Tupperware Photography & Red Ring Tinfoil (14)

Wool, I like the train

Jedi Greg, fun paint ball photo

Tommy, nice captures.

poppie guy wrote in post #8062783
Wool, I like the train

Me too. I really like the way the graffiti almost pops out from the side of the car.

Great train shot Dan.

Great Paintball shot Greg,

Well spotted and captured moment Tommy

I should be out cleaning up the yard but fell like crud ATM. Spent 45min this morning getting my film scanner (Canon FS4000) back up and running again only to find dead pixels or similar. They leave a streak across the image, lucky it's the bottom so it can be cropped if I need to. I've run two rolls of APS through it so far, lots more to go. I started this project years ago and have never finished it. If I committed to scanning a few rolls a week when the study PC is sitting idle it would be all done.

Try recalibrating the scanner a few times at one go.

I've thought my 8600 was toast more than a few times, but a bit of aggressive recalibration seems to let it map out the pixels. I now have calibration turned on before every scanning pass.

Also, ensure that the calibration window (if applicable) is absolutely spotless, both on the lamp and on the bed. There was one time I thought it was game over for the scanner, but cleaning both of those and making sure every speck of dust was gone solved the streaking problem.

Greg_C wrote in post #8063255
Great train shot Dan.

Great Paintball shot Greg,

Well spotted and captured moment Tommy

I should be out cleaning up the yard but fell like crud ATM. Spent 45min this morning getting my film scanner (Canon FS4000) back up and running again only to find dead pixels or similar. They leave a streak across the image, lucky it's the bottom so it can be cropped if I need to. I've run two rolls of APS through it so far, lots more to go. I started this project years ago and have never finished it. If I committed to scanning a few rolls a week when the study PC is sitting idle it would be all done.

Never heard of that problem in a scanner before. If you need the missing pixels, scan it, rotate it 180 degress, re-scan it, then put it together in P'Shop. It's a lot of trouble, but you'll at least get the entire image.

Here is a couple from the Old Iron Show in Pendleton today. I havent downloaded the kids cameras yet, so who knows what they have.

I'm impressed. By a Sigma, of all things.
http://www.dpreview.co​m/lensreviews/sigma_50​_1p4_c16/

It handily toasts the 50/1.4, has true ring HSM, a redone optical design instead of that warmed-over planar design, and works well at large apertures.

Lightstream wrote in post #8063269
Try recalibrating the scanner a few times at one go.

I've thought my 8600 was toast more than a few times, but a bit of aggressive recalibration seems to let it map out the pixels. I now have calibration turned on before every scanning pass.

Also, ensure that the calibration window (if applicable) is absolutely spotless, both on the lamp and on the bed. There was one time I thought it was game over for the scanner, but cleaning both of those and making sure every speck of dust was gone solved the streaking problem.

A few magic on and off's as done the trick, each time I restart it, it re-calibrates. Seems to be ok for now.

Belmondo wrote in post #8063275
Never heard of that problem in a scanner before. If you need the missing pixels, scan it, rotate it 180 degress, re-scan it, then put it together in P'Shop. It's a lot of trouble, but you'll at least get the entire image.

Love too but I can't, it's one of these, http://www.steves-digicams.com …reviews/canosca​n4000.html

I think it has a strip for a sensor rather than a sensor about the size of a 35mm. The APS film just drops into the holder and it automaticly drags the film past the scanner. Takes 1hr to do 25 frames, all I do then is save and rename them.

Jaymz wrote in post #8063374
Here is a couple from the Old Iron Show in Pendleton today. I havent downloaded the kids cameras yet, so who knows what they have.

Nice shots

Lightstream wrote in post #8063695
I'm impressed. By a Sigma, of all things.
http://www.dpreview.co​m/lensreviews/sigma_50​_1p4_c16/

It handily toasts the 50/1.4, has true ring HSM, a redone optical design instead of that warmed-over planar design, and works well at large apertures.

Looks nice.

I had my Sigma 30/1.4 on the camera on Thursday night and was less than pleased with the results.

Here's some of my results, kids photos from 2002. These were taken with a EOS IX. I'm now on the 7th roll today.
No.1

Greg_C wrote in post #8064202
A few magic on and off's as done the trick, each time I restart it, it re-calibrates. Seems to be ok for now.


Love too but I can't, it's one of these, http://www.steves-digicams.com …reviews/canosca​n4000.html

I think it has a strip for a sensor rather than a sensor about the size of a 35mm. The APS film just drops into the holder and it automaticly drags the film past the scanner. Takes 1hr to do 25 frames, all I do then is save and rename them.


Nice shots

Looks nice.

I had my Sigma 30/1.4 on the camera on Thursday night and was less than pleased with the results.

Here's some of my results, kids photos from 2002. These were taken with a EOS IX. I'm now on the 7th roll today.

Nice scanner. Mine is a traditional flatbed that doubles as a medium format scanner. You're right that most of these film scanners and flatbeds have a strip of sensor rather than a big imager. It would cost a fortune if they had a single plate imager like our cameras. That is also why they are painfully slow. At 2400 dpi with infrared dust-removal pass enabled, mine can take 45 minutes for 12 x 35mm frames. Fortunately it is set-it-and-forget it. The most irritating part is loading film into it. It's worse with MF film because you are loading a lot of times.

Sometimes wish I had gotten their big gun which takes up to 30 x 35mm frames at one go, but cost is a concern.

I was reading another reviewer's concerns that Sigma's precision focusing was a bit less than precise with their copy of the 50/1.4. They agreed it was optically excellent, but let down by an inconsistent focus drive - sometimes back, sometimes front. I would buy a 50/1.8 if I wanted an inconsistent focus drive

Fortunately I do not have to compromise. I have a 35/1.4L that I love, with all the fabled USM accuracy. Given the size and dynamics of the 50/1.4 HSM, I'd rather stick with the 35/1.4L. The L is only 80 grams heavier, and about the same size, plus the FOV is wider, which I like.

How many megapixels can you get out of an APS frame on your scanner before it starts to go soft? I can get about 8MP out of a 35mm frame (scanner limited) at 2400dpi, so I find cranking up the DPI doesn't help much - it just increases file size without increasing quality.

I can get an easy 20MP out of medium format slide film though...sometimes there is just no substitute for sheer real estate

Of course the 5D2 blows the whole setup out of the water, instant 22MP the moment I click the shutter

Speaking of not having to compromise, I took the 135L for a short walk today on the 5DMk2.

Focus, even on a cloudy, overcast day under lead gray skies is amazing. The AF drive on the 5D2 'pops' into focus and feels reminiscent of the 1D and 1D2 I used to have. Whatever I think of the 1D series for indoor evening work, I respect their outdoor performance. Very 1D2-ish. A bit slower, but catching up.

Yes I use single center on a 1-series unless tracking something.

And the 135's resolving power even wide open is phenomenal. The detail just absolutely jumps out at me, and the color/contrast are unrivalled amongst my zooms. That lens impresses me every time I use it, which is good because I need it to shoot a very, very important event later this week. The 135 really has a 'pop' to the colors and saturation that is hard to find anywhere else, hence my comment 'almost able to turn bad light into good'. (and no you can't do it in Lightroom or my 24-105 would be very happy)

Am still kinda wondering if I want a 85, but the 135 is determined to prove to me that it can put the 85 out of business.

You used to have a 1D2?

What a coincidence. So did I.

Belmondo wrote in post #8064656
You used to have a 1D2?

What a coincidence. So did I.

I heard!

I got it off this really nice guy who hangs on POTN...you may have met him before.

Lightstream wrote in post #8065049
I heard!

I got it off this really nice guy who hangs on POTN...you may have met him before.

Only when I shave.

Belmoooondo, just out of curiosity, was it you who had a 1Ds II you were thinking of or trying to sell a while ago?

Lookit, I got my moo right in the middle of someone's name.