Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

2001-07-28 Thread Mark Edmonds
I'm running NT4 SP6a, dual 850MHz PIII, 512MB. Reliability: it gets used for about 3 hours a day, five days a week on average and I think I've had about 2 blue screens in the last year. Oh, Minolta Scan Speed by the way. Mark > >Obscanning - I wonder how many of those using Windows with filmscan

filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?

2001-08-06 Thread Mark Edmonds
Hello folks, Although this isn't strictly a scanning issue, I suspect other list members have thought about this as well and adopted solutions. Basically, I am looking for a long term (20 years+) storage medium to archive my scans on. I don't have faith in CDR and tapes are also prone to long te

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

2001-08-06 Thread Mark Edmonds
Please can someone throw some light on this for me. My Minolta ScanSpeed software has a setting for 16 bit or 16 bit linear colour depth but the help file doesn't give any indication of exactly what the difference is. I'd really like to understand what the difference is and why you should use one

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

2001-08-06 Thread Mark Edmonds
Hi all, Is this possible and is my logic correct? I am reasoning that the output from the actual scanner hardware is always going to be in the same range of digital values irrespective of what adjustments are made in the scanner software (apart from resolution of course). Therefore, is it possib

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

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Edmonds
Yes, one of the reasons behind me asking the question. The Minolta software is fine for simple adjustments but only enables you to preview on small lo-res scans. I'd much rather work on the full scan in something like Photopaint (What?! someone who doesn't use Photoshop and actually likes Photopai

RE: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans? - follow up

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Edmonds
First off, my thanks for all the replies and the interesting view points. I was hoping there might be some de-facto standard out there but obviously not! I'd just like to answer some suggestions: 1. Use Film Yes, fine if your film was developed properly in the first place but I have some negati

RE: filmscanners: Second Hard Drive/Umax scanner

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Edmonds
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Kersenbrock > P.S - Magazines like P.C. Magazine has done benchmarking of > servers using IDE vs > SCSI disks, and I recall their conclusions to be that they > were very surprised to >

RE: filmscanners: Second Hard Drive/Umax scanner

2000-12-14 Thread Mark Edmonds
Because, (if my understanding is correct), the RAID card improves over normal SCSI error correction (1 bit) and ups this to 4 bit. It is nothing to do with RAID parity. Mark > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Ross > Sent: 11 Decem

RE: filmscanners: Power Crisis and UPS

2001-01-21 Thread Mark Edmonds
FWIW, I protect my system with an APC SmartUPS 1000 and with everything running (including scanner, modem, printer and speakers), it is running at about 50% load. I also have a four way block hanging off one of the rear outlets and have had no problems with it. Cons? The PowerChute software someti

Re: filmscanners: RE: Win2k and application RAM

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Edmonds
I can confirm the 2GB split between OS and App RAM. It is something to do with the Alpha port of NT I think and to keep things consistent for the coders, Microsoft translated the Alpha restriction to the Pentium version. I believe W2K has the same problem but I don't think there is an Alpha port o