably better reserved for the waterfront bar... but at least his rants help break the monotony of so much scanner-speak... sort of like the fellow breaking wind at the

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-30 Thread Robert E. Wright
My point was that I don't find a ProPhoto RGB profile in the Photoshop dialog. I guess I'll just have to try it. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Bob Shomler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: "device RGB"

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread httin
// Thank you for every one who participate my question. Now I got the point. HT Tin 31st/Mar/2001 // Tony Sleep wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:49:05 +0800 httin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Did any one knows whether is there any informations/details loses when store in compressed JPG

Re: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-30 Thread Berry Ives
on 3/29/01 7:58 AM, Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The general consensus is printing in the range of 240-360dpi, and it will depend on the paper - for a good explanation of why see http://www.scantips.com/ The best thing to do is to experiment on *your* printer and find

Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..

2001-03-30 Thread DT886
I'd love to hear you try and say that to my face DICK Dave

Re: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-30 Thread Berry Ives
on 3/30/01 11:20 AM, Jon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a link to Epson's recommendation http://support.epson.com/webadvice/wa0216.html I don't know why they made it so hard to find. Jon It would be nice if we could get definitive responses from the manufacturers on this sort

Re: filmscanners: Bulk scanning

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 06:59:57 -0600 Tom Scales ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Disk space I've got :) Now that I've read about the focusing problems, though, it sounds like I may just keep my SS4000. At one point there were posts from Polaroid here about their developing such a loader for the

Re: Scanning dpi and epson papers was Re: filmscanners: Repro house

2001-03-30 Thread httin
// I've also experient Mike's post below. Last time I used Epson Photo paper and Epson original inkset for my photo work. And I get bored adjusting the correct colour against the monitor display colour. Every time the Photo Paper I bought from Epson has slightly difference in base colour. Some

Re: HP 6200c + Vuescan ... was: filmscanners: 7.0.6 Great !

2001-03-30 Thread John Hinkey
Thanks Ezio, I think I'll get them from HP and see how it goes. Ezio wrote: I think Rob is right , I am also using W98SE and the ASPI drivers for the HP stuff were the worst drivers I ever saw. I have just receved the new ones from HP ... If you want I can copy the CD and send it to you or

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan 7.0.8 fast!

2001-03-30 Thread jimhayes
Lynn Allen wrote: Jim wrote: Yikes! I sent Ed my log file from running Vuescan 7.07 and getting nasty hangs on my SS 4000 in Windows98SE- it froze everything up, so I had to do power off/on reboots. Within 12 hours he sent me a test file, and about two hours after I e-mailed him telling

Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..

2001-03-30 Thread Jim Snyder
on 3/30/01 1:49 PM, shAf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dicky writes ... A head in the sand approach is not untypical for an American, all you have to do is listen to George Wobbly Bush on global warming. ... Actually, and entirely off-topic, I might just suggest that the moderator

filmscanners: ADMIN : Richard Corbett

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
I regret to announce that, following an outbreak of Head Up Arse disease, Richard Corbett has been humanely culled, to put him out of our misery. To avoid the risk of further contamination, please immerse your keyboard in a bucket of strong phenolic disinfectant, and avoid using it to abuse

Re: filmscanners: Quickscan

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On 30 Mar 2001 10:58:27 EST Richard Starr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There are a few refurbed Minolta Quickscan 35s on ebay for a good price ($269 US, buy-it-now). No relation to the later Dimage models, and now 2 generations out of date. I wouldn't, personally. Later scanners have

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan 4000ED Review

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:26:01 +0100 Dicky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote, shortly before his untimely demise: You may say that, and indeed you "have" said that BUT, if a film is curved at the focal plane and the device involved in not constructed in such a way as to allow for that, then the least

filmscanners: Vuescan color spaces (long)

2001-03-30 Thread shAf
... having asked you to "stay tuned", I'm getting back to you. However, what I've experimented with has led me into considerable thought ... my apologies for this post's length :o) First ... my conclusions remain the same ... Vuescan will ultimately yield more color capacity (gamut)

RE: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-30 Thread Tony Sleep
On 30 Mar 2001 10:43:35 EST Richard Starr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Getting the bl**dy colour spot-on is another matter... --- end of quote --- So how do you approach this important issue? I am constantly tweaking the color settings in the printer driver, trying to match my screen

Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky removal

2001-03-30 Thread Mark T.
Thank you Tony. *Much* appreciated! And to Dicky's 'supporter', while I agree that sometimes a break in the routine of messages can be entertaining, we should ALL remember that this is a public forum. Anything you wouldn't say loudly in a public place (with a police occifer nearby! :), should

Re: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-30 Thread Gordon Tassi
Tony: I am also concerned that the final stage is really broken. I have seen the Epson prints that the company uses and they look great, of course. When I finally get my scan to look the way I want it to look in PS, the print may come close but not close enough. If there is a chink in the

RE: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (long)

2001-03-30 Thread Laurie Solomon
Is this a duplicate message? For some reason, I think I have already replied to it once. Am I going crazy or is Tony's server? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave King Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 12:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..

2001-03-30 Thread Chris Hargens
Although I don't agree with most of what Dicky (who invented that name?) says, claims, asserts, so on, I do find it entertaining in its over-the-top excessiveness. I guess I just don't take him seriously (or personally) -- or perhaps I experience him as an entertainer. Even the the "bad" words

Re: filmscanners: Bulk scanning

2001-03-30 Thread Arthur Entlich
There are a number of important factors you need to provide for anyone to give you a reasonable analysis of what will be good value for you. 1) What platform are you using I happen to know you have to be using a PC system, because the HP doesn't work with Macs, but others might not know this

RE: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-30 Thread Frank Paris
I have been through so many cartridges on my Epson 2000P that I've lost count. The images have been rock solid and consistent from the day I bought it to the present. I calibrated it once soon after I got it and that has been that. Why is it that we hardly hear anything of this amazing printer on