Re: filmscanners: Stellar ghosts and Nikon Coolscan IVED (LS40)

2001-05-10 Thread Ryan K. Brooks
Argh! that's bad news, as I was considering this for astrophotography as well.My LS-30 doesn't do this; it's got a few problems near the edge of a slide, but nothing like this. What does Nikon say? Thanks please keep us posted, Ryan Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

filmscanners: Thoughts on 6x17 in NIkon 8000ED

2001-05-04 Thread Ryan K. Brooks
Anyone had any thoughts along these lines: - Use the new Nikon 8000ED to scan both halfs (with overlap) of a 6cmx17cm panoramic transparency? Like stuff from that monster Fuji G617/GX617 camera? I guess my question is, can this _mechanically_ be done with this scanner? I realize the spec

RE: filmscanners: Noise correction algorithms

2001-04-29 Thread Ryan K. Brooks
What you've described is a smoothing algorithm (that operates in colorspace), which basically takes you down a notch in terms on contrast and sharpness.Think about how to deal with the areas where you DO want a quick transition between colors, like at the edge of a leaf- or where a green

RE: filmscanners: Nikon D1x and LS4000

2001-04-21 Thread Ryan K. Brooks
Here you can see that the ED 4000 picture are sharper in the middle and not so sharp Hmm.. anyone know how similiar the optics are in the 8000ED? Perhaps it has a greater depth of field (hoping)? Ryan K. Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

RE: filmscanners: Nikon D1x and LS4000

2001-04-21 Thread Ryan K. Brooks
, that somehow vuescan seems to fix, might be contributing to the grain changing at the edges (just a guess). Ryan K. Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=113369 http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=115567