filmscanners: New film scanner - buying suggestions?

y recommendations, or any ideas for other things to consider? Thanks Mark Otway

filmscanners: Buying a scanner - from the US

Hi all, I've had a fair bit of feedback from various people about the negative scanner to buy, and it seems that the Nikon CoolScan IV LS-40 might be a good one to go for, since I've been warned off most machines cheaper than that. I've a feeling it might be a bit of overkill, but Anyway, U

RE: filmscanners: Buying a scanner - from the US

Barbara, >> When ordering in the US, you'll probably be charged customs >> in addition to the price. (I had that nasty surprise once, >> when customs' charge was more than s&h.) Thanks, but I'm not worried about that. The scanner will count as a computer peripheral, which means that there is

RE: filmscanners: Buying a scanner - from the US

>> Why not the Polaroid SS4000 at approx US$600? Better >> scanner, cheaper price. Is it really? Haven't heard of that one. Does it have batch scanning capabilities? Thanks Mark

RE: filmscanners: Laptop configuration

>> The LS40 isn't 4000dpi though. >> Resolution matters! True, true. But I'm not sure how much it matters. I believe the LS40 is 2900dpi? In which case it's probably going to be plenty for me - I'm only intending to create/store images which are 2-3Mb, if that. Mark

RE: filmscanners: Speeding up bulk scanning

>> I'd suggest three little buttons next to each thumbnail: >> [rotate left >> 90deg] [rotate 180deg] [rotate right 90deg]. Or if it's >> fast enough >> you could just rotate the thumbnail itself 90deg each time the user >> clicks on it. Then the user just clicks until it's oriented >> co

filmscanners: Where to buy a scanner

Right, having decided that price and performance-wise, the Nikon Coolscan IV is the scanner for me, here's another good question. Bearing in mind I'm in the UK, where's the cheapest place to buy it from? So far I've found Dabs Direct (www.dabs.com) who are doing the Nikon for £499 + VAT, and Jess

RE: filmscanners: Firewire IEEE1394

>> It's XP Home and XP Pro. Your statement is wrong. Firewire >> is supported in any version of XP. Home and Pro are the >> same operating system. Home just lacks some optional features of Pro. Absolutely right. For the full set of differences, see: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/how

RE: filmscanners: Firewire IEEE1394

>> You have quoted a post which I missed. I looked at the >> site you listed but can see nothing listed for IEEE1394. >> Please advise where you saw that XP Home support this. That's the point - there is no difference between Pro and Home where Firewire is concerned. It's supported on both. I

filmscanners: Nikon LS40ED - first impressions

Well, I finally got around to picking up my Nikon Coolscan LS40ED this afternoon, and I'm very pleased with it. A surprisingly small machine (despite the *huge* cardboard box it came in!), it's produced some superb results so far. Installation was very easy - I plugged in the USB cable and XP imm

RE: filmscanners: Nikon LS40ED - first impressions

>> well first of all if you want they have a bug fix version >> of Nikon Scan Version 3.1 on their website.. I think the >> address is www.nikon-imaging.com Thanks. I couldn't access that URL for some reason, but found 3.1 at http://www.nikontechusa.com. I also notice that on that site it me

RE: filmscanners: ADMIN: Play nice, or else.

Tony, >> Frankly I have had such a lot of trouble with this list >> lately, with admin taking up so much time I seldom have >> time to read up to date, let alone participate. 250 bounce >> mails today, and that after I spent >1hr weeding dead >> addresses; complaints from list members about >

filmscanners: Nikonscan 3.1.1 update

I managed to download the update, but with great difficulty. Nikon's site was limited to 7k/s, and didn't have resume enabled, making the 15Mb download difficult on my 56k connection with a 1hour timeout. ;-) James Grove's site was faster (thanks James) but still no resume, so I got a mate with

filmscanners: VueScan cropping

I've got a Nikon LS-40, and after a couple of days of trials I've now registered VueScan, which seems to be excellent. I'm pleased with Ed's app, and have already produced some excellent results - particularly with some shots taken on 800 Fuji film which was left over after I shot some fireworks a

RE: filmscanners: ADMIN: Play nice, or else.

>> Yahoogroups offers a method of uploading, in bulk, a text >> file of all email addresses that require registration >> (though to register 1500+ would require cooperation from the >> Yahoogroups admins, as there is a limit of 500). It handles >> bounces by moving email addresses to a "boun

RE: filmscanners: VueScan cropping

>> Anything dark will be a problem because large amounts of the >> image will be close to the film base. Eh? On the contrary, anything black should surely be no problem, since it will have massive contrast compared to the blank areas of the negative strip? Besides, the pictures I'm having the

filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan IV - positioning

Hi all, Quick, and possibly dumb, question: all of the pictures I've seen of the LS-40 have shown it stood on its side - i.e., with the 'Nikon' logo at the correct orientation, and the power light at the top. However, I note that it has rubber feet on the 'side', implying that it can also be use

RE: filmscanners: VueScan on Minolta Scan Multi Pro???

>> I just released VueScan 7.2.10 Thanks Ed. Any chance that the next version will have 'intelligent' cropping/frame offset added, as discussed earlier in the week? :-) Also, it's only a small issue but could the installer have an optional install directory? I prefer all my apps to go in the 'Pr

filmscanners: LS-40/Vuescan cropping

:-( Still having problems with this. Most of the films I've tried seem to scan fine now, after playing around with the frame offset and cropping settings. However, I've got a particular set of negative strips which seem to have non-standard frame spacing (it's slightly wider than the frame-spaci

RE: filmscanners: LS-40/Vuescan cropping

>> Surely, the frame spacing has no relationship to the make of >> film. It should be a standard 8 sprocket holes. Any variance >> has to come from the camera. Some very cheap ones don't even >> register the sprocket holes and vary spacing throughout a film. Both rolls were shot on a Canon

RE: filmscanners: LS-40/Vuescan cropping

>> In their zeal to make totally electronic cameras, Canon eliminated >> the sprocket that counts eight holes per frame, replacing it with an >> infrared sensor. I'd suggest that plays a role your "nonstandard" >> spacing. Ah. I see. What a PITA. :-( Having said that, it looks to be a combina

filmscanners: RE: Attachments

>> YES - however, if you receive them from other lists and also >> PAY for time on line by the second would you feel the same way? I've had this problem on many occasions before. It was a particular irritation during a period when I frequently downloaded my mail via a cellphone, at 9.6k/s. :-o H

RE: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan

>> What free upgrades do is encourage good word of mouth >> referrals. Word of mouth referrals are very effective, >> especially "word of e-mail" referrals. This is true - I didn't hesitate to register my copy of VS after being on this list and owning my scanner for just a week! The only pro

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan Interface, was Polaroid Insight vs

>> Yes, the interface is quite usable, and I don't want to end >> up with another 'pretty' but unfunctional product (not much >> of a risk of that from Ed, I suspect!). But I do think that >> Vuescan could use a *bit* of a facelift. I think people are forgetting that the app is a cross-platfo

filmscanners: Vuescan cropping :-)

Okay, I've just had something strange happen. Doing a new film, the first strip seemed to batch scan absolutely fine - with no frame offset problems. The second strip had the problems I've been having, where the first frame was okay, and the second slightly out, and so on. However, by pure chanc

RE: filmscanners: Ed Hamrick: Output files in VueScan

>> P.S. Please send messages in plain text. Off-topic, but if you're using outlook, check this out: http://ntbugtraq.ntadvice.com/default.asp?sid=1&pid=55&did=38 It's an add-in which automatically converts all HTML mails to plain text before they're viewed. It even works in the preview windo

filmscanners: Batch image processing software (Windows)?

Having got a couple of hundred scans now, here's a good question for you: before I adjust colours and so on on individual images, I'd like to batch-rotate all of the scans to the correct orientation (I didn't rotate the images at scan-time due to memory and time restrictions) and cut them to CD a

RE: filmscanners: Batch image processing software (Windows)?

>> Mark, >> What scanning software are you using? Vuescan. >> I use VueScan and have Irfanview >> >> installed as a >> quick file viewer. I have VueScan rotate all >> images such that the horizontal ones are properly rotated. Unfortunately, I

filmscanners: Vuescan file overwrite warning

Ed, PLEASE can you add this. I've just noticed that when I re-input my settings after installing v7.3, I forgot to add the 'plus' to the file path. I've lost the last 3 strips worth of film scans (about 1h30m in scanning time) because I didn't get a simple warning to say "This file is going to

RE: filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.1 Available

>> I just released VueScan 7.3.1 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X >> and Linux. It can be downloaded from: Thanks Ed, you're an absolute star. :-)))

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

>> Perhaps we should all suggest to our service providers that >> they should impliment a similar scheme. The ISP that hosts my website and provides my mail has a virus-checker running on the pop and smtp servers. This means that I *cannot* receive a virus, and if I accidently catch one it can'

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

>> Perhaps we should all suggest to our service providers that >> they should impliment a similar scheme. The ISP that hosts my website and provides my mail has a virus-checker running on the pop and smtp servers. This means that I *cannot* receive a virus, and if I accidently catch one it can't

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

>> 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 m

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

>> Well, you're playing an online form of Russian Roulette >> then. Some of the recent rash of viruses attach themselves >> to web pages. Click on the right link, and you're hit! And, >> you probably won't know about it until for some time. Unless >> of course, the virus trashes your system.

RE: filmscanners: Vuescan Strategy

>> This is certainly up to Ed Hamrick, but my long time >> understanding has been that the aim was to create a >> scanned image file that gave the maximum image data >> for adjustment in an image editor. I totally agree with this. I like Vuescan mainly because it seems to give me much better r

RE: filmscanners: VueScan 7.3.5 Available

>> I just released VueScan 7.3.5 for Windows, Mac OS 8/9/X >> and Linux. It can be downloaded from: :-) Ed, Any chance you could put the VS executable (sans installer) somewhere on the website? That way, I could set up a scheduled daily download, and always be sure of having the latest downloa

[filmscanners] RE: OTish : thumbnail CD cover creators?

>> thanks for all the advice. got me thinking though - would be >> nice for a piece of code to take a folder full of images and >> burn them onto multiple cds (not splitting files over discs >> or using archives), and auto generate the thumbnails to use >> cd cover stationary... I do the next

[filmscanners] RE: Clipping

>> I understand, I have Snells... I'm glad to see this list has now broadened its appeal to include lovers of eclectic hi-fi. Erm, since this is a bit off-topic now, might I recommend it moves to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? ;-) Mark -

[filmscanners] RE: VueScan Suggestions Needed

>> Now that I've implemented many of the improvements >> to VueScan that people have been asking for, I'd like >> to solicit people's opinions for their top 3 things that >> they'd like me to add/change in VueScan. Any chance you could look into some sort of intelligent frame offset calculation o

[filmscanners] RE: Video card for imaging

>> I have yet to be convinced that a LCD can match a decent CRT >> for image processing work (or fast moving games). Having used a wide selection of LCD screens for all sorts of work (and in particular for fast-moving games) I'd say they are far better than conventional CRT screens. There's no

[filmscanners] RE: Slightly OT: Hard Drive Speed

PLEASE - we did this whole raid/striping, ide vs scsi thing about 3 months ago. Do we have to go through it all again?!?! :-( Mark Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners

[filmscanners] RE: JPEG Lossless mirror?

Just to follow this post up, I've found that the Independent JPEG Group have developed a utility called 'jpegtran' which performs lossless transformations on JPEG images. This webpage: http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/losslessapps.html contains a very long list of the various apps which support thi

[filmscanners] RE: JPEG Lossless mirror?

>> FWIW the following is from >> http://www.jpg.com/products/wizard.html It >> implies that normally you would introduce artifacts when >> doing a mirror and re-saving, but I think is claiming that >> with this technology you won't degrade the image at all. Yes, this is what the jpegtran com

[filmscanners] LS-40 - timeout eject

I'm scanning some negative strips with my Nikon LS-40, but VueScan is taking a fair while to process/save them on my lowly laptop. After a certain amount of time (5 minutes? I've not timed it) the scanner seems to automatically eject the film. That would be no problem, except that if I'm not arou

[filmscanners] RE: Vue Scan questions

>> I think you'll find the answers to most if not all of your >> questions in the help file that accompanies VueScan. To >> access it either click on help on the main menu or press F1. >> It's not as comprehensive as many programs but it provides >> enough information to give you a good star

[filmscanners] RE: LS 2000 running slow

>> I don't own a Nikon, but that number is way off. I've owned >> four film scanners and even on my original DX 486 I was >> getting 5 minute to 7 minute scans. My LS-40ED, running with the latest version of VS, on a Crusoe 633Mhz laptop running XP with 128Mb of ram manages to scan a 35mm neg

[filmscanners] RE: OT - Informed opinion debate/cle

>> And I for one am very sick of this stuff. I'll second that. This whole debate between Moreno, Art and Austin is *soo* tiresome. :-( >> As for me, well, my website will fail professional scrutiny >> quite miserably. So I'll now take some time off the list - >> my opinions will not be ac

[filmscanners] RE: Where can I actually *buy* an Nikon8000ED?

>> there are people are there buying Nikons _in spite of_ >> these issues solely for the reason they wish to associate >> themselves with the Nikon brand. That, and the fact that >> with the Nikon you can also get ICE packaged. I think people are also forgetting that the depth-of-field issue a

[filmscanners] RE: Colormatching with Canon S820/S900

>> I believe some users say they get usable Vuescanned images >> straight off their scanners, without much tweaking in >> Photoshop. I've certainly had some excellent results direct from VS. I'm by no means a professional photographer; the following examples are holiday shots, all taken wit

[filmscanners] RE: Colormatching with Canon S820/S900

>> I doubt that's a hair on or near the lens. Although you >> used a wide angle lens, I'd be very surprised it could focus >> that close to the lens or even a filter ring. I just used a normal lens (the one that came as standard on the Canon). I don't have any extra lenses yet, although I want

[filmscanners] RE: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

>> Laurie, I think you're being massively over-sensitive about this. I read your and Tomek's post, and it was absolutely clear that Tomek was making a comparison. If you read the post again you'll see that you wrote: >> I sincerely hope that David will stay subscribed >> to the list and remain

[filmscanners] RE: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

>> Am I the only one who's happy with NikonScan? It crashed >> once on me. Sometime last year, I think. It's not the crashing in NS that's the problem for me. NS has never actually crashed on me, even before I upgraded to 3.12. The reason I like VS so much more than NS is because the scans VS

[filmscanners] RE: Photoshop 7 ??? anybody tried it ... yet ?

>> Unless your friend works for Adobe he/she is in breach of >> the conditions they were given under (assumes it's legit). Obviously it's not legit. Hence the phrase 'evaluation'. The friend does not work for Adobe, either. ;-) Mark ---

[filmscanners] RE: Memory requirement for PC with scanner

>> I second the idea of scanning using a separate machine. >> Even though W2K task manager shows that there is about 50% >> CPU load scanning using Vuescan (was 100% on a P200), trying >> to run anything alongside Vuescan is virtually impossible >> for me. I find that turning down the appl

[filmscanners] RE: Memory requirement for PC with scanner

>> That's how I normally scan. The scanner is on an >> underpowered machine and saves the scans across the network >> to my editing machine. Slower to scan, but editing while >> scanning is much, much faster. I think 128MB would be too >> low, even to scan, but 256Mb would be OK. For that m

[filmscanners] RE: Nikon Coolscan 4000 ED

>> Don't do it. I'd say quite the opposite. :-D >> I had an SS4000 and it with an LS-400 (4000ED). The >> Polaroid is a better scanner. Better shadow detail. >> Crisper -- no depth of field problem. This all depends on the negative flatness - if they're flat the DoF simply isn't an issue.