perry_halicas

I'm in Budapest and have a non functioning Rollei SL 66, so far I

haven't found anyone who can work on it for me here, and the cost of

freighting it off to Germany, and getting it back, is starting to

look as if it'd be more worth while to buy another camera. Any

suggestions anyone?

Perry

OOPS, Sorry I hadnt clicked the 'notify me' button. Havent been in here for a few weeks.

Thanks for all the response.

I have the SE 6 version that came with the scanner.

Its not the 3200pro

Yes i have calibrated the monitor.

Have i set it up properly? and do I know how to ? well perhaps not to both of these, I have looked through the handbook, but it seemed somewhat cursory. I havent seen anything that suggested that i had to 'set it up'.

I did visit the SF website and asked a few q's there. but its been some weeks and i have yet to have a response.

OK so is my problem that of the 'b' model software (se) or just carbon error (idioto)?

p

Guilty as charged perhaps?

I also have a canon fs4000. I am happy with it. I did some tests with the nikon 4 thousand and couldnt see a lot of difference. Yes digital ice is better, no doubt. I have also noticed the random streaking . You have to have a scsi and it is still slow if you are doing a lot of slides as it doesnt have a bulk loader.

but for price, well it has been fine for me.

I have had none of the distortion problems.

Be real careful with WD40, it can react with some materials, some plastics and some rubber type materials.

I am interested in this area of joining multiple images, by working

in 'layers'.

The stitch programs I have tried several of and they dont give me

what i am after.

I find my technique is a bit 'hit and miss' and that means it's very

time consuming.

So I'm after some other information/tutorials/publications/advice -

anything! There has to be a better way of going about it than i am at

present.

My main concerns are probably the obvious ones - sizing, seamless

joins, and getting the overall tones and colours the same over a

range of lets say 5 frames.

I'm using PS 6. I have a fairly fast computer.

thanks for any help

perry

i have had this scanner for a few weeks and have experimented with

both the silverfast and the epson software, so far i have found the

S'Fast pretty disapointing.

I am using it exclusively with 6X6 negs/slides. I have read the stuff

about the carrier height, and i have to agree with the comments

posted on that issue, but my problem seems to be more a software

issue.

I understood SF was pretty good scan software, but so far, its

colours and its clarity have been, well 'poor' in comparison to the

Epson results.

At times extensive work in P'shop does not get the SF image even

close to as good as the Epson image. Neither does tricking with the

prescan histogram.

I am wondering if there is something i missed?

Perry