I just shot some Fuji Provia 100F. Wow! It is really a great, extremely fine grain slide film. I've had some problems scanning slides on my Polaroid 4000,...
Steve Bye
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Mar 1, 2000 8:21 am
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Hi all. On an Italian newsgroup we are discussing about the origin of these rings. I thought they are due to refraction happening when the glass, the original...
agv
agv@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:21 am
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Hi, I need to convert some 40 in images (at 300 dpi) to CMYK. I scanned myself with unsharp masking turned off because of excessive stitching and retouching. ...
zxiong@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:21 am
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The latter expanation is the correct one. If some finely divided material (sometimes freeze ground polyethylene) is introduced between the film and the glass...
Bob Somerville Roberts
bob@...
Mar 1, 2000 9:03 am
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My highly biased opinion is you crank up the USM until you can see artifacts, then back off a step or two. I rather have a blurry photo than to see the...
gariac
gsellani@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:21 am
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... In David Blather/Steve Roths book "Real World Scanning and Halftones" they recommend: Radius equal to resolution divided by 200, Amount 200% and Threshold...
Bill Brady
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Mar 1, 2000 1:17 pm
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I have wondered if there was a recommended starting point for USM based on resolution for a while. I have always wound up fiddling. The latest issue of...
Mark Christol
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Mar 1, 2000 1:23 pm
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Humidity also has something to do with it. ... - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines....
Jerry Olson
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Mar 1, 2000 8:36 pm
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To all photographers: What black and white films scan the best with the least amount of noise in the sky? Thanks Jerry ... - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep...
Jerry Olson
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Mar 1, 2000 8:36 pm
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... Have you tried Fuji "Astia" 100. It has an ultra fine grain, according to the Fuji film manual, even finer grain than Velvia. Tunney ... Tunney Moriarty ...
Tunney Moriarty
tunney@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:42 pm
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... Steve, It's funny you should mention this. I'm in the middle of shooting 4 test rolls of Fuji Provia 100F (a.k.a. RDP III). It's been highly recommended to...
Albert Alecknavage II
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Mar 1, 2000 8:56 pm
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... the question is, is as *sharp* as kodachrome? Sergios. ... Alternative Factor: Science fiction in Greece at http://www.altfactor.gr - Turn off HTML mail...
Sergei
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Mar 1, 2000 9:06 pm
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Great film. I've just used it in 120 format, Have 35mm but haven't used it yet. There's no grain, and color is nice and neutral, good whites and the film is...
Chris Duzynski
cduz@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:35 pm
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Anyone/everyone, I am looking for an inexpensive supplier for transparency film to use on my Epson 600 ink jet printer. I have used HP film, and it works ...
Rich and Fran Teresi's
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Mar 1, 2000 11:51 pm
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I tried the various Fuji films after attending Will Crockett's 3-day location lighting seminar a few years ago. At that workshop we shot a lot of Provia, EPP...
Gregory Ventana
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Mar 1, 2000 11:51 pm
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Subject: Request for input and new version of Insight for the Mac I would like to announce the availability of the latest revision of Insight for the Mac. This...
Hemingway, David J
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Mar 2, 2000 1:11 am
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... This works very well. You can selectively apply USM to important areas of subject using different parameters, and avoid introducing sharpening artifact...
Bob Shomler
bob@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:11 am
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... Have you priced the "normal" film for copiers and laser printers? It isn't a whole lot less expensive -- I seem to recall around 50 cents a sheet. You...
Jan Steinman
Jan@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:13 am
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A word of caution. The way I read it, the reply seems to be suggesting pricing / using "normal" film for copiers and laser printers (though it could be just...
Charlie
cjh@...
Mar 2, 2000 3:15 am
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... I assume you are referring to the Artix scanner here--the Polaroid software allows levels and curves adjustments to be done on the color channels ...
Gary L. Hunt
glh@...
Mar 2, 2000 3:43 am
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I'm not a photographer, so I can't say much. It probably wasn't right for me to come on so strong about it in a group that has some real photographers in it,...
Steve Bye
sbye@...
Mar 2, 2000 4:28 am
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... This discussion just ruined my day, sort of. I wanted to contest this statement, because the slider is actually called "lightness" (at least in the beta...
Gary L. Hunt
glh@...
Mar 2, 2000 5:39 am
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... I've never been unlucky enough to have either of these problems, so I'm clearly guessing here. The most common explanation for intermittent vertical lines...
Gary L. Hunt
glh@...
Mar 2, 2000 5:43 am
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... My fault. The Artix also has curves for each channel, which I found after seeing a previous message regarding this. I sent out a reply yesterday but the...
zxiong@...
Mar 2, 2000 5:46 am
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Provia 100F grain is rated at 8, while the best Kodachrome has a rating of 9. Thus Provia 100F is sharper than Kodachrome. Kodak reference: KODACHROME 25...
gariac
gsellani@...
Mar 2, 2000 6:04 am
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Subject: Re: Photoshop USM and CMYK conversion In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:23:37 -0500 ." ... Many thanks for all the help I received re...
zxiong@...
Mar 2, 2000 6:04 am
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... You normally set the scanning resolution in the scanner's software. If you're using a flatbed for scanning 35mm slides, the maximum optical resolution of...
Gary L. Hunt
glh@...
Mar 2, 2000 7:35 am
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Hello AGV - ... Yes, that is correct. I studied about Newton's rings in physics of light class. They are caused by two refractive surfaces being in very close...
Mel Hunt
mhunt@...
Mar 2, 2000 8:53 am
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... I did not test the film by myself, but read a review in a German magazin. They had two test pictures (siemens star), one from kodachrome 25 and one with...
PHEUCH@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:23 am
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Rich Rich Ou will find extremely cheap transparency film overseas in India but it depends entirely on what quantity you want at one go as the freight cost ...