Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED

2001-07-07 Thread Walter Bushell
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote: being in a postilion to do the same thing for the 35mm scanners - LS4000, ...don't you just love it when the spell checker does that? It just reminds me how difficult it is to get good postilions these days. ___Since the invention of the

Re: filmscanners: Minolta DiMAGE Scan Dimage 7 camera

2001-06-30 Thread Walter Bushell
SNIP Any filtering of this nature would not be done at the lens level. A lens is an optical device, and the best thing it can do is accurately translate everything it sees to the sensitive/recording layer. This is what all lenses strive toward. If any type of resolution lowering were to

Re: filmscanners: why not digital minilabs?

2001-06-30 Thread Walter Bushell
Because the transistion from digital image to print is non trivial. It's similar to the problems of printing negitives. Lynn: I understand that the digital machines will also accept an image that is given to them on a disk and that the machine can make the print from it. Wouldn't this allow

Re: filmscanners: New: Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO Film Scanner

2001-06-27 Thread Walter Bushell
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Moreno Polloni wrote: Maxtor just came out with a 1,000 gig hard drive. That should cover it. _ That is terrabull. ;^) You must have meant 100gb. Today is truly a bad day for extra zeros.

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-20 Thread Walter Bushell
Yes, and we use the Never Twice the Same Color system also. -- walter That's the moon a long time ago we used to go there. On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, B.Rumary wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard wrote: I seem to remember watching American Football for the first time in the UK some time back

Re: filmscanners: AcerMac?

2001-06-15 Thread Walter Bushell
I've not been able to foolw the conversation. Has anyone used the 2740 Mac driver for the scanwit and been happy with it? I'm thinking of buying one but I want to be sure. Rich AFAIK no, but VueScan works.

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: High Capacity Storage (was CD RW Deal)

2001-06-14 Thread Walter Bushell
But for 40 year storage JPEG's should be quite fine particually 4000 dpi high quality JPEGs, those found to be of importance can be transfered to lossless formats and edited. If you can push something forward that long with only the loss of one high quality JPEG compression you are well ahead of

RE: filmscanners: New Nikon performance

2001-06-09 Thread Walter Bushell
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Hemingway, David J wrote: Ed, I have been biting my tongue throughout this whole dust conversation but I guess I am finally baited out. I have done actual scans on the scanner with a LED light source and the SS4000. It was quite obvious to me that there was considerably

RE: filmscanners: VueScan and Occam's Razor

2001-06-07 Thread Walter Bushell
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Paul Chefurka wrote: Yep. -Original Message- From: Marvin Demuth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: VueScan and Occam's Razor He paraphrases Sir William's insight with the

Re: filmscanners: Nikon LS-30 Coolscan III makes scratches onnegatives

2001-06-04 Thread Walter Bushell
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Dave King wrote: You appear to have deduced the cause of the scratches that appear using the feeder. The film strip holder is much better in every aspect except convenience:)) The feeder also doesn't get the film flat enough! In other words, it's 'one-hour' quality,

filmscanners: CD RW Deal

2001-06-04 Thread Walter Bushell
Given the propensity of scanners to make large files, eg, 35mm at 2700 with VueScan at 64 bits 50 meg *each*. OTOH I've seen pre orders being taken for 24x writers. thought this might be of interest here. at http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=70002669 TDK VeloCD 12x/10x/32x CD-RW

filmscanners: VueScan Question

2001-06-02 Thread Walter Bushell
Dear Mr. Hamrick: Is it necessary to rescan with infrared every time, IOW, when doing multiple scans of the same film is it necessary to do an IR scan every time? With my ScanWit 2740 scanner it takes about 35 minutes to do a 16 pass scan (including the 16 IR scans), with a 666* Pentium III and