RE: filmscanners: open and control

2001-06-03 Thread Laurie Solomon
>A lot of people who talk about "evading" patents are confusing them with >copyright, which is another thing entirely. While many people do confuse the two, one must be careful not to assume that the distinctions and uses of the two which exist in one country hold for another. I made that mistak

RE: filmscanners: open and control

2001-06-06 Thread Laurie Solomon
:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: open and control In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Laurie Solomon wrote: > currently copyrights in the US are valid for the > life of the originator even if assigned to someone else, I believe, and are > renewable for a limited length of

RE: OT: Re: filmscanners: open and control

2001-06-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
The film sizes for 120 and 620 are the same; it is only the spools that were different and which accounted for the change in product number. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lynn Allen Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 7:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: OT: Re: filmscanners: open and control

2001-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
>Unfortunately, I'd have to drive 70 miles--and probably twice that--to buy a roll of 120 film of any flavor, upping the >price by 3 gallons of gas! Unfortunately, unless you live in a big commercial metropolitan area, anyone would have to drive a few miles to get to a retail outlet that carries

RE: filmscanners: Colour fix problem

2001-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
Ever think of doing something similar to split contrast printing as used in traditional Black & White photographic printing but this time with respect to color correction. Namely, make adjustment layers for each of the different items that need a unique color correction, masking off the other it

RE: OT: Re: filmscanners: open and control

2001-06-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
Michael, I am willing to accept what you say about the thickness and length of 620 compared to 120. I just seem to remember reading and hearing that it was slightly different especially in thickness and maybe length. Well, so much for relying on memory. :-) Happy to be corrected when wrong; but

RE: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-26 Thread Laurie Solomon
Thanks for your input on the Kodachromes. I just noted it to point out that the statement by Derek Clarke, like most statements of this sort, are true under certain conditions and not as universal unqualified statements as his statement implies:"I think you'll find that nothing will last as long

RE: filmscanners: Film base deterioration (was Digital Shortcomings)

2001-06-28 Thread Laurie Solomon
Tony, While all films today may not be Estar, they are not acetate from what I understand - may be Mylar or someother plastic base - but I could be wrong about that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001

RE: filmscanners: OT: Copyright on Photo's

2001-07-20 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Technically no; but you can probably get away with it if you make them low resolution thumbnails, since you are using the images to advertise the selling of supposedly legitimate original prints or copy prints which the scans represent and not the scans themselves or prints made from the scans. -

RE: filmscanners: OT: Copyright on Photo's

2001-07-21 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Actually Lynn, if you look at my response, you will find that we are for all intents and purposes in agreement on this. :-) Laurie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lynn Allen Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

RE: filmscanners: Digital Copyright

2001-07-21 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>I'm told by those who have that virtually all infringers will >gladly pay your triple licensing fee in accordance with ASMP and EP >practice rather than chance a suit over a registered image. This statement is slightly over-optimistic and a little lacking in qualifications. First, it probably i

RE: filmscanners: OT: Copyright on Photo's

2001-07-21 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
You might wish to place a watermark through the image, so the digital file is not reproducible in any realistic manner. Art LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: > > Technically no; but you can probably get away with it if you make them low > resolution thumbnails, since you are using the images to adv

RE: filmscanners: Digital Copyright

2001-07-22 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Rob, Registering a copyright in one country first gives you copyright protection in that country even if you do not live there or are not a citizen there and second may give you some legal standing in other countries if you should wish to bring legal action against someone who has infringed on the

RE: filmscanners: OT: Copyright on Photo's

2001-07-22 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Tony, The only caveat that I would offer is that, in the US at least, if the image copyright is registered with the copyright office, there are mandatory costs and fines associated with copyright infringements independent of damages or consequential losses. Otherwise I agree with what you have sa

RE: filmscanners: Digital Copyright

2001-07-22 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>It's a little hard to tell from your post, but I'm assuming that you are >not arguing in opposition to registering the copyright on one's images. Correct. >If your image is registered, even the "casual image buyer" will have much >to fear from you, because he will have to pay your court costs.

RE: filmscanners: Digital Copyright

2001-07-23 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I am arguing that people should not get their expectations up as to the nature of the protection that copyright registration provides, the ease of enforcement, the extent of the costs of insuring against copyright protection in terms of time and money, and what they anticipate by way of punitive d

RE: filmscanners: OT: Copyright Registration

2001-07-23 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Thank you Terry. It was a very informative treatise and very worthwhile. There was one sentence that had me wondering: "So, for example, if you're an Australian trying to assert a copyright against an infringer in the UK, you go by UK rules; a US registration will probably not help you, unless t

filmscanners@halftone.co.uk

2001-07-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
If memory serves me, I think I remember some discussion about digital Ice not working all that well on traditional silver black and white negatives because of the silver which does not allow the infrared to work properly as it would in dye based films.  But I am at the age where I could very

RE: filmscanners: Wet-mounting slides?

2001-07-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I would think that what you propose would be as much of a pain in the butt as what you are now doing with your glassless renovation of the original Minolta holder and would be a lot more messy. I personally use the glass holder and have had neither any trouble with such things as flatness or Newt

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Funny, I have two systems with more than 512 MB of RAM installed on them and using Win 98 and have not experienced any problems of the sort you describe. I have experienced problems with the motherboard not being able to resolve conflicts in timing between different types of 168 pin DIMMs but no o

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-26 Thread Laurie Solomon
bject: RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:18:23 -0500 LAURIE SOLOMON ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > One of my systems has 758MB of RAM and > the other has 640MB of RAM. Maybe I am just lucky. :-) Or maybe the extra RAM beyond 512Mb doesn't

RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-26 Thread Laurie Solomon
Rob, Your explanation sounds like a very reasonable one. I am sure that your bringing up the issue is appreciated by all on the forum - some of whom might very well be effected. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty Sent: Thursday,

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-26 Thread Laurie Solomon
o prevent the file cache getting big enough to block every other process. File servers are the most likely machines to be afflicted with this problem. It may come and bite you anytime so unless your feeling really lucky you may wish to look at my post just above this one. Steve - Original Mes

RE: filmscanners: Wet-mounting slides?

2001-07-26 Thread Laurie Solomon
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hans Rijnbout Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: Wet-mounting slides? On 26-07-2001, LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: >I would think that what you propose would be as much of a pain in the butt

RE: filmscanners: Digital Copyright

2001-07-26 Thread Laurie Solomon
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: Digital Copyright LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: > > I am arguing that people should not get their expectations up as to the > nature of the protec

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-26 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
As I have already said in earlier posts, my experience with ram greater than 512MB on two different Win 98 systems have been different in that I have been less likely to run out of system resources, get out of RAM messages, or find the additional RAM to be a waste or unused. Given my experiences

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-27 Thread Laurie Solomon
: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:03:17 -0500 Laurie Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I noticed in both systems that since > the addition of the RAM the Windows resources meter shows proportionately > less system resources being used than previ

RE: filmscanners: Matrox and Monitor standby

2001-07-28 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
It seems that some motherboards have energy saving features in their BIOS which sometimes fight with those of their operating system; the fight can turn into an all out war when certain devices are used. You might try to disable alternately the energy saving features of the motherboard using only

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-29 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
; -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Laurie Solomon > Sent: 26 July 2001 19:03 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows > > > I have also been told that; but noone has

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-29 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
ECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows At 11:27 28-07-01 +0100, Tony Sleep wrote: >On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:09:14 -0500 Laurie Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: > > > Fine; but what do you suggest as a way to determine if and how the > > addition

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-29 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
time. Looks good so far, fingers crossed that I am one of the lucky ones. Cheers, Julian At 12:38 28/07/01, you wrote: >"Tony Sleep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:03:17 -0500 Laurie Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > I

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-29 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
ts in Windows "Tony Sleep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:03:17 -0500 Laurie Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I noticed in both systems that since > > the addition of the RAM the Windows resources meter shows proportionately > > les

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-29 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
sues with large memory spaces (of course in 10 years we'll laugh at the present day notions of what large memory is). Pat - Original Message - From: "LAURIE SOLOMON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:57 PM Subject: RE: f

RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-29 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
: Saturday, July 28, 2001 5:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:09:14 -0500 Laurie Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Fine; but what do you suggest as a way to determine if and how the > additional RAM is being take

RE: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Matrox and Monitor standby

2001-08-06 Thread Laurie Solomon
It very well could be that the clock and harddrive recognition are based soley on battery power all the time and do not use power cord power at all, which would account for the clock slowing down if the batter is going dead even if the computer is plugged into an active power source. -Origina

RE: filmscanners: Colour depth: 16 bit versus 16 bit linear?

2001-08-06 Thread Laurie Solomon
In Minolta's language, the 16-bit lineal is a pure and simple raw scan using no gamma corrections or any other tone, color or inversing corrections at all, including any corrections for color negative masks; the 16-bit scan does do some basic corrections like autofocus ( if selected ), gamma adjus

RE: filmscanners: Bypassing the scanner software filters and getting the raw data?

2001-08-06 Thread Laurie Solomon
What you are getting is basically a raw scan. If you are going to do this, making corrections and adjustments later in an image editing program, you should probably make sure that you are getting high bit 16 bit linear scans, which will involve selecting that option in the Minolta software driver

RE: filmscanners: (anti)compression?

2001-08-07 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Just to add something that might make your suggestion clearer. After selecting the "save as," one will be presented with the file format options as Roger suggests. It is only after you select the TIFF option for your file format that the dialog box you are referring to appears. You first have t

RE: filmscanners: OT: Spam

2001-08-09 Thread Laurie Solomon
Yes. But two or three a day would be a blessing; try 30-50 a day. I get Spam mail that automatically reconnects me to my dialup network when I open it in preview mode to see if I need to delete it. Writing the postmaster typically does no good since much of this Spam mail is sent via hijacked I

RE: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-13 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
de of the colors visible on the monitor just as some colors visible on the monitor are not printable using normal printing processes, i.e. inkjets. Maris - Original Message - From: "LAURIE SOLOMON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 12

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan and Kodak Infrared HIE B&W colormask ?

2001-08-14 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I do not use Vuescan; but why would an infrared BLACK & WHITE film have a color mask or need a special setting to remove one? I am unfamiliar with the film that you are referring to although I do have some familiarity with infrared B&W film in general. Unless this Infrared B&W film is a chromoge

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan and Kodak Infrared HIE B&W colormask ?

2001-08-15 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
TED]]On Behalf Of Stan McQueen Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: Vuescan and Kodak Infrared HIE B&W colormask ? At 07:17 PM 8/14/2001 -0500, Laurie Solomon wrote: >I do not use Vuescan; but why would an infrared BLACK & WHITE fil

RE: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography

2001-08-16 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Wedding photography and commercial photography tend to be two very different types of photography which have very different needs and demands. Most wedding photographers are selling prints and mostly small size prints 8x10 or smaller with a few wall size enlargements. They have used medium forma

RE: filmscanners: Scanning 4x5 under $500 US?

2001-08-16 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
If you take your 4x5 film and cut it in half, it is. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shough, Dean Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:31 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: filmscanners: Scanning 4x5 under $500 US? > Scan Multi is

filmscanners: RE: film scanners: Re: Duplicate/triplicate messages

2001-08-16 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Yes, I have noticed the same thing happening - especially this evening. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filmscanners: Re: Duplicate/triplicate message

RE: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography

2001-08-17 Thread Laurie Solomon
>Also do you have any idea what the going hourly rate for wedding >photographer and commercial photographers is? Depends on a number of variables like location, type of commercial work in the case of commercial photography, type of weddding coverage in the case of wedding photography, what is to

RE: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips

2001-08-17 Thread Laurie Solomon
>But it seems that one has to cut MF images into separate frames, which is >nonsense, since MF images are also negatives which are kept in sleeves and >not only slides in frames. They are also much larger than 35mm and often cut for automated processing in aperture cards anyway when returned from

RE: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips

2001-08-17 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
me do individual frames, individual frames in aperture cards, some entire strips and cut what they desire and some in multiframe strip. Not much of a trend. David -Original Message- From: Laurie Solomon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 6:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

RE: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips

2001-08-18 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
ject: Re: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips Laurie Solomon > When you play with the big boys; you often have to play by the established > rules of their game not by the rules of some other group of player's game or > some other game. :-) All the big boys I know, including me :-) cut 12

RE: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips

2001-08-18 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Laurie Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > They are also much larger than 35mm and often cut for automated > processing > in aperture cards anyway when returned from the lab. Many professional > photographers who tend to be the ones who use medium format films > generally &g

RE: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips

2001-08-18 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Kehl - Kvernstoen, Kehl & Assoc. Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips - Original Message ----- From: Laurie Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &g

RE: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips

2001-08-18 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>how the hell do you make contact prints off a whole roll? You don't. When you send the film in for processing and proofing, the lab processes the film and makes individual color corrected 3 1/2 x 5, 5 x 5 or 4 x6 machine made proof prints off the negatives and returns the set of color corrected

RE: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips

2001-08-19 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Of Tomasz Zakrzewski Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: > >That's what polish professional photographers practice, at least > > I assume that is Polish as in Poland and not Po

RE: filmscanners: Best film scanner, period!!!

2001-08-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
None of the mentioned scanners. You are probably on the wrong list if quality is the point and budget is no concern. You probably need to go over to the high-end drum scanner list and pose your question. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of A

RE: Getting around the firewire problem was Re: filmscanners:Best film scanner, period!!!

2001-08-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I just bought 256 MB Dimms for $47US each a few weeks ago and the prices went down since then. Check out www.champaigncomputer.com for RAM, CPU and other prices. They typically have very good prices on most items. Even if you do not buy from them their prices can serve as a guideline. -Ori

RE: Getting around the firewire problem was Re: filmscanners:Best film scanner, period!!!

2001-08-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
judgments. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Getting around the firewire problem was Re: filmscanners:Best film scanner, period!!! LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:

RE: filmscanners: Glass and Film

2001-08-29 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Really very simple; they use Anti-Newtonian glass as opposed to regular glass for starters. They might also use an Anti-Newton Rings powder on the glass between it and the subject being scanned. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SKID Photog

RE: filmscanners: Anti-Newton Rings powder

2001-08-30 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
No, that is not what was said. You can buy some anti-Newtonian glass and replace your existing glass; or you can use the powder along with your existing glass. You cannot make anti-Newtonian glass from plain glass by sprinkling some fairy dust on it in the form of Anti-Newtonian powder; if you d

RE: filmscanners: Sharpness of color chrome vs color negative.

2001-08-30 Thread Laurie Solomon
Ok Austin, You have just openned a can of worms here. Are we talking about sharpness as seen through a loup, from a monitor, off a light table, photographic print or inkjet print? Is the comparison based on each coming from the same type of source and under the same lighting; or are we comparing

RE: filmscanners: Sharpness of color chrome vs color negative.

2001-08-30 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Not totally (which should not surprise you); but we are getting there. :-) If I understand your requirements, each film should contain the same photograph of the same subject taken at the same time (so to speak) under the exact same lighting with the same or equivalent equipment. In addition; eac

RE: filmscanners: Sharpness of color chrome vs color negative.

2001-08-30 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
That's nice; but pardon my ignorance, what is an MTF spec? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Duncan Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: Sharpness of color chrome vs color negative.

RE: filmscanners: Sharpness of color chrome vs color negative.

2001-08-30 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>You can't use the same settings for scanning positive film, then negative >film... I should have been clearer. I meant a raw scan in which such things as levels, curves, gammas, unsharp mask , etc. settings were the same (i.e., uncorrected and unadjusted). Obviously, there might be some reversa

RE: filmscanners: Sharpness of color chrome vs color negative.

2001-08-31 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Thank You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 3:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: Sharpness of color chrome vs color negative. Laurie asks: > That's nice; but pardon my ig

RE: filmscanners: Removing water spots

2001-09-03 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I have yet to find anything that removes water spots once they have dried; there are things which will reduce them - especially their obviousness  - as you have found.  I have even tried rewashing the film. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]O

RE: filmscanners: OT:X-ray fogging

2001-09-06 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Not to beat a dead horse or start an argument; but with respect to buying film on location, I would certainly take into account the purposes of the photography. If it is just snap shots, then there may not be any reason not to buy film on location as long as you get it from a respected and known

RE: filmscanners: OT:X-ray fogging

2001-09-07 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
But not everybody uses the same quality controls or implements them in the same way with regularity. Moreover, not everyone uses the same exact chemistry or has the same quality of water. I know of two professional labs in my community that use different brands of chemistry which results in slig

RE: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: OT:X-ray fogging

2001-09-07 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
They usually know what it is and, unless extraordinarily dumb, do not try and unroll it. Remember that 120 and 120 like roll films have been around a hellava lot longer than 35mm roll film in canisters; and they are likely to be more common than you think in third world countries were old twin re

RE: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: OT:X-ray fogging

2001-09-07 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
This is also true for Toronto when one flies into Toronto on an international flight, including US flight, and switches to a domestic Canadian flight or when one flies in on a US flight and switches to an international flight to Asia, Europe, or elsewhere and/or visa versa. You not only have to

RE: filmscanners: OT:X-ray fogging

2001-09-08 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>Most large cities have photo stores. Many of these have refrigerators stocked >with fresh film. All you have to do is buy from one that has film stored in >this way. It's unlikely they'd pay for refrigeration just to keep ruined film >cold. It is obvious that you did not read my post closely;

RE: filmscanners: OT:X-ray fogging

2001-09-08 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Alas, nothing is foolproof. That a process is automated and even consistent does not mean that the operators are equally competent in performing the process, equally diligent in keeping temperatures consistent or regularly changing chemistry on a consistent schedule, equally concerned with running

RE: filmscanners: OT:X-ray fogging

2001-09-08 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
From the quotes that have been included, I am not sure if you are responding to me or to someone else.  However, I will make a few counterpoints to your comments.   First of all, many of those high quality magazines published in the US which are printed or distributed in Europe have bureau

RE: filmscanners: X-ray and digital camera

2001-09-08 Thread Laurie Solomon
Of course; it might get stolen or damaged. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 11:35 AM To: Film Scanner Subject: filmscanners: X-ray and digital camera Hello, Now that film and x-ray has been

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-08 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I think the likelihood of someone wanting to buy a web resolution image is probably very low; but the likelihood of someone wanting to steal it (i.e. use it for free) is probably much higher. Typically, those that do steal web resolution images are those who either do not use images for their liv

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-08 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>The point here is not that the image is listed, but that the Google site says that the images *might* be copyrighted, >when it should say that they *are* copyrighted (or some such thing). However, it just might be the case that the images on a given site are not privately owned images but images

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-08 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
While I do not always agree with Anthony or his reasoning, I think that he raises some good questions here that merely a yes answer while sufficient is not very helpful. I for one am curious and would like further elaboration on what sort of client would license or buy a thumbnail image or a web

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-09 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>Virtually nothing is in the public domain, and I agree with those who object to >the phrasing of the search engine's warning. Saying that an image "might be >copyrighted" implies that copyright protection is the exception to the rule, >when in fact, essentially everything is copyrighted, unless

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-09 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
rate for commissioned work. I, for one, do not think it's in our best interest to revert to the old way of doing business, with lower fees. Harvey Ferdschneider partner, SKID Photography, NYC LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: > I think the likelihood of someone wanting to buy a web resolution im

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-09 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>And it's not the 'thumbnails' that we worry about getting lifted, it's the larger images on our website Maybe you should not have larger images that are downloadable on your web site; and if you do, they certainly should not be high resolution images. Obviously, the search engine can only acquir

RE: filmscanners: Stealing images was Re: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
It was not Metallica alone; they had vast support from the recording industry as well as some other artists and writers. However, if one does not take things literally, Rob has a point since Metallica is a very wealther band with significant influence and revenue generating capacity - the group m

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
>I'm not so sure. My impression is that stealing images is the rule on the Web, rather than the exception. This is a little ambiguous; what aren't you sure of? Are you uncertain that is its mostly teenagers and laypersons who are stealing low resolution thumbnail images; or are unsure that one

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
While I generally agree with you on several points in your response to Harvey, I have to say that screen resolutions right now are way beyond 800 X 600. I am able to get screen resolutions as high as 1600 x 1200 using some video cards and a little higher using other video cards. However, all thi

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
First, your statement that only the current law is applicable may be true where you live but where I live in the US it is not. Images created and registered under the old copyright laws are governed by the older laws that they were copyrighted under. There are many images in the historic archive

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
While the res[ponse will not satisfy you, the answer is that the creator is not selling the rights but only renting them; if the creator decided to sell the rights then he would not be able to collect rent on each and every use after the sale of the rights - the new owner would. It is sort of lik

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-10 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>I was speaking of average resolutions, and not maximum resolutions Average versus maximum for whom. For me, 1600 x 1200 is my maximum resolution that I can get on a majority of my monitors with 1024 x 768 and 1152 x 864 being the average resolutions that I can get from among all the possible av

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-10 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Now that is one of your more stupid arguments. The equivalent for your bricklayer as is the case for your mechanic would be to keep them on an annual paid retainer or service contract so that they would be available to furnish bricklaying services or mechanic services whatever they may be through

RE: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-11 Thread Laurie Solomon
>So why are the rules for artists different That is the point they are not different. The creation is the embodiment of the artists talent, skills, creative powers, knowledge, and services (or if you will the carrier of the artists conception). It is the conception which is an expression of tho

RE: filmscanners: Minolta Dimâge Scan Multi PRO info

2001-09-14 Thread Laurie Solomon
A recent issue of a Publisher Perfection catalog, which tends to be on the high side regarding prices, listed it at, I believe, around $2900 plus. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shough, Dean Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:28 PM To: '

RE: filmscanners: The Nikon 4000 and Genuine Fractals

2001-09-21 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>Does the license allow me to do that? Usually OEM software bundled with hardware >doesn't allow that so I'm not sure in this case. Usually all software (bundled or not) allow one to give away the software, or in some cases even resell it, as long as certain conditions are met. The main provision

RE: filmscanners: ReSize, ReSample or ReScan ?

2001-09-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Since in reality these are really very different operations, I fail to see first how any comparison between the two is possible at all (apples and oranges) and second what definition and criteria of "destructive" is being used and with respect to what objective. If one rescales without resampling

RE: filmscanners: scanned files open larger than indicated

2001-09-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
There could be a number of reasons.  First every time you open a file in Photoshop, a duplicate working file is opened in memory; if there were no such duplicate file one would not be able to have a "revert to" feature and maybe not even a history pallet.  All adjustments and changes are mad

RE: filmscanners: Recommendations for page scanning software

2001-10-19 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Caere Omnipage is a page scanning application using OCR where in text is rendered editable and uses on a PC the twain driver of one's scanning software to scan in a page of text; its cousin, Omniform, is a page scanning application for scanning in or designing forms which are capable of being fil

RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images

2001-11-11 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Preben, Since you seem to be knowledgeable about IDE RAID matters, I wish to make use of your knowledge as a resource even if it is OT for this list. I recently bought an ABIT motherboard with RAID. The manual is not very clear as tot he difference between RAID 0 (striping) and what it does vers

RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images

2001-11-11 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
al Message ----- From: "LAURIE SOLOMON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 7:53 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images > Preben, > Since you seem to be knowledgeable about IDE RAID matters, I wish to make >

RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images

2001-11-12 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
and images on 11/12/01 12:22 AM, LAURIE SOLOMON at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To Preben: > > Thanks for your response and patience. The Abit board does permit JBOD; but > it does not provide RAID 5 as you have noted. When I asked about what > appeared to be a contradiction between

RE: filmscanners: Kodak Grand Central Diorama (Was: the 10 foot print from 35mm...)

2001-11-13 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>What was truly astonishing was the fact that >the tiny 35mm transparency, though magnified an incredible 516 times, >retained sharpness. A very impressive testimonial to the quality of Leica >lenses and photographer Ernst Haas. The camera: Leicaflex SL with Summicron >50mm lens". Also quite poss

RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images

2001-11-13 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
2/01 10:34 PM, LAURIE SOLOMON at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Actually, both must be set up on the same IDE channel as masters. > > How does one do that? I thought that you could only have one master device > per channel; and it was the one that was connected to the end of the ribbon &

RE: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
> Fed-X apparently no longer guarantees x-ray free travel for film, either. That maybe because Fed-X has an arrangement with the US Postal Service whereby it carries all the USPS's airmail (which is virtually all the USPS mail) from destination to destination; thus, they are obliged to impose the

RE: filmscanners: X-ray scanners/etc

2001-11-27 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
>But they grumbled about how I should have a lead lined pouch. Sort of funny in a way. I fail to see how a lead lined bag would help matters since it would prevent the film from being x-rayed and would necessitate a hand check anyway. How would that be any different that putting the film in a b

RE: filmscanners: Filmscanners: OT: E-mail virus

2001-12-12 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
While it indeed may be more sensible for the ISP to maintain a virus checking operation on all messages coming into and going out of their ISP, your ISP also, evidently, seems to work under the assumption that redundancy insures that the message will get through and sends out multiple copies of

RE: filmscanners: Filmscanners: OT: E-mail virus

2001-12-13 Thread Laurie Solomon
I understanbd completely and was just pulling your leg. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Otway Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 3:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: Filmscanners: OT: E-mail virus >> While it inde

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