Funny news

2003-07-15 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! The town where I live has only one Pro Foto Shop. It has many Foto Shops, but only one grades itself as Pro. Anyway, my two most recent films were scanned at 4000dpi with Nikon CoolScan 4000. Two days ago I was taking my most recent film (from which by the way I published to M35/2.8

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2003-07-15 Thread Blivit4
A 4000 dpi scan with a bit depth of 16 bits/color give a file that is around 120 mb. See if turning on ICE cleans up the scans without hurting resolution too much. FARE on the Canon scanners works great without hurting resolution; I do not have to do any post scan clean up with FARE set to

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2003-07-15 Thread Doug Franklin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:31:48 +0400, Boris Liberman wrote: The town where I live has only one Pro Foto Shop. It has many Foto Shops, but only one grades itself as Pro. Anyway, my two most recent films were scanned at 4000dpi with Nikon CoolScan 4000. Boy, I wish I could get that in my area.

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2003-07-15 Thread Herb Chong
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 18:36 Subject: Re: Funny news That depends on the scanner. Even ignoring the time required to swap six-frame strips, scanning is much slower at 4000 ppi than at 1000 dpi on my Canon FS4000. Like, 1000 ppi scans take less than five minutes

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2003-07-15 Thread Doug Franklin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:16:04 -0400, Herb Chong wrote: the Nikon 4000ED has a full roll holder. you put the entire roll in. it also is much faster. the minimal processing 4000dpi scan takes under 40 seconds per frame. the change in speed is negligible to drop to 1000 dpi. Two darned good

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2003-07-15 Thread Herb Chong
, 2003 22:21 Subject: Re: Funny news Two darned good reasons for me to look into dumping the FS 4000 in favor of the 4000ED. But the last time I looked, the price of the 4000ED would buy me about four weekends of racing, where the FS4000 only cost me about one and a half. :-)

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2003-07-15 Thread Rob Studdert
On 15 Jul 2003 at 22:28, Herb Chong wrote: rumor has it that Nikon is going to be dropping the 4000ED and replacing it with a new model, possibly at a lower cost. nothing substantial enough for me to know whether i should believe the rumor or not. the list price plus rebate has dropped to