trevor_martin

<p>I have a rather embarrassing issue, somehow or other I managed to get a filter stuck on my Autocord. No matter what I do I can't get the thing off. I can twist the filter, but I just can't seem to pop it off. This is a bayonet filter that I've used multiple times on my TLRs including this Autocord without issue, I'm not sure what I did this time. I'm kind of desperate for any suggestion anyone might have. Thanks.</p>

<p>I have this meter and I don't see how you are getting this behavior. There is no need to take the reading first before adjusting the correction ring. If I'm using the same filter all day I'll preset the correction dial and it will give me the correct readings. Is it possible that some of the internal rings rings are sticking together so that when you move one another moves as well leading to erroneous results ? I've seen that happen before in some of my older meters. </p>

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<p>You do not have a wide gamut monitor. A wide gamut monitor should be able to cover 100% of the Adobe RGB colorspace, which is much bigger than sRGB. The Asus monitor you have does not cover Adobe RGB, so you have a standard gamut screen</p>

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<p>It's probably the camera, I have the same issue with one I was recently given. I looked around online and it seems to be a somewhat common problem. My S2 is stuck at f/16, and since the shutter works I did put a roll of high ISO film through it. </p>

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<p>Looks like a <a href="http://graflex.org/graphic-35/">Graphic 35</a>.</p>

 

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<p>I have the same scanner and both Vuescan and Epson Scan, personally I greatly prefer Epson Scan for the V500, and use vuescan for my old minolta scanner. I have found that while I can get great results with either program, Epson scan simply takes much less effort to get good results. While Vuescan does add some features such as mulit-exposure and multi-sampling that in some cases give a superior result, I've found it to be rather hit or miss as the doesn't always align the multiple scans correctly. Overall, I really never found that Vuescan was any better than Epson scan in terms of image quality, and is much more of a pain to use.</p>

<p>That being said, my biggest issue when using Vuescan with the V500 might not be that big of a deal for you, and that is batch scanning. Batch scanning with Epson scan is very easy. After making a preview scan you can individual adjust the scanner settings for each frame, hit scan, and just let the scanner do its things. It's fast, easy and gives good results. I was never able to really get Vuescan to batch scan the way I wanted it to, it took much more effort than it was worth. However, that was when I only had the V500 to scan 35mm frames, with 12 frames to scan at a time, it was just too much of a hassle with Vuescan. But if you are primarily using medium format film, this might not be such a big deal since you'll be scanning only a couple images at a time. </p>

<p>Vuescan is still a good program, especially once you learn how to use it. I use it with my Minolta Scan Dual (as it really is the only option when using Windows 7), and I get great results, although I do sometimes miss the ease and speed of batch scanning with the Epson. I don't have any experience with silverfast as I really don't want to buy a separate licence for each scanner, but it still might be worth trying out. Since you can get free trials of all the software you should just try them all. I will say this, be patient with vuescan, it is certainly not all that intuitive at first since there are so many options, but once you spend some time with the program you can get some great results. </p>

 

 

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