It is the old SS4000 without USB. Yes I think I will keep the old PC if there
is no easy solution.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2/11/08 1:14 AM
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
Several questions:
Is it a SprintScan 4000 with
Tony,
I played with the monitor ICC profile. I could not browse to a file
named 'monitor.icc' as my system doesn't seem to have a "monitor.icc"
file. I searched the hard drive, and the closest I came up with is a
file called
c:\Program Files\Common Files\Polaroid Imaging\Profiles\monitor,pc.icc
, I might learn my errant settings.
Stan Schwartz
Tony Sleep wrote:
>
>
> In general, I don't ever change any colour balance settings in VS when
> scanning slide, except 'Colour' set to 'White Balance' (usually works best
> for me, and if not 'Neutral
ow the rest
> of the world will be set at 6500k, so your images will look a bit blue
> on such a monitor.
>
>
> Stan Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Immediately after scanning the slides, I compare the onscreen appearance
>>with the slide on a color corrected lightbox. Yes, the s
potential moves in a
chess game .
That's why I wanted to see someone's vuescan.ini file--from someone who
is getting satisfactory results.
Learning by imitation works fine for me.
Stan Schwartz
Tony Sleep wrote:
> On 07/01/2006 Stan Schwartz wrote:
>
> Sadly I don't think
ould send me an .ini file.
Stan
Tony Sleep wrote:
> On 28/12/2005 Stan Schwartz wrote:
>
>>If I scan in Adobe RGB, and later convert to ProPhoto, have I lost any
>>color information or does the profile simply control what the output
>>device displays?
>>
>>In othe
range
(whichever) and probably wouldn't pull detail from shadows.
But it is USB2 and has a 4-slide carrier.
Does anyone have any experience with this puppy since it was discussed her?
If his interest is archiving, and the highest quality scans are not
needed, wouldn't this work?
Stan S
I have found that my drives and software seem to burn TIFF and PSD files at
their own pace, no matter what I select for speed. I have an 6X DVD burner I
use with Roxio. No matter what speed I select, the actual speed is usually
1x to 2x. CDs also burn slower than selected or optimum speed.
Stan
ry to shoot B&W anymore...
Stan Schwartz
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 3:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [filmscanners] B&W from Color
Is anyone on the list using any speci
My own experience is that if you want sharp B&W, use a sharp color
transparency film. I like the B&W images that can be extracted from Velvia
and Kodak's Elite Extra Chrome.
Learning to examine each color transparency for its hidden B&W has
introduced a new dimension to photogra
Paul,
Help me with the math here. What would be the final dimension of the image
whose snippet you are displaying here? And for reference, your 10D captures
an image of about 3K pixels on the long dimension, right?
Stan Schwartz
Paul wrote:
I've posted a pair of examples, both invo
The use of edge sharpening is also sold as an action called Ultrasharpen
at www.ultrasharpen.com . Previous versions used the "find edges" though
the latest one uses "glowing edges" and two levels of simultaneous
sharpening...or something like that.
Stan
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PR
That technique of individual channel sharpening is in an edition of the
Dan Margulis Professional Photoshop book. He advocates sharpening the
weakest color channel in certain situations such as facial portraits.
It's a very interesting discussion and he gives examples.
One-channel sharpening can h
to digital transfer which occurs in the scanning process.
>>
>>No image should be compared until optimum unsharp masking is
>>accomplished because some manufacturers will uses some USM to make
>>their scanners appear to have higher sharpness and resolution when
>>actually intro
erved sharpening as the last step before printing,
leaving my archived image unsharpened.
Stan Schwartz
Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners'
or 'unsubscribe
soldering iron available to resolder these wires. (What a pain that
was)
Stan Schwartz
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnny Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: SS4000 again
The cover is not difficult to remove but the wires that connect the door
slide switch and the on/off switch are pretty short. If you remove the
cover without watching the tension on these wires, you will pull one
loose from its soldered connection--believe me.
After removing the cover, it's necess
The mirror will collect a lot of dust. You can take the cover off and
blow most of that dust off. There was a discussion here a while back
about just how much that dust would or wouldn't affect the final image,
however.
Stan
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC
you use a
lot of 16bit files).
Steve
- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Filmscanners (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 10:06 PM
Subject: filmscanners: SS4000, Win98 and VCache settings
> I use an
The new Insight 5.0 lamp auto-shut off is not working on my SS4000. I set it
for 5 minutes and the lamp was still on 30 minutes later. I presume it is
supposed to shut down the lamp after a scan if I leave Insight running.
Is there any firmware upgrade necessary to make this work with 5.0?
Is th
I presume you are not having any freeze-ups. Have you used Insight 5.0?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: SS4000, Win98 and VCache settings
I use an SS4000 on a SCSI connection with a Win98SE 933 PentiumIII and 512MB
RAM.
I was having some problems with the system doing a reboot in the middle of
scanning a transparency, usually with Polacolor Insight. I posted that here
a couple of weeks ago and got some suggestions.
I also use my c
Ed,
I vote for an option for the two-pane approach--definitely.
Stan
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 4:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: Vuescan gripes
I keep going
Does the lamp auto-shut off feature work on your SS4000?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JimD
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: PolaColor Insight 5.x
I just tried
Once the program loads, the opening screen looks normal and the SS4000 shows
up. In the past, I have seen the program delay opening when it can't find
the scanner. However, that isn't the problem here.
Now I have to make the decision whether to spend a bunch of time tinkering
to figure out why lo
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanners: VueScan and white pixel clipping SS4000
On Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:03:03 -0500 Stan Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED
Tony,
Thanks. These "whiskers" only show up on high-bit scans with VueScan but not
high-bit scans with Polaroid's software. You are correct that they disappear
on 8-bit conversion.
Stan Schwartz
www.tallgrassimages.com
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
itial VueScan screen appear. It takes the program around 15
seconds to close down now.
I haven't changed my hardware configuration and Polaroid's Insight scanning
software loads and exits normally.
Anyone else notice this?
Stan Schwartz
www.tallgrassimages.com
ping SS4000
On Sun, 08 Jul 2001 11:06:56 -0500 Stan Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>
> I am making a scan of an array of bright azaleas using VueScan and an
> SS4000. I am scanning at 48-bits.
Try a white point setting of 0.01% (0.0% is usually OTT), and adjust
Color|Image Brightnes
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 4:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Film Scanner Question Again
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 12:32:41 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> A
scan with
Polaroid's software.
Stan Schwartz
www.tallgrassimages.com
I have
bought from all three. You need to look also at shipping charges and whether
sales tax will be added to your order (depending on what state you are in if you
are in the USA). Those two added charges can make a significant
difference.
Stan
-Original Message-From:
[EMAIL
o use the computer during scanning
in some other application. I have to just leave it alone during scanning.
Anyone else have problems like this? Any solutions?
Stan Schwartz
www.tallgrassimages.com
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kah Heng, Tan
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 9:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 - Peppery scans with
Fuji chromes
At 09:22 AM 5/20/01 -0400
.
Stan
Schwartz
www.tallgrassimages.com
-Original Message-From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:10
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: filmscanners:
Re Insight or Photoshop?I, m new to this site
ECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanners:Focusing with SprintScan 4000--was flatness in
N ikon 4000
Because of the light source the lens has significant depth of field. You
need not be concerned.
David
-Original Message-
From: Stan Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 6:
film--or does it just focus on a single plane. If the latter, does it choose
the plane of the edge or the plane of the center?
If it cannot track the curvature, would I get better results scanning in a
temporary glass mount?
Stan Schwartz
www.tallgrassimages.com
-Original Message-
From
it's scanned about
68% of an image. Sometimes I can scan two images but sometimes it will lock
on the second image--but most often the third or fourth.
Win98Se
933 MHz Dell machine with 512MB RAM
SIG SCSI card
Anyone else seeing this problem?
Stan Schwartz
www.tallgrassimages.com
I am a few versions behind on Vuescan.
Is it no longer possible to have the preview visible on the right and make
adjustments on the left? I see that Prev Mem button opens the preview screen
again but then you have to click back on Color to make more adjustments.
Stan Schwartz
Years ago, I was on a list when a very abusive individual joined in and
posted rude remarks periodically. The more posts there were in reponse to
this individual, the more abusive his/her subsequent posts were.
Finally, everyone decided just to ignore the posts. Eventually this
individual stopped
The easiest way to create it in Photoshop is just hold down the ALT key and
type 0169 on the number keypad.
Stan Schwartz
www.tallgrassimages.com
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:54 AM
Frank,
That's what I am talking about. Maybe David will tell us what that does.
Stan
---
Is the glass element the flat, square cruddy looking thing about four inches
inside the slot on the bottom, below two metal cutouts? What is it's
purpose? What I'm looking has so much dust on it that it co
Frank,
I just ordered the brush(and it arrived in 2 days rather than 10 days). My
SS4000 is working fine, but I looked inside with a penlight and was dismayed
at how much dust had accumulated on the glass element. And that was with
using a dust cover.
Stan Schwartz
www.tallgrassimages.com
An extra large shoe box, with notches cut out for the cables in the back, is
what I use as a dust cover for my SS4000.
Stan
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Matturri
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subjec
a lot of different settings.
Version 7 seems to take longer to load and longer to close than previous
versions on my machine (Dell 933 w/512MB)
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED
I just upgraded to 6.7.5 from an earlier version.
When I do a final scan with the SS4000, instead of the carrier being pulled
through continuously, now it's moving with a start-stop motion. Is that an
expected change?
I don't have the multiple pass or long pass options checked
I will try it with your images plus a few others. Thanks
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack Phipps
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:56 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: fi
doing wrong?
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack Phipps
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 4:43 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Re: Scanning problems
Julie--
Do
more likely to be the 35mm slide
itself, not the scanner you use.
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
Good point. I agree. I don't think 4000dpi is enough to do what I really
envision. But probably the best I can do with today's films. But films may
get even better than they
you would not be able to produce
an 11X14 at 267 pixels per inch. That would degrade the image quality at
least on the Fujix machine output.
For what it's worth
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You might break it if you sat on it.
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hart or Mary Jo
Corbett
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 9:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: SS4000
I think you run the risk of spraying bits of lubricant when using a
compressor.
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of IronWorks
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 3:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject
I looked inside my SS4000 and was surprised to find a nice layer of dust on
the lens, despite using a dust shield regularly
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shAf
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001
Jim, thanks.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jimhayes
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 2:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: removing dust from SS4000
Please, before you do this go to this link: Look at bottom of page...
]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: removing dust from SS4000
Tony writes ...
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:19:44 -0600 Stan Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>
> > ...
> >
> > Is it safe to use Dust-off on this? The can warns about not using
it on
> > camera mirrors.
>
>
The discussion of dustcovers lead me to check inside my SS4000. I do have
visible dust on what appears to be the lens.
Is it safe to use Dust-off on this? The can warns about not using it on
camera mirrors.
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
An upside down shoe box with strategically located cutouts for the cables is
just perfect for this.
<<
A dust cover would be nice. It's actually mandatory I think. I had one
custom
made for about $15; most people just make one out of foam-core or the like.
I
think throwing in a $1
Ed,
I just scanned a very sharp image in a one-pass and a two-pass scan with the
SS4000 and repeated the sequence a second time. The misregistration was 5
pixels the first time and 12 pixels the second time.
Stan
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Be
Well, it's enough to give someone two discernible heads. Is this just a
matter of doing a two pass scan and counting the pixels between images?
Stan
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 5:29 P
Ed,
The 8X exposure requires a second pass, right? I thought there is a
registration problem for multiple passes with the SprintScan 4000, which you
list below. At least the current help file still mentions it.
Stan
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Tony,
Thanks. Polaroid should have put that fact in their docs or readmes.
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject
What is odd is that when I open the image in Photoshop, I get this message:
The document's embedded color profile does not match the current RGB Working
space:
Embedded: Adobe RGB (1998)
Working: Adobe RGB (1998)
Version 4.5 of Insight
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/
I am using a PC.
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Shomler
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 10:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: SS4000 and Insight/Vuescan software
reate your image file. "
This is version 4.5. I read that to mean it should be embedding the profile.
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of B.Twieg
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 8:23 AM
To: [
ge in Photoshop.
A second question is: is there a VueScan plugin for Photoshop so that it
will appear on the File/Import scanner menu?
Stan Schwartz
http://home.swbell.net/snsok
David,
I have the SS4000 with the Insight software. Is dust removal software
offered for the SS4000?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hemingway, David
J
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanner
Richard,
I was able to save your image labelled "raw_scan" and rework it briefly in
Photoshop to look almost the same as your processed image. It required both
manual levels adjustment and some color balancing. I don't think there is
any problem with detail being burned out in the raw scan.
If y
67 matches
Mail list logo
