On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:10:41 +0100 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Have
Microtek got an international head office? (I could not find it on their
website)
I once had to sell Microtek scanner because I couldn't get any sense out of
UK support - a shambolic ostrich organisation which in my case
On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 00:21:18 -0700 Arthur Entlich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
But Jean-Pierre, in terms of list postings, this is all ancient history.
Yes. And best left that way please!
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner info
On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 11:27:36 -0500 Cliff Ober ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Come on Tony give me a break! I don't give a fig how much traffic there
is
on the list, I have never complained about too much or too little.
Sorry, this wasn't supposed to be directed at you Cliff, just a
On Sat, 25 May 2002 10:59:51 -0230 michael shaffer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
My URL for this list's archive is apparently out of date.
http://www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners@halftone.co.uk is current
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film
On Thu, 02 May 2002 11:09:20 -0500 Charlie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Should I be having difficulties with a 140MB file ? I am using
W2K and Easy CD Creator 4.
Easy CD is, IME, a steaming pile of zero-tolerance poo, and apt to churn
out coasters given the slightest glitch. Try Nero, or
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:06:16 -0700 Arthur Entlich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I realize you have a lot on your plate, but I was wondering; is there
any way you can inform people that they are submitting virus laden mail?
I know I would like to know if some was originating from me. Is there
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:46:07 -0500 Joe Tait ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Can you give me some advice on good film types/dev? I have been shooting
T-Max 100, dev in D-76 1:1, 68c in a Jobo Expert Drum, hand inversion.
The
shooting is 70% studio, 30% outdoors.
Chromagenic BW such as TMaxCN and
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:05:44 +0200 Alex Zabrovsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
If I get your point correctly, you claim that monitors cannot display
wider
gamut then ordinary sRGB regardless of particular display qualities,
Correct
which
mean, there is no point to scan and save in Adobe 98
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:30:11 -0700 Tris Schuler
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
You see one thing while your audience might well
(often does) see something else. Close but no cigar, so why the angst?
No angst, unless the client or printer produces something ghastly.
I can't say I worry about
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:31:36 +0200 Anthony Atkielski
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Yes, I am aware of that. I was suggesting
that your hurricane blasts of wind might
cause dampness if the air wasn't dry ...
I use canned air, so it should be dry and dust-free.
I guess he's saying that the
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:37:40 -0700 Tris Schuler
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Frankly, until the industry comes up with
some hard video standard we're all basically chasing our tails with
online
images and the critique of same. It's good enough for casual purposes,
but
to get seriously
On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 21:23:50 -0400 Larry Berman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Some of you may have heard about Google's new search engine for images.
Google say they respect robots.txt, so if you don't want material indexed,
preventing it is easy enough.
Regards
Tony Sleep
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:39:59 -0400 Jerry Lodriguss ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
While doing scans of a transparency, I ran across a curious problem with
the Nikon LS2000 losing shadow detail that was captured in the scan, but
not retained when color management was used.
Which version of
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:49:04 +0800 Ng Hun Yang ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Opera may not implement Javascript well enough.
Yeah, I know, it happens from time to time. It's the same JS engine as NS
tho', AFAIK.
Well, if you are anti-IE
It's not that, it's just that I can run Opera all the
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:15:25 -0400 Jerry Lodriguss ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
It is version 3.1.2 of NikonScan.
Ah. It was supposed to have been largely fixed in 2.5 as far as I can
remember, but ...
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:59:16 -0400 Lawrence Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Someone I communicated with off list about
this said they usually try to go off list if there are only 2 or 3
actively
participating in a thread that is clearly going nowhere.
Plan B is of course to start a new
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:09:13 -0600 Berry Ives ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
When I went to the link for the medium format image, I got a message
saying
that the image was not available in a resolution for my screen...that's
odd.
Think yourself lucky. Here the too-clever-by-half Javascript
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:51:20 +0100 Simon Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
When I scanned the image I found that all pixels from about 210 to 255
were
showing as black and I could not get any detail to show, even though I
know
it is there from a scan done on a Sprintscan 120. The histogram
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:17:10 -0400 Petru Lauric ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
That's why usually a well exposed slide looks very rich,
very dense.
When I did some informal tests with my Polaroid SS4000 I was impressed
with the Provia 400F scans - very good color reproduction and low grain.
My
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:30:13 -0500 Laurie Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Tony, what if the constant colour temp lightsource is a fluorescent
discontinuous light source such as what he has said was the light source
for
the microscope; will what you suggest still hold?
I have used col
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:58:01 +0200 Alex Zabrovsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
As I mentioned previously, I tried the Reala settings and regular
White Balance unsuccessfully. Perhaps this is something to do with the
issue
of trial version against full one ?
No, I'm sure it is identical
Or,
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:15:39 + ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
what happened to the archives for this list?
they only go up to Dec 2001 on http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/
They were 'unofficial' and seem not to be maintained any more.
Use
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:35:31 +1100 geoff murray
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Is Ice in the future of the SS120?
No, since scanners which don't have an IR channel cannot support ICE.
However Polaroid have an interesting standalone dust removal prog in beta
which works very well to locally
Sorry the listserver is (even more) flaky lately. It has been falling over
a lot due to (a)Windows and associated s/w being a blancmange on a stick
(b)a possibly dodgy SIMM which I've now replaced. Unfortunately after
crashes it often sends out duplicates.
There have been some periods of 3-6 hrs
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:48:23 -0500 Hemingway, David J
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
The SS120 compares favorably with the Precision II.
SS120 = ~2,200GBP
Imacon Photo = 4,000GBP
Citroen Saxo 1.4 = 6,000GBP
Imacon Precision II = 10,000GBP
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online
On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:10:59 -0500 John Pendley ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
If there's another way besides right clicking on the stamp tool to
make it change to Rubber Stamp, I can't find it.
Alt/LMBclick on the tool icon toggles between them
It's always exploring alt, ctrl and
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:00:09 - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Nikon LS 8000 for scanning my =
medium format material. It has been quite splendid in all respects =
except for scanning black and white, either negs or positives [Dr.5 or =
SCALA].=20
The resulting images look as though the
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 02:48:18 -0800 Arthur Entlich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Once
production ramps up, the price per unit will drop and yields will likely
improve allowing for larger chips. Also, there is no specific advantage
to a larger chip if the lenses are very good quality
I
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:23:19 +0200 Steve Woolfenden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I have a Nikon 4000 scanner and seem to be getting what looks like grain
from scans of Ilford Delta 100 . This is a fairly fine grained film so
I'm
assuming this is something I'm doing wrong with the scanning
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:17:00 +0100 Preben S. Kristensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
As I implied, if not stated directly, these lines are not from the
scanner
per se: when I move the scanner to another computer, they don't appear.
Also, when I use another scanner with this computer the
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 23:46:33 -0800 ThomasH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Here we have the imbalances of chemical development
process causing color deviations, problems with dust free
upkeep
I agree, but interchangeable lens digicams all have terrible problems with
dust on the CCD or
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 00:14:27 +0100 Tomek Zakrzewski
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Which of the current scanning software programms does the best job in
color
reproduction of images from these negs?
IMO software makes only a secondary contribution, or attempt to improve how
the hardware
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 00:08:12 - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Looking at just the blue channel in greyscale, the
higher middle tones and highlights seem relatively smooth, but the
lower
middle tones and shadows are a mess.
Now this is interesting. From what I can see, both the Elite
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 04:55:06 -0500 Martin Greene
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Is it necessary to make scans at the
output size and resolution one will ultimately be printing at, or can one
make them any size and resolution and size them up in Photoshop ³Image
Size²
before printing?
Doing
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:09:05 - Ian Jackson
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
This post asks whether further posts from me would be welcomed
considering:
(a) The Canon is not capable of approaching the image quality of
dedicated film scanners.
(b) There is no Silverfast or Vuescan products
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:39:22 +0100 Johnny Zasada ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Had the same thought about this too. But, strange enough, I never read
any
complaints anywhere on the net by users of such cameras about shots
ruined
by dust and dirt bits on the CCD.
It's common. Try
On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 16:28:20 -0600 Eric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Why wouldn't oversampling and averaging help reduce hardware-caused
noise?
It can be a pointless exercise. If the noise is down below the black point
of the image, you can just discard it by clipping the histogram. With
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:32:45 -0800 Ron Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi David, I presume PCI will support the SS4000 as well as the SS4000+.
Can
I download it without removing version 4.5? If so, can I install it
without
removing version 4.5?
Almost certainly not. With previous
On Fri, Sat, Sun, several jokers wrote:
nonsense which was just as OT and absurd as the original ADMIN msg
OK, can we let it drop now please? Else I'll be forced to unsubscribe every
tenth list member, and crucify all AOL members who use the default mailer.
I don't want to do this, but the
On Sat, 09 Feb 2002 10:12:15 -0800 ThomasH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Anyway, I think that the enormous interest in Vuescan and the amount
of traffic justifies a separate newsgroup or a maillist for support
of this product.
Hm. Perhaps. Although it can be argued that it is the amount of
On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 22:39:04 -0800 Hersch Nitikman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Please say it isn't so, Tony!
For the avoidance of doubt, it was somewhat less than serious.
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner info
comparisons
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:54:22 - Mark Otway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I know the encoding only takes place when the image is saved in PS (as
opposed to when it's manipulated). But since the act of re-encoding
results in some data loss, if I can perform these simple tranformations
(flip)
Naturally I have received a complaint about my summary blockage of the Hard
Disk Speed thread. I concede it may have been a misjudgement on my part
that summarily deprived a large number of readers of invaluable
information.
I therefore propose a few revisions to the list charter.
(1)On
On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 00:22:04 -0800 John Prokos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have taken on a project to scan 50 old lantern slides from a Mt
McKinley
expedition in 1910.
I have seen what informally looked like very good results from the Microtek
8700 flatbed. It has a glassless carrier for
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 12:15:33 -0330 michael shaffer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I now wonder how he wants us to report possible
bugs and suggestions?? Such discussions could be here of course,
but I
also wonder if that is appropriate (Tony?, Ed?).
I've no objections to VS being discussed
On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 02:54:28 -0800 Arthur Entlich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
If Ed's method is a standard, then most scanners use averaging of the
RGB scan when they do a greyscale scan, which I suspect is also how
Photoshop creates a greyscale mode image from RGB.
ISTR PS uses unequal
On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 02:34:19 -0800 Arthur Entlich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
1) In the case of a film scanner, if one sets the scanner driver to
black and white film, and it scans in greyscale, is there a standard
method this is accomplished?
I don't know, but have come across scanner s/w
On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 02:49:44 -0800 Arthur Entlich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
The question I was trying to answer was regarding if there was a
difference between the source being desaturated in Photoshop before
going to the printer versus taking a color scan and converting it to
Greyscale
A web archives for this list may be found at :-
http://www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
The 'unofficial' archive at http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/ (which
went back a bit further) appears to no longer be maintained.
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:33:19 -0800 Ken Durling ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
However, nothing I do in Vuescan results in anything but a straight
greyscal image, leading me to believe that there's something I don't
understand about this film (no surprise). So where does the sepia
toning come
I stumbled across http://www.littlecms.com/profilers.htm yesterday, which
looks interesting: free profiling s.w. for monitors and scanners, based on
a Q60. Though it's not quite clear whether it's just compiled libraries or
a full application. Has anyone used it?
Regards
Tony Sleep
A web archives for this list may be found at :-
http://www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
The 'unofficial' archive at http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/ (which
went back a bit further) appears to no longer be maintained.
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online
A web archives for this list may be found at :-
http://www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
The 'unofficial' archive at http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/ (which
went back a bit further) appears to no longer be maintained.
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online
Sorry all about the repeat FAQ:Archive message. Finger/brain trouble here.
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner info
comparisons
Unsubscribe by mail to
A web archives for this list may be found at :-
http://www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
The 'unofficial' archive at http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/ (which
went back a bit further) appears to no longer be maintained.
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online
A web archives for this list may be found at :-
http://www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
The 'unofficial' archive at http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/ (which
went back a bit further) appears to no longer be maintained.
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:00:31 +0200 Alex Zabrovsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Hi List.
This query relates to our US-based friends, especially those living in
California.
Anything else anyone has a question about? Plumbing? Cat moulting? How to
do the tappets on your 1988 Mazda? Fill in a tax
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:41:00 +0100 DRP ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Still trying to scan this nice BW from neg, but get huge grain probably
due to diffraction at 2400dpi (HPS20)
I find Delta3200 just about tolerable using TMax dev and a Polaroid 4000,
unless heavily exposed and developed. It
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:52:13 -0500 Paul Chefurka ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I'm not sure why one would use older cards instead of newer ones, given
the
probability of support issues as they age further. In addition, the idea
of using two PCI slots instead of one AGP slot with a dual-head
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:40:53 -0500 Hemingway, David J
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have just finished scanning 3,000 35mm slides and archiving
these to CD's. Your film scanner has worked beautifully and without error
this past 6 weeks.
That is... ulp... 500 a week, ~70/day!
Regards
Tony
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 07:38:45 EST ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
6 Histogram with sliders (like Photoshop)
6 Multiple previews (batch previews)
5 More film types (Fuji, Ilford, Agfa, old films)
4 Real-time preview update
4 Custom monitor profiles
3 Curve tool
2 Options for sizing output
On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 09:02:36 +0100 Ralf Schmode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Florian Rist schrieb:
[blueish cast on what should be white]
I have seen this many times with Vuescan + SS4000, and have posted about it
previously. Symptoms are that the prescan looks fine, the final scan has
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:30:39 -0500 Owen P. Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
. No one
seems to disagree with my reasoning or they haven't yet spoken up.
Perhaps because (IMO) Vuescan and Silverfast are different tools, aimed at
different kinds of user practicing quite different workflows.
I
Most list members are still unreachable. I'm told by the list's ISP this is
due to a cable fault at level 3 and it will be fixed sometime today,
Monday. There is a backlog of 10,000 emails here, and I expect list
turnaround will be slow until this has cleared.
Regards
Tony Sleep
The routeing problems decsribed in my earlier message are still continuing,
with most delivery addresses still unreachable.
This is apparently due to a major routeing failure upstream from the list's
ISP, which has made reaching root DNS's impossible. Allegedly it is being
worked on.
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 18:00:51 - John Weiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
And most, if not all, of the messages I see now appear to be addressed
to me
personally rather than to the list, as in the header shown below for the
message from Bob Geoghegan.
Which is actually correct and is how the
On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:22:13 +1100 Op's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I was under the impression that Agfa rebadged Microtek scanners.
I was under the impression that Microtek built Agfa specced and designed
scanners under contract. There's no direct equivalent of, say, the Studio
T2500, in the
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:54:37 -0800 Ron Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No More Carts
and probably Jon Cone as well should have a web site.
Lots of info and sales at Cone's site www.inkjetmall.com, incl the CIS
system
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:53:36 EST ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
The Agfa DuoScan T2500 is the same as the Microtek ArtixScan 2500
In the same way, presumably, that the Polaroid 4000 and Microtek 4000 are
the same, then? Ie different casework - 'cos they don't look much the same.
Regards
Tony
There appears to be a major DNS disaster in progress for the last 3-4 hrs,
with (AFAICS) only expired MX records obtainable from root nameservers or
my ISP's DNS for many .com and .net domains.
About two-thirds of list recipients are not getting list mail because of
this, so don't be suprised if
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:13:01 +0100 Tomasz Zakrzewski
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Below is my question I originally posted to www.photo.net but maybe
because
of badly chosen time (Christmas) no one responded.
I'd appreciate your help.
A better place would be the Epson inkjet list at
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:11:14 +1100 Matthew Tippett ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
o USB, I will need to use it with a laptop, speed will be slow, but hey
don't need a screen or base unit.
o Compatible with Linux (Either sane of vuescan).
IMO this is making life needlessly hard. Adding a
On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:26:12 + Richard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Secondly I cannot get Vuescan to see the scanner even though it is
supported. Could it be that the Epson scanner software has installed
something that is blocking Vuescan?
More likely you have a clash of SCSI ID's between
On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 21:31:10 +0100 Johnny Zasada ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
But what will be left when the struggle is over? I don't feel
photography is
in good hands when companies like Sony, Adobe, Casio, Epson, Microsoft
and
whatever will dominate the market. They lack the true feel
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:24:45 EST ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I really like using vuescan with my LS 2000, particularly because of the
film
terms and resulting colors. But, have such a problem with highlight
clipping
that I rarely use the program.
Have you investigated the Image Brightness
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:20:06 -0500 Pat Cullinan, jr.
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Finally, the website says:
There is a misconception that blowing canned air into the scanner
will help clean parts in the
optical path and the CCD. This is not true, the CCD in most of the
SprintScan
A number of points arising, since the list transferred server.
1. REJECTED POSTS
- Please note you can ONLY send from your subscribed address. Any address
the listserver doesn't know about belongs to a non-subscriber.
- You cannot send mails containing HTML, MS Mime.dat rubbish or
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:15:20 +0100 Ezio c/o TIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
It is a NIKON LS 30
Should I be scared ?
I don't know, I have never seen a fault like this before. It really looks
like severe optical diffusion more than anything else - the spreading of
image from less-exposed
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 02:33:26 +0100 Ezio c/o TIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Dears, I am experimenting a nasty problem with a scanned film (negative)
:
Fuji 1600 ASA.
The red parts of the pics are carrying a great extent of shadows ...
these
are more evident with RED , but are also present
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