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I had posted my 3144 page book disassembly thread at a photo forum. They poo-pooed the BW scans because they have some transparency due to the nature of the thin paper. Consequently, some of the printing on the verso shows through. They recommended I use a black backer. Well, I'm not new to scanning or black backers. I've been scanning since the late 1990s. And I've experimented with black backers from many years ago. The black backers do cut the transparency way down. But the tradeoff is they do not reproduce the original faithfully. You just have to pick which way to go with this type of job. Poor quality color and white reproduction scans with less transparency or a faithful reproduction with more transparency. You can work on the black backer scans in post. But that only goes so far. And to do post on 3144 scans is too much for me. Batch processing never seems to do the job on these vintage scans and there are always problems. So that slavish job of post processing 3144 scans would be for someone else. And that someone else would hopefully be getting paid to do that job. Here are some test scans with white, black and various shades of gray backers. The top of the scan shows the type of backer used. The file name also tells which backer was used. The light gray backer does the best job with reproduction other than white. But if offers the most transparency of the dark backers. Another problem beside off-color reproduction with using colored backers is the originals on this job barely fit the scanner. Very little wiggle room. Some of the type can be tight to one side or the other as well as the top. If the scanner had a dedicated dark backer that would help with this problem. But when you position the original off the edge of the scanner trying to split the difference and then have to hand overlay a backer on it, the original invariably moves. You end up scanning and rescanning the same original over and over again trying to get it right. That is fine for a handful of scans, but not for 3144 flatbed scans. Download these files so you have a library of test scans. And if you do use colored backers for scans, make sure you are happy with the post job to make them look acceptable. If you have a sheetfed scanner and use the 'scan both sides' option, sometimes that helps with reducing transparency. It just depends on the original. And a copy stand can help with transparency. But copy stands offer their own issues. Experiment to find what works best for you. Examples of using white, black and gray backers to reduce transparency when scanning D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <><><><> 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

Here is an example of anamorphic lens breathing from the Indiana Jones movie with the time machine in it. An example of anamorphic lens breathing D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive I had never noticed anamorphic lens breathing before seeing that film. The anamorphic lens breathing was constant throughout the movie. There was lens breathing even in the special features. Once I knew what it was, I noticed some lens breathing here or there in other movies. But they were nothing like this movie. Should lots of anamorphic lens breathing in a film be looked down on as poor filmmaking? Or in this day and age it does not matter? I'm thinking the old timers would never go for that crap. (But not sure.) Greta Garbo 'Camille' (1936) 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

This file will have 3144 scans in it. Along with backups on drives, every 550 scans or so I make a DVD to physically back it up. I use a color marker page to distinguish the set from future scans. Seeing a color marker helps when dealing with thousands of files like this. Once scans are complete the whole collection goes on M-Disc Blu-ray and an archival Blu-ray. I just like 2 different discs to diversify things. M-Disc DVD is pretty $$ or I'd make the smaller backups on them as well. But I use AZO DVD. If kept in the dark AZO DVD is good for 15 - 30 years. If kept in the sun, AZO DVD's are dead in a few weeks. And all Blu-ray are not archival. Some are pretty crappy. Verbatim makes the best archival Blu-ray discs. Preferably the Japanese made discs. The budget brands of Blu-ray I only use for temp work. Not archival at all if the sun hits them. Just a tidbit of info for you about optical discs. If you want to start using color marker pages, here is a collection of them. Colored, White, Gray And Black Page Collection D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <><><><> 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

When cutting up a book to scan there are a number of battles to deal with. One is copyright. The other one is defacing a book. Only you only can decide which way to proceed...for the greater good or the greater right. Bound book was +/- 3.75" thick. Cover was cut loose by cutting through the end sheets. Individual sewn book signatures were cut loose and further disassembled from there. Edge photo of cut binding shows the crooked cut this guillotine cutter produces. Old school guillotine cutters produced square cuts. From my limited experience, modern imports in this price range do not. This type of guillotine cutter is only useful if the gutter of the book is wide. I've tried 3 different cutters of this style, and none of them produced square cuts. If the book has a narrow gutter, this cutter may cut into the text or illustrations of the book when disassembling the book due to the crooked cut it produces. Books with narrow gutters have to be disassembled by hand. The guillotine cutter photo is from the internet and used under the auspices of fair use. Photo of a rotary paper cutter used to disassemble pamphlets, magazines and booklets. The rotary paper cutter is also useful to standardized paper width to run through a sheetfed scanner. Example scans from disassembled book, which is the bible of all things hand tools and hardware from 1923 - The Shapleigh Wholesale Hardware Catalog. The book was hand scanned at 300dpi (BW) to 600 dpi (Color). A 300-dpi scan can be made in 10 seconds on my flatbed scanner. A 600-dpi scan takes 23 seconds. Time difference is not normally a big deal. But multiply the time savings x 3144 scans and it adds up. Working 7 days a week part-time, this project will take 3.5 to 4 weeks to complete. And that is for raw scans. For 600-dpi scans it is 7.5 to 9 weeks for scanning this project part-time. Post cleanup work will add a lot more time to the project. A sheetfed scanner was not useful for this project. The catalog's paper is thin which produces wrinkled paper issues on the scans. Also, the ink used in the book is matte black which transfers to the black ink to the scanner rollers. This will leave marks on the pages that run down the full length of the page like black tire tracks. Lastly the book is old and dirty. Dirty originals lead to lines on your scan when using a sheetfed scanner. A speck of dirt on a flatbed scanner, is a speck of dirt. A speck of dirt on a sheetfed scanner is a white or black line that runs down the entire page. For more info on scanning techniques see: 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

Every once in a while, you see some home movies shot in scope. Can scanners un-scope, scope? eBay <><><><> 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

Amusement Rides Coney Island D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Vintage Coney Island footage goes for good money. Hard to get unless you got deep pockets. <><><><> 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

Is this what you are interested in? Scan2Screen’s Unfading Tool is available as plugin inside the DIAMANT Software and also works on conventional scanned images. Do you really need the $$ software to do this? The amount of color grading they show should be able to be able to be done with your regular software. Wouldn't a Lasergraphics do better than what is shown with their in-computer fade adjustment ability? As an archive, I'm glad I don't have to fool with general defects. My goal is to give people a sharp image. If they want to do something else with it, that is up to them. Much of the cine' film I deal with, especially old stag films, are too far gone. They have been duped to death. Only AI could fix it by completely redoing it. Sure, once in while I will post process things. But most scans are raw, at least with stills. Look at this thing... Generates lost frames! Who knows what AI will be able to do! The question is...how much would Perry or Robert charge to generate a lost frame of two? $100...$500 per frame? <><><><> 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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Maybe true for AI art. I don't know anything about it. But AI seems to be booming in advertising and some editorial work. In the recent Iran war there was tons of AI of fake Israel bombing when they could not get any real images out of Israel. I also see lots of Trump AI. They got Trump doing all sort of things. I started a small collection of them today. This just popped up today on a YT ad... This was on my YT feed today. Here is some 'art' created with Midjourney. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine Never thought about it, but I wonder if high priced models will be hit in the pocketbook with fake AI models. A popular recent trend on YT is for girls to make how to breast pump milk. they make .45 sec to 1 min+ videos popping out a boob to milk under the guise of education. The poor milking girls on YT will be replaced with fake AI girls soon. They won't even be able to make pocket change on YT. I will have to go archive some of that Iran war AI. Never thought about it till now. There is always something to archive.

NYPL Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle 1917 Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle was one of the greats from the silent era. In this clip, a man takes Fatty's girl and abuses her. Fatty comes to the rescue in spectacular fight scene. Fight Scene Clip Fatty Arbuckle 'Leading Lizzie Astray' (1914) D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Fatty had legal problems involving a dead woman in his hotel room and accusations of rape. That destroyed his career and ruined him financially. But what a talent he was in his heyday! <><><><> 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

You need to work this all out ahead of time with light tests. And keep testing until you get something of decent quality. Although your #2 shot may be doable. Other option is to hire an underwater cameraman. Good luck!

These are another option for caster if you don't like the original casters. These are rollerblade casters.

Bye Bye Birdie Long Shot D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Amazing amount of coverage done in the shot. I just labeled it as a long shot. What is this type of shot called? How did they do it?

These things are fleeting moments in time. Only up for a few months at best, then it goes poof! You are already there, so why not preserve something of it and donate to the historical record? In 2018 I went to the Araki show in NYC. I spent 1.5 hours there looking and shooting. I can't post most if it due to content. If you want to check it out, go to the Internet Archive and look it up. Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. I had a hard time shooing at the museum as you could not bring in a backpack. I was shooting regular photography, circular fisheye photography and infrared flash photography. I used a fishing vest to carry all that crap and the vest was bursting at the seams! So, find a way to get the job done. Almost all galleries & museums allow photography. This museum didn't allow flash photography, so I used invisible infrared flash. This was the entrance of the show...in infrared flash. (Censored) Infrared flash photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. Like I said, can't show much here and not going to fool around censoring things. So, you check it out. But the point of this post is not Araki. The point of it is to inspire you to document your world. You go to a lecture, record audio at least. You don't have to shoot a video of the whole thing. Then put it online. <><><><> 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

IB Tech had heads and tails with witness marks for YCN runs as shown above and in your example, OP. Definitive test for IB Tech is to soak a few frames in water. If dye bleeds out in a couple of days...it is IB Tech. But can't do it with most films. I've done it before on a IB Tech trailer I purchased for such tests. I can't locate the scans of that test as of now. If I find it, I will send it in. OP...make a high-res scan of your lab head with the witness marks and send it to me for my archive. Make it as I've shown in my example. Send to: w1000w@aol.com Thanks! <><><><> 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