Hi Andrew. This was a subject of intense discussion on this list about a
year ago last spring. From those threads I concluded that the gold dye CDR's
were the most stable. As I understand it the patents for the gold dye is or
was owned by Mitsui and I have used Mitsui gold CDR's exclusively since
Ron Carlson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote on Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:33:00 -0700
This was a subject of intense discussion on this list about a
year ago last spring.
And here's a link to tell you everything everyone needs to know about CD-R
http://www.macintouch.com/cdrfailure.html
--
David Gordon
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:19:34 -0700 Winsor Crosby ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
It is not wide spread, but photographers have archived color images
as black and white color separations for years. The longevity of
black and white film is pretty well established.
Oh no it isn't! :) Do a web
On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 13:20:13 + Lynn Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It is hard to imagine this Sony monitor not having the ability to tweak
the individual guns (... is this some type of consumer model? ...).
AFAICT, my Dell Trinatron monitor does not--it's not upfront, at any
We appreciate the importance of leaving a Rosetta Stone though.
If you really want to be understood by an archeologist in a geologically
far future, your stony time capsule needs some Latin or Greek :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hersch Nitikman) wrote:
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It is hard to imagine this Sony monitor not having the ability to tweak
the individual guns (... is this some type of consumer model? ...).
Is this stuff necessary? I discovered that under Win98SE just about any
fully supported video card can do the required gamma adjustments. The
monitor
Rob Geraghty wrote:
Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am very intrigued by the number of people on this list how have color
deficiency. Does anyone know how common this is in the general
population (or even just the male population)?
I'll have to look that one up. I
Al Bond wrote:
This is all very familiar. When I got my Scan Elite 18 months ago these sort of CCD
defects were very obvious in the green channel with only very little gamma and white
point adjustments. I got it repaired under warranty and it seemed much improved
(although not perfect)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 08/07/2001 12:40:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, not damaged. These sorts of horribleness are revealed when you try and
use a scanner beyond its capabilities. You are exposing behaviour which
would normally be
Hersch wrote:
I believe that Etruscan writings in Tuscany, approximately 2-3000 years old
have still not been deciphered.
So then, we seem to have the additional problem of also keeping Etruscan
scribes alive for 2-3000 years (or perhaps their counterparts). Formidable!
;-)
--LRA
Lynn
In a message dated 08/09/2001 8:22:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The second Dimage Scan has fewer bad elements, but it appears to suffer
from a wide area of miscalibrated elements. I am still trying to
determine if this problem is due to the calibration routine
I forwarded Peter's questions to Henry Posner at BH (I was curious about
availability also). Henry's answers are below.
Bob
For the past few months I have been checking with BH in New York City to
inquire about the availability of the Nikon 8000. Each time I have been told
maybe in July,
It turns out that it is impossible to create lossless compression scheme
that does not cause some files to expand in size. A set of random files
always expands. There is no way to encode the random information that
does
not take up at least as much space as the original file. Because of
It is hard to imagine this Sony monitor not having the ability to
tweak
the individual guns (... is this some type of consumer model? ...).
Is this stuff necessary? I discovered that under Win98SE just about any
fully supported video card can do the required gamma adjustments. The
Over the last month or two the amount of spam I'm receiving has increased alarmingly.
Used to get maybe one a week, but now it is more like two or three every day. I've
started to use a utility (Bounce Spam Mail) which pretends that the address to which
the mail is sent doesn't exist, and
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:07:48 EDT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Could this be what is buggering Art and his new SDII? Asking for more
than the scanner is capable? I also have a new SDII and seem to get
some nice prints from scans. Of course, I don't know what I am doing
yet. But I would
On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 21:26:05 + Lynn Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
That is probably the most unique solution I've heard all day, and
probably all year. :-)
Although a joke, it has actually been seriously proposed and developed as
as a long-term archival medium for data - not as
Preben,
Create an new brush that uses a hard edge. Like the one's in the top row.
The problem you're having is that the normal brush is softer as it gets
closer to the edges.
Larry
My clone tool in 6.01 under win2000 will only clone the absolute center of
the brush. If I have a brush
My clone tool in 6.01 under win2000 will only clone the absolute center of
the brush. If I have a brush (circle) of 300 pixels it probably only uses
the 10-15 pixels of the center and a proportionally smaller amount with a
smaller brush.
I've tried resetting all tools and clone tools - no joy.
I
Bob--thanks for forwarding my questions about the availability to Mr.
Posner. I have seen his responses elsewhere about a variety of questions
revolving around photographic equipment and especially those about BH. I
have been a long time, and very satisfied, customer of BH.
I am still curious as
Thanks for the suggestion, Derek. However, the dominance of
Latin and Greek as unioversal education seems to be waning...
g
Hersch
At 04:30 AM 08/09/2001, you wrote:
We appreciate the importance of
leaving a Rosetta Stone though.
If you really want to be understood by an archeologist in a
Yes. But two or three a day would be a blessing; try 30-50 a day. I get
Spam mail that automatically reconnects me to my dialup network when I open
it in preview mode to see if I need to delete it. Writing the postmaster
typically does no good since much of this Spam mail is sent via hijacked
Peter wrote:
I am still curious as the 8000 appears to be available in Europe (as does
the Nikon D1x which I also would like to buy) and in limited quantities the
US. Otherwise how could there be reviews about the device.
Yes they have the 8000 at my local photo joint. So it is
Ed (Bigboy9955) wrote:
The only thing I noticed so far is a print with a deep blue sky and no
clouds had a faint wavy look to it (I don't even know the terminology!!).
From what I've read on this list blues are tough so I'm hoping this *may*
be expected for a blue sky.
No, it shouldn't be
Colin wrote:
Is anyone else receiving much more spam than they used to?
Oh, yeah! But I'm on what Tony accurately describes as dreck--MSN Hotmail,
which produces as much spam as the Wison packing house ever did (it *was*
Wilson, wasn't it? or was it Hormel? Whatever!). ;-)
ISTM that the
Dean wrote:
The small file size will only occur for a subset of all possible images.
Hopefully this subset includes the majority of photographic images. The
best possible compression for an image that consists of nothing but
random data is a one bit flag to indicate that the rest of the file
Go to http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=drivers and download their
Detonator 3 (D#) driver - it will provide the gamma control.
Maris
- Original Message -
From: Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: reply
Colin asked:
Is anyone else receiving much more spam than they used to?
I've received lots of spam since 1995 because I own a domain name and my
email address is (thanks internic) published in the DNS. :( Spammers have
used the DNS as a free library of email addresses to annoy people with.
Lynn wrote:
I'm running Win98 with an NVidia TNT2 card, and don't see anything
in the monitor controls that resembles a tweak or gamma adjustment.
Lynn, are you running 98 or 98SE? I don't think the gamma adjustments came
until SE with its updated version of the CMS.
Rob
Rob Geraghty
Lynn wrote:
Compression starts breaking down when: 1)there is too much texture,
or 2)colors are flat but not quite the same.
And texture may be in the form of grain or apparent grain. My scans of
Fuji 800 compress really poorly, while Provia 100F scans compress far better.
Compression
Would scanning a Fuji Superia 100 ISO neg of a properly exposed 18%
Kodak gray card be likely to stress a scanner? Tried several
different black and white points, although it didn't need any adjustment
based upon the histogram.
I'm about to do some more tests to see if the problem isn't the
Well 98 (non SE) supports gamma correction through Adobe Gamma and through
nice curves in the Display applet of Control Panel with my ATI card, so I
doubt 98, per se, is the root of this kind of problem.
When my PC starts, I can clearly see the gamma change that Adobe Gamma has
been set-up to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 08/09/2001 8:22:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The second Dimage Scan has fewer bad elements, but it appears to suffer
from a wide area of miscalibrated elements. I am still trying to
determine if this problem is
Jawed wrote:
Well 98 (non SE) supports gamma correction through Adobe Gamma and through
nice curves in the Display applet of Control Panel with my ATI card, so
I
doubt 98, per se, is the root of this kind of problem.
OK, I couldn't remember whether the gamma curve in the display applet appeared
On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 22:52:18 +0100 B.Rumary ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Of course this assumes that anyone will still remember what the barcodes
actually mean!
Reminds me of a sci-fi novel I read years ago called 'A canticle for
Leibowitz'. It's post-apocalypse, a devout religious order
On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 21:04:49 -0500 Andrew Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
What CDRs would be the good quality ones?
Kodak Gold, though their new Silver+Gold seem likely to be as good.
However I have never yet had a read problem with any CDR I've burned on any
named-brand CDR. Of
Colin asked:
Is anyone else receiving much more spam than they used to?
and Rob replied with:
I've received lots of spam since 1995 because I own a domain name
and my
email address is (thanks internic) published in the DNS. :(
I really think it depends on your ISP more than anything else.
In a message dated 8/9/2001 5:39:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about giving some more details on the picture, printer, scanner, and
software? Somebody on the List can probably help.
Best regards--LRA
Thanks Lynn. I'm very "green" at this point. I have a Scan
Forgive this somewhat OT post, but I've done an IT8
calibration with Silverfast on my SS4000 and I like what I see on the screen (it
matches the slides well), but I can't trust what comes out of the 1270 printer
to look like what's on the screen. The results are sometimes quite
beautiful,
In a message dated 8/9/2001 8:09:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) provide a scan lacking streaking, banding, variation of exposure
within a frame or out of focus images
can't argue with that
4) provide a readable manual that makes sense to the average person who
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