2003-05-21 by Stan McQueen
... You can use special driver software, but it is not necessary. I use the Photoshop curves so generously supplied by Paul Roark (who has already responded to
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2003-05-21 by Austin Franklin
Martin, ... Er, how? I don t know of any, but perhaps there are, that have a ND filter channel. PMT scanners use filters just like CCD scanners, it s just
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2003-05-21 by Austin Franklin
Anthony, ... Write what you mean. I, nor can anyone else, read your damn mind. It seems more like a game to you. You make a clearly wrong statement, someone
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2003-05-21 by scott lanes
... While i am sure this is true i have yet to talk to any serious B&W photographer that will tell me an inkjet print is better than a rich, well-printed
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2003-05-21 by Martin Wesley
... From: Anton Pickard To: Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 11:09 AM Subject: RE:
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2003-05-21 by Austin Franklin
... Anton, The Leafscan 45 and 35 both have dedicated B&W scanning modes. They use a single channel with a neutral density filter. IMO, they produce superior
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2003-05-21 by Austin Franklin
Anthony, ... Why would a B&W scanner be faster? Austin
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2003-05-21 by Daniel Staver
Hi, I ve just spent the whole day trying to run QuadToneRIP with my 2100 under RedHat Linux 8.0, and I m getting close I think... I m using: CUPS 1.1.19rc5
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2003-05-21 by Martin Wesley
... From: Anthony Atkielski To: Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 11:06 AM Subject: Re:
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2003-05-21 by Martin Wesley
... From: Peter Nelson To: Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 7:14 AM Subject: Re:
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2003-05-21 by Martin Wesley
... From: Peter Nelson To: Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 7:08 AM Subject: [Digital
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2003-05-21 by Chris Mende
Thanks again, Jim. I used the nipples that came with the flush cartridges, and have done essentially what you suggested. (I felt the flush carts were less
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2003-05-21 by Anthony Atkielski
... MF film and a scanner will give you better quality for your money than will digital, by a very handsome margin. I looked at the same thing a while ago.
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2003-05-21 by Martin Wesley
... From: Seth Rossman To: Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 6:42 AM Subject: RE: [Digital BW]
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2003-05-21 by Anthony Atkielski
... It shouldn t matter for scanners, since they are scanning material that transmits all wavelengths of visible light equally. However, a B&W scanner might
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2003-05-21 by Ernst Dinkla
... From: HPA To: Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 7:06 PM Subject: [Digital BW]
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2003-05-21 by Anton Pickard
As I read this thread I cannot help but wonder if a dedicated b & w scanner does exist somewhere, it would seem like a good fit for radiography (medical &
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2003-05-21 by Ernst Dinkla
From: Peter Nelson Subject: Re: Techies -vs- Artists ... That hasn t been written, read that part again. It says the quality of
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2003-05-21 by Ernst Dinkla
... From: Anthony Atkielski To: Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 9:39 AM Subject: Re:
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2003-05-21 by Anthony Atkielski
... You can certainly get good B&W from color transparencies, but you can get only ONE B&W that way. I meant good in the sense of B&W as produced by true B&W
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2003-05-21 by Anthony Atkielski
... I usually think of original imaging devices when I speak of them at all. A projector is an imaging device, but few people think of projectors when they
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2003-05-21 by chrismendephoto2003
-Thanks, Jim: I ended up taping down the carts and seem to have done OK. I m now into the realignment and nozzle checks on the CIS that I installed last
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2003-05-21 by Martin Wesley
... From: Anthony Atkielski To: Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:39 AM Subject: Re:
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2003-05-21 by Anthony Atkielski
I ve shot and examined Velvia under a microscope with both MF and 35mm lenses, and both lenses reached the resolution limits of the film. So while MF lenses
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2003-05-21 by Austin Franklin
Anthony, ... Don t do this. Your comment was, and I quote: But you ll never get really good black and white from any RGB imaging device. It says ANY RGB
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2003-05-21 by Anthony Atkielski
Intuitively, I d expect carbon-based inks to clog, since they must contain solid carbon somewhere. Dyes, on the other hand, might not present that problem
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2003-05-21 by Anthony Atkielski
... There s an excellent reason why it is true, which I ve just explained in a separate answer to Seth s post. The only accurate B&W you can get from an RGB
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2003-05-21 by Anthony Atkielski
... Unfortunately, no, it s not the same thing. Imagine a scene that is lit in some areas with monochromatic yellow light (as from low-pressure sodium vapor or
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2003-05-21 by Clayton Jones
... difference between those and the Epson pigmented inks. Same here. I use an 870 with MIS inks and the few clogs I ve had are cured with a few cleaning
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2003-05-21 by Anthony Atkielski
... The scanner isn t the original imaging device. It doesn t matter what colors it examines, as long as it can recognize light and dark, because the material
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2003-05-21 by HPA
THIS POST IS ABOUT IMPROVED SHARPNESS IN SCANNING AND ENLARGING. I must say that I think every flatbed and slide scanner that I have used is making less than
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2003-05-21 by Peter Nelson
... completely out of ... YOU are the one who took your comments them out of the context. The context was a discussion about whether it was technically
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2003-05-21 by Doug I.
Sorry Peter, but you have conveniently taken my comments completely out of context. If that was the point you were attempting to make, it was cloaked within a
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2003-05-21 by Barbara White
Actually, I ve been using them on the 2200 (at least one of them) and it s a lot better than the ones that come with the printer.... Barbara White ... Barbara
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2003-05-21 by Johnny Eades
Hello alan, I bought two virgin cartridges that had never had ink inside and filled them myself with the syringe and bottles of ink for the proper chamber. The
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2003-05-21 by Paul Roark
... I have tested a lot of 35mm and medium format (mf) lenses. While it is certainly true that it is more expensive to make a medium format (or any
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2003-05-21 by jim hayes
... Either buy the acriylic EZ-plugs from a no-more-carts distributor for $15 (Actually, buy two sets since the plastic cracks under presense of the solvent in
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2003-05-21 by jim hayes
My own problems with MIS pre-filled carts was: I only bought one set, and one of the inks in the color cart ran out when the counter still read 1/4 full. After
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2003-05-21 by Paul Roark
... That is not my experience. I ve been printing third party inks for about 3 years. The only 2 serious clogs I ve had involved interchanging and using old
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2003-05-21 by jim hayes
... I can pop the cart lids of an 1160 or an 1280 either in or out in about 20 seconds flat with a small flat bladed screwdriver. It is easy to learn the
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2003-05-21 by jim hayes
... Well, I didn t want to be the first to say it, but I came to this conclusion after using both in my dry and high altitude climate. I also find the CFS
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2003-05-21 by Peter Nelson
... Keep in mind that as you go up in format lens quality tends to go down, just cause it s really hard to make a good lens to cover that much film real
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2003-05-21 by Peter Nelson
... Why? That would imply there s no difference for color film between a 2700 PPI scanner (11 MP) and a 4000 PPI film scanner (24 MP). But anyone who s
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2003-05-21 by Peter Nelson
... It would certainly seem that way. Hardly a day goes by on this forum where someone doesn t post about a clog. I ve had an Epson 870, with the stock inks,
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2003-05-21 by Seth Rossman
Sorry, folks, I just HAVE to agree with Austin on this. (My Coolpix can do that too--so??) It s just an incomplete argument. In a Sinar view camera with a
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2003-05-21 by Peter Nelson
... using ... works. It may work for the 1270/1280 mentioned in the original question, but they use dye based inks so they re not very archival. Using the
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2003-05-21 by Peter Nelson
... There s no reason why that should be true. Scanning black and white film should produce flawless grayscale images. Why wouldn t it? What is lost?
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2003-05-21 by derek_c@cix.co.uk
If you do enough fiddling, then shadow detail can usually be recovered, but not highlight detail. The trick with exposure is to try and expose for the
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2003-05-21 by derek_c@cix.co.uk
There s a techie reason for this though, and it s not really a film vs digital argument! Medium format lenses are designed to give good coverage over the full
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2003-05-21 by Seth Rossman
Martin- I don t really think you are losing 2/3 of the info --just not using it. Remember that the (Lab) Lightness or Luminosity Channel IS the B&W layer. The
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