Perhaps someone can clarify something for me ... how do the new Nikon and
Polaroid scanners achieve their claimed 4000dpi resolution for multiple
formats? Unlike most film scanners that accomodate multiple formats, the
claimed resolution of these scanners doesn't decrease when they switch from
Rob,
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From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed,
I resend it again, the first time failed through problems at the mail
server. Sorry it arrives late.
-Original Message-
From: Rob Geraghty [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: PS 6.0 v. PS 5.0 LE v. Jasc
Jawed Ashraf wrote:
I have a 1800. It is made by a company called Pacific Image whose website is
at:
www.scanace.com
The scanner can only take bare strips of film - it won't accept mounted
slides.
The units sold in North America scan slides as well. It is both stated
in the
Slavitt, Howard wrote:
. At 4000 dpi, this gives me files of about 660 Megabytes in 10
minutes! If I scan at 1/2 maximum resolution, 2000 dpi, the scan time drops
to only 2 minutes or less for 6 cm x 9 cm slides, and I get an excellent 160
MB 48 bit file, which is 80 MB after reduced to
Jack Phipps wrote:
. The attached file has
several very fine lines at certain angles.
Jack Phipps
Applied Science Fiction
I didn't find the attachment with your post, am I the only one?
Art
As those who bother reading my comments know, I am an advocate of buying
used equipment and non-bleeding edge. It saves money, it sometimes even
protects you from the first buyer screw which means you end up paying
the most for a product which isn't perfected, and end up playing beta
tester
Steve Greenbank wrote:
In the UK I think this scanner is available under several brand names
Jessops 1800U ,Black widow filmscan 2000 and Microtek Filmscanner 35. I
would suspect of these Microtek may be the real manufacturer.
It is not produced by Microtek, and I do not believe the
It's best generally to use CD-R as they are generally more reliable than CD-RW and
they are cheaper too.
Can you supply me with any references for this statement, in terms of
reliability?
This concerns me since I use CD-RW for most of my CD file storage.
Art
Dear Burt,
Dell is being more honest with you than the companies that make and sell
CD-R burners.
Basically, if you are burning a regular CD-R (and not one preformatted
as
a Direct CD, which BTW, don't work that well either) you should not
expect to be able to burn from any source that is slow
Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) wrote:
On 10-04-98 I posted the following to this list:
Let's not forget the corollary to that expression is with Nikon you don't
get what you pay for. By that I mean customer support. I learned that
unhappy lesson with my first film scanner, a
At 12:15 11-07-01 +1200, Paul Hillier wrote:
I haven't been on this list for a long time, so I hope this question
hasn't been asked recently.
I am trying to set up a Nikon LS-1000 slide scanner with Windows 2000,
is this possible?
There aren't any drivers for the LS1000 in Win2K. You might try
At 10:15 11-07-01 +1000, you wrote:
Ian wrote:
It is and so is CompassProfile Scanner and ColorSynergy, etc.
[snip]
Dan and Franz from ColorBlind fame and all their products are
real cool and quite reasonably priced.
Ian, do you have some URLs for these products?
At 20:30 10-07-01 -0400, rafeb wrote:
Your complaint regarding NikonScan 3.1 being buggy
is surprising to me. I had some initial problems
getting NS installed, but it has not been remotely
buggy since then. The installation issues turned
out to be due to device conflicts.
Which leads me to
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:49:24 -0400 Norman Unsworth
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
FWIW, I just hit your site at http://www.halftone.co.uk , no problem.
Yes, thanks, it appears to have been a transient DNS problem which only
affected people going through the root nameservers, and has now been
At 20:43 10-07-01 -0700, you wrote:
It's best generally to use CD-R as they are generally more reliable
than CD-RW and they are cheaper too.
Can you supply me with any references for this statement, in terms of
reliability?
This concerns me since I use CD-RW for most of my CD file storage.
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:41:49 -0400 Dave King ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
However, I find that, while the color calibration is
very good,
it has some shortcomings, depending on the particular slide, with
the
yellows and magentas; sometimes the yellows are overemphasized and
the
At 07:39 PM 7/10/01 -0700, Art wrote:
As those who bother reading my comments know, I am an advocate of buying
used equipment and non-bleeding edge. It saves money, it sometimes even
protects you from the first buyer screw which means you end up paying
the most for a product which isn't
At 22:31 10-07-01 -0700, you wrote:
Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) wrote:
On 10-04-98 I posted the following to this list:
Let's not forget the corollary to that expression is with Nikon you don't
get what you pay for. By that I mean customer support. I learned that
unhappy lesson
Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Google hasn't gotten so good these days that you can find product names
like this immediately. I wanted to check them out also. Enter ColorBlind
or
ColorSynergy in Google's search box and you've got it. Unfortunately,
they're
At 10:31 PM 7/10/01 -0700, Art wrote:
It sounds to me that this is a heads up to companies like Polaroid and
others that it might well me worthwhile to consider production of at
least one scanner line with D-ICE or equivalent type products with an
infrared channel.
ICE was a non-issue for me
So, the very old 'caveat emptor' should always be in force with ebay
purchases.
The best one I saw was
Playstaion 2 Box and Receipt
Bidding started at $1 and I think there was no reserve.
There were many bids and eventually someone had the winning bid of $425. A
little over the top but
At 06:51 AM 7/11/01 -0400, Cary Enoch Reinstein wrote:
[Rafe B:]
Your complaint regarding NikonScan 3.1 being buggy
is surprising to me. I had some initial problems
getting NS installed, but it has not been remotely
buggy since then. The installation issues turned
out to be due to device
At 11:16 PM 7/10/01, Jeff Goggin wrote:
Perhaps someone can clarify something for me ... how do the new Nikon and
Polaroid scanners achieve their claimed 4000dpi resolution for multiple
formats? Unlike most film scanners that accomodate multiple formats, the
claimed resolution of these scanners
I didn't see anything attached to the post either..
As a 1270 owner who hasn't really done much experimenting yet to see if it
has a sweet spot, I wouldn't mind trying them out, if Jack wants to try
again or give a web-reference..?
MT
At 09:05 PM 10/07/01 -0700, you wrote:
Jack Phipps
Ian's tip about changing the Auto threshold for highlight and shadow did the
trick for 48 bit editing in Lasersoft. I'm now much better able to control
the values in the blackest blacks and whitest whites. . . . So, other than
waiting for Ian to write more tutorials, or just experimenting for
I did not receive it either.
Gordon
Arthur Entlich wrote:
Jack Phipps wrote:
. The attached file has
several very fine lines at certain angles.
Jack Phipps
Applied Science Fiction
I didn't find the attachment with your post, am I the only one?
Art
I believe the attachment Jack mentioned was the copied
text from the other ASF employee, a posting to the
LivePix newsgroup detailing the issues with dithering
routines.
Pat
--- Mark T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't see anything attached to the post either..
As a 1270 owner who hasn't
I would like to express my deepest thanks to all those who provided me with
such helpful information. You have saved me probably weeks of frustration.
Hopefully I will now only have hours of frustration figuring out how to
implement your suggestions g.
Burt
At 06:36 11-07-01 -0400, Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...) wrote:
http://www.splashofcolor.com/pages/praxisoft/compassprofile.html
http://www.picto.com/colorsynergyA.html
Google hasn't gotten so good these days that you can find product names
like this immediately. I wanted to check them
Is anyone using the Nikon 4000 on a mac with a scsi converter. I would
like to use Vuescan with this scanner but Vuescan will not work with firewire.
chuck
At 07:09 11-07-01 -0400, I wrote:
It was admittedly difficult for me to be objective because of prior bad
experiences with an LS4000
and Nikon technical support. From list feedback it seems that times have
changed for the better to
some degree. I'd have bought a Polaroid SS4000 in the blink
This is what Jack sent to me - except I've used LZW compression. I've never
seen it manage compression ratios 20:1 -although its not surprising when
you see the image.
Steve
- Original Message -
From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11,
Your complaint regarding NikonScan 3.1 being buggy
is surprising to me. I had some initial problems
getting NS installed, but it has not been remotely
buggy since then. The installation issues turned
out to be due to device conflicts.
Which leads me to suspect that a good number of
I suspect I need to take back my comment about the 1800 being unable to scan
mounted slides. I could get it out of the box and try to fit a slide in
there, just to be sure. Maybe I'll bother in an idle moment.
When I tried (with a friend's slide - I don't shoot slides) we could see no
way to
For instance, is there a way to zoom into an image in Lasersoft (HDR --
because that's where I'm doing my editing of hi bit images) other than
recropping?
You must create a new frame or resize the original frame (marching ants).
You seem to have discovered one or other, not sure which as
For your information. Copied from a post to the EOS usergroup from BH
Photo. Enjoy. Ray Amos
***
Read http://public.wsj.com/news/businessbox/article1.html from the Wall
Street Journal about Polaroid's financial difficulties. The article says
Polaroid, ...is
Title: Polaroid Good As Gold Guarantee
Not that I'm returning my scanner, but I'm curious.
Does anyone know how this works? Normally the merchant I purchased the scanner from has a 14 day return policy. However, it sounds like Polaroid is cutting the merchant a break so therefore it should
I too have a Scan Dual II and never had a problem using it with Vuescan.
It's always found the scanner, no problem. However, I need to make sure the
scanner is on first, then fire up Vuescan.
Norman Unsworth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Chuck Phelps wrote:
Is anyone using the Nikon 4000 on a mac with a scsi converter. I would
like to use Vuescan with this scanner but Vuescan will not work with firewire.
Is that a fact? I never heard that from Ed
Hamrick.
Vuescan recognized my 8000, over Firewire,
I'd have bought a Polaroid SS4000 in the blink of an eye if it had the
same functionality.
I am waiting for Polaroid (or someone else) to release a 4000+dpi 35 mm
slide scanner with ICE^3. Looking at the current prices on the SS4000 ($950
according to CNET) and the $200 rebate currently being
What about the ls-4000?
I am waiting for Polaroid (or someone else) to release a 4000+dpi 35 mm
slide scanner with ICE^3. Looking at the current prices on the
SS4000 ($950
according to CNET) and the $200 rebate currently being offered, I expect
something soon.
Vuescan does not work with firewire and MAC OS 9 or earlier.
Ed is on weekation in London but have told me that he will write
Vuescan to Mac Os X later on.
Mikael Risedal
From: Raphael Bustin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Nikon
or they file for bankruptcy
- Original Message -
From: Shough, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED
I'd have bought a Polaroid SS4000 in the blink of an eye if it had the
same functionality.
I suspect I need to take back my comment about the 1800 being unable to
scan
mounted slides. I could get it out of the box and try to fit a slide in
there, just to be sure. Maybe I'll bother in an idle moment.
I have a PrimeFilm 1800i sitting in the closet. It definitely can scan both
film
At 14:25 11-07-01 -0400, Raphael Bustin wrote:
Vuescan recognized my 8000, over Firewire,
although it didn't get much farther than that.
In a couple of back-and-forths with Ed, there
was no indication that the Firewire connectivity
was an issue.
Vuescan recognizes my LS4000/firewire but its
Hi
I use Scan Dual II VS on Win2K and it works fine.
I will follow procedure given below.
1) Switch on the scanner, leave for 1-2 minutes. Make sure that the door of
the scanner is closed.
2) Launch VS(You should hear some sound ).
3) Insert the film/slide holder.
4) Continue scanning.
Not that I'm returning my scanner, but I'm curious.
Does anyone know how this works? Normally the merchant I purchased
the scanner from has a 14 day return policy. However, it sounds like
Polaroid is cutting the merchant a break so therefore it should
trickle down to me and I should be
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Shough, Dean wrote:
I'd have bought a Polaroid SS4000 in the blink of an eye if it had the
same functionality.
I am waiting for Polaroid (or someone else) to release a 4000+dpi 35 mm
slide scanner with ICE^3. Looking at the current prices on the SS4000 ($950
Hey, Lawrence, how are you making out with the SS120? I'm liking mine
better and better, now that Ian's giving me a few additional pointers on the
SilverFast software. I am a bit concerned about Polaroid's economic
problems and support; hopefully they'll sell a bunch of them so someone will
Title: Polaroid Good As Gold Guarantee
I don't know how good this
guarantee is after reading this:
http://public.wsj.com/news/businessbox/article1.html
Here's the latest. My SS120 is on it's way back to the vendor for a refund.
I am getting another 8000 tomorrow to try. Hopefully the banding issue will
be solved with this new one. It must be said that I REALLY like the SS120.
I was getting superb scans for the most part. I did have a slide
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Lawrence Smith wrote:
Here's the latest. My SS120 is on it's way back to the vendor for a refund.
I am getting another 8000 tomorrow to try. Hopefully the banding issue will
be solved with this new one. It must be said that I REALLY like the SS120.
I was getting
I think so too rafe. I can't really imagine them disappearing. But it does
bring a certain amount of uncertainty to the issue. As for the machines, it
was really a toss up. They are both great.
Lawrence
In all fairness, I suspect Polaroid will
find some way to continue operations.
BTW, a few times the
Silverfast software has not recognized my scanner, but then I start up
Polaroid's software, and then try it with Silverfast's again and it does
recognize it. Next time it happens I'm going to contact Silverfast with the
details. (I'm working on a Macintosh G4).
As
I'm using a Nikon 4000 as we speak on a Mac G4 with 8.something OS. Digital
ICE, Digital ROC and Digital GEM are working just fine.
Jack Phipps
Applied Science Fiction
-Original Message-
From: Chuck Phelps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:44 AM
To: [EMAIL
Thanks Steve. I've sent it three times to the list. I guess it was too
large. To bad I didn't think of LZW.
Jack Phipps
Applied Science Fiction
-Original Message-
From: Steve Greenbank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
Bankruptcy doesn't entail an end to service agreements, etc. It merely puts
creditors on hold.
True, one would like to deal with a company that is solid financially. I
think Polaroid will probably make some radical cuts -- the usual get lean
and mean approach. I've also hear that the company
Polaroid Secures Loan Extensions,
Plans to Explore Merger or Sale
A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE News Roundup
Polaroid Corp. said Wednesday it would explore a merger or sale as the
camera and film maker tries to dig out from beneath a mountain of debt.
The company announced a waiver on a $363
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