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of email subjects (an education in itself!) in the
spam folder before deleting them probably takes no more time than all your
complicated attempts to avoid them.
Just my thoughts.
Bob Frost.
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with the new Windows Mail spam filter in Vista. It does a
very good job, only missing one or two out of 200 or so a day, and rarely
taking out a list email. Best I've come across.
Bob Frost
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From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Things are truly out of control now
list had to say.
Bob Frost.
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From: LAURIE SOLOMON [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you scan at 1200dpi, the scanner usually either samples all the 4800
possible data points per inch and throws three out of every four away, or
only samples every fourth possible point. So you are only
Rob,
Many thanks for that picture; I can see now how it works. Should be great
for helping with scanning old Kodachromes in card mounts which are prone to
getting taken in two at a time and jamming according to the Nikon manual.
Bob frost.
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in the manual.
Bob Frost.
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1) Does anyone know if the SF-200 slide feeder from LS-2000 days (off white
colour) can be used with any of the later Nikon 35mm scanners?
2) Also - I have a really handy quick fix for the SF-200 feeder jamming
(they can
With a slide copier on the front of your digital camera, who needs a
scanner?
Bob Frost.
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From: Julian Vrieslander [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sometime in the next year, I hope to acquire a decent DSLR. Perhaps the
ideal list focus for me would be crusty old film
.
If you are never going to swap image files, you don't have to profile your
monitor, you can simply alter the printer driver settings until the prints
match your monitor, and then save them. Making sure that you don't change
your monitor settings after this.
Bob Frost.
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in NkScan. I didn't use a custom profile but just
assigned the Nikon scanner profile and then converted to my chosen working
space.
Bob Frost.
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From: Ed Lusby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is an introduction to my question. Nikonscan 4 doesn't allow custom
profiles to be used
Tony,
Thanks for bringing me up-to-date - I did say my 'knowledge' was of light
microscopy many years ago. ;)
Bob Frost.
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From: Tony Sleep [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob Frost wrote:
Surely the whole purpose of collimated light sources is to achieve
maximum
resolution
, the images are 'softer' to me, and I prefer to use it without
that option and clean up the dirt myself. In the light of your comments I
don't understand why.
Bob Frost.
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From: HPA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Bob, with all respect, I must disagree about condenser light, both
from
diffuse
light filter, and if you switch it into position, you lose resolution, and
the image becomes soft. You also lose resolution on the dust and scratches,
but you can't have one without the other (as Doris Day used to sing).
Bob Frost.
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From: HPA [EMAIL PROTECTED
I get some very strange effects on old Kodachrome 25 - 1960/70 vintages.
Shadow detail on faces can go very peculiar. Have given up using ICE on
Kodachrome, which has the advantage that the images are crisper on my 4000.
Bob Frost.
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From: Paul D. DeRocco [EMAIL
with
NikonScan 2.x.x - so it says. There is a big table of versions and OS
compatibilities with all their scanners.
Bob Frost.
Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
Well, I managed to resurrect my LS-2000--it had some grit on the lead
screw
that stopped the flimsy stepper motor in its tracks. I hadn't used
Anyone any experience yet with the new 5000 scanner?
Bob Frost.
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still think in feet, inches,
pounds, etc, while the youngsters are perfectly happy with centimetres and
kilograms. Old scientists like me have always had to use metric at work, so
my brain is bi-standard. It still flips back into Imperial at times, like
when thinking of photo sizes.
Bob Frost
there is a
simple explanation for this.
Bob Frost.
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What file format are you saving to?
The size VueScan gives you is the raw image size. The disk file size can be
different,
mostly smaller, due to how the information is saved.
I have seen very grainy
resolved.
Bob Frost.
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In fact big K is used to mean 1024 rather than the 1000 of little k.
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means 119.9 megabits.
Abbreviations often cause problems, so 'If in doubt, write it out' is a good
maxim to follow.
Bob Frost.
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From: Thomas Maugham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, that should read 119,885kb or 119.9mb
Art, Austin, et al.,
Does a sensor 'average' the light falling on it, or does it use some other
mathematical function?
Bob Frost.
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From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
However, within its resolution, it accurately represents the average
hue and luminosity
Laurie,
I thought I had read somewhere that if you send images to the Epson driver
with dpi that are larger than its native dpi (360/720) it simply discards
rows of pixels as scanners often do, rather than downsample them by any
interpolation method.
Bob Frost.
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From
. It might not
be an 'accurate' record, but then neither is the painting, and I doubt if
'accurate record' pictures are what turn most people on. They clearly are
what turns you on, but you are unusual I suggest!!
Bob Frost.
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From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You
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Bob Frost.
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From: Jonathan Ratzlaff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With respect to file size to printers, Bob Frost, statement that desktop
printers require 720 dpi for the file size is news to me. I still think
that just because the printer lays down ink at anywhere between 720
Austin,
I know, but I've lapsed into using the same terms as most other people (you
excepted). It gets painful banging your head against a brick wall after a
while. Same with metamerism; hardly anyone uses it correctly, so after a
while you just 'go with the flow'.
Bob Frost.
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for the driver upsampling lessening the effect.
Bob Frost.
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From: KARL SCHULMEISTERS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upsampling always results in some loss - it might be artifacts, it might be
loss of tonal gradation
with
differential USM.
Bob Frost.
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From: Paul D. DeRocco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're right that you won't get _super_ sharp images from a 6Mp camera at
11x17, but they'll still be quite sharp at 180ppi. I like the results I get
with a Canon 10D and an Epson 2200. For some
time.
A 6MP digital image is equivalent to a 2000dpi scan, not a 4000dpi scan
which gives 24 MP. My Minolta 5400 gives about 40MP scan (230 MB files!),
but some of my D100 images look as good at 12x18. Depends on content. l use
Neat Image on both.
Bob Frost.
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yourself
(using QI for example that upsamples with various superior methods -
bicubic, lanczos, vector, etc). You seem to be suggesting that you can't,
but others suggest you can.
Bob Frost.
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From: Eugene A La Lancette PhD MD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
240 dpi is all
Thys,
In my few tests with it, I've found that manual focussing 'on-screen' rather
than using the knob on the front of the scanner seemed to give me much
better results.
And saving the files as tiffs with lossless LZW compression reduces them to
about a third.
Bob Frost.
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Just to muddy the waters, I've used my D100 to 'scan' slides using the ES1
Slide copier that Nikon makes. Not pretending that the quality is brilliant,
but it is quick and easy, and will only get better with improvements in
cameras.
Bob Frost.
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Paul,
Try using curves to limit the lightening/darkening to what part of the scale
you want, and then use History brush to paint it in to where you want.
Bob Frost.
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From: Paul D. DeRocco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't you miss the ability to limit the dodging/burning
or two 16bit
extras with each release. They will only do more if people demand it, and
not many do at present.
Bob Frost.
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From: Andreas Siegert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why are high bit worksflows harder and take more time? Because of the
Photoshop limitations? Wouldn't a 16bit
Tom,
PS can! Use levels to make the image darker (or lighter), and then use
history brush to burn (or dodge) with opacity control. Simple!
Bob Frost.
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From: HPA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wish i knew of a program that allowed dodging/burning in 16 bit, do you
Laurie,
1Real World Photoshop 6, page 504
2www.creativepro.com/story/feature/16097.html
Bob Frost.
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From: LAURIE SOLOMON [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know about one of the links to information on this sort of procedure;
could you supply me with any links
ways of working, try some of them, and adopt the
ones that are useful to me.
Bob Frost.
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From: Henk de Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The purpose of this discussion is not to proof that your religion is the
only true one, but to let you re-think about your own favourite
version - sRGB64.
Bob Frost.
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Are there multiple versions of SRGB?
The sRGB color space has a strict definition. There is only one version.
I'm not quite sure what Nikon is trying to say there -- maybe an editing
error, or they make
It is with the Nikon 4000. Vuescan simply saves it as an extra channel if
you ask it to. You can then look at it and see what it has marked for
removal.
Bob Frost.
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From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The IR data is simply a fourth channel, and could
easily
I hope it has something to do with the missing screw throwing the
innards out of alignment? I'll report back when I get the replacement.
Bob Frost.
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From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I, for one, would love to hear how you like the Minolta 5400
and reduce the
size of my files back to about 100MB by converting to 8bit.
Bob Frost.
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From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exactly, but to claim that you need to use 16 bit data (for color) is
simply wrong, and was my point, and why I was very careful in what I said
Laurie,
You don't have to convert from 16-bit to 8-bit for printing, because
Photoshop is clever enough to do it automatically after it has done any
color conversions. Bruce Fraser points this out in RWP.
Bob Frost.
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From: LAURIE SOLOMON [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe
and see
where the optimum lies.
Bob Frost.
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From: LAURIE SOLOMON [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 6:30 AM
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: keeping the 16bit scans
When I say that turning a HD on and off has a negative
effect in terms
Michael,
Surely this is simply because sRGB IS the standard to which manufacturers
are working for files that do not have embedded color spaces or which are
not going to be color managed in PS etc, i.e. the vast majority.
Colormatch and AppleRGB are very similar to sRGB.
Bob Frost
pricy, not very good from what I hear, and backwards looking.
Bob Frost.
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From: Julian Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can someone enlighten me? And what are the figures for modern cameras
for what I will call here dynamic range? And what range do they expand
I think Austin is correct. Win98 had color management in the form of ICM.
This had one or two problems which were corrected in ICM2, supplied in
Win98SE and following versions up to the current XP. I used ICM and ICM2 in
Win98 and 98SE with PS and my Epson EX printer.
Bob Frost.
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bring a cold camera or pair of
spectacles into a warm room). A cold outside wall to a room may suffer
condensation and mold growth for the same reason, even though the general
humidity of the room would not support growth.
Bob Frost.
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From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL
on an LS8000.
Bob Frost.
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From: Matt Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
seems like vuescan might be useful, but here are my gripes. maybe
somebody can set me straight
my hardware is the nikon ls 8000.
i tried the tryout version...which seems useless for critical
Art,
What about using the swabs that Fuji et al supply for cleaning the CCD's in
digital SLRs?
Bob Frost.
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From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Again, I suggest speaking to a repair guy, or wait for someone who has
done so to reply.
The brush may, if soft
Joel,
You may well be correct - I am using XP Pro. Since the Home edition does
have System Restore, I had assumed that it had the Automatic System Recovery
facility as well.
Bob Frost.
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It is my understanding that XP includes the full
Art,
If you read some of the postings on the DigitalBW list, you will find that
Epson US was advised by a group of US color experts (Andrew Rodney and
others) that the CD and Gray Balancer should not be included with the
printer. They apparently didn't like them.
Bob Frost.
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Laurie,
Fair enough, but archival fiber-only papers were not designed to be used
with inkjet inks, were they? Rarely can you have everything in life!
Bob Frost.
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From: Laurie Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Most commercial photographic papers are RC (Resin Coated - i.e
).
Respectfully yours,
Bob Frost.
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From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh, so I've become the someone like reference now, eh?
Fine.
If you think my intent here is to mislead or just give uneducated
opinions with no forethought or research, just ignore them. I
Major, Jack Julian,
My LS4000 Users Guide states that it has a 3964-pixel, linear CCD image
sensor.
Bob Frost.
On 6/13/02 9:53 AM, Jack Phipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Major A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I'd like to add here that, apparently, the LS-4000 ED has the same
problem
deedee,
Right-click on your cd drive and under Autoplay, select 'Take no action' for
each type of CD file, music, data, etc. Or leave music to autoplay, but data
or mixed cd's not to, as I do.
Bob Frost.
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P.S. Any one know how to completely
Isidoro,
Are you willing to share that profile with us?
Bob Frost.
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From: Isidoro Orabona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem is into CMS engine (ColorSync on Mac and ICM on Windows). The
LS2000 profile is a very complex one and the CMS engines find great
difficulty
Art,
I think Win XP has the same color management system (ICM2) as Win 98SE;
written by the same company that wrote the color management system for the
Mac. It seems to work perfectly with my Nikon scanner and Epson printer.
Bob Frost.
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From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL
Rob,
XP brings together both former lines of OS's into one. XP Professional
replaces NT and 2000, and XP Home replaces 95/98/ME.
The innards of XP are essentially from the NT/2000 line, while the front end
and media capabilities are from the 98/ME line.
Bob Frost.
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I don't
Dave,
I'm now back at my XP computer, and if I run Messenger from Programs, and
click on Tools/Preferences, there is a checkbox that says Start with
Windows. I unchecked that and Messenger does not run now unless I click on
it in Programs.
Bob Frost.
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From: Dave
button immediately (I have a Nikon which I don't anticipate changing
before I swap permanently to digital). And I have saved some of the
density/dynamic range postings since they have content that might be useful
in future.
Bob Frost.
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From: Todd Flashner [EMAIL
much highlight
detail and shadow detail there was if you get the scanner exposure
appropriate. By superimposing them and painting out the blown-out highlights
from the second scan, I got a very acceptable print from an apparently
hopeless slide.
Bob Frost
At 12:47 16/04/02, you wrote:
On Mon, 15 Apr
better results with
ICE and GEM than VS, while VS gives me better color processing than NS and
also allows me to output the files in EktaSpace which NS doesn't.
Bob Frost.
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From: Julian Vrieslander [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Glad to hear that your LS-8000
space in 16-bit, before sending it to the printer. I also seem to remember
that there is another benefit of letting the printer driver reduce the file
to 8-bit, rather than doing it in PS before sending it.
Bob Frost.
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From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I see
4000ED
Users Manual (Appendix 1).
You also have to go through a special routine before switching-off the
scanner.
Bob Frost.
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From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Firewire
Al Art,
You can use Firewire with Win98Se. My Nikon LS4000 came with a Firewire card
that installed OK.
Bob Frost.
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From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using a Polaroid SS4000+ which also is both USB and Firewire.
At least with the beta instructions
to Vuescan 7.2.6 . I've tried 7.4 and 7.5 and for my
scanner they seem worse.
Has anyone else tried the combination of scanning software?
Bob Frost.
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I'd love to have the Minolta Multi Pro, but it's software is allegedly
poor
with negs. And if I
Congratulations Tony,
As it is Saturday, I can report that I haven't laughed so much for a long
while.
Bob Frost
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Naturally I have received a complaint about my summary blockage of the Hard
Disk Speed thread. I concede it may have been
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