Re: Funny news

2003-07-15 Thread Rob Studdert
On 15 Jul 2003 at 22:28, Herb Chong wrote: > rumor has it that Nikon is going to be dropping the 4000ED and replacing it with > a new model, possibly at a lower cost. nothing substantial enough for me to know > whether i should believe the rumor or not. the list price plus rebate has > dropped to

Re: Funny news

2003-07-15 Thread Herb Chong
TED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 22:21 Subject: Re: Funny news > Two darned good reasons for me to look into dumping the FS 4000 in > favor of the 4000ED. But the last time I looked, the price of the > 4000ED would buy me about four weekends of racing, where the FS4000 > only cost me about one and a half. :-)

Re: Funny news

2003-07-15 Thread Doug Franklin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:16:04 -0400, Herb Chong wrote: > the Nikon 4000ED has a full roll holder. you put the entire roll > in. it also is much faster. the minimal processing 4000dpi scan > takes under 40 seconds per frame. the change in speed is negligible > to drop to 1000 dpi. Two darned good r

Re: Funny news

2003-07-15 Thread Herb Chong
AIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 18:36 Subject: Re: Funny news > That depends on the scanner. Even ignoring the time required to swap > six-frame strips, scanning is much slower at 4000 ppi than at 1000 dpi > on my Canon FS4000. Like, 100

Re: Funny news

2003-07-15 Thread Doug Franklin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:31:48 +0400, Boris Liberman wrote: > The town where I live has only one Pro Foto Shop. It has many Foto > Shops, but only one grades itself as Pro. Anyway, my two most recent > films were scanned at 4000dpi with Nikon CoolScan 4000. Boy, I wish I could get that in my area

RE: Funny news

2003-07-15 Thread Blivit4
A 4000 dpi scan with a bit depth of 16 bits/color give a file that is around 120 mb. See if turning on ICE cleans up the scans without hurting resolution too much. FARE on the Canon scanners works great without hurting resolution; I do not have to do any post scan clean up with FARE set to stand