Re: filmscanners: SS4000, Win2K disappears!

2001-07-27 Thread Derek Clarke
Have you tried using a different Firewire port on the computer and scanner? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven N. Norvich) wrote: > The SS4000 is, as far as I know, ONLY Firewire. The firewire > controller does > show up on device manager and is deemed "running normally" and there is > a 75 gig disk

filmscanners: Nikon LS4000, Win2K disappears!

2001-07-27 Thread Steven N. Norvich
I apologize for the typographical error and incomplete information. It should have been the NIKON LS-4000 disappears from WIN2k Best regards, Steve Steve Norvich Quentin Corners #114 853 N. Quentin Road Palatine, Illinois 60067-0711 http://www.underwaterphotos.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: filmscanners: SS4000, Win2K disappears!

2001-07-27 Thread Steven N. Norvich
Sorry, it should have be Nikon LS-4000. At 05:03 PM 7/26/01 -0500, you wrote: >The SS4000 is, as far as I know, ONLY Firewire. The firewire controller does >show up on device manager and is deemed "running normally" and there is a >75 gig disk running off of it that seems >to run just fine. I

Re: filmscanners: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20autolevels=20was=20re=3A=20filmscann...

2001-07-27 Thread RogerMillerPhoto
Tony, I have no quarrel with your statements (I almost never do) except with your two-phased processing approach to restore detail in a specular highlight.  It won't work with a true specular highlight which is what the original question was about, but only with a diffuse highlight.  A specular

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread Rob Geraghty
Julian wrote: > I understood and would like someone to confirm that > the Windows resource meter had nothing to do with > how much RAM you had, it was only a measure of > usage of some stack or similar. You may be thinking of the GDI, USER and SYSTEM resources. I think in Win98 each of these is

Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Greenbank
> I'd also like to know if it is true as Tony suggests that aver 512MB or RAM > is a waste, as I was thinking of getting more RAM on the weekend. > I don't know as I only have 512MB but I suspect this is 99% true. That is 99% of users will see no difference because most normal applications just d

RE: filmscanners: scanning PAN-F (was: Polaroid Rebate)

2001-07-27 Thread Alessandro Pardi
One last advice: if you have a chance to, try a scan of your favorite film (APX25, I gather) before buying. Having mostly T-MAX and Delta in my closet, I had a nasty surprise the day I tried a roll of Ilford PAN-F: contact prints from the lab were great, but my LS-30 had a terrible time with

filmscanners: Redish cast in Vuescan with 48bit in Epson 1240U photo

2001-07-27 Thread Jan Gorski
I was trying to find the best software for Epson 1240U photo to make skans with it. So I was making test with SilverFastSE, Vuescan and Epson Twain 5. Last of this programs is the simplest and sometimes don't work as I want. I was trying to compare the quality of scannes of this programs. I want

Re: filmscanners: scanning PAN-F (was: Polaroid Rebate)

2001-07-27 Thread Rob Geraghty
Alessandro Pardi wrote: > but my LS-30 had a terrible time with this film (probably a D-MAX problem: highlights > were simply unreachable). Any other experience with this film out there? I haven't, but I wanted to ask if you tried vuescan with it? I haven't got useful images from silver based fi

filmscanners: Archive address please!

2001-07-27 Thread David Gordon
Someone please remind me of the archive address. I've just re-subscribed, need to catch up.. Thanks -- David Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: filmscanners: scanning PAN-F (was: Polaroid Rebate)

2001-07-27 Thread Alessandro Pardi
I did. I experimented with various settings (long exposure pass, exposure, gamma etc.) but it seems that the most dense parts of PAN-F are beyond reach for this scanner (even increasing exposure so that the scan was way too dark didn't improve highlights detail that much). I've never seen this hap

Re: filmscanners: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20autolevels=20was=20re=3A=20filmscann.

2001-07-27 Thread Tony Sleep
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 03:26:05 EDT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Tony, I have no quarrel with your statements (I almost never do) except > with= > =20 > your two-phased processing approach to restore detail in a specular=20 > highlight. It won't work with a true specular highlight which is what

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread B. Twieg
I had 512 MB RAM and upgraded to 1GB with Win Me and it didn't work well. It recognized the 1GB, but I got a lot of crashes. After I switched to Win 2K, all is well and the 1 GB memory is definitely helpful in Photoshop even with the 100MB images from 35mm scans. Less switching to the scratch dis

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread Tony Sleep
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:03:17 -0500 Laurie Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I noticed in both systems that since > the addition of the RAM the Windows resources meter shows proportionately > less system resources being used than previously (ie., more system's > resources available), which i

Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread James Hill
> > I'd also like to know if it is true as Tony suggests that aver 512MB or > RAM > > is a waste, as I was thinking of getting more RAM on the weekend. > > > > I don't know as I only have 512MB but I suspect this is 99% true. That is > 99% of users will see no difference because most normal applic

RE: filmscanners: Archive address please!

2001-07-27 Thread Hemingway, David J
http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/ -Original Message- From: David Gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 9:46 AM To: Filmscanners Subject:filmscanners: Archive address please! Someone please remind me of the archive address. I've just re-subsc

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread Laurie Solomon
Fine; but what do you suggest as a way to determine if and how the additional RAM is being taken into account and used? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 5:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: films

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread Dana Trout
A 25% faster drive won't necessarily get you 25% faster load/store times. PhotoShop seems to be inordinately slow in dealing with compressed TIFFs -- I got curious so I set up a cache large enough to hold the whole file (53MB). The first time I loaded it into PhotoShop it took 61 seconds (reading

filmscanners: SS4000 $879.99

2001-07-27 Thread Ron Ostrow
Computers4Sure lists the SS4000 for $879.99. Ron

Re: filmscanners: scanning PAN-F (was: Polaroid Rebate)

2001-07-27 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Alessandro Pardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did. I experimented with various settings (long exposure pass, exposure, > gamma etc.) but it seems that the most dense parts of PAN-F are beyond reach > for this scanner I wonder if anyone has tried PAN-F with a SS4000 or other Polaroid scanner?

Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Tony Sleep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:03:17 -0500 Laurie Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I noticed in both systems that since > > the addition of the RAM the Windows resources meter shows proportionately > > less system resources being used than previously (ie

Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Dana Trout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A 25% faster drive won't necessarily get you 25% faster load/store > times. PhotoShop seems to be inordinately slow in dealing with > compressed TIFFs Paintshop Pro is the same. Opening a film scan in PSP takes *far* longer than in Irfanview. > BTW, Ed'

filmscanners: VUESCAN Q: Does VueScan support the SF-200 Autofeeder on the LS4000?

2001-07-27 Thread Michael Greger
Hello filmscanning experts! I rented an LS4000 today and I'm trying to use the SF-200 Slide Autofeeder with VueScan. I do not remember seeing any information about this feeder being supported or unsupported. In any case, I can't make it work! It seems as though it should work. The feeder is a

filmscanners: Matrox and Monitor standby

2001-07-27 Thread Colin Maddock
Slightly off topic here, sorry about that. Recently installed a Matrox G450 on my W98 (not SE) machine, and now I can't wake the computer/monitor up after the monitor only has gone into Standby after x minutes of idleness. It hangs, and has to be re-booted. Not the end of the world, but a nuisa

Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread Pat Perez
Strictly speaking, what Win 3.x through Me consider 'system resources' are a fixed amount of memory regardless of how much system memory you have. I seem to recall that in 3.x it was two 64K heaps and increased in 95, where it has stayed the same until Me. These heaps control how many environment

filmscanners: LS2000 film advance

2001-07-27 Thread Larry
I am using the LS2000 with the film strip adapter to scan some Kodak 5035 negatives. It is not advancing the frame correctly to the next one. It seems to always be off by 5-10 mm. I have never had this type of problem with any other films. This film seems to have more edge to edge curl than no

Re: filmscanners: Matrox and Monitor standby

2001-07-27 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
Try the following settings in the from your Control Panel: Display - Screen Saver - Settings (at the bottom re Energy saving features) - Power schemes "Always On" System standby "Never" Turn off monitor: After [your choice - any time you want for your workflow] I don't recall where I read it