Re: filmscanners: brandnew user queries

2001-09-16 Thread Bill Fernandez
masks. I expect I'll have to separate them from the neg masks in >order to scan them -- which will make the Ilfochrome printer (Rob at the >Lightroom in Berkeley) none too happy when I take them to him for more >prints. > >What have I overlooked? > >Thanks & salutations, David Lewiston -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Mac users

2001-09-20 Thread Bill Fernandez
lity of your presence here. It's tough to be on the firing line with end users and I think you've done a great job of being appropriate and sane. Regards, --Bill -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect

Re: filmscanners: The Nikon 4000 and Genuine Fractals

2001-09-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
quot;copyright 1998-2001 Nikon Inc." --Bill -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

LS4000 comments, was RE: filmscanners: Best scanner software

2001-09-30 Thread Bill Fernandez
hat size) BF: yes it's good enough. >or 4000 dpi would gain quality noticeably ? BF: yes you'll notice a difference. -- ========== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Canon's scanner

2001-10-01 Thread Bill Fernandez
nds. >Searching net to any scanner's related information I run onto new Canon's >product: Canon FS 4000US. -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL

RE: filmscanners: Canon's scanner

2001-10-03 Thread Bill Fernandez
;the scanners). >3. Lack of multipassing capability like of Minolta Elite and Elite II. -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

RE: filmscanners: Canon's scanner

2001-10-03 Thread Bill Fernandez
fuzzy at other places (e.g. in the center). >It would be interesting to compare dynamic ranges of FS4000US and SS4000 >though... BF: The shadow detail (and by implication the dynamic range) on the Polariod was noticeably better. -- ==

Re: filmscanners: Computer System Recommendations

2001-10-04 Thread Bill Fernandez
ased work. > >Thanks in advance. > >Glenn -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1: how to get good color and shadow detail

2001-10-04 Thread Bill Fernandez
much better. (2) Be sure that if you scan with the film type set in NikonScan to "Kodachrome" you use your Kodachrome custom profile. Same for the "Positive" setting. -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Buying a scanner - from the US

2001-10-05 Thread Bill Fernandez
the >US/GBP exchange rate at the moment - it works out to about 575GBP, which >... >3. Any other ideas for scanners which might be slightly cheaper, before >I commit myself? -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Arch

RE: filmscanners: Buying a scanner - from the US

2001-10-05 Thread Bill Fernandez
at one. Does it have batch scanning >capabilities? > >Thanks > >Mark -- ========== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1: how to get good color andshadow detail

2001-10-05 Thread Bill Fernandez
ll the time. > >please see my next post on highlight detail and GEM though - my 2 cents... -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

filmscanners: Thanks! Re: VueScan 7.1.25 Available

2001-10-19 Thread Bill Fernandez
e a wonderful (and rejuvinating time :-). -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: OT: Monitor Purchase

2001-10-19 Thread Bill Fernandez
gt; I'm thinking of buying a 19" monitor to go along with an aging 17" >Panasonic.. -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Speeding up bulk scanning

2001-10-19 Thread Bill Fernandez
than the bottom. However, when I last looked >into this, I couldn't find reliable heuristics. If someone can send me >a pointer to studies on this, I'll look into it again. > >Regards, >Ed Hamrick -- == Bill Fern

RE: filmscanners: Nikon film flatness (was Glass slide mounts)

2001-10-20 Thread Bill Fernandez
on on film flatness has been explained before, so this will be my final word on the topic -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Hello

2001-10-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
er?user_id=402251 > >And a primitive template-based website. URL is in my sig. > >Thanks very much. I promise to try not to ask the 14,000 most asked >newbie questions. > > >Ken Durling > >Website http://home.earthlink.net/~kdurling/ > >Alternate e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Lossless JPEG's? was Hello

2001-10-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
27;d TIFs), and >I am now moving over to PNG's for my own file storage in order to >save CD space. The lack of 48-bit quality hasn't yet been an issue >for me.. > >mt -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

RE: filmscanners: Nikon film flatness (was Glass slide mounts)

2001-10-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
find exactly the same problem with plastic mounted kodachromes? > >The other thought: all the posts complaining about this issue have been from >4000 owners too. none from 8000 people. hmmm. -- == Bill Fernandez * User

Re: filmscanners: Lossless JPEG's? was Hello

2001-10-22 Thread Bill Fernandez
he pre-save data. > >If you do try to save/close/re-open JPEG12 and do a difference with the >original PSD/BMP/TIF you will find there is a difference. -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernand

Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Re: Hello, thanks, and more.

2001-10-22 Thread Bill Fernandez
gt;bit Microtek Scanmaker X12 USL scanner, and it works well. -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

RE: filmscanners: best film scanner for b&w negs

2001-10-22 Thread Bill Fernandez
ndard deviation data. The problem is it's hard to tell how much >of the standard deviation is film grain and how much is scanner noise. >Most of the IV ED deviation is film grain. The Stouffer target has large >grain. -- ========

Re: filmscanners: best film scanner for b&w negs

2001-10-22 Thread Bill Fernandez
this the wrong way? Regards, --Bill At 1:10 AM -0400 23-10-01, SKID Photography wrote: >Bill Fernandez wrote: > > > I've became aware of this when I was doing similar analysis recently; >> that much of the apparent "scanner noise" was in fact film grain.

Re: filmscanners: Archive?

2001-10-23 Thread Bill Fernandez
n out of town.need to >catch up! Thanks! -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: best film scanner for b&w negs

2001-10-23 Thread Bill Fernandez
ng up in the >dense shadows from the greater enlargements (samples) was due to the problem of electronic noise, and not, in fact grain... >Bill Fernandez wrote: >...I couldn't understand why > > two targets of equal density on the same scanner could be so >> different; un

Re: filmscanners: best film scanner for b&w negs

2001-10-24 Thread Bill Fernandez
the same >density as the larger format, because of the grain (or more >properly, the space between the grain). > >Harvey Ferdschneider >partner, SKID Photography, NYC > >Bill Fernandez wrote:- > >> So according to your summary of the discussion on the ColorSync list >

Re: filmscanners: vuescan, firewire, MAc9.2

2001-10-26 Thread Bill Fernandez
to the Mac using OS9.2 and >firewire. I just tried this and it didn't see the scanner. Anyone >else had any luck? -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: monitor shadows lines

2001-10-28 Thread Bill Fernandez
inishing echoes. > >I've tried all the controls, but not diminished it at all. >It doesn't happen with horizontal lines, or off to the left side of >verticals, just the right. > >any ideas? >or is just a faulty monitor? > >paul -- =====

Re: filmscanners: VueScan and Mac OS 9.x

2001-11-01 Thread Bill Fernandez
send to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >so I can receive them at home , where the scanner is. > >Best Regards >Eric -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

filmscanners: Re: Nikon LS4000ED inquiry

2001-11-02 Thread Bill Fernandez
gt;your opinion. > > All the reply are welcome, >thanks a lot. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >bonjour de ANGOULEME > > bernard -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

filmscanners: Re: Nikon LS4000ED inquiry

2001-11-03 Thread Bill Fernandez
At 8:49 AM +1000 3-11-01, Rob Geraghty wrote: >"Bill Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> o You have to decide whether or not to use ICE and/or GEM BEFORE you > > scan... > >Have you tried Vuescan? With Vuescan you could save raw files and recrop >

RE: filmscanners: Re: Nikon LS4000ED inquiry

2001-11-03 Thread Bill Fernandez
unneeded ones... --Bill -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Re: Nikon LS4000ED inquiry + Mac OS 9.x

2001-11-04 Thread Bill Fernandez
I am still having difficulties. -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Multiple passes

2001-11-05 Thread Bill Fernandez
> > > >Photo.net portfolio: > >http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=402251 -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

filmscanners: OptiCal correction/retraction

2001-11-08 Thread Bill Fernandez
>6,500K). " -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: OptiCal correction/retraction

2001-11-08 Thread Bill Fernandez
my Sony Trinitron (Dell-branded) monitor. > >I have a Solux desklamp and I find it provides me with accurate >renditions of my prints so as to compare them with the screen. > >Maris -- ========== Bill Fernandez * User Inte

Re: filmscanners: VueScan Another dumb question.

2001-11-10 Thread Bill Fernandez
and I won't to save the scans in this. > >Can any Mac experts tell me how to do this ? > >Regards >Eric -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images

2001-11-10 Thread Bill Fernandez
(total cost about 650 UK pounds), >OR buy an internal UltraAta 7200 rpm (total cost about 250 UK >pounds) ??? > >Again, we just have to open, retouch and than save our 40mb images, >but currently I am noticing that is taking a bit to access the HD. -- ====

Re: filmscanners: pixels, printer dots, etc

2001-11-13 Thread Bill Fernandez
net portfolio: > >http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=402251 -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Canon 4000 scanner VS Nikon LS4000

2001-11-15 Thread Bill Fernandez
stakes and misinterpreting the results. Whether it's a problem for you depends on the state of your film, how much work you're willing to go to (glass mounting all your slides?) and how demanding you are. --Bill -- ========

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Canon 4000 scanner VS NikonLS4000

2001-11-17 Thread Bill Fernandez
the comments were mild. Other than that I don't remember anyone anywhere mentioning FOCUS as a problem with the Polaroid. --Bill -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-

Re: filmscanners: Canon 4000 scanner VS Nikon LS4000

2001-11-20 Thread Bill Fernandez
ld" design is recommended for glass mounted transparencies. BF: If memory serves correctly this has been the case at least since the 1970's. Curved field lenses were standard, and flat field lenses were special orders. -- =====

Re: filmscanners: pushing dynamic range on the nikon 4000ed

2001-11-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
ith auto exposure set to "on" - and this is how i make >all of my scans. will this cause the scanner to read different images in >different ways such that the profile will have varying degrees of "fit". >how do you have this set? -- ======

Re: filmscanners: flatbed scanners

2001-11-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
& slides. A >cursory search of specs leaves me quite confused. Can anyone clarify this? > > Ian B -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: flatbed for printer calibration

2001-11-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
l to be less trial and error, and better color. > >Thanks, >Berry > -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

RE: filmscanners: switching of nikonscan colour management

2001-11-22 Thread Bill Fernandez
d >> been striving for in colour >> >> but... >> >> when I had got the scan a few minutes later, it opened way off in colour > > (far far too dark, nothing at all like the preview ... -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

RE: filmscanners: pushing dynamic range on the nikon 4000ed

2001-11-25 Thread Bill Fernandez
e truthful. BF: At the time I wrote that my monitor was calibrated with ColorVision's Monitor Spyder and PhotoCal to 6500K at gamma 2.2. -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED nightmares!!!

2001-11-28 Thread Bill Fernandez
can and Photoshop. I get >the horrible image described above. -- ========== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED nightmares!!!

2001-11-28 Thread Bill Fernandez
photoshop assign the "wide gamut" profile to the scan. Good luck, --Bill At 9:45 AM -0600 11/28/01, david/lisa soderman wrote: > >What about if I have color management *OFF*? -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User I

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED nightmares!!!

2001-12-02 Thread Bill Fernandez
Finder, find the Photoshop application, select it, from the File menu choose Get Info > Memory, in the resulting window type 12 into the "Peferred Size:" box. --Bill -- ========== Bill Fernandez * User Interface

Re: filmscanners: Polaroid SS4000 / 4000+ and others

2001-12-03 Thread Bill Fernandez
will scratch the film, although I haven't used mine enough yet for them to get dirty. --Bill -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

Re: filmscanners: Is half interpolation better than none

2001-12-03 Thread Bill Fernandez
an produce I scan at the higher resolution then use Photoshop and bicubic interpolation to sample down to the optical resolution of my scanner. You might try this and see what you think. --Bill -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interfa

Re: filmscanners: SS120 Grain Problem

2001-12-04 Thread Bill Fernandez
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Re: filmscanners: Monitor recommendation

2001-12-04 Thread Bill Fernandez
t; >PS. I know about LaCie but I'd like to keep the price somewhat reasonable. -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernandez.com ==

[filmscanners] re wrong inbox

2001-12-23 Thread Bill Fernandez
ng list email directly to my inbox vs. the filmscanner >list. Can you correct? -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://b

[filmscanners] Re: Minolta vs Nikon MF Question

2002-01-01 Thread Bill Fernandez
er dynamic range, do users find that they can >extract all the useable shadow detail, and not blow out any highlight detail >in a single scan with a transparency? -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fe

[filmscanners] Re: LS 4000 Green Cast

2002-01-15 Thread Bill Fernandez
>Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe >filmscanners' >or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message >title or body -- == Bill Fer

[filmscanners] Re: SONY GDM Monitors (was CRTs vs LCDs)

2002-01-19 Thread Bill Fernandez
These CRTs have a wonderfully sharp display... BF: Both the above Mitsubishis have/had very sharp display of small text. Both the above Sonys have/had disturbingly fuzzy display of small text. -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface

[filmscanners] Re: Power Line Filter

2002-03-31 Thread Bill Fernandez
to 100MHz)' >be sufficient to eliminate the problem.?One post suggested not because >the cutoff starts too high. -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User In

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning 8X10 negs

2004-01-17 Thread Bill Fernandez
need to scan. -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billf

[filmscanners] Re: cleaning a dusty Nikon LS4000

2004-04-17 Thread Bill Fernandez
Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://billfernande

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
scanner and began to try to obtain a >profile for Kodachrome scans. -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTE

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-24 Thread Bill Fernandez
about Kodachrome, so he'd need a Kodachrome IT8 target. --Bill At 11:10 PM +0100 4/22/04, Al Bond wrote: >Bill Fernandez wrote: > >> I made >> using a Kodachrome IT8 target and the ICC Scan software from >> profilecity.com > >I haven't heard of this

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-24 Thread Bill Fernandez
... If the the >profiles could be converted in Photoshop in a batch mode, that would >be a viable alternative for me. Is that possible? -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080

[filmscanners] Thanks Re: Best 35mm slide film?

2004-05-18 Thread Bill Fernandez
last. --Bill -- == Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bi

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS4000 alignment

2004-08-06 Thread Bill Fernandez
. It makes scanning >xpan shots for stitching more difficult. Has anyone else experienced >this problem? Any suggestions are very welcome. -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
tried using curves in Photoshop to uncompress the highlights >and spread them back into the midtones. However, I still can't get a natural >looking result. > >Has anyone got any tips or suggestions on anything else I can try? -- ===

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides

2004-11-24 Thread Bill Fernandez
27;ll find several ways to approach this. --Bill At 11:19 PM + 11/24/04, Al Bond wrote: >Bill Fernandez wrote: > >> My Nikon LS4000 has analog gain controls accessible through the Nikon >> scanner driver. I can sometimes turn down the anaalog gain to get >> more detail i

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanners on Mac

2004-12-10 Thread Bill Fernandez
e) are using Colorsync. > >If so, what settings are you using in Nikon Scan etc for color management? > >Thanks, > >Berry -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-

[filmscanners] Re: Dynamic range question

2005-03-25 Thread Bill Fernandez
range of these scanners? How is dynamic >range measured? -- ====== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * bf