Hi, all!
I'm a little behind in my reading of this list, but I thought I'd respond to
this one.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned (that I noticed) is that this spec from
Stanley gives the operating life as 1000 hrs at IF=max. Usually, we power
an LED with something on the order of 20mA cur
HI, Martin!
I"d try it with all the auto settings first. I use what amounts to a
default configuration of Vuescan with my Scan Multi II and it works great on
all reasonably well exposed images, both positive and negative, color and
monochrome.
Oh, yes, I do this on a PC, but Ed Hamrick seems
HI, Everybody!
Up until now I've been scanning negative materials almost exclusively with
very gratifying results. Recently I took several rolls of both Ektachrome
and Kodachrome slides which came out a *little* on the dark side. They look
great in the slide viewer, but are probably a bit, mayb
Hi!
I sent this message to the list a couple of days ago but didn't see it
posted, so I'm trying it again. If it's a duplicate, please forgive me!
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HI, Everybody!
Up until now I've been scanning negative materials almost exclusively with
very gratifying results. R
Hi, all! (and Ed in particular!)
I've noticed something similar while scanning slides on my Scan Multi II
using Vuescan 6.1. Every so often, (I would have guessed every 10 or so
scans in my experience) one will be 'way out of focus.
I have been running sets of four unattended slide scans (us
HI, everybody!
I want to thank the half-dozen people who sent me suggestions for improving
the exposure of some dark slides on my Multi II.
I had success with using both the autoexpose on a cropped region, and then
lock in the exposure by disabling autoexposure method, and by changing the
brig
Hi!
I, too, have a Scan Multi II and can tell you that the multipass scanning
makes a significant difference when scanning overexposed negatives or
underexposed slides. The difference is in the noise level of the darkest
portions of the slide or the lightest portions of the reversed negative
(of
Guys, Guys!
You're both partially right and both partially wrong!
SOME people can get results that are acceptable FOR THEIR PURPOSES,
shooting hand held at slow shutter speeds. SOME people can't get acceptable
results (for their purposes) even with a tripod. These latter people are
those who t
Well, Austin...
First, I would say that in my experience, a hand-held shot with anything
longer than a wide-angle lens at less than 1/30th second is very likely to
be unsharp due to camera motion, either vibration, or rotation during
shutter pressing. That is my experience, and it seems to cor
HI, Tony!
I actually agree with you, mostly. I'm a "sharpness junkie" myself, which
is one of the reasons I shoot medium format, and purchased a Scan Multi II
recently. I guess that my possible disagreement is simply with how much
resolution is actually "necessary". I mean, just how acurately
HI, Ron!
I agree with you that a 4000 dpi scanner will allow for much greater
cropping before losing too many pixels of resolution. The question is
simply--How much are we willing to pay for all this extra resolution.
As I have stated repeatedly, I am a serious amateur. I can't afford to pay
Hi, Austin!
I guess you are probably a better photographer than I am. I am being
serious. What you (and others) have done for 25 years may simply not within
my ability. I am only an amateur, serious, but amateur. I have found that
I need help steadying the camera for maximum sharpness at anyt
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> From: "Clark Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> | I shudder (shudder!) to think what I'll need to stabilize my camera when
> I
> | get old! (er)
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> | Guy Clark
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> Why not stabilise you
Hi, everybody!
I need to know if anyone knows what is the expected lamp life for a Scan
Multi II.
I recieved my Scan Multi II in early August, and have used it mainly on
weekends, (usually turning it off when done, although the lamp appears to
power down after a period of disuse). When I turn i
eap!) but
this way I'll have a spare when the lamp in the to-be-repaired unit finally
goes bad.
I'm going to misss my scanner! :-(
Thanx, everyone who responded!
Guy Clark
> -Original Message-
> From: Clark Guy
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 7:12 AM
> To
HI, Gary!
I found the website rather unhelpful in terms of getting information and
service for my scanner. The website has places for one to ask questions and
give symptoms, but after laboriously writing in all the boxes and hitting
the "send" button, an error message comes up, and when I return
Hi Trevor!
Indeed, this has been discussed before (back in August/September, I recall).
The upshot is that it APPEARS that the US$380.00 UH-M1 includes some
stitching software that will allow making three 2880dpi stripe passes on an
MF image, and combining them to make one high res image. Of c
HI, everybody!
Since there still appears to be some interest in getting the highest
resolution scans from a Scan Multi, here is a report on my first prototype
Universal Holder. The idea is to be able to scan a 6x6 or 6x9 cm image in
three swaths, and stitch thes swaths together in software to ma
Hi, Art!
I wasn't going to get involved in this issue, but I vehemently disagree with
your assertion that
"Science is whatever the ruling scientist claim is true now. "
That's NOT science. Science is the idea that soneone makes a claim and
others strive to independently verify the claim. A
HI, Ed!
Thanx for the tips!
I neglected to turn off Auto Mask, White Point and Black Point. D'OH!!!
I 'll try it again this week!
Thanx again!!
Guy Clark
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Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 12:39 PM
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Hi, people!
Didn't anyone besides Ed Hamrick get my rather long description of how I
"faked" a Universal Holder using my MF holder and some sheet plastic with
holes cut in it?
I described a technique of doing just what is being asked about here:
scanning a 6x6cm negaitve in three overlapping
HI, Stephen!
This may be a stupid suggestion, but have you checked your display
properties? Could you have your graphics card set to something other than
"true color"?
Just something easy to overlook...
(It also may have happened to me once.. ;-) )
Hope this helps...
Guy Clark
-O
That's funny...
I had quite successful results scanning MF negatives on my Umax Astra 2400S
flatbed. Of course, I realized that my dynamic range and resoution would
not be up to the standard of a good filmscanner, hence my subsequent
purchase of a Scan Multi II last summer.
I still have sever
HI,.all!!
Kudos to Ed Hamrick for his latest vuescan release!! I now can operate both
my Scan Multi II and my Umax Astra 2400S at the same time (well, not
simultaneously, but they can both be on and usable at the same time.)!
For some reason, the TWAIN drivers for the two machines don't coexist
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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 8:29 AM
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Subject: RE: filmscanners: Re: Umax scanners
HI,.all!!
Kudos to Ed Hamrick for his latest vuescan release!! I now can operate both
my Scan Multi II and
HI, Laurie, et al!
I tried swapping the SCSI IDs of the two scanners, and sure enough,
everything works properly now (I thought I'd tried everything else, why
didn't I try this before? !)
Thanx for the tip!
Guy Clark
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Oh, HO!!
HI, Dave!
One option that I haven't seen mentioned here is one of the less expensive
film scanners, the
PrimeFilm 1800U. I have seen these on Ebay for a couple of hundred USD.
For example:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1201951441
It appears not to be as good a scanner
HI, Tim!
If you have a stand-up shower stall in your home, you might try
using that as a place to hang your negatives. I have had a great deal of
dust problems in the half a year or so of film scanning I've done, with both
professionally developed color film and my home develop
I've been doing the same thing recently. I've noticed fewer scratches, but
about the same amount of dust.
What I really like is the money savings from not having prints made. This
is particularly true when I shoot APS (I prefer medium format, but I can't
carry my Kiev 88 in my jacket pocket!
34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: DUST (was Scratched Negs & Home C-41
processing)
One small addition..If you run the shower a short time before you dry
your film, the dust seems to get stuck down, and you have even less of a
problem,
From: Clark Guy <[EMAIL PR
Hi, Pete!
Isn't the Epson 1200dpi scanner one of those that uses two 600dpi CCD
arrays, offset by 1/2 pixel? If so, then of course it looks like a 600 dpi
scanner-- it is merely doing hardware interpolation.
The only way this kind of dual array sensor could work would be if the
individual pix
HI, everyone!
I guess I'll weigh in with my opinion on the future of photography...
In ten years
I believe that digital cameras will continue to get better and better, but
the rate of improvement will be less and less as time goes by. Unless there
is a dramatic change in the methods of man
HI, Bob!
That's one of the points I feel most secure about.
There is that lower limit to how small the CCD elements (photon buckets) can
be. Too small and they get noisy, smaller than that and they are too small
to respond to visible light!
Then there is the upper limit dictated by how wel
graphy (was RE: filmscanners: real value?)
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From: "Clark Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For
: professional photography, there will be specialized digital camera
backs
: that can do perhaps as m
uld
always resample it down to 3.3 Mega pixels and get (I predict) a much better
shot than the current D30 can produce.
Why can't this be doe today?
--Bob
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> From: Clark Guy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:23 PM
> To
HI, Collin!
I can't address all of your questions, but as for CDRs with sleeves, I
bought a fairly large quantity of CDRs from a place called Cassette House
http://www.tape.com
They were Mitsui CDR74, 10 pack logo/silver/gold Tyvek sleeves and I paid
about US$0.90 apiece for them some months
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From: Berry Ives [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 8:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Future of Photography (was RE: filmscanners: real value?)
on 1/30/01 2:32 PM, Clark Guy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, Michael!
>
> Uhh... 35Mb file
re endeth my sermon
regards
Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Road,Ketley, Telford.Shropshire TF 15 DJ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.infocus-photography.co.uk
For Trannies and Negs from Digital Files
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From: "Clark Gu
HI, Bob!
I'm glad you have some of the real numbers there. The fact that we are
already under an order of magnitude of a wavelength says to me that we can't
get too much smaller. After all, there's still the support circuitry for
each CCD element that has to be included on the chip. That multi
t. Image sensors like the Canon one can be rolled
off the same production lines as all the other high-volume semiconductors,
and the intrinsic cost should plummet.
In article
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark Guy) wrote:
> HI, Bob!
>
> Of course, you are quite cor
Hi, Mark!!!
Are these wipes wet or dry? I'd like to try your method, as I don't have
ICE, and spend 'WAY too much time despotting my pictures!!!
Thanx!!!
Guy Clark
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:59 PM
To: [EMA
HI, Mark!
Thanx for the reply! I'll check the local grocery to see if they have any.
As you did, I guess I can use any oily ones on the furniture (might even
keep the dust down!)
Thanx!!
Guy Clark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday,
Hi!
I would prefer that vuescan be optimized for the higher resolutions, or
better yet, there be a way to switch between optimizations (something in
vuescan.ini, for example).
I run 1600x1200 on my work computer and on my home Internet and general
purpose computer, but since my wife prefers the
Hi, Ed!
I would like to second the suggestion about allowing the reversal of the
order of scan. To be able to type in 6-1 and have it scan positions 6, 5,
4, 3, 2, 1 would be a good thing. Better yet, being able to type in the
actual desired order of scans would be wonderful!
Speaking of won
Hi, Lynn!
I am getting flashbacks from my early computer days! I bought an Atari ST
back in 1985 shortly after they came out, and learned a great deal about
computers and programming with it. The GEM (not related to the scanning
GEM) GUI was a really nice windows desktop UI that I wish had been
Hi!
As long as I'm here ;-)... I'd like to ask if anyone has been able to
purchase accessory film holders from anywhere. I expect that Minolta parts
department might, but it would be likely to be at list price. Is there a
source of Minolta film holders (particularly the medium format holder)
HI, All!
The following are just my opinions and feelings on the matter:
I can't think of anything MORE on topic than discussions regarding Vuescan!
Considering that it is software designed explicitly for scanning, and isn't
particularly useful for anything else BUT scanning, discussions about it
HI, Ed!
Any chance of changing this? It would be great if we could play with the
exposure in preview mode without actually doing the scan. I imagine that
this would speed up my attempting to optimize the exposure on some of my
hard to scan underexposed slides.
If not, why?
Thanx
Guy Clar
HI,
Tim!
I had
the priviledge of beta testing an SS120 last month and can say only one
thing:
WOW!
Don't
get me wrong, it's not the perfect scanner, but it sure comes close. If
Polaroid makes the minor changes to the software and film holders that I
suggested, this will be an excep
Hi, Ed!
I guess that I don't mind, either...
I'd actually had SOME success with it on my Scan Multi II, but also some
failures...
I'll keep a couple copies of the last few versions around just in case I
ever want to use it again!!
Thanx again for a great product and great support!!
Guy Clark
HI, Austin!
That looks like him!
Exactly the same attitude, obnoxious personality and use of English
colloquialisms.
I vote for his expulsion.
Guy
-Original Message-
From: Austin Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:07 AM
To: Clark Guy
Subject
Hey, all!!!
Speaking of messages and the quiet here on filmscanners, has anyone started
receiving anything from the Leben scanners (and Epson Inkjet) list? I used
to get more traffic from them than anywhere else.
If this keeps up, I may have to actually do some work here ;-)
Guy
HI, Frank!
I think that the list is just not too busy right now. Maybe everyone's out
shooting pictures to scan later! (and I'm stuck at work... :-/ )
Guy
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From: Frank K-F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:30 AM
To: Clark G
03, 2004 10:03 AM
To: Clark Guy
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Pacific Image PowerSlide 3600 opinions?
You might want to consider the Epson 4870 flatbed:
http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson%204870/page_6.htm
which appears to be able to get an effective (approximately) 3000dpi out of
fil
D]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 12:31 AM
To: Clark Guy
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Revive this list?!
Jules,
Actually, that makes sense to me too - would you suggest what we might
address best here? Scanners seem about done as a topic - they'll be around
for a while, but they are m
--Original Message-
From: Arthur Entlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:16 AM
To: Clark Guy
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Revive this list?!
Since everyone knows that what really keeps a list active is a good bit of
controversy, I will take responsibility for the l
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