[filmscanners] ADMIN: server upgrade completed Saturday

2004-03-01 Thread Tony Sleep
...and I bet you didn't even notice:) New mobo/faster cpu/more RAM/new OS (XPPro). And thankfully it has stopped falling over then refusing to reboot Regards Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk

[filmscanners] Re: SS4000 again

2004-03-01 Thread Tony Sleep
Bob Frost wrote: Surely the whole purpose of collimated light sources is to achieve maximum resolution (I seem to remember this from my light microscopy days many years ago). Actually, not really. You achieve higher contrast and higher apparent sharpness at boundaries with collimated light,

[filmscanners] RE: ADMIN: server upgrade completed Saturday

2004-03-01 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Hope it serves you well and gives you little trouble in the future. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Sleep Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 7:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] ADMIN: server upgrade completed Saturday ..and

[filmscanners] Re: SS4000 again

2004-03-01 Thread Bob Frost
Tony, Thanks for bringing me up-to-date - I did say my 'knowledge' was of light microscopy many years ago. ;) Bob Frost. - Original Message - From: Tony Sleep [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob Frost wrote: Surely the whole purpose of collimated light sources is to achieve maximum resolution

[filmscanners] Re: ADMIN: server upgrade completed Saturday

2004-03-01 Thread Arthur Entlich
But isn't that the best type of upgrade, where the outside world doesn't even see the blood. sweat and tears that you suffered through? Computer upgrades are like sausages, you really don't want to know what went into making them when you're eating them. ...and this coming from a vegetarian.

[filmscanners] Re: SS4000 again

2004-03-01 Thread Tony Sleep
Bob Frost wrote: Thanks for bringing me up-to-date - I did say my 'knowledge' was of light microscopy many years ago. ;) Mine's mostly from enlargers, many years ago:) All I can say is that I bought a condenser head for a Durst which already had a diffuser head, because I wanted sharper,

[filmscanners] Re: SS4000 again

2004-03-01 Thread Roger Smith
At 1:10 AM + 3/2/04, Tony Sleep wrote: I could see no benefit at all from the condenser head even using a magnifier. All I could see was marginally more blown extreme highlights, already a problem with the (then new) straightline films like TMax, more scratches and marks. The condenser head