david_williams11

No sharpening done on this at all

Hi folks,

 

Here is a piece of an image scanned using my Nokon Coolscan V.

Notice the halo or reflection or whatever it is between the light

snow and black background. I assume this is caused by spurious

light from the LED source in the scanner. Is there any way to reduce

or get rid of this?

 

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Hi,

 

Can anyone tell me the average cost per print, on an R800, for the

following? Epson says it doesn't have this data.

 

One 5x7 on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of PLPP.

 

One 8x10 on an 8.5 x11 sheet of PLPP.

 

I know it depends on where you buy the inks/paper, so if you can give

me the prices per cartridge and pack of paper that you used in your

calculation, taht would be of immense benefit.

 

Cheers,

Dave

Hello,

 

I've been doing some printing on my R800 and I am getting very dark

prints compared to the proof views on screen. My system is

calibrated, and the colors on the print are accurate, it's just that

everything is dark. I let Photoshop take care of the color

management and I have CM turned off in the printer driver. I'm

pretty sure everything is set up properly with respect to sending the

image from Photoshop to the printer. I have been using the profiles

provided by Epson but have also tried a custom profile - still dark.

 

My monitor is calibrated to G2.2 6500 K with Colorvision Optical.

I've looked at my prints under daylight, light bulb and 5000K light

and still dark.

 

I am confused. Has anyone else had this experience?

The scan comes from a Velvia slide

Hello,

 

I have a Nikon Coolscan V and I am wondering how to deal with shadow

noise caused by the scanner CCD. To me, it seems this noise is at

its worst when I scan an image at the full 4000 dpi resolution.

This noise doesn't show up as noise when I make a print, however it

does have the effect of increasing the contrast between dark shadow

area and a light area. Sometimes, this makes the transistion from

dark to light look unnatural and clipped. I'm not exactly sure how

to deal with this. Noise Ninja demo seems to remove this CCD noise

at the expense of sharpness but it does smooth out the

transistions. Scannning at a lower resolution helps but I don't

always want to do that. Are there any other scanner parameters I

should change or anything else I should do? I'm just using Nikon

Scan right now.

 

I've attached a section of an image to illustrate the noise. The

image has been lightened dramatically to show how the noise only

appears in darker areas.

 

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What is the max thickness paper for the R800? Velvet Fine Art is

19mil and I don't know if it's too thick or not. If not, what Media

Type should I use in the print settings?

 

Thanks,

Dave

Hello,

 

I've recently bought a Epson R800 and I'm trying to figure out which

resolution I should print at. Here are some of the argument sI've

seen on other posts:

 

1) Print at 300 dpi by resizing the image appropriately in Photoshop.

2) Print at 360 or 720 dpi

3) Send an image to the Printer and let it handle the resizing and

resolution.

 

Anyone have any definitive answers on this?

 

Thanks,

Dave

Here is an interesting article that was posted at dpreview.com

 

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?

story=513486

 

It basically says that CD-R data integrity doesn't seem to last as

long as manufacturers claim.

 

I guess my question that comes from this is what optical media should

one use to archive if one is choosing only an optical media (ie.

DVDs, CD-R, CD-R/W etc.)

 

Thanx

Thanks for all the informative posts.

Hi, I'm looking for a scanner and I am looking at the new Coolscan

series. There is a dramatic difference between the price of each and

I'm trying to decide which to choose. I have some criteria so,

unlike lots of posts I'll try to give some specifics.

 

1) I don't care about top speed and if the major difference in price

between the two is speed then I'll go with the Coolscan V.

 

2) I'm not into high volume but I do want to haul out the best

quality for the price. I've noticed in the specs that the 5000 has a

dual CCD and also that the Dmax is a bit higher than the V but I

guess what I'm asking is whether or not the price difference is

reflective of quality.

 

3) I like taking low light photos, sunsets, sunrises with a lot of

shadow areas so will I get dramatically better results with the

5000. I know that the Dmax and multisampling of the 5000 will make a

difference but is it marginal or large?

 

I know that evaluating these machines is somewhat subjective but if

anyone can give me some thoughts then that would be great.

 

In summary, if I cab get a dramatic improvement in quality then I'll

pay for 5000 vs the V and take the extra speed as well, however if

I'm paying for a dramatic improvement in speed and a marginal

improvement in quality I'll save my money and go with the V.

 

An input would be great!

 

Dave

Thanks for all the info, it's been helpful.

 

Dave

When I was talking about 'all the same', I was looking at some of the companies featured in the back of some of those photo magazines (Outdoor Photgraper etc.). I checked out B&H and could see it as a distinct company, but then I went to home pages of Broadway Photo, Digital Liquidators and AM Photoworld and they all seemed like the same company with slightly different pages (the 'hold' music on the phone lines was even the same).

Hi;

 

I'm from Canada and I'm looking to order some equipment (a film

scanner, possibly a digital SLR) from one of the larger online

retailers in the U.S.

 

I'm wondering if anyone else from Canada has any experiences with

this, ie shipping troubles, broken goods, pleasant experiences etc.

 

Also, are any one of these places better than the next? It seems to

me that they're all the same.

 

Finally, is there a competively priced place in Canada where I can

order equipment? I've been to Vistek.ca and the prices are way above

US outlets, even when you add the exchange, postage and tax.

 

Thanks,

Dave

Thanks for the info everyone

Hi;

 

I'm looking for a piece of software that will keep track of all my

photo information - negatatives, slides, digital images.

 

Basically, I want to be able to search and sort everything with

ease. I've been do this with excel, it works fine and it's simple,

but I was wondering if there was a photographic specific program out

there.

 

Most important thing is that it's not loaded with too many bells and

whistles, I just want to keep track of everything.

 

Thanx,

Dave