Digital BW, The Print

Ernst,

I played around with different techniques for scanning by hand but I guess I
just don't drink enough wine. This auto indexer has been fantastic. I
profile alot and I just mount the target onto the carrier sheet and go do
something else. In ten minutes or so I have a data file to import into
Profiler Pro.

It's been handy for measuring other targets as well. I wrote software to
measure grayscale output and generate photoshop map files to linearize and
correct grayscale images for making negatives. I would have killed myself by
now if I had to measure targets by hand.

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernst Dinkla" <E.Dinkla@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Automating Spectro Measurements


> Scott,
>
> It looks nice and getting an old HPGL plotter for conversion sure
> is the easiest way to do it.
>
> I've made a somewhat longer guide ruler (about a foot usable
> length) than the one that came with the Spectrocam and put it on
> a board so the target paper can be shifted per row between the
> ruler and the board. An extra sheet of polyester foil attached to
> the ruler protects the target print from abrasion by the
> Spectrocam movement. By printing samples of about 1 cm square the
> hit rate becomes a lot higher and the ruler + the smooth gliding
> on the foil removes the jerkiness of my movements a lot. There's
> no foil between the sensor and the target of course. Not a "high
> tech" as your setup but it helps a lot.
>
> For the non DIY people: drinking a glass of wine helps too to get
> a smoother movement but I don't make a habit of it :-) You have
> to fill your glass of course.
>
> Ernst
>
>
>
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