RE: filmscanners: VueScan 7.2.4 Available

2001-11-08 Thread John Hayward
Ed: In the stream of running updates, you swapped the location of the Windows and MAC downloads with VueScan 7.2.4. What are you trying to do, make us pay attention;-) Keep up the good work. Thanks, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf

RE: filmscanners: Slverfast AI discount upgrade

2001-11-01 Thread John Hayward
Johnny: Read that again;-). The $10.00 upgrade posted appears to be for SilverFast SE 5.x upgrade to SilverFast 5.5 SE. As of 11:50 EST 11/1/01, it would appear that Lasersoft has yet to post the Polaroid SilverFast AI Upgrade 5.x to SilverFast AI 5.5 info. John -Original Message- F

RE: filmscanners: SilverFast Upgrade Disaster

2001-09-30 Thread John Hayward @ -HopcoInvst-
Has SiverFast come out with a fix to the ‘Upgrade Disaster’?   I have a Wintel system (PIV 1.4g, Win2k, lots of hard drive space). I held off upgrading when I heard of all the problems, be they installation, IT8 Calibration, etc.   Thanks,   John     John Hayward

RE: filmscanners: Scanner Buying Dilemma

2001-09-26 Thread John Hayward @ Hopco
IF Polaroid should file for chapter 11, and the scanner division is a viable and profitable entity, I am quite sure it would be conserved in any reorganization. Even IF Polaroid should be dissolved via the chapter 7 route, the profitable and viable entities are sure to be bought (at bargain pric

RE: filmscanners: Microtek ArtixScan 4000T - fault

2001-08-01 Thread John Hayward @ Hopco
I don't know if this pertains, but I purchased a Polaroid SS4000 last summer. Wonderful machine! I understand that the SS4000 mechanism is about the same as an ArtixScan 4000T. Initially, I had scanning problems similar to those you describe (mine would about at the fourth slide). When PRD repla

RE: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED

2001-07-11 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
Polaroid Secures Loan Extensions, Plans to Explore Merger or Sale A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE News Roundup Polaroid Corp. said Wednesday it would explore a merger or sale as the camera and film maker tries to dig out from beneath a mountain of debt. The company announced a waiver on a $363 mil

RE: filmscanners: OT: Norton and McAfee et al

2001-05-24 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
I could not concur more about Norton. It was a total system hog when I had it installed. I could hardly open two more application without running out of Window's 'fabled' system resources. For the last several years I have been using Fix-It Utilities (2000 in my case though there is a version 3.0

RE: filmscanners: Paintshop Pro

2001-05-09 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
shAf: Thanks one learns something new every day! BTW it also works for vertical lines too. I my case, I take a lot of skiing photos. Oftentimes the only reference to either horizontal or vertical are the trees. (The person shooting quick action, sideslope, very rarely holds the camera level I ha

RE: filmscanners: OT: copyrights

2001-04-01 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
Gosh - what would have happened if MS had licensed the GUI design from Xerox. Maybe XRX would not in such financial distress today. In any event, this shows how few truly original ideas there are. John > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

filmscanners: New Version of Epson PGPP and a Special Handling Notice frominkjetart.com

2001-03-27 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
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RE: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (long)

2001-03-25 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
Dave How can one tell that the PQPP one buys is the 'third' iteration? John > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave King > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 3:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: filmscanners: Repro hou

RE: filmscanners: Spritscan 4000 sensor cleaning kit

2001-03-20 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
John: Try the following URL and go to question #6. http://www.polaroidwork.com/home/LLframeset.jsp?body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.polaro idwork.com%2Flisting%2FListing.jsp%3FFOLDER%253C%253Efolder_id%3D58263%26FOL DER%253C%253EbrowsePath%3D58263%26ASSORTMENT%253C%253East_id%3D58263%26bmUID %3D98436250640

RE: filmscanners: Re: Kodak RFS3600

2001-03-09 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
David:   Your role is laudable. All manufacturers should take advantage of forums such as this to ensure their service is up to snuff.   However, I also appreciate your comments re scanners etc. from a manufacturers point of view. It adds a bit of reality to my perceptions as a consumer.   T

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan vs Silverfast control

2001-03-03 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
I use both. I prefer Silverfast when scanning trannies (perhaps because I used it first). IMHO it give one excellent control and seems more integrated with the SS400. OTOH its complexity may put some off. I prefer Vuescan for negatives. Ed does a great job of providing an extensive list of profi

RE: filmscanners: 16 bit image editing

2000-12-13 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
shAf: Question: Do you introduce any artifacts or noise by the conversion from 16 bit to 8 bit and then the reversion to 16 bit? TNX: John > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shAf > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 5:08 AM >

RE: filmscanners: scan artifact

2000-11-26 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
shAf: Without seeing the entire frame, I cannot be sure. However, from my experience, it looks like a series of hypersonic pregnant chads falling on election night. John :o/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of =shAf= > Sent

RE: Image sharpness-- Hand Held vs. Tripod Mounted (wasRE: 4000dpi (w

2000-10-11 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
Tony: Its nice if you can crop with the camera for sure, but when one cannot, one has to crop in Photoshop. Two weekends ago I had the opportunity to attend an airshow on the USS Truman. I was four rows back from the edge of the landing area and had to shoot the camera 'blind', using a 24mm wid

RE: [NONE]

2000-09-23 Thread John Hayward at Hopco
Title: An extract from PRD's press release of 9/20/00 FYI: Scanners, Projectors, Film RecordersFor years, Polaroid's scanners, projectors and film recorders have set the standard in advanced, professional computer imaging. At Photokina 2000, Polaroid premieres its new SprintScan 45