2012-07-26 by chen.benedict
Hi I had the same thread at RFF but decide to ask here as well: I m using the M9 a very good camera... I have an M7 which was given to me by someone very dear
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2012-07-25 by William Morse
Hi togeorge (name?) I scan very dense and very thin negatives with a Howtek drum with Aztek DPL software. It is really by far the best solution for problem
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2012-07-25 by Feli
... True, but pretty much all manufacturers exaggerate their dmax figure or base it on a testing method that skews the result in their favor. But it looks like
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2012-07-25 by Ernst Dinkla
... It depends very much on what is seen as an acceptable signal to noise ratio. Image Engineering did a test on 3 scanners with and without Multi Exposure and
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2012-07-25 by Richard Kenward
In his posting of Mon, 23 Jul 2012, writes snip ... Snip When I read scanner manufacturer s claims of 4.8 dynamic range I suspect all of their claims! There
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2012-07-25 by 228044881 228044881
Thanks, I thought that may be the case. Looking forward to trying eboni 6 out when it is all sorted out. Regards David ________________________________ From:
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2012-07-25 by pdesmidt tds.net
That s good news! Thanks for letting us know. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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2012-07-25 by togeorge626
Thanks for all the suggestions. I didn t want to get into chemistry if I could avoid it. I rescued both negatives by setting the VueScan RGB analog gain to 3
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2012-07-25 by Ricardo Lagos
David. You have a bad set of chips. The 1400 carts work fine on a 1430 printer. I am running eb-6 on a 1430 with 1400 carts from mis with no issues. On Jul
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2012-07-24 by 228044881 228044881
To update the situation. I reluctantly installed the epson carts and the printer accepted them with no problem, did a test print, nozzle check, head align and
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2012-07-24 by EJ Neilsen
Second Peter s recommendations as well as that the film is from the same batch if possible. If your negs are already damaged with surface scratches, embedded
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2012-07-24 by 228044881 228044881
I have been chatting to their support and no solution yet. Unfortunateley it has taken most of the last hour to get nowhere with increasingly longer pauses
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2012-07-24 by jffelinik
I got a 1400 with UT14 and got my carts from inksupply, worked like a charm from day one, inksupply support has always been fast and prompt to me, send them an
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2012-07-24 by Ricardo Lagos
you probably just need the right chips -- send inksupply an email .. On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:43 PM, 228044881 228044881
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2012-07-24 by 228044881 228044881
I bought them all together in a bag from inksupply.com who never do seem to be online to provide technical support. I will be sending them back and getting
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2012-07-24 by pdesmidt tds.net
I agree that using a proportional reducer might help, but please only use it as a last resort. And if you do use it, make sure to test it on some
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2012-07-24 by ebenostby
... Adjusting the exposure in VueScan is one way to get this. First, insert your film and press Preview. Then Input Lock Exposure should be visible. You can
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2012-07-24 by EJ Neilsen
Proportional reducer might be a better way to go. Don t bleach your thin areas and reduce the silver in the dense areas. One might also set up to print the neg
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2012-07-24 by Paul
... The 1400 and 1430 use the same carts -- same Epson product numbers. A few years ago there was a change in the MIS chips. I m not sure if the old ones are
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2012-07-24 by Paul
I scan negatives as slides in the Nikon 8000 and have had good luck with direct sun shots, for example http://www.paulroark.com/Sunburst.jpg Paul
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2012-07-24 by Ernst Dinkla
... Analog gain on respectively the R+G+B channels and Multi Exposure are the terms used in Vuescan. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst Dinkla Grafische Techniek
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2012-07-24 by Mark Savoia
I have a suggestion. Get a regular silver print made from the neg and scan that print. Advantage of new print is to have a very clean surface and use a paper
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2012-07-24 by Clayton Price
Well, with all the various scanning suggestions for very dense negatives, my experience has been that none of them really work well, including drum scans. I ve
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2012-07-24 by jffelinik
Silver Efex Pro 2 is a really great tool for processing your digital color photos to become quite good black and white film lookalike photos, nothing else.
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2012-07-24 by Ernst Dinkla
... The desktop scanners use a longer exposure per sample for tasks like that, sometimes that is called analogue gain which is not what they actually do. Check
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2012-07-24 by Mel
I just had this ad pop up in my Email. Has anyone tried this as I assume it uses the supplied colour inks, so what about colour casts - do you get a truly
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2012-07-24 by E.Neilsen
I would also suggest the Nikon scan, or if you are on a Mac, do you the setting in Vue Scan, They can be a little hard to get a hang of but they do work.
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2012-07-24 by davosproject
I have just installed a new 1430 with refillable carts containibg eboni 6 but the printer will not recognise the carts. I am using the carts designed for a
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2012-07-23 by Dana Myers
... FWIW, the Nikon scan software makes analog gain easy to adjust, which is what I ve used. It s a slider, so you can try increasing the amount until it s
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2012-07-23 by Tina Manley
You can try using Silverfast. They have a setting for dark, dense negatives in their HDR Studio processing software. There is a beta version of the newest
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2012-07-23 by pdesmidt tds.net
Certainly try Dana s suggestion. If that fails, get a good drum scan. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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2012-07-23 by Dana Myers
... I ve had good success with *really* dense negs adjusting the analog gain of the 9000ED. Dunno if/how Vuescan enables this. Dana [Non-text portions of this
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2012-07-23 by togeorge626
I have begun to scan in B&W negatives from my darkroom past. I use a Nikon 9000ED and VuScan for this. The problem is that when I scan certain favorite
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2012-07-23 by Ernst Dinkla
... For 35mm slides etc I think the high end DSLR solutions will be a good replacement, speed us an important factor in scanning and usually there are many 35
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2012-07-22 by Bob Frost
From: jimbo ... Well, over the last year I played about a lot trying different cameras and setups, but now I have settled on a D800E with a 60mm MicroNikkor.
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2012-07-22 by pdesmidt tds.net
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?84769-Making-a-scanner-with-a-DSLR
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2012-07-22 by jimbo
Hey Bob, If you don t mind my asking .. what roughly is your process / set up.. I m into this pretty deep at this point and while for me the bar is set at a
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2012-07-22 by jimbo
That was true a few years ago but not anymore. Constructively it s really easy to have a negative opinion of the process.. but one needs to get it to where the
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2012-07-22 by Bob Frost
From: Derek Clarke ... What scanner(s) are you talking about? My camera has 5000dpi resolution (D800E); as good as my old Nikon 5000 or Minolta 5400. Bob
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2012-07-22 by Feli
... i just reread the article and answered this question for myself. They used this device to scan the uncut rolls of film, which would have not fit in their
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2012-07-22 by Feli
Recently the ICP built a rig to use a DSLR to scan the negatives found in the Mexican Suitcase. Here is a link to the gadget they came up with.
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2012-07-22 by Feli
Plustek has just announced a new high end scanner that is intended as a replacement for the Nikon 9000ED. The specifications look promising.
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2012-07-22 by David
You might want to look at these two articles by Ctein on The Online Photographer (TOP):
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2012-07-22 by Peter Marquis-Kyle
... Paula, you can download a sample file from Peter Krogh s DAM Forum, here: http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php?topic=1832.0 Elsewhere on that forum you will
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2012-07-22 by Tina Manley
Peter Krogh has a pdf that explains it pretty clearly. http://www.thedambook.com/downloads/Camera_Scanning_Krogh.pdf I use a Beseler Slide duplicator and a
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2012-07-22 by Derek Clarke
If you already have a scanner then use that as no camera can match the resolution. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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2012-07-22 by Paula Berg
I have been following with interest the discussion of using a copy stand, light tablet, and digital camera to copy negatives instead of scanning. I have been
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2012-07-21 by E.Neilsen
Jimbo and Mark, I have certainly done it both ways and I base my decision on needed end result. If I know it s going to be going big and needs all the
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2012-07-20 by Tim
Mark, The Logan light pads are incredibly even. I can t see any hot spots in my transparencies or B&W negatives. The temperature looks good too. I do not have
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2012-07-20 by pdesmidt tds.net
Yes, you can deal with lighting irregularities with software, but it s not that hard to build an even source. My design is similar to a De Vere 504 light
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