[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-17 Thread Tony Sleep
wrote: > I think item 3 might be the culprit. Nice theory but the mould doesn't seem to show any preference for the film rebate, which is where handling has occurred. Regards Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-16 Thread Arthur Entlich
A-ha You may be onto something... 1) Mold can be found on all surfaces, but especially organic ones, like hands 2) Enlargers provide heat while in use, probably promoting mold growth 3) handled negs may end us with body oils on the edges which may encourage growth of mold 4) possibly just the

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-16 Thread Arthur Entlich
We (Tony and I) live in somewhat similar climates. This area (Victoria BC, Canada), also referred to as "the wet coast" is a rain forest. Many Brits feel very at home here. Long soggy gray fall, winter and spring. Our home is not particularly dry, in fact, quite the opposite, a factor often poi

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-15 Thread Tony Sleep
bob geoghegan wrote: > Conditions are the big variable for mold I've been reviewing & > scanning 300+ rolls of 25-year old Tri-X & HP5 negs that were well > washed, > stored in mostly good quality plastic pages, Glassine pages in loose leaf binders here, in a steel storage cabinet subject to nor

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-15 Thread Tony Sleep
wrote: > My comment is based on the stability of silver versus dye. Is B&W more > likely to get mold versus color transparency or negatives? It's the gelatin that the mould likes, it doesn't care what the image is formed from. I have plenty of examples of all types :( Regards Tony Sleep - htt

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-14 Thread bob geoghegan
-Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 3:15 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Modern photography... > > > > My c

[filmscanners] RE: Modern photography...

2005-05-14 Thread Laurie Solomon
ECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 3:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Modern photography... > > My comment is based on the stability of silver versus dye. > Is B&W more likely to get mold versus color transpa

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-14 Thread
My comment is based on the stability of silver versus dye. Is B&W more likely to get mold versus color transparency or negatives? Tony Sleep wrote: > wrote: > > > >>There is nothing like B&W negatives for longevity. >> >> > >You think? I'm scanning negs from 20-30 years ago before it's too late.

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-14 Thread
Interesting comments. I also shoot B&W film, scan the negs and print on inkjet printers. I started out with a simple C84 (now a C86) and the MIS quadtone inks. Very simple, inexpensive and does a wonderful job on matte papers up to 8x10. I tend to print 5x7 on this printer though. I'm also just st

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-14 Thread Tony Sleep
wrote: > There is nothing like B&W negatives for longevity. You think? I'm scanning negs from 20-30 years ago before it's too late. Mould is a big issue and a swine to try and fix. These were very well processed and washed but ironically that encourages mould. OK, storage in a humidity and temp

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-11 Thread ?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E5kon_T_S=F8nderland?=
Ken McKaba wrote: > I have been out of touch with photography for a few years > and recently dusted off my old Rolleiflex 6x6 to find > myself in the digital age. I am trying to make sense of > how serious photography is done in the 21st century. > I've brought the issue up to various people and e

[filmscanners] RE: Modern photography...

2005-05-11 Thread Austin Franklin
Hi lists, > That is interesting since SCSI is a simple thing to add to a PC, you > have to wonder why they went GPIB, which is a rather slow interface used > for electronic instruments. National Instruments more or less owns the > GPIB business. There is a very hidden form on their website where y

[filmscanners] RE: Modern photography...

2005-05-10 Thread Austin Franklin
Hi Alex, > Austin, I noticed you use Leafscan 45. I do. > So I begun to consider selling my leg and arm (and also my wife, car, > house and children) :-) for Nikon LS9000 till encountered people's > recommendation to go Leafscan 45 route instead. > What can you say about this one ? Can it still

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-10 Thread
(1) Print digitally on matte papers with a matte black. The 2200 class of printers does a great job on a good matte paper (EEM or a cotton fiber paper). Good print longevity as well. For glossy, try a paper like Epson Semi-Gloss. Ideally, you'll want glop (Epson 1800) or a coating spray like print

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-10 Thread Alex Z
Austin, I noticed you use Leafscan 45. I stepped up into meadium format (6x7) about a half year ago and then my main headache became the inability of quality scanning at my home convenience as I used to with my 35mm by Nikon IV ED. Flatbeds are out of question, I've tried a few of recent machines a

[filmscanners] RE: Modern photography...

2005-05-10 Thread Austin Franklin
Hi, > I find ink jet prints look a bit odd in the dark areas as there is more > ink plopped on the page. Have you seen a quad-tone/Piezography print, as opposed to a black-only inkjet print? > I haven't seen any BW quads. Then, I suggest you do ;-) > I'd like to understand why you use Tri-X ra

[filmscanners] Re: Modern photography...

2005-05-10 Thread
Ken McKaba wrote: >I have been out of touch with photography for a few years >and recently dusted off my old Rolleiflex 6x6 to find >myself in the digital age. I am trying to make sense of >how serious photography is done in the 21st century. >I've brought the issue up to various people and every

[filmscanners] RE: Modern photography...

2005-05-10 Thread Austin Franklin
Hi Ken, > -Is hours in the darkroom this still the best way to get > fantastic B&W pics? Not in my opinion...read on... > -Should I shoot film then use a film scanner to > manipulate and print? IMO, yes. > -Which film? For B&W, I shoot Tri-X and Plus-X. > -Should I shoot digital then use Pho

[filmscanners] Re: New member

2005-04-30 Thread Tony Sleep
Bosko Loncarevic wrote: > Is there a list archive that I could consult before asking a question(s) > that may have been thoroughly discussed in the past? Hi, Mail headers contain the archive address, posting and unsubscribe addresses and instructions. Unsubscribe info also appear in the mail foo

[filmscanners] Re: New member

2005-04-26 Thread W. Xato
http://www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners@halftone.co.uk/ Warren --- Bosko Loncarevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody > > Is there a list archive that I could consult before > asking a question(s) > that may have been thoroughly discussed in the past? > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-25 Thread Berry Ives
My brother has the old XA, for many years now, and the Canon 350D, at about 30 oz with lens, must be about 4x the mass, and it isn't going to fit in anybody's shirt pocket. Berry On 4/25/05 7:34 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > David J. Littleboy wrote > >> The small-

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-25 Thread Berry Ives
I work mostly in color, but I am interested to know where I might find a comparison of Epson 2200 B&W with Quadtone B&W. I read a review once that thought very highly of the 2200 B&W. Does anyone think it would be worthwhile to set up my old 1160 with Quadtone, rather than simply use the 2200? L

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-25 Thread Roger Krueger
Not sure how it works on a Nikon, but on my Sprintscan 120 Vuescan compensated for the orange mask on color neg by altering exposure times, rather than just twiddling bits, so scanning B&W as raw color neg gave me three differently exposed channels to combine as needed. Almost enough to save pushed

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-25 Thread
> Hi, > > I know this question has been asked in the past (and slightly > off-topic) but times change so I'd thought I'd raise it again. > > I recently read an article about a photographer who started > out with digital (Fujifilm S2 Pro) but then switched to > medium format for colour and to an Oly

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-25 Thread
matrix used in the halftone cells. >But I could be wrong about this. Moreover, I believe that many quality >service bureaus and labs as well as printers employ RIPs. > >Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] &g

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-25 Thread
ve no objection to. I am responding >just clarify what I was trying to say so that there would be no >misunderstanding. > > >Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:47 PM >

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
L PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras > The next time I'm at the photo lab (which also has a print > service), I'm going to pick their brain regarding RIPs versus > just using the print driver. It seems to me that software is > software, i.e. the RIP is just d

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
erstanding. Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras > As for bronzing, just print matte papers and it's a non > issue. I ha

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread
I had the original plug-in system, but I now have the current ICC system. Austin Franklin wrote: >>You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing >>system from Jon Cone (and inkjetmall.com). It is really amazing. No >>bronzing, no metemerism, no fading, rich deep black

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread
d, the size >of the enlargement that can be made, or the resulting prints (there are >some colors that digital does not do as good a job at capturing as film >does; but they tend to be on the extremes and not the run of the mill >colors). > >Original Message >From:

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm waiting for some company to release a really capable small digicam with a decent APS sensor, a truly superb lens (maybe a prime in the 40mm equiv. range) and I guess some kind of deluxe EVF. Optical RF based VF is probably hoping for too much :-) I imagin

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I have no dispute with anything you have said below. Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Austin Franklin Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras > Hi Laurie, > >> I am f

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
t they tend to be on the extremes and not the run of the mill colors). Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras > I think the

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread Austin Franklin
> You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing > system from Jon Cone (and inkjetmall.com). It is really amazing. No > bronzing, no metemerism, no fading, rich deep black and long tonal > scale. It is really, really very good. Hi Lotusm50, Do you have the original,

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread Austin Franklin
Hi Laurie, > I am familiar with it and have heard good things about it from users; BUT > that is one of the sorts of things that I consider as the EXTRA WORK > required to remedy the issues I am speaking of. :-) It's not an issue if you do a couple of things...as you touch on... > First, I belie

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread
IL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 2:21 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras >> >>You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing >>system from Jon Cone (a

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread Laurie Solomon
day, April 24, 2005 2:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras > > You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing > system from Jon Cone (and inkjetmall.com). It is really amazing. No > bronzing, no metemerism, no fading, ric

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread
You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing system from Jon Cone (and inkjetmall.com). It is really amazing. No bronzing, no metemerism, no fading, rich deep black and long tonal scale. It is really, really very good. LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: > > >First, even at today

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
While I do not usually engage in this sort of comparative reviewing of products nor in the recommending of them, I will make two general observations from my experiences, which need to be taken with a grain of salt since they entail my biases and preferences. First, even at today's stage in techno

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread Dieder Bylsma
>So my question is this: have digital compacts reached the stage yet where >they can give film compacts like the XA a run for their money on image >quality? I'd be interested in hearing any experiences list members may have >on this. As far as I can tell, for pixel counts, yeah, they can. 8.2 MP

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> So my question is this: have digital compacts reached the stage yet where they can give film compacts like the XA a run for their money on image quality? I'd be interested in hearing any experiences list members may have on this. < The small-sensor ca

[filmscanners] Re: Email disappearing

2005-04-23 Thread Berry Ives
Actually, I am using Entourage here at home, which is part of the MS Office suite, not Outlook. Sorry I said Outlook, which I am using at work. Berry On 4/22/05 7:40 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My solution is to use as little microsoft software as possible. Hence: > h

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-22 Thread
Thanks to all for their advice. I've never tried a Vuescan raw scan or a positive scan, so I'll be giving those a try. Already, Vuescan is giving me a nice flat scan that I can tweak. Me'thinks I'll be delving deeper into the myriad options Vuescan's provides from here on out. Now I've also got

[filmscanners] Re: Email disappearing

2005-04-22 Thread
My solution is to use as little microsoft software as possible. Hence: http://www.mozilla.org/ Firefox instead of IE, and Thunderbird instead of Outlook. You can completely get rid of outlook, but you are forced to keep IE if you expect to download software from the Microsquish website. I have a pa

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-22 Thread Berry Ives
Hi Art, I use MS Entourage. But I'm guessing it was somehow my mistake, because only the filmscanner emails were missing as far as I know. Bizarre. Berry On 4/22/05 7:19 AM, "Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of interest what email client do you use? (I think I want to >

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-22 Thread Arthur Entlich
One advantage of chromogenic B&W film over the "silver stuff" ;-) is that you can use IR cleaning methods on the scan (dICE, etc). Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's been my experience that chromogenic film is even harder to scan > since it has an extremely wide latitude. I guess the problem he

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-21 Thread Dieder Bylsma
>(3) As I experiment and futz, I wonder exactly what Nikon's "auto-exposure" >is doing to the raw scan results. I can't find any documentation. In my >film >speed scans, I can see that AE is trying to control the highlights, but >I don't >know how AE is doing this. Is it *only* the equivalent of a

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-21 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> First, if you haven't seen this page, take a look: it's got lots of sample scans. http://www.terrapinphoto.com/jmdavis/ >> (1) I haven't been so lucky with FP4+, where the highlights are blown routinely even with extremely conservative development, as in HC110

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-21 Thread
I've got the Kodak kit to do positives from B&W film, but I haven't got around to using it. I'd like to try the set on Macophot 820C, which is a very fine grain extended red film. Vuescan has a "raw" option. By raw, I mean really raw, i.e .no correction what so ever. I'd suggest doing a raw scan a

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-21 Thread
Yes, I actually have purchased a license for Vuescan and haven't given it enough attention, still using NikonScan and the Coolscan V for most of my work. I develop my own B&W negs and then scan them (no darkroom). I shoot mostly HP5+ and FP4+, with occasional TMZ. I dev almost exclusively with HC

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-21 Thread
I only get messages very, very sporadically. Is there traffic on this list that I'm missing? I'm desparate for tips on getting better scans of B&W film on a Nikon Coolscan V, understanding Nikon's "autoexposure" vs. what I might do myself and so forth. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-20 Thread
I have a different problem. My last two posts never showed up. Berry Ives wrote: >When I checked my in box this morning, all of my filmscanner mail for the >last 3 months was gone. Perhaps I did something...maybe just losing it, my >mind, that is. Anyway, just in case someone expected a respons

[filmscanners] RE: Contax demise

2005-04-19 Thread Jawed Ashraf
http://www.shutterbug.com/features/0405theevolution/ Jawed Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title

[filmscanners] Re: Contax demise

2005-04-19 Thread Berry Ives
I researched this after getting your email, and it appears you are correct. It is very misleading when you go to the Kyocera web site. But as you probably already know, Zeiss quit manufacturing Contax in 1966, then contracted with Yashica to do that in 1974, to hold down costs. Then Kyocera bough

[filmscanners] Re: Epson 4180

2005-04-12 Thread Charles Knox
At 12:50 PM 12/04/2005 +0100, you wrote: >Hi All, > >I have just purchased a Bronica SQ body from ebay (after using a Mamiya 645 >at college). Wow - seeing those images on the enlarger! > >Obviously my Scan Dual will not do MF negs, and I have seen favourable >reviews of the Epson 4180 (which does

[filmscanners] Re: Epson 4180

2005-04-12 Thread Navjot Marwaha
Hello Chris, Check out http://www.photo-i.co.uk/ The author, Vincent, has done some extensive reviews for the latest flat bed scanners from Epson and Canon. I owned a Canon 8800F and recently upgraded to Nikon CoolScan V. Obviously, there is a big difference between the scans from these scanners.

[filmscanners] RE: NikonScan negative question (was Dynamicrangequestion)

2005-03-27 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
> From: Austin Franklin > > BTW, why would the stepper motor pitch change (if you mean pitch as it > relates to distance, not to sound...if it relates to sound, then, well, > forget I asked ;-), which I assume, means it changes resolution? I mean audio pitch. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRoc

[filmscanners] Re: NikonScan negative question (was Dynamicrangequestion)

2005-03-27 Thread
The only way to really tell is to look at the commands going to the scanner. I don't use the Nikon software so I don't know for 100% certainty if the scanner operation changes with gain. If you can view the raw scan and see no difference, that would be a good clue. On the Artixscan, the only chang

[filmscanners] Re: NikonScan negative question (was Dynamicrangequestion)

2005-03-27 Thread Ed Verkaik
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just to reiterate, most of the time you are just altering the post procession of the raw scan. That is, more light didn't get through,but the raw scan was interpreted differently. >> That isn't true with Gain adjustments, is it? I thought it causes the scan to "delay" ov

[filmscanners] Re: NikonScan negative question (was Dynamicrangequestion)

2005-03-27 Thread
Just to reiterate, most of the time you are just altering the post procession of the raw scan. That is, more light didn't get through,but the raw scan was interpreted differently. One advantage to scanning slide film is there is less "interpretation" of the raw scan. Vuescan has a nice calibration

[filmscanners] Re: NikonScan negative question (was Dynamic rangequestion)

2005-03-27 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: "Lotus M50" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> NikonScan allows you to manually set the setpoints once you have previewed the scan. << Yes. But if I look at the histogram, the histogram is "clipped" at the default black and white points, so I get lots of pixels at the minimum and maxim

[filmscanners] Re: NikonScan negative question (was Dynamicrangequestion)

2005-03-27 Thread Dieder Bylsma
>NikonScan allows you to manually set the setpoints once you have >previewed the scan. the only problem is that Nikon's scanning software is quite aggressive on the white points/black points and loves to make things super-contrasty, despite what I've set in its preferences for black/white points o

[filmscanners] Re: NikonScan negative question (was Dynamic range question)

2005-03-27 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: "Roy Harrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> A while back I had a similar difficulty with some other scanning software. I found that by scanning the film as a positive rather than a negative the software's notion of black/white points was much better -- especially in the thin regions of

[filmscanners] RE: NikonScan negative question (was Dynamic range question)

2005-03-26 Thread Austin Franklin
CTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: NikonScan negative question (was Dynamic > range question) > > > A while back I had a similar difficulty with some other scanning > software. > I found that by scanning the film as a positive rather than a negative > the software's

[filmscanners] Re: NikonScan negative question (was Dynamic range question)

2005-03-26 Thread Roy Harrington
A while back I had a similar difficulty with some other scanning software. I found that by scanning the film as a positive rather than a negative the software's notion of black/white points was much better -- especially in the thin regions of the negative. Roy On Saturday, March 26, 2005, at 12:0

[filmscanners] Re: Dynamic range question

2005-03-26 Thread Berry Ives
Hi Brad, I think I would be satisfied for a while at least with 200ppi on the largest prints I can make on a 2200 printer, let's say 12" x 16", which works out to about 8 megapixels. Since Olympus has an 8 megapixel CCD on the E300 "Evolt" already, I am waiting for them to put it on an E-3, or wh

[filmscanners] Re: Dynamic range question

2005-03-26 Thread
That would be 35mm if I did the math right. I'm guessing more than 5 years and less than 10. When my old 35mm developed a shutter timing problem which I deemed not worth the money to fix (about a year or so ago), I looked at the DSLR market and decided I just wouldn't be happy with the results, so

[filmscanners] Re: Dynamic range question

2005-03-26 Thread Lotus M50
So, is that "full frame" 35mm or full frame 645? 25 mp full frame 35mm size is a tall order. How long do you expect to have to wait for such a thing? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >For me, the color mask has to go. Some sort of Foveon like technology is >needed. I'd like to see the pixel spacing

[filmscanners] Re: Dynamic range question

2005-03-26 Thread
For me, the color mask has to go. Some sort of Foveon like technology is needed. I'd like to see the pixel spacing held to 6um and full frame, so we are talking 6000x4333, or roughly 25Mpixel. Brad Davis wrote: >On 25/3/05 17:33, "Berry Ives" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Still waiting for

[filmscanners] Re: Dynamic range question

2005-03-26 Thread Brad Davis
On 25/3/05 17:33, "Berry Ives" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Still waiting for the right DSLR for me... > > Berry > What will make a DSLR the "one" for you? Just curious. Brad Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL

[filmscanners] Re: Dynamic range question

2005-03-25 Thread
When you scan negative film, the histogram is narrow. So I would say negative film has a low dynamic range.[Yeah, I know slide and negative film is really the same.] I think I see the confusion here (or specmanship). The dynamic range of a dataconverter is related to the number of bits, since the

[filmscanners] RE: Dynamic range question

2005-03-25 Thread Austin Franklin
Hi Berry, > Austin, with respect to your last sentence, isn't the point > really that the > contrast range of negative film is greater than slide film? I'm not sure what "contrast range" is, but I know what density range is. Slide film has less exposure latitude, and records on a higher density r

[filmscanners] Re: Dynamic range question

2005-03-25 Thread Berry Ives
Austin, with respect to your last sentence, isn't the point really that the contrast range of negative film is greater than slide film? What I mean is that you can lose either the shadows or the highlights, but slide film requires more precise exposures and is more limited in the range that it can

[filmscanners] RE: Dynamic range question

2005-03-25 Thread Austin Franklin
Hi Bill, > It's been several years, but I seem to remember that when I got my > Nikon 4000ED filmscanner they were claiming a Dmax of somewhere > around 3.5 to 4.0, but I measured it (by scanning a Kodachrome IT8 > target slide and examining the greyscale separation) at around 2.1 > to 2.9 (don't

[filmscanners] Re: Dynamic range question

2005-03-25 Thread Bill Fernandez
It's been several years, but I seem to remember that when I got my Nikon 4000ED filmscanner they were claiming a Dmax of somewhere around 3.5 to 4.0, but I measured it (by scanning a Kodachrome IT8 target slide and examining the greyscale separation) at around 2.1 to 2.9 (don't remember the exact

[filmscanners] Re: Dynamic range question

2005-03-24 Thread
I think it would be important to get a scanner where averaging can be done without moving the sensor. Vuescan can do averaging, but with my Artixscan 4000, the the image must be scanned multiple times. This is from scratch, i.e .the whole image is scanned multiple times, moving the film over the se

[filmscanners] RE: Dynamic range question

2005-03-24 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
> From: Andrew Skretvedt > > In evaluating a film scanner, one should consider its dynamic range. How > deep can a scanner reach in and pull out shadow details from a very > contrasty slide, for example. What about one that might have been > underexposed a bit as you tried to keep from blowing out

[filmscanners] Re: Twilight years (was Nikon LS-30 -- strange

2005-03-12 Thread Tony Sleep
Brad Davis wrote: > Just a note about the spelling for www.gigapxl.or Sorry about the error. Defective memory ;) Regards Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with

[filmscanners] Re: [A tad OT] Scanned film deemed superior toCCD imaging at missiletest range

2005-03-12 Thread
Yes, I realize that, but the film analysis does compare still camera film such as provia 100f, velvia, etc. I gather the DOD does frame by frame analysis, so think of it more like a series of stills where failure is not an option. The lack of high resolution digital movie cameras more or less force

[filmscanners] Re: [A tad OT] Scanned film deemed superior to CCD imaging at missiletest range

2005-03-12 Thread
this is for movie cameras btw not still images. On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:14:36 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://jcs.mil/RCC/manuals/Assessment_Digital_Optics/Assmt_DigOptics.pdf > The Tonopah Test Range is where they film planes and missiles doing > fly-bys for analysis.

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Maris V. Lidaka Sr.
I second that emotion - I don't consider myself old at 55, nor a fogie, but thank you - I just picked up a P&S digital for current use, but for fine art and long term, I'm still using film. Maris Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote: > > And thanks (again) for keeping > this list > going -- the dwindling cre

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Marquis-Kyle
Tony Sleep wrote: > Throw it back at the service technician, it clearly hasn't been > tested or > repaired as properly as they stated. Unless there's a transit screw > done up > somewhere still :) It's going back to the shop as soon as I can arrange it. No, it's not a transit screw... > I'd hazar

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Tony Sleep
Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote: > I'm annoyed to find it now produces files with a weird > waviness. See the effect here: > http://www.marquis-kyle.com.au/mt/000689.htm Throw it back at the service technician, it clearly hasn't been tested or repaired as properly as they stated. Unless there's a trans

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread
I'll go along with the carrier moving the film being the problem. The stepper motor should be just applying force to a platform that can only move back and forth. It shouldn't be able to cause a wobble. The stepper only has 4 unique patterns in how it is energized electronically, so you would think

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Arthur Entlich
I'm not claiming to be an expert on scanner mechanics and electronics, but to me this looks like it could come from several sources. From a strictly mechanical basic, it could be something very wrong with the mechanism that moves the film carrier, causing it to be shifted from slide to side as it

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Carlisle Landel
At 7:58 PM +1000 3/10/05, Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote: >In the hope that someone might still be reading this list, I'll ask >a question: > >My Nikon LS-30 scanner [snip] was fitted with new scanning and >focussing stepper motors [and] now produces files with a weird >waviness. [snip] What could be cau

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Levit
What happens? It will run hotter without the cooling affect of ICE. On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:17 AM, Dieder Bylsma wrote: > try using it without ICE and see what happens > > --- > - > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL P

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Levit
Peter Actually the affect was quite attractive. Perhaps you have found a new creative medium. In the future, only scan slides that will be enhanced by your scanner. In a more serious vein, it looks like the waviness is very smooth and consistent. But, its affect did not seem to be present in t

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Marquis-Kyle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any chance the film is not being held securely and thus moving as the > film is being scanned? Are you scanning a film strip or a mounted > slide? Thanks for the suggestion. I was scanning a film strip held in the FH-2 film holder. I just tried scanning a mounted slide -

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Marquis-Kyle
Lotus M50 wrote: > Send the scan back to the repair shop (I assume it is Nikon) and ask > them what's wrong. Thanks, I will be taking the scanner back to the repairer (who is independent of Nikon, but is authorised and recommended by the Australian Nikon importers) and ask them to fix it properly.

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Marquis-Kyle
Dieder Bylsma wrote: > try using it without ICE and see what happens Thanks for the suggestion, Dieder. I just did a test with and without ICE -- it made no difference to the waves. Any other ideas? Peter Marquis-Kyle -

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Lotus M50
Send the scan back to the repair shop (I assume it is Nikon) and ask them what's wrong. Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote: >In the hope that someone might still be reading this list, I'll ask a question: > >The context: My Nikon LS-30 scanner has just come back from a long stay in the >repair shop, where

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-30 -- strange behavoir

2005-03-10 Thread Dieder Bylsma
try using it without ICE and see what happens Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body

[filmscanners] Re: Negative scanning : negpos plug-in – part 2

2005-01-13 Thread DRP
Hi Simpy Very nice input, thanks for giving your time this way I don't have much time by the moment, but I'll think about your workflow I'm also a Minolta (Multi pro) / Vuescan / color negs user At first glance your PS8 plugin/workflow combo must be a real improvement, first for all Fuji films,

[filmscanners] Re: cleaning up scratched transparencies

2005-01-06 Thread Frank & Lila Mullins
Hi, I have just seen an ad for the Microtek Scanmaker i900. I have two questions: Has anyone actually used this scanner or heard anything definitive about it for scanning 35mm slides? Does the included Silverfast Ai6 work with BOTH reflective and transparency scans? Thanks, Frank -

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning B+W negatives

2005-01-06 Thread Arthur Entlich
+W slide, then reversing in PS, > scanning as a B+W neg (TMAX and XP2). > > Chris > > >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich >>Sent: 05 January 2005 14:41 >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>

[filmscanners] RE: Scanning B+W negatives

2005-01-05 Thread Chris Aitken
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Scanning B+W negatives > > Congratulations on developing your first B&W film. I hope it was fun. > I can't do it anymore due to a sulfite allergy, but it was > usually an enjoyable part of the photographic process, >

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning B+W negatives

2005-01-05 Thread Arthur Entlich
Congratulations on developing your first B&W film. I hope it was fun. I can't do it anymore due to a sulfite allergy, but it was usually an enjoyable part of the photographic process, especially once I figured out how to load the reels correctly in the dark ;-) Some of the nature of the answer yo

[filmscanners] Re: cleaning up scratched transparencies

2005-01-05 Thread Arthur Entlich
If the scratches are superficial on the non-emulsion side and do not alter the actual image, using dICE which your scanner has incorporated, is probably the best answer. You might even find that minor damage to the image will be corrected this way. As you probably know, dICE cannot work with silv

[filmscanners] Re: cleaning up scratched transparencies

2005-01-05 Thread Bernie Kubiak
Polaroid still has their free dust and scratch remover software (DSR) on their website: http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.html I've found it to be pretty effective. It won't work with compressed .tif files, though, so you need to resave those files with the compression off.

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