RE: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 back from service and STILL bands...

2001-08-19 Thread Austin Franklin
I would return it to the place you bought it, citing it does not work correctly, show them the banding and Nikon will not fix it. Ask them for a full refund (check with your credit card company, they may stand behind you on this, since it hasn't worked correctly since day one), or that they give

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 back from service and STILL bands...

2001-08-19 Thread Moreno Polloni
> My 8000 is back from a trip to Nikon service and they could find nothing > wrong with it so they cleaned it and sent it back. Needless to say, it > still has the same banding issues it did when I sent it. I have it plugged > into it's very own UPS, set away from other stuff etc. No help. Now

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 back from service and STILL bands...

2001-08-20 Thread Dave King
I haven't been following this thread of late, but isn't there a setting that takes longer but DOES NOT band at all? If so, why not just use that? Epson printers frequently band at all but the slowest settings, so that's what I always use. This would seem like a similar situation? Just wonderin

RE: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 back from service and STILL bands...

2001-08-20 Thread Lawrence Smith
Moreno, I can do that too but isn't it a bit like saying 'my car doesn't stall as long as I don't use 5th gear and go over 60 miles/km per hr'? These things should not band, period. Lawrence Smith * * visit my site and participate * * in this weeks image critiq

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 back from service and STILL bands...

2001-08-20 Thread Moreno Polloni
> I can do that too but isn't it a bit like saying 'my car doesn't stall as > long as I don't use 5th gear and go over 60 miles/km per hr'? These things > should not band, period. At my end, scans with the 8000 at 1x show less noise in the shadows than some scans done with an Imacon. And I scan

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 back from service and STILL bands...

2001-08-19 Thread Rob Geraghty
Moreno wrote: >I've also had some banding issues, but if I scan 14 bit, at either 2000 or >4000 dpi, with 1x multisampling, the images are clean. Don't shoot me, but I wonder if this is a new variant of the jaggies issue from the earlier scanners? Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://word

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 back from service and STILL bands...

2001-08-20 Thread shAf
Rob wonders ... > Moreno wrote: > >I've also had some banding issues, but if I scan 14 bit, at either 2000 > or > >4000 dpi, with 1x multisampling, the images are clean. > > ... I wonder if this is a new variant of the jaggies issue > from the earlier scanners? It would at least be part of t

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 back from service and STILL bands...

2001-08-20 Thread Moreno Polloni
> It would at least be part of the troubleshooting effort to > determine if the same banding occurs with Vuescan(?) Does Vuescan support the 8000? Rumour from the Nikon reps says that NikonScan 3.2 will be out shortly. Who know, this may help with some of the issues.