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Some of the replies on an online professional archivist forum on Reddit said that they don't care if Epson discontinued their flagship flatbed V600 and V850 scanners. Many said their Phase One camera or DSLR's and copy stands did better. A copy stand is not the same as a flatbed scanner when it comes to archival work. A copy stand provides more harsh results when it comes to defects and silvering. It offers no options for weighted scans on warped material like stereo cards. This is why you see subpar digitization from most archives even with their $90,000 Phase One digitization setups. If a vacuum frame is used, then you could possibly flatten out some of this material. I used vacuum frames extensively in the 1970s, but we used them on thin paper and sheet film, not on thick, warped mounting boards. Even so, vacuum frames are not mainstream or easy to acquire as they once were in the days of graphic arts and process cameras. Within the archive I use camera / copy stand combos as well as various scanners of all sorts. They each have their purpose. But the bottom line is...a copy stand is not a replacement for a flatbed scanner; they produce different results. When it comes to weighted scans, I found that an Epson V600 scanner starts to break with 22 pounds of weight put on the lid. The part that breaks is the film scanning component in the lid. I limit the weight I put on the lid to 18 pounds. You figure out the weight limits for your scanner. Don't go by what I tell you, weight your scanner lid at your own risk. And if you do weight the lid, you will need a thick hard foam backer under the lid to contact the original. The lid alone will not do a good job on heavily warped material. No post processing was done on the copy stand vs flatbed scan photos. Copy stand photo. Flatbed scan of the same photo. Copy stand photo. Flatbed scan of the same photo. An example of a flatbed scanner. An example of a 3-D photo taken with a flatbed scanner. Examples of flatbed scanned photos weighted and unweighted. An example of a nuArc dual vacuum frame platemaker c.1974. Photos from: NSFW SHOOTOUT…Flatbed Scanner vs. Sheetfed Scanner vs. Copy Stand Photography – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection – II <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

This is #4 out of #6 SSD archival tests underway. The Samsung T7 500GB SSD was formatted on 9.1.22 and 449GB of data was put on it. It has not been plugged in since 9.1.22. I checked it today, 3.1.26 and everything was fine. Future tests will be for #5 / 56 months and #6 / 68 months. I will also retest #4 for a 10-year test. It will test not rewriting the data over a 10-year period with just one plug in to recharge over 10 years. That test is due on 9.1.32. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

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Some changes. I have been making do with what I got for now. I wanted to buy more HDD, but have been holding off. I've got quite a bit of SSD. Someone had told me AI is grabbing it all up so that is why the price rise. Another one said tariffs caused it. But have no idea. A lot of my stuff gets put on M-Disc DVD, M-Disc BD-R and archival BD-R for an optical disc library. But M-Disc is not cheap either. M-Disc skyrocketed in price after covid hit. So, some of my archive does not need hard drives. I would have liked to get into LTO, but it is too complex setting it up and the drives are too $$ for me. I got tons of films that need scanning. Luckily for me they are 75% - 80% shorts and don't require massive storage like feature films. They can be handled with optical disc. But if I scanned them at 5K and above then there may be a problem with it and fitting on discs.

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From what I gather, Epson's V600 and V850 models have been / are being discontinued. They are not replacing them with new models either. I may be wrong with some of this, but from a cursory study this seems to be the case. BH still has some V850's for sale at an inflated price. But no V600's. Used V600's can be found from dealers at about 50% - 75% higher than the price of what a new V600 scanner used to sell for. I had 3 V600's. One died a few years ago. Another one died a few months ago. The last one still works, but it gets lots of use. Who knows when it will die. If I knew they would be discontinued, I would have bought a few more. They are the workhorse of my archive. If Lasergraphics wants to branch out, they should start making flatbed scanners and a replacement for the old drum scanner. You know, years ago Lasergraphics started with a little still film scanner or recorder for photos / slides or some such thing before they got into cine' film scanners. The Epson were not that good for film scans. They were pretty crappy actually. I hope someone make some decent flatbed paper / film scanners. Yes, it can be done with a copy stand, but it is a pain and a lot more hassle unless you got the room to leave it assembled all the time. Lasergraphics Film Recorder Series User Guide Buy - LaserGraphics Personal LFR Plus Slide Film Recorder <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Screenshot 02-27-2026 08.42.311145×884 201 KB Over the years I bought a few photos from this seller for my archive. But it is just too $$ now. They keep raising the shipping to crazy prices. Shipping is almost the same as the price of the minimum bid. Add sales tax and you are in the low $40s for 1 photo. Now some photos may be worth it. But most of theirs are not worth that much to me. The last photo I got from them was an interesting glass plate with a bunch of people in an old general store that looked to be in Alaska, and they brought a horse into the store. I have to scan it sometime. Right now, been working digesting 4 -5 feet of old mags to breakdown. Usually not a big deal to scan things, but I have to pull out a special scanner that is in storage that can handle 8x10 glass plates. It would be nice to have an archive with equipment all set up and you walk up to it and can just do your work. Even have a mold room where you can work with moldy material like the toxic waste that it is. Some of the material an archive gets is moldy and sometimes it is just not replaceable. So, you deal with what you got when it comes to digitizing it. If you do have moldy material to digitize you can microwave it. But you have to be careful about burning it. I’ve done lots of work with it…moldy material seems to find me. All the old stores had crates, barrels, glass, ceramic and baskets for their food. No plastic back then. I don’t know if this is a display to sell fruit or just set up to take the photo. It doesn’t look too practical for customers to pick fruit. Although back then I think you asked for what you wanted and the storekeeper got it for you. I’ve seen a lot of old-time bananas. All the bananas I see in the photos look kinda nasty. The bananas have changed over the years due to varieties dying out from disease. The bananas we eat now are low quality compared to the bananas we had when I was a kid. They were tasty as hell back then. But that variety is no longer sold. It died out. I don’t know if it died out 100%, but it died out enough from disease to not be commercially sold. You check it out. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Home Movie: Galante Collection: 003375 : Galante Family : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Although I never studied it in depth, I stayed away from lenticular Kodacolor because of the lines. A Kodacolor collection had come up for sale. All the sample frame shots from the collection looked crappy. I looked up a sample Kodacolor scan at the Internet Archive of an unrelated film to those being offered for sale. It seems to be pretty low-res stuff. Take a look at the link and view it full screen. Is this about how good lenticular Kodacolor looks? If so...it is garbage for res! <><><><> Bikers' Mardi Gras Panoramic 2014 from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book 2015 by Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

I chanced upon a place that was for sale for about $2,000,000. I was not interested in buying it, I was just curious at looking at what was being sold. One of the photos was the above. You would think that someone selling a piece of real estate for $2,000,000 would have spent 5 or 10 minutes to glue or tape that baseboard molding back up. When selling something, if you can afford it, spend a few minutes to make it look better. You never know how the buyer will look at even small things. It may help out the sale and it does not take much to make things better.

I'm still watching them. I'm on Disc 15 out of 38. I copy to DVD and speed though the stuff I am not interested in. I don't have lots of time for TV, so it takes me time to get through them. Too bad for the broke athletes. Some make big $ in sports, others don't. I have a hard time feeling sorry for the broke ones because I'm in the same boat. I have to pay to do my work. Not a penny in it for me and it is even worse because it cost me $. They had an Olympic athlete that said he paid his own way and got no support from the USA; but his dream was to compete in the Olympics and he achieved that dream. That is just how it goes. If you can get paid to do what you love, great. If you have to pay to do what you love, then that's the best you can do. I'd love to make some $ at my work, but I don't. I don't begrudge being broke except when I can't do my work because of the $. I got enough money to live, so am grateful for that. I have no real use for the $ after a certain point except to feed it back into my work. And feeding it back into work has limits as well. I mean if a person has billions the money can own them and they don't own the money. I don't want to be bothered with all that. Everything you own takes a little piece / peace of you. I don't require much. I got food, a car, a room, heat, A/C and the roof don't leak. I am not interested in Rolexes, a private jet or Lambos. But I would like a workhouse, a decent cine' scanner or two, a film cleaning machine and a few other things for the archive. Above that it is excess money more or less. Oh, I would like some land and a greenhouse to grow a few fig trees in and maybe some warm weather persimmons. Now, some people require more. An old gal down the street has a kinda rich sister. I don't know how rich she is, but rich enough to rent a $60K a week yacht and crew for her family to island hop the islands in Greece. Rich enough to have a lake house, house in Florida along with her local house. Rich enough to hire a private guide to stay with them for their 2-week trips to Europe. Rich like that. I'm not interested in that type of thing...it would be a chore to me. It would disturb my work having to figure out which house to go to next. Some would think that if I had excess money, I would open up a huge archive and hire lots of people to do the work. I do my work from an inner curiosity that I have about times gone by aka seeing history, not reading about it. So, unless I got my nose up its ass with the work I'm doing, I don't get a lot of benefit from it having someone else do it. Plus, I hate dealing with people. So, managing a big or even small workforce is not for me. But going back to the dreams of big $...it would be nice to be able to hire freelance photogs to document art shows around the country...I could do that. <><><><> Swann poster collection / DDTJRAC Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

I see some panoramic photos made with pieced together photos. Did they have a special camera for that as well as single shot panoramic photos? Looks like train was moving, yet a pieced together pano. Some of the pan photos had uneven exposure, like they were made with a swing lens camera. Although this is not the best example, it gives you an idea. Did they have swing lens cameras in the early 1900s? What kind of cameras did they use for panoramic photos in the early 1900s? Photos: LoC <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

LoC Low res...that is all they offer at the link and download is not very good either. So, don't blame me. That is how they run their shop. Normally would not do a thing with this low-grade material, but it is just too interesting. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid approximately $75,000 for his role as the T-800 in the first The Terminator (1984). Despite his low pay, this amounted to about per word for his 17 lines of dialogue, with the film being a relatively small production at the time. IMDb

Yes, interesting and I didn't know. The 1984 film The Terminator was produced with a modest budget of approximately $6.4 million. Despite low expectations from studio Orion Pictures, this small, indie-style budget resulted in a massive commercial success that grossed $78.3 million worldwide. The film is considered a prime example of high-impact filmmaking achieved through tight financial constraints. Wikipedia

I made a typo and could not edit it. Living in a cardboard box - NYC 2018 should read Living in a cardboard box - NYC 2017