Re: filmscanners: NIKON LS 4000 AND D1X

2001-09-18 Thread David
Hi Mikael, In my opinion, a good optics design is when sharpness is well balanced from the center to corners and not too sharp in the middle and much less in the corners. Why aspherical lenses and ED lenses? Chromatic and spherical aberrations are higher in the corners and this tech, increases

Re: filmscanners: NIKON LS 4000 AND D1X

2001-09-18 Thread David
Hey Tom!!! Are you from the Olympus Mailing List? ;-) I think the same as you, and I´ve decided to increase my OM gear and buy the LS-4000. I think tomorrow or in a few days I´ll have it. I think that is a real pity to jump to digital market and waste money with new lenses. Next year (new 5.5

filmscanners: Gold CD-R's

2001-09-18 Thread Steve Greenbank
I know from past comments some of you have a strong preference for Gold CD-R's. Well I just happened across this: http://www.tssphoto.com/sp/dg/cd/kodak_audio.html Expensive for CD-R's but still pretty cheap archive storage. Steve

Re: filmscanners: Gold CD-R's

2001-09-18 Thread David Lewiston
Steve wrote: I know from past comments some of you have a strong preference for Gold CD-R's. I've settled on Mitsui Gold CDRs for everything important. Friends with high-end mastering studios (my main activity is music recording) tell me that the most durable digital storage currently

filmscanners: Useful Program for Burning CD's

2001-09-18 Thread Larry Berman
No sure if it was discussed on the scanning forum, but PC Magazine just released an updated version of it's End It All program that shuts down all non essential programs which is useful when burning CD's or running scandisk. http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D1478%2526a%253D13909,00.asp

RE: filmscanners: Useful Program for Burning CD's

2001-09-18 Thread Gordon Potter
If you wish to look at what is running on a PC that does not need to be and you don't really know if something like ctlmon.exe is important or not, you may want to look at: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm#Select __ Gordon Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nashville,

Re: filmscanners: Useful Program for Burning CD's

2001-09-18 Thread Johnny Deadman
on 9/18/01 8:29 PM, Gordon Potter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wish to look at what is running on a PC that does not need to be and you don't really know if something like ctlmon.exe is important or not, you may want to look at:

Re: filmscanners: Gold CD-R's

2001-09-18 Thread Karl Schulmeisters
My understanding is that it is the lacquer finish coat that causes the degradation. IE exposure to light and to airborne oxidants slowly makes it opaque enough to cause read errors. - Original Message - From: David Lewiston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September

Re: filmscanners: brandnew user queries

2001-09-18 Thread Karl Schulmeisters
I've used these in other situations (air horn for sailboat racing) and they work well. - Original Message - From: Gregory Georges [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:02 AM Subject: RE: filmscanners: brandnew user queries I saw them at CompUSA.

filmscanners: Using Photoshop as the viewer for Vuescan

2001-09-18 Thread Herm
How do I do this? Herm Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez

Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Using Photoshop as the viewer for Vue scan

2001-09-18 Thread Larry Berman
It's under PrefsExternal Viewer (on Windows). You might have to plug in the path to Photoshop.exe. I'm not sure. Check with Ed. But why do you want to open Photoshop immediately? It's a much faster work flow to scan all your images and then open Photoshop to work on them. I use ACDSee as my

Re: filmscanners: Gold CD-R's

2001-09-18 Thread David Lewiston
Karl wrote My understanding is that it is the lacquer finish coat that causes the degradation. IE exposure to light and to airborne oxidants slowly makes it opaque enough to cause read errors. My approach to archiving any critical data: Save the material to two different brands of media, in