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[Laylow Skidmore]

Bruce is completely correct. An extremely rare situation where a drum scanner may mis-register the RGB planes in the event of a timing malfunction before composing the file is an equipment repair issue, but even then should introduce only negligible noise. Scanning at an aperture optimised for the grain size can reduce or enhance the appearance of graininess as desired.

I find that grain is exaggerated by CCD scanners at high resolution, since they lack the benefit of an aperture for each pixel. Dropping the resolution to just over grain size can mask the apperarance of grain with only a slight sacrifice of fine detail, but noise, limited dynamic range, and poor focus remain.

Upscaling your image through interpolation in scanner or other software allows room for a fine gaussian blur to cloak noise - analogous to tonal adjustments in a 16 bit per channel file, and a downgrade to 8 bits right before printing. I think it's a clever idea, and may be useful, but it's no substitute for the quality of a drum capture, and probably takes just as long (although less expensive).

Just about all scanners and printers incorporate some kind of software or hardware sharpening to compensate for imprecision introduced by the multiple transforms, some of which do in fact mimic gaussian blur. The level of sharpening in each device can be selected in good controller software, but is sometimes hidden from the user. My Screen scanner has a 4th PMT for hardware USM on the fly, and LightJet printers include sharpening in the hardware RIP as well. They are both quite configurable, and the benefit of using them seems to vary with subject matter.

I suspect the "smart" processing in whatever RGB laser printer you use will probably recognize your embedded pixels as fine detail and try to render them sharply within its limitations. Software that "optimizes" images boosts productivity but eliminates the precision required for objective testing. Newer software and hardware rely more on the better results generally obtained by automatic controls, but it's still a game of percentages, and a device that allows you to spend the time fine-tuning details in pursuit of perfection is getting harder to find. Writing a driver that gives you deep hardware control is one way to face this, but most of us photographers probably prefer to spend the time on actual images. Older hi-end equipment and software is another option if your commitment is strong enough to face the learning curve, expense, and the inconvenience of scarce parts and information. Good drum scanners can be had for a penny on the dollar of their original cost, and if you can spare the time and space, you may be pleasantly surprised. Tack sharp, no need to blur out noise or artifacts.

I think that film/drum scan is the best combination for the highest quality images, but expert operation is necessary. Turnkey scanners like the Nikons give you most of the bang with less effort, so if you're considering a drum, check one out in operation if possible and see if the software and workflow suit you. Comparing the results of your Epson vs. the drum scanner you consider should tell you if the benefit is worth the price. The difference between drum and other scanners blows me away, but I realize most folks are quite satisfied with a little less than the ultimate, and they get to spend more time shooting. For me, the logic that took me to LF remains valid, and the extra time spent per click is amply rewarded by the satisfaction of superlative results - all the way to the print.

The aesthetic concept behind the zone system, the f64 group, and such, is a pursuit of its own, related but apart from the core of photography. I also admire many photos that are blurred, out of focus, even poorly printed when other values in the image override technical "image quality" issues. However, I also believe any image worth printing becomes even more interesting with the benefit of technical excellence.

Mountain area south west of Tokyo (about 200Km from Fuji) This one was commercially scanned Provia RDP-III I don't know what the bureau who also printed it, though I think I heard from them it was some type of "Leaf"

"I have a 4 year old 17.2 hand Dutch warmblood gelding. He had OCD surgery as a 2 year old, and colic surgery as a 3 year old, and then suffered another colic 3 months post-op. He has chronic diarrhea/loose stool, and I have a difficult time getting him to pick up weight. I have tried just about every kind of treatment, and nothing really seems to work. I put him on a grass hay only diet after the colic, but I can't keep weight on him with it. Do you have experience with horses like this?"

He had the colic surgery for an impacted and displaced large colon. Both times that he coliced, he was out of her care, off being started under saddle. The first colic, there was a feeding instruction misunderstanding, and they had him on a diet of 100% alfalfa (6 flakes a day)...he ended up with terrible diarrhea, and then the colic. After that colic, she took him off of alfalfa completely, and the only other hay offered at the barn was a 3 way mix (oat, rye, wheat). He was fine on it at home, but again, when he went back to training, he coliced again. Both times he coliced within a week to 10 days of being at a new barn.

Since the second colic, he had been home with his owner, and absolutely fine besides being a very hard keeper. He was on all grass hay getting about 36lbs a day, but he just wasn't interested enough in it, and was leaving a lot, so it had been cut back to 24lbs a day, and he was still picky about it.

I've had to add a horrifying amount of supplemental feed to his diet because it's all that I can get him to eat. I'm really not all that comfortable with how much I'm having to give him. He is currently getting around 16 pounds of a 12% fat performance feed a day, plus 2 cups of corn oil in addition to the hay. He also gets a joint supplement, an electrolyte recommended by the vet after the second colic, and a digestive tract support supplement.

So, where to start? One of the first things I do with a new horse is to estimate its current weight, body condition score and the energy in the current diet. This allows me to calculate requirement and compare it to the current diet and using the body condition estimate whether the energy in the current diet is adequate to maintain body weight. This horse was estimated to weigh 1350lbs and to have an energy intake of 52 Mcal of digestible energy a day from his current diet, and his requirement for the level of work he was doing was only 28.5Mcal. With this amount of energy intake he should have been super fat yet he condition scored between a 4 and a 5, mildly under weight. Something was not right and the fact that he always had loose stools made me suspect that for some reason his digestive tract was not working optimally, specifically his large intestine. This would also explain why he was picky about eating the grass hay. It certainly sounded as though moving to new locations and different management styles had caused the horse some stress which had maybe caused some digestive distress resulting in colic.

Horses with gastric ulcers tend to go off grain and when the large intestine is disrupted horses will become picky about hay because the large intestine is where hay is digested. 16lbs of a fortified feed is a lot of feed unless you are feeding a complete feed and no hay. Based on the feeding directions for the high fat performance feed 16lbs was likely the maximum for his size and I wondered whether the high fat might be disrupting fiber digestion especially with the additional oil that was being added. Each horse has a different rate at which feed passes through its digestive tract. A horse with a higher rate of passage will be at greater risk of undigested feed reaching the large intestine. Feeds with high starch or fat contents that reach the large intestine can disrupt the bacteria and fiber digestion. With the added oil I thought that the level of fat in his diet may have been too great for him. My sense was we needed to remove some of the fat and work on supporting fiber digestion so that he would eat more grass hay and be able to derive more nutrients from it resulting in more weight gain, while hopefully firming up his manure.

Beet pulp is a highly fermentable form of fiber. It requires microbial digestion in the large intestine but pound for pound results in a similar amount of energy as oats. As a result it can be very helpful for getting weight on horses without the need to feed large amounts of grain that are high in starch and sugar. I did not want to rely too much on grain as an additional calorie source for this horse as he had a history of OCD and was still young, plus his digestive system already seemed upset and I didn't want to risk grain, at least not initially.

While the owner was wary of adding alfalfa due to the colic that had occurred when he had been fed alfalfa I felt that a small amount of alfalfa in the diet would be beneficial. Alfalfa is high in calcium and in cattle there has been some research that has shown that calcium reduces the negative impacts of fat on fiber digestion. Additionally, there has been some research suggesting that alfalfa may help to reduce the risk of ulcer development and it is a slightly better source of protein than grass hay which might help him build muscle. The initial plan was to gradually wean away from the high fat performance feed and replace it with beet pulp and to replace one flake of grass hay with a flake of alfalfa.

"Just a quick update to let you know that his manure is the best that it has ever been! The only thing that I can think to attribute it to is the addition of alfalfa to his diet. I noticed a change almost immediately. "

This assured me that we were taking the right path. Over the next month we removed the high fat feed and introduced wheat bran to add more phosphorous in order to balance the calcium in the beet pulp. We eventually added oats to further increase the energy in the diet and a custom selected mineral supplement to insure the diet was correctly balanced. Overall the new diet provided 38Mcal a day, a 14Mcal decrease and yet he was gaining weight and had a much healthier digestive tract.

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