[filmscanners] Re: Corrections at 36-bit color depth...

2002-06-06 Thread Arthur Entlich
Earlier versions of Photoshop had quite a few processes which worked in 8 bit/channel (24 bit) mode only. Later versions included more and more processes that function in 16 bit/channel (48 bit) mode. I use version 5.5, and it still doesn't allow for filters to work in 48 bit, and several other

[filmscanners] Re: Bug fixes for Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite II

2002-06-06 Thread Ian Riches
lovely long explanation of potential Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite II problems snipped Arthur, Thanks for this! Fortunatley, my (secondhand) Scan Elite II does not exhibit this problem. What I do have, however, is a lot of noise in the dark areas on negative film. Is this a known failing?

[filmscanners] Re: Corrections at 36-bit color depth...

2002-06-06 Thread David J. Littleboy
Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The most recent versions have quite a number of features which work at 48 bit, although I don't believe everything works in that mode yet. Having said this, probably the most important areas to have 16 bit/channel functionality are things like Levels,

[filmscanners] RE: Corrections at 36-bit color depth...

2002-06-06 Thread Kapetanakis, Constantine
Geia sou Vasili, Your problem is with Photoshop. Newer versions of Photoshop allow some filters and functions to work with 48 bit images. The only way around that is to convert to 8-bit Costas -Original Message- From: VC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:29 AM

[filmscanners] RE: Black levels mangled in Nikon Scan (?)

2002-06-06 Thread michael shaffer
dickbo writes ... Probably underexposing their originals. - Original Message - From: Julian Vrieslander ... that NikonScan messes with black levels in a peculiar way. The symptoms show up as a loss of shadow detail, or as discontinuous shapes and sharp cutoffs in histograms.

[filmscanners] RE: Gamma and Color

2002-06-06 Thread michael shaffer
Dana writes ... ... An interesting exercise is to create a color step wedge and apply different gamma values to it. You will see that whatever primary color has the smallest value gets the greatest boost if gamma is larger than unity. This occurs in the popular color spaces of Adobe RGB

[filmscanners] Re: Bug fixes for Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite II

2002-06-06 Thread Arthur Entlich
The Elite is supposed to have better response in the shadows than the Dual II as a result of the higher bit depth A/D conversion. When you speak of the dark areas of the neg, do you mean the areas which are dark in the positive result, or do you mean the areas that end up light on the positive

[filmscanners] Re: Gamma and Color

2002-06-06 Thread Sami Laine
On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 11:08 PM, Dana Trout wrote: I have noticed that when I try to change the midtones of an image I am getting noticable color shifts. Does anyone know of a way of adjusting the midtones of a color image *without* affecting the colors? If you don't want the

[filmscanners] RE: Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 problems

2002-06-06 Thread Thomas B. Maugham
You didn't give much detail, only that you have plenty of ram and disk, but what platform are you on, what version of what OS, etc. Having asked that I would seriously suggest that you consider VueScan. I use it with my SS4000 and prefer it over Insight and Silverfast. You might also go on the

[filmscanners] opinions? Reviews? of Primefilm 1800 ?

2002-06-06 Thread Francoise Frigola
A client is interested in the PacificImage Electronics' Primefilm 1800. I have only found the few words Arthur posted about it, on this list, in March and February. I am unable to find reviews. As anyone tried it? How is it dealing with shadows and highlights details? My client will be