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Hi Tim,

Hard Black and White edges is where I see it and with more than a few pixels spills into the Black area.

SergeyT.

True, they do suffer from flare, but it can be significantly reduced by moving the film away from the calibration window and careful masking of the entire bed minus the scanned frame.
Scanmate is a...

1. Go for 24x30 at 600 dpi. Sharpening is OFF. 8 bit is fine for as long as they set the endpoints correctly and bring up your shadows to the acceptable level during the scan not after.
2. Process...

There is nothing wrong with Velvia 100. When the light is right and the exposure is spot on it is capable of delivering exceptional results. From my experience the major differences between 100 and...

Try scanning with a black mask all around your film frames. Make sure there is absolutely no space between the mask and the scanned film area so no direct light from the bulb is hitting the sensor ....

I think that first of all you should upgrade your LinoColor to version 6.x to take advantage of ICC support and as the next step to profile your scanner using an IT8 or other suitable target and...

So maybe you do not have quite of an interest in the subject at all?
On the other hand, there is enough of info available on the web already, including overviews and 100% res crops from both High...

I bet he would have spent his time better by reading the manuals and learning how to mount the film to properly balance a fast spinning drum.

Tango has a hardware limitation of 16000 pixels per line in drum rotation dimension.
So with an 8x10in film one should expect up to 16000/8 = 2000 dpi resolution.
For a 4x5 it will be double of...

When using roll do your Calibrate Color from the printers menu and you won't need to worry about the paper size...

HP Professional Satin is the best in the HP line for both color and B&W if you are up for large prints. There are rumors that is was specifically optimized to match the HP Vivera inks. The only...

What version of Eversamrt Scan are you running? Try to find the latest Eversmart Scan 3.5.something. It should allow you to save scans of negatives in any profile if I remember correctly. You might...

7900 "Maintenance - Printer still has a few head clogs, and wastes small amounts of ink when swapping blacks." That alone could turn out into a nightmare for a low volume printer.

Z3200 Gloss...

You're unlikely to notice any dramatic difference between profiles generated from either targets scans. If there are differences they are slight and only raise a question how good the profiling...

It is a half of the glass sized. And beside different shapes it includes special inserts for gray balancing (both ref and transp). Do not see how it can be replicated via contact printing

Why not to downgrade the OS to 10.3.9 which is proven to work well with ProII and oXYgen 2.3.5 ?

SergeyT.

Getting a scanner and making the first scan is not all that difficult or expensive. Making it work for everyone in the group is not that easy.
The access, availability, training and maintenance is...

A Jazz+ , like any other Eversmart, is a very good scanner. It can be driven from a powermac with anything from MAC OS 8.x to OS X (10.3).
It does a pretty good (if not great) job on positive film....

They just were sold with black-bordered base glass. But it does not mean oil mounting won't be beneficial.
Oil mounting stations came with the purple-bordered glass. So with the station (and hence,...

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There isn't much to discuss.

* No point to compare scans made at different res and more so based on some down sampled crops.
* A negative film does not put a stress on scanners density range nor...

1.Photoshop does a much better job with sharpening, so it makes sense to disable it in oXYgen.
2. You will probably want to use the balanced endpoints for your negatives especially if the resulting...

Try to find an oXYgen 2.3.5.1+ for your G5 or try everything that you have on a G4.
The SCSI ID should not matter, just do not use 7.

SergeyT.

Have you found two scanners which produce identical scans on pixel level?

Thanks,
SergeyT.

Exactly my point. There are so many unanswered questions and variables...
I wish that "distortion" (even if it present indeed) was my biggest concern with producing quality scans ;)

SergeyT.

Sandy,

I have the same setup: OS 9.2.2 and OSX 10.3.9 actually. But I use 9.2.2 for the scanner diagnostics only, which are not available under OSX. The rest is done under OSX. It allows me to...

One of the advantages of the newer MACs and OSX is that one can quickly transfer scans from the scanner controller to editing computer over TCP. The other is that one can even run a PS on the same...

According to Kodak the following should work: Eversmart Pro II + FW->SCSI + OXYgen 2.3.5 + G5+ Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) .

Send me a PM once you have the Calibration Slide ;)

SergeyT.

How can you be certain that your image was perfectly alligned along on the glass in the first place and how one could be certain about rotating it by 90 degrees precisely ?

What about the...

It is not. And it is not Photoshop either when it comes to precision and flexibility.
Make sure your model is capable of saving scans in DT.


It is not messy. And holds the film where it needs...

The answer to whether it could be "better" depends on may factors. The editing skills, software and algorithms used to interpolate, the tone curve applied to the final image, the sharpening...

I have tried whatever was in stock. So it was the "new", I guess. And it was terrible with the new formula. But works relatively good as carbon transfer support ;)

SergeyT.

Thanks for the information everyone.
I like the results I have got on the Rives BFK (straight with no extra treatments).
But I really want to make this new formula to work on a smooth surface...

I think type of film used for IT8 target is not critical at all.
The precision of target readings, workflow and the quality of the software used for scanning and profile generation are.
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Thanks for the info. Do the highlights clear to paper white, or remain stained with either bluish or worse brownish tint?

I do not know why but the Stonehenge was one of the worst in my tests....

I have read pretty much everything that google returns on the subject matter..and tried too (short of Arhces Platine, COT-320, Weston’s Diploma Parchment and very few others which are no longer...

I've been making some Cyanotypes with the New Cyanotype (or Cyanotype II) formula solution. And my biggest issue is to find a paper that works. So far I have been through pretty much all fine art...

I always pre-soak for 5 mins (2509 reels in a Jobo) on a rotary base. I also develop in HC-110. The only uneven development I see on my sheets are some narrow strips along the edges where the film...

I did not mean that, sorry. My comment was related to the following question: "could I get your histogram readings from your sunny and cloudy portra setup?? "

If the colors are off after the inversion and dark(most important) & white point adjustments, then the color profile of the scanner is not good. If that's the case no readings from other scanners...