[filmscanners] Re: Kodak 100TMX on Nikon 8000

2004-03-29 Thread Youheng
Yes! dICE is the culprit. I'd tried most settings before posting but never turned off the ICE because the film is rather dirty and scrathed. As for David's suggestions, it is scanned with the rotation glass holder, and I pref er the setting as color neg in RGB mode. Thanks to Lau rie, David,

[filmscanners] Kodak 100TMX on Nikon 8000

2004-03-26 Thread Youheng
Hi List: I'm facing problems scanning the Kodak 100TMX black/white neg on the Nikon 8000, preview is somewhat o k but not good, while the scan lost every detail, just bl ack and white blotches, like severly solarized or that I can't describe clearly in English. Please someone how to cope with

Re: filmscanners: OT: Monitor Purchase

2001-10-21 Thread youheng
Sony is the best and in some aspects are better than Barco. Unfortunately the GDM-F500R is a disaster and Sony replaced it with the GDM-F520 quickly, nothing beats this one for now (Barco is better in several aspects). Sony will have 0.15mm dot pitch CRT display soon FYI. JM Shen Monitor 1

Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?

2001-08-08 Thread youheng
PC World (I got my copy just 2 hours ago) has some comments on DVD-RW and DVD-RAM. Not enough info, IMO, but a start. DVD holds a lot of data (up to 14 MB). Down side: if it goes bad, you *lose* a lot of data! AFAICT, there's no clear-cut winner for storage--maybe the answer is to

Re: filmscanners: Digital vs Conventional Chemical Darkroom

2001-06-19 Thread youheng
Excellent output can be obtained via either procedure. Personally, the only difference that seems still unresolved (to me, at least) is that of print permanence. And as long as great looking results can be obtained from either method, I would choose the one with greatest longevity. That's

filmscanners: Digital vs Conventional Chemical Darkroom

2001-06-17 Thread youheng
Sorry I'm not familiar with conventional chemical darkroom and planning to go directly digital darkroom, with Nikon LS-8000ED, also I'm learning photography with few experience. So if my question sounds stupid, just laugh. Simply, will Digital output surpass the Conventional Chemical