[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS4000 alignment

2004-08-05 Thread alan
This might sound tongue-in-cheek, but have you considered setting up a script in Photoshop (or GraphicConverter if you use a Mac) to rotate your photos? I don't know of any setting in the scanner or in the scanner software. I think that you can see that, yes, I have experienced it. A W Shumaker

[filmscanners] Re: Another lurker seeking advice

2004-02-29 Thread alan
You take a plastic card--eg, a xerox machine card or a hotel entry key card--and you cut it to the right length and tape it in place. When in Mexico, I used a wooden coffee stirrer. Very low tech, and you can have different cards for slides of different thicknesses. I would post an image, but

[filmscanners] Re: Oh no! Not another which one should I buyquestion

2004-02-21 Thread alan
I am having very good luck scanning old Kodachrome (not sure if 64 or 25) 35mm slides with a Nikon 4000. I have to work to recover the color, but Vuescan does 50% of the work for me. Some of the slides have a funny surface--probably lacquer that has aged--and the IR does a good job of removing it.

[filmscanners] Re: new Nikon scanners

2004-02-04 Thread alan
I've scanned 3,000 slides on my LS4000ED. I don't know if that is a lot or a few. Almost all with the auto slide feeder. No problems (knock on wood). A [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Thu, 5 Feb 2004 00:13:25 + said: As to the question about Nikon scanner reliablity. My LS4000 failed at 13 months, one

[filmscanners] Re: Does brand of film really make any differencenowadays?

2004-01-10 Thread alan
[From a lurker on this list] Well, I think so. Two simple examples--one from film per se, one from scanning. Last year I tested some film on a 4x5, comparing Velvia to Astia. Photos were on the coast, mid afternoon, clear skies but high humidity, hence the light was a little blue. The difference

[filmscanners] Re: SS 4000 Questions

2003-12-03 Thread Alan Eckert
Re: dust covers Go to a fabric store and get a plastic sewing machine cover for $5. I bought one that fits my SS4000 pretty tightly and have never had a dust problem. - Original Message - From: david.gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:34

[filmscanners] Re: Silverfast challenge

2003-11-05 Thread Alan Eckert
I had exactly the same experience. I found that using the target transparency that came with my copy of 5.5 (included with my SS4000) to generate an ICC profile gave 8-bit scans that were very close to the original. When I tried high-bit scans I was entirely unable to wrench them to quality as

[filmscanners] Re: ADMIN : Spam blocking warning.

2003-11-04 Thread alan
Tony I hate to fill up lists about important things (like film scanning) with off-topic issues (like spam), but I also hate to see spamcop unfairly tarnished. I use spamcop to filter my email, and I get very few false positives. (I have a few friends who use aol, which comes and goes from the

[filmscanners] Re: 8 bit versus 16

2003-09-11 Thread Alan Eckert
every time. Alan - Original Message - From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:30 PM Subject: [filmscanners] RE: 8 bit versus 16 Hi Art, ...and that's even concluding that the scanner is really capturing the full 16 bit

[filmscanners] Re: [filmscanners_Digest] filmscanners Digestfor Tue 10 Sep, 2002

2002-09-09 Thread Alan Harper
And I think Vuescan is the cat's meow. Can we have a three-week, 80-e-mail, discussion of whether you are right or I am? Can I write long diatribes on the difference between the cat's whiskers and the cat's meow? Please? Sorry, cat got my tongue. I'll just lick my fur. A -- Alan Harper [EMAIL

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan freezing in OS X

2002-07-14 Thread Alan Harper
disks that don't wake properly. Apple System Profiler will tell you what kind of hard disk you have. A -- Alan Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 6:03 PM 7/13/02, Julian Vrieslander said: I have seen three instances of VS freezing in OS X. The spinning disk cursor is displayed, and the application

[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and Nikon Scan for OS X

2002-06-20 Thread Alan Harper
There is another gotcha for OS X that I have found for some USB scanners, and may exist for Firewire scanners. If you are running OS 9 (Classic), the drivers there can interfere with VueScan communicating with the scanner. Depending on I don't know what, sometimes you have to reboot if you let OS

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

2002-03-14 Thread Alan Tyson
far as I can see. My own solution is to have kept the Help file from Vuescan 7.2.2, on my 'Start Menu' next to 'Vuescan 7.5.5'. This contains almost everything I need to refer to, and a bit of intelligence enables me to guess the answer for current versions. Regards Alan T - Original

[filmscanners] re: Vuescan: batch scanning raw files made by NikonScan.

2002-02-18 Thread Alan Womack
Is this a recent issue with Vuescan? In the past I scanned my film as RAW files, then went to disk mode, pointed vuescan to the first batch file. Scan0001.raw then told it to scan frames 1 to 36. In about 30 minutes I had 36 finished files. Alan But: I discovered that there is no mean

Re: filmscanners: Album software

2001-12-18 Thread Alan Tyson
Paint Shop Pro 7 has a facility called print multiple images that does most of what you require, but you'd have to create the captions as separate images using PSP7's text tool. - Original Message - From: Ian Boag [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001

filmscanners: Re**n: Rescans and archiving

2001-12-14 Thread Alan Tyson
as everything else. Regards, Alan Tyson - Original Message - From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 12:05 AM I've heard that too, although I don't understand what difference it makes when the dyes are added! (but I can see that it does

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

2001-12-12 Thread Alan Tyson
I'm a Freeserve user, yet I've had these messages. I spotted the offending virus-containing message as dodgy and deleted it immediately on arrival. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Steve Greenbank [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:13

Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help

2001-11-13 Thread Alan Tyson
or to do large numbers of images. Regards good luck, Alan Tyson - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:12 PM Subject: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help Have Polaroid . ..shoot kids ice hockey each

filmscanners: RE: Vuescan Tiger Photo

2001-10-04 Thread Alan Womack
I ran your 577kb SCAN into 7.1.16 and came up with a gorgeous photo without tweaking anything out of the normal. Generic Color Negative Gamma 1.3 White point .05 black point .1 Auto Levels If you want to email a couple of other scans you are having trouble with, be happy to work them over.

filmscanners: Advancing frames in Silverfast

2001-10-01 Thread Alan Eckert
Here's a dumb question: Polacolar Insight has a button to pick which frame in the filmstrip or slide holder you want to scan, but I can't figure out how to do the same thing in Silverfast, so I can only scan negs or slides in the first frame. Can anyone help? Thanks. Alan

Re: filmscanners: FW: DIGITAL CAMERA SCANS

2001-09-30 Thread Alan Tyson
are. Alan T - Original Message - From: peter.phipp To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:43 PM Subject: filmscanners: FW: DIGITAL CAMERA SCANS Has anybody any results from using a high quality digital camera in a slide copier to make an instant

Re: filmscanners: Best scanner software

2001-09-30 Thread Alan Tyson
that will impress less critical friends and relations when hung over the fireplace and viewed from several metres away, you can go much bigger than A3 (at least A2) with 2700 ppi and still have satisfied customers. Regards, good luck, and have lots of fun, Alan T - Original Message - From: Alex

re: filmscanners: VueScan 7.1.17 Available

2001-09-29 Thread Alan Womack
. alan What type of adjustment in gamma and the white point % do you suggest for mimicing the effect of Brightness from Vuescan 7.1.16? Adjust gamma downwards to decrease brightness, and upwards to increase brightness. Regards, Ed Hamrick Epson Inkjet Printer FAQ

Re: filmscanners: VueScan tutorial?

2001-09-29 Thread Alan Tyson
experiment with it at the same time to observe the effects of the controls. Alan T - Original Message - From: Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Film Scanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 12:25 AM Subject: filmscanners: VueScan tutorial? Sorry if this is a repeat question

Re: filmscanners: Nikon Scan VS Negative dynamic range

2001-09-26 Thread Alan Tyson
if you don't like the result. This was easier in the olden days when many of the controls were on a single screen alongside the preview. However, I've now got used to the big preview the tabs, and do much more twiddling in Vuescan before going elsewhere. Regards, Alan T - Original Message

re: filmscanners: Nikon Scan VS Negative dynamic range

2001-09-25 Thread Alan Womack
Julian, as is with most things that vuescan does, there is a setting for the BUFFER on one of the tabs, crop on the right hand side of the controls. Vuescan defaults to 2.0, I move mine up to 5%. alan I think Ed would make it much more user friendly if the exposure algorithm

re: filmscanners: Problems with Scanwit or it's SCSI card

2001-09-23 Thread Alan Womack
? Does it function? Does it show under imaging devices in the device manager? alan When i turn on the scanner, go to /my computer/propeties/device manager and refresh the device list computer freeze-up and only reacts on on reset button. First, i fought that problems with logic structure

Re: filmscanners: Emulsion flaws (was dust in SS4000)

2001-09-21 Thread Alan Tyson
film during drying. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Roger Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: filmscanners: Emulsion flaws (was dust in SS4000) under my microscope and cranked up the magnification to 400x

re: filmscanners: Washed out sky/Vuescan

2001-09-20 Thread Alan Womack
What part of the instructions do you find confusing? I find the instructions very confusing. What type of scene are you trying to scan? Different scenes with dominate colors can require different settings within vuescan. I've almost always had trouble with grass scenes myself. My

filmscanners: Re: Autoexposure problem in Vuescan

2001-09-20 Thread Alan Tyson
. BTW, after suffering a processor's lost film mixup, I also photograph another frame from the computer screen showing my name address (and a bit of Ed Hamrick's Vueprint test chart). Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: filmscanners: brandnew user queries

2001-09-17 Thread Alan Tyson
David Lewiston [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote on Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:57:58 -1000 ...buy an enema bulb. I've used one for years (only for my negs and tranies you understand) and don't have a dust problem. Alan T says Last time David L suggested this, I tried hard to buy one from many

Re: filmscanners: brandnew user queries

2001-09-17 Thread Alan Tyson
cold, so we shouldn't overdo any single squirt. This is easy for me because I'm too mean to buy another can very often. Alan T - Original Message - From: Bill Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 2:46 AM Subject: Re

filmscanners: yellow stain on 2720S

2001-09-14 Thread Alan Womack
has the yellow stain issue been figured out yet on some Scanwits? alan Epson Inkjet Printer FAQ: http://welcome.to/epson-inkjet

re: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

2001-09-08 Thread Alan Womack
I took a look at the engine, if you don't use descriptive names you won't be indexed in a usable manner. No on at google is doing to look at image0001.jpg files and decide that was a cake and note it in the index. alan Harvey writes: The possibility of losses is scary, What sort

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan Problem

2001-09-04 Thread Alan Tyson
someone else, without understanding it very well. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:46 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan Problem Ed wrote: VueScan

Re: filmscanners: Dust removal software?

2001-09-01 Thread Alan Eckert
I have a SS4000 and am getting exquisitely sharp and detailed scans that print well to 13x19 on my Epson 1270. How can I say this simply? To avoid dust, just take care of your transparencies! I use a dust removal brush before scanning and then the rubber stamp tool to take care of the few

Re: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography

2001-08-24 Thread Alan Tyson
. You and he are the folk who're really at the sharp end of practical modern photography. Alan T - Original Message - From: Ian Boag [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 1:08 AM Subject: RE: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial

Re: filmscanners: re: filmscanners: Vuescan

2001-08-23 Thread Alan Tyson
of Win98, but I don't think that's anything to do with it. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Alan Womack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Majordomo leben.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:45 AM Subject: re: filmscanners: re: filmscanners: Vuescan Windows 98SE updated

re: filmscanners: re: filmscanners: Vuescan

2001-08-22 Thread Alan Womack
. alan Preferably switch the scanner on before you switch on the PC, or you'll have to do a refresh in Device Manager before any software can see it. Rob Epson Inkjet Printer FAQ: http://welcome.to/epson-inkjet

re: filmscanners: Vuescan

2001-08-22 Thread Alan Womack
drivers. alan Alan wrote: Vuescan no longer requires me to have the device show in the device manager before vuescan finds it, I think it might even cause windows to put it in the device manager. On my machine, yes indeed it does cause windows to put the scanner

re: filmscanners: re: filmscanners: Vuescan

2001-08-22 Thread Alan Womack
Windows 98SE updated to the nines an adaptec 2902E which uses the actual 2902E drivers, not the 7800 family windows wants to use. All I have to due is turn on my scanners and start vuescan, they all show up! alan Alan.. I just tried starting my Microtek 4000T w/o re-booting or re

re[2]: filmscanners: Vuescan Blue's

2001-08-21 Thread Alan Womack
Normally I set my buffer to 5% because I always use maximum crop and later crop in PS. I'll bet it is sitting at 2% since I loaded 7.1.7 alan Have you set the Crop and Buffer such that you are sure VueScan is looking at actual picture content (and not frame edges or sprocket holes

filmscanners: where's the list archive?

2001-08-21 Thread Rew, Alan
Is there an archive of the messages on this list, or a FAQ somewhere? TIA Alan Rew

re: filmscanners: Vuescan

2001-08-21 Thread Alan Womack
Make sure you have your scanner on BEFORE you start vuescan, it does a scsi bus scan on startup. alan I just downloaded a trial version of vuescan and cant get it to work - presumably it should work without uninstalling nikonscan ? Thanks Steve

Re: filmscanners: Slightly OT -- Apple Studio Monitor Brightness

2001-08-20 Thread Alan Rew
- Original Message - From: Alan Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 1:20 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Slightly OT -- Apple Studio Monitor Brightness Yes, so you'd think. But the manual is entirely innocent of any instructions on adjusting

filmscanners: film scratched by APS adaptor for CanoScan FS2710?

2001-08-18 Thread Alan Rew
fragile, or if the CanoScan APS adaptor is problematical in this respect? I really don't know where to go from here - I suppose could get a replacement adaptor from Canon, but I'd still be reluctant to scan these films if there was a generic problem. Any help would be welcome. TIA Alan Rew

filmscanners: Slightly OT -- Apple Studio Monitor Brightness

2001-08-18 Thread Alan Eckert
Folks on this list and elsewhere have stressed the importance of an accurate monitor profile, so on the advice of several reliable sources, including Ian Lyons, I've ordered ColorVision's Photocal Spyder. Problem is (and this crops up in Adobe Gamma, too), the instructions tell you to

filmscanners: Custom ICC printer profiles

2001-08-09 Thread Alan Eckert
but not charge quite as much? BTW, I'm using PS 6.0 on a G4 Mac. Alan

re: filmscanners: Vuescan blue anomaly

2001-07-24 Thread Alan Womack
I cannot say I do use PS Auto Levels often. Will go off and try it quickly to see. On the last couple of photos that I adjusted the white point up .05 for the blue component, auto levels in Photoshop doesn't work out too well. Makes the colors even more off, took the blue out though! Alan

re: Scanning multiple times (was Re: filmscanners: Vuescan gripes)

2001-07-23 Thread Alan Womack
Sometime back Ed mentioned there was a SCSI command that causes an extra 20% exposure on the scanwit and he enables it always. Alan I don't think VS controls exposure time on Scanwits directly - they have an autoexposure system with no manual control. However, I agree it appears

re: filmscanners: Re: Vuescan gripes

2001-07-20 Thread Alan Womack
It's curious most of you are doing less modifying in PS from recent scans, I had been doing little PS modifying, but have had to make the substantial curves adjustment lately in PS to bring blue down 20-30 points and red up 5-10 points. I roll I was working on of beach pictures I changed the

re[2]: filmscanners: Vuescan too blue

2001-07-18 Thread Alan Womack
I am always typing faster than I am thinking. I am scanning almost all negs, the latest roll is Kodak Royal 400. I did play with various film base settings, some have distinctly different casts than others, but non I played with were better than generic. Ed has explained this tries to

Re: filmscanners: PS 6.0 v. PS 5.0 LE v. Jasc Paintshop Pro 7.02

2001-07-09 Thread Alan Tyson
point from specific image locations. If this is there somewhere in PSP, please could someone tell me where to find it? 3. The superior PS5LE dithering of full screen images, which gives a much more pleasing look, better representative of what a print will look like. Regards, Alan T

Re: filmscanners: Silverfast and LS1000

2001-07-09 Thread Alan Tyson
When I've tried multiscanning on my 2720S, I've found it hard to detect any degradation. Misalignment is of the order of one 2700 ppi pixel on mine, or less, so it wouldn't bother most people. I can see it might mess up star locations. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Herm

Re: filmscanners: Silverfast and LS1000

2001-07-09 Thread Alan Tyson
this make sense? Alan T - Original Message - From: Frank Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 1:24 AM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Silverfast and LS1000 Actually scanning the same image twice is not exactly the same as multipass scanning in Vuescan - I

Re: filmscanners: Stains and Grains (was Yellow Stain)

2001-07-05 Thread Alan Tyson
always been difficult to print. The mistake occurred at the moment the button was pressed, not when the scanner was bought. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Frank Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Filmscanners@Halftone. Co. Uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jerry Oostrom [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: filmscanners: Vuescan Settings

2001-06-30 Thread Alan Womack
My 7.1.3 has a seperate control for Image Brightness and Gamma. Image brightness will affect the blacks of the image, Gamma not so much. I often leave Black to .01 or so which results in the black edge of negs or slide masks going close to 0, I almost always go with Maximum and do any

Re: filmscanners: Film base deterioration (was Digital Shortcomings)

2001-06-29 Thread Alan Tyson
digital archiving rearchiving as we can be bothered with. Regards to all, Alan T. - Original Message - From: Laurie Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 8:31 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Film base deterioration (was Digital Shortcomings)

re[2]: filmscanners: ACER Scanwit 2720S problem

2001-06-27 Thread Alan Womack
Well, honestly I almost returned the scanner for defective because when I got mine I didn't squeeze hard enough either! Tech support was clueless.. alan What a great suggestion! The center snaps on the negative carrier don't snap cleanly/crisply like the end snap and sometimes

Re: filmscanners: ACER Scanwit 2720S problem

2001-06-27 Thread Alan Tyson
have to understand its limitations. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Frank Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 6:25 AM Subject: RE: filmscanners: ACER Scanwit 2720S problem What a great suggestion! The center snaps on the negative

Re: filmscanners: Digital Shortcomings

2001-06-26 Thread Alan Tyson
bleached out during processing. It is thus inherently easier in the latter processes to use permanent dyes; the colour chemists have fewer constraints because they don't have to meet the requirements of developer chemistry as well as everything else. Regards, Alan Tyson - Original Message

re: filmscanners: ACER Scanwit 2720S problem

2001-06-26 Thread Alan Womack
I've never had this happen, only two thoughts come to mind. The clips on the film carrier are not CLIPPED tightly, double squeeze them to make sure. Defective. Check the film strip holders and if those are tight, exchange it! alan Hi, I just got an ACER Scanwit 2720s last week and I

re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: VueScan + flat colors

2001-06-26 Thread Alan Womack
Yes, unless you are using a custom profile the native Epson driver does indeed expect you to be in sRGB. Alan AFAIK this is normal. The gamuts of the colour spaces are different. But it leads me to wonder - if some of the problems I've had with colour matching between the screen

filmscanners: ScanWit Yellow stain

2001-06-24 Thread Alan Womack
Has anyone gotten an answer from Acer on this yet? My one year warranty expired before I realized I had a problem with the scanner and not the negative itself. :) Alan Epson Inkjet Printer FAQ: http://welcome.to/epson-inkjet

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan - illegal ops?

2001-06-16 Thread Alan Tyson
that the computer can't keep up. It doesn't affect the results. So, I'm therefore worried that Win98SE's more rigorous checking of things has slowed things down, altered memory management, etc, so that my old stable setup is lost forever. Any ideas, anyone? Alan T - Original Message - From

re[2]: filmscanners: re: brown yellow down side of Acer Neg scans

2001-05-31 Thread Alan Womack
on the side of the negative continues. I will have to try a kodak neg next as this was with Fuji 100. Alan I just checked a frame with the problem in Miraphoto 2.0 and it exhibits the same yellow/brown cast down the right hand side on this sky negative. A difference

filmscanners: re: brown yellow down side of Acer Neg scans

2001-05-29 Thread Alan Womack
. I just checked a frame with the problem in Miraphoto 2.0 and it exhibits the same yellow/brown cast down the right hand side on this sky negative. A difference of up to 12 points blue. Alan could be some kind of reflection from my slide- and filmholder so they promised me

filmscanners: Nikon CS-IV could I beg a scan?

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Womack
this negative on a CS-!V with it's better shadow ability. I can send a CD to have the scan written to in RAW format from VueScan. Thanks Alan ps I'm in the States

filmscanners: Reflective IT8 group buy extras available

2001-05-26 Thread Alan Womack
at: http://www.targets.coloraid.de Alan

re: filmscanners: Fast, decent, low res scans

2001-05-24 Thread Alan Womack
numbered. VueScan also was an excellent autolevels. I use it almost exclusively on my Scanwit 2720. There will also be the time for the scanner to focus, although 675 dpi may make this a moot point. alan The best price I've seen so far for the Acer Scanwit 2740S in the US is $485 http

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan request

2001-05-20 Thread Alan Tyson
*contained* within that directory. I for one would deplore any moves on Ed's part to complicate this excellent and simple way of working. (He's a clever chap, in case you hadn't noticed.) Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: cjcronin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

re: filmscanners: OK, Vuescan is driving me nuts

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Womack
Rob: have you tired increase the buffer %? Maybe double it do Vuescan ignores #% of the image from the border to make sure it doesn't pick up the black film edge. Alan Vuescan appears to move the whole crop box sometimes when dragging one side. This makes getting the outline right

Re: filmscanners: Paintshop Pro

2001-05-10 Thread Alan Tyson
. I'll see if I can extract a patch on disk from the UK distributors, because a 10MB download 'patch' is ridiculous - obviously it's a whole new program. I've successfully upgraded PSP several times in the past using very quick easy patches. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From

Re: filmscanners: Cleaning slides

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Tyson
the print! Alan T - Original Message - From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 9:45 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Cleaning slides

filmscanners: Profiling negative films

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Womack
profiling the IT-8 and then taking a RAW scan from VueScan through this profile and then back into VueScan might produce a more consistant image? Although Ed does use his own conversion from a Q60 scan.. Wild ass scheme? alan

re: filmscanners: Acer Scanwit 2720s vs 2740s vs HP s20

2001-04-21 Thread Alan Womack
as Mira Photo is weak. Grain aliasing is a problem with all the 2700 dpi scanners, the 2900 _might_ be a little better. 4000 dpi don't seem to suffer much. This is the single biggest issue with the Scanwit, the optics are very sharp. Alan am new to the filmscanner world, so please bear

re: filmscanners: ColorCorrectionLink

2001-04-11 Thread Alan Womack
My take on the choice would be how much of your image is out of the gamut of the output device? A gamut warning inside Adobe RGB would be meaningless right? So do you convert each to the printer space by two different methods and see which is better via printing or ?? When reprofiling,

re: filmscanners:Focusing with Acer Scanwit WAS SS4000

2001-04-04 Thread Alan Womack
at slightly different values and observe the difference. alan I can! I'm experimenting with many different ways to help with grain-aliasing on neg's on my Acer 2720, and de-focussing can help.. Because the Acer does not have manual focus, I have to trick it by using a dummy frame

Re: filmscanners: AcerScanwit but also generic calibration

2001-04-04 Thread Alan Tyson
to experiment with the scanning exposure to get tone in the most desired details. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Shough, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:56 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: AcerScanwit but also generic calibration

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Tyson
the maths of jpeg compression care to comment and suggest reasons for the discrepancy, please? Or maybe Henk's and my results need repeating, like cold fusion and life on Mars? Alan T - Original Message - From: Hugo Gvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:44

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Tyson
there is no problem, Alan T says: This may be the same problem we discussed in February. Here is an extract from that discussion. Alan T: PSP7 will not read the compressed 48-bit tif files from Vuescan, saying "a predictor of 2 is only supported on LZW compression for 8 and 24 bit i

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Tyson
save routine, because each has its own scale and criteria for 'jpeg quality'. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 5:57 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: File format

Re: filmscanners: File format

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Tyson
, because then the jpegging couldn't repeat itself exactly. I haven't tried that experiment yet because I can't think of a standardised small bit of editing to do each time. Any suggestions? Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Laurie Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

filmscanners: Re: Own brand neg films; Was: Neg film for scanning

2001-03-26 Thread Alan Tyson
'generic' setting (Kodak Gold 400 Gen 5) . Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: Laurie Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 10:50 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Neg film for scanning In all probability it could just as well be Konica film - also from Germany.

filmscanners: Neg film for scanning

2001-03-23 Thread Alan Tyson
hey're due to post-handling of the negs (enprinting bagging). Since our last discussion, has anyone here been using Kodak Supra 400, and scanning it? Does the extra hardening work as scratch protection? Regards, Alan T

Re: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for archiving

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Tyson
, so I can sit in my bathchair in future looking at my holiday snaps analogue home videotapes. I'm not optimistic about my children being able in future to derive the same pleasure from my efforts that I get from my parents' BW snapshots from my own childhood. Regards, Alan T - Original

Re: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for archiving

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Tyson
at's worth considerably less than nothing as it stands. Thanks for the suggestions, anyway. An internet 'wanted' ad is perhaps one route I'll explore. Alan T - Original Message - From: Richard N. Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 3:42 PM Subject: Re: fi

filmscanners: how much time do you spend futzing with scans...

2001-03-13 Thread Alan Womack
on the list, especially those that make a living at this sort of thing. alan

Re: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for archiving

2001-03-12 Thread Alan Tyson
Khalid said: 2-What file Format should I use to save? Arthur said: TIFF or any other you think you will be able to read years from now, which is lossless. That precludes JPEG Alan T says: Arthur, Khalid didn't give us any clues on just how perfect an archive of his negs he wants

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-10 Thread Alan Tyson
/s C:\files.txt". This puts a nice directory listing of the CD into "C:\files.txt", amazingly (under Win98) including long filenames, and it'll load beautifully into Excel or Word so that you can search it, or even add columns to tell you what the image files were. Regards, Alan T - Origi

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan scan from scanner option

2001-03-10 Thread Alan Shaw
able to convert to that profile and archive it(?). Not _convert to that profile_, I think, because the data starts out that way, doesn't it? Rather, just embed that profile, right? --Alan

filmscanners: VueScan Beta

2001-03-10 Thread Alan Womack
? Either way a subtle box outline would help seperate these controls perceptually. The Zoom is a great thing. alan

Re: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution

2001-03-08 Thread Alan Shaw
OK, now I've gone all the way to 1600x1200, but I find my Photoshop palettes, and the font used in them, have gotten rather tiny. I don't see an obvious way to fix this. Can you help? Thanks, Alan

Re: filmscanners: Kodak Color Input Targets

2001-03-07 Thread Alan Tyson
selection tool', with judicious tweaking of the histograms for the selected bits of image. Any helpful suggestions for better methods (other than 'buy a more expensive scanner') would be very welcome here as well. Regards, Alan T Original Message - From: Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Improvements

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Shaw
Rob Geraghty wrote: Alan wrote: I agree that the dialog box would be a good thing, but I do have to point out that directory creation already happens, and automatically, if you enter a pathname into the raw, TIFF, or JPEG file name fields! Which is nice, but less foolproof than

Re: filmscanners: I got a Nikon LS-40 on Loan

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Shaw
At this rate you should have support for the LS-16000 in a week or so! Oh, yeah: :-)

Re: filmscanners: Kodak Color Input Targets

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Tyson
the raw data, once you've got it. So if you're into subtleties like accurate calibration, you may need to spend more money than you would on the Scanwit, to get more control over the scanner. Good luck, Alan T - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Tyson
on one screen at the same time. This meant driving the scanner and twiddling its output was analogous to a simplified NASA control centre with knobs dials, rather than a TV remote control. Regards, Alan T - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Tyson
or control tabs on the left and display tabs on the right?? Yes, but I'd get a headache, and have to visit my optician/optometrist more often. Regards, Alan T

re: filmscanners: Kodak Color Input Targets

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Womack
difference..:) alan I have a Scanwit 2720s, with which I am well pleased. It's much the best budget scanner, by all accounts. However, even with Ed Hamrick's Vuescan (a nearly essential $40 accessory for most scanners) you can exert only limited control over its initial output. You'll

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