Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Interesting videos. I could only watch 1.3 of them...at 144p. Then the internet jammed up. The internet in the Rustbelt is terrible. Why are there 4 platters? Unusual business to be in. Is it steady work or declining?

At their website, Lasergraphics talks about their trade-up program. I wonder what they do with their older scanners like the discontinued Scan Station Personal model. I wrote them a few weeks ago to ask about buying used scanners. But guess what...No Reply. Anyone ever buy a used scanner from Lasergraphics? How did it work out for you? <><><><> CompuServe Ad Selection from Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive

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No, you can't work out 'how long' with any of my tests. The fade and archival tests are not proper, anal tests like a laboratory would do. The sun in the N.E. USA is puny and spotty. To do any concrete results you would need some type of meter that gives you total light received. For instance, if you did the tests in the Mojave Desert you would get different results than I do. But I don't really care about all that. For instance. AZO DVD's die after about 3 weeks of sun. Whether it is 3 weeks +1 day or 2 weeks + 5 days; is variable upon the strength of the sun at the time of the tests. I'm just looking at the test results in generalities. If I put a M-Disc in the sun for a year and it is fine, that tells me what I need to know. If I put an inkjet print in the sun for a year and no fading results from the year of sun, that tells me something. Now, maybe this year's sun strength was less or more than last year's sun; but it still says something about an item's archival qualities versus something that dies after 3 weeks of sun. Interesting about your film work. How did you do it in the old days, just work with a dupe neg? Even if scanned, they should take care of their OCN. It is all security. Make some videos of you at work with the Steenbecks / etc.

The photographers at the Large Format Forum are always traveling with big sheet film. You should query them. Still, with the ways things are going, it may be a crapshoot as regs and rules change quickly. Good luck!

All Photos: Internet - Fair Use ...no upgrade for the Retroscan Universal 2K model, 4K just fits the newer models. Other upgrades are also offered. moviestuff_home_page If they ever put an optical sound reader on the 4K Retroscan, maybe they will have something! As the newer 4K models become widespread, there may be an opportunity for the low budget archivist to pick up the less desirable, lower res 2K Universal Retroscan scanner on the cheap.

That's fine, no argument. They got $$$ and $ cameras. But you still have a choice. With LTO your choice is $$$ or $$$.

Perry blocked you?? Does not sound like Perry. He usually has an argument for everything, if he does not agree. Either something is right or wrong or we don't know. There should not be any shame in searching for the truth. I settled on SanDisk G-Drive Pro. 22TB. But once it is reformatted to Windows it drops down to 20 TB. I've never met anyone that has a LTO drive other than hearing about them here. I've never found a custom computer maker that would add the LTO interface to run a LTO drive. OK, the custom makers specialize mainly in gaming computers... but if they can't do it, who can? Look, I'm all in favor of the LTO tape as another method of backup. But they are just too underground unless you are an IT guy or gal or zir. IF...they were USB plug and play and IF they were half-ass affordable (LTO-8 = $1000) I go for it. But they are just too much for the average Jor or Jane to get into. My goal is to put everything on M-Disc or BD-R M-Disc and high-grade BD-R as a backup to the M-Disc. But it is nice to have hard drive easy access to things instead of digging through the optical disc library. And it is good to have other digital backups as well. Just be careful what BD-R's you use. Some are terrible for archival work. Blu-ray Discs …they are not all the same. – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection – II (home.blog) Now the G-Drives are not cheap. But I can afford to buy one every few months if I save up for one. So far have 40TB of storage. One for general work and one for films. As time goes one, I will pick up backup drives to the main drives. But still need to test out how they hold up. HDD are good for 8 to 10 years they say. Then you have to rewrite to another part of the disc to reenergize the magnetism that holds the data. I've transcribed reel to reel tape going back to the 50's that still held the data. Although you can't say what was lost compared to digital. Some old audio tapes suffer from oxide shedding. Here is what came off of 2 R/R tapes... The tape companies should have made LTO more mainstream. They do have one USB LTO drive out there, but it is $5K. Just crazy. Now I've got problems with external optical disc drives. Windows update killed one of my computers. After the update it won't recognize optical disc drives. Tried most ever fix I could find. Stinking Microsoft. So that shuts down that computer for half my work. Everything gets put on optical disc eventually. Oh...one tidbit of advice. Don't encrypt of password protect your data unless you want it to die with you. Who has a drive for this? All photos: D.D.Teoli Jr.

Just an update... I finished up most of my archival tests for the season today. One of the things I tested was this artist tape. While the tape works great indoors, it does not work good in the sun long term. 2-1/2 months of sun made the tape brittle, and it could not be removed without scrapping it off.

Never thought anything about that. We take it for granted with travel nowadays. Sadly, I still have not found the color queen photo. But I did find a bunch of old BW press photos of the queen and various royals. I hope to scan them if and when I get some time...before the clutter eats them again! I am having lots of problems with a custom computer I had made. The computer works great, but after Windows updated it the external DVD drives are not recognized now. I tried all the recommended online fixes more or less. Still no go. Now I have to remove all the software from the new computer and dig out my old computer to reinstall them so I can burn discs. Optical discs are a huge part of my work. Even if I didn't burn any discs for the optical disc library; I'm always cutting up DVD's to extract some clips for archival discussions. God, I hate Microsoft.

Got photos of them? Got photos of the projection booth? Projector ephemera?

That is something! What service. On-site scanning. How much extra $$ is that? They should charge them a fortune unless there is competition that will do it. I'd tell them to bring the film to me and not take the scanner to them.

Thanks for the rundown Dan. What is the difference in the soundtrack readers between the Arri and LG? For good HDR you need a normal exposure and an over and under exposure. These can range from.5 stop to 1.5 stop generally speaking. In the early days of HDR they had something called pseudo HDR, it was done with software only. You imported the image and it spit out the result. If you could not get multiple exposures in-camera, then you did it in post with something called single image HDR. It was not as good as in-camera HDR, but it was better than the pseudo HDR that the software did. Here is an example of highest quality single image HDR combined with contrast grading. It was done in post only, not in- camera, not in-scanning, just in Lightroom for exposures and contrast grading and HDR software to combine the 3 files done in Lightroom. You can't get that level of recovery with cine' film scanning as you can't do the contrast grading unless you are working with the TIFF files. Even then it is hard to match that level of post work frame to frame. This example had 2.5 hours of Lightroom in it. The Sunlit Slipper – Los Angeles 1973 Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr.

That is why I am asking the forum Robert.

OK, thanks Perry. I can take the Arriscan off my list of scanners to buy if the $1.2 billion lotto comes in tonight. 99.999% of my film Archive is positive film. Does the Arriscan do better than the Scan Station when it comes to negs Perry? (Maybe that question has already been answered, as I'm just getting time to revisit this thread. If so, then you don't have to repeat the discussion.)

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I'll go check my spam folder. When it is empty, I still find stuff in it...pop-up ads from AOL! Not just 1 ad, but 4 or more ads. All types of ads, political, cameras, computers, business promotions.

Halloween Hallucinations 1931 D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Here is an interesting 16mm home movie from a Halloween costume party made on the evening of October 31, 1931, called Halloween Hallucinations. It was made 91 years ago today. In 1931 the Great Depression was underway, the Roaring Twenties was over and flappers will soon become a thing of the past. Selection from Flappers artist book by D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. The guy who shot this film, Reg Bergen, was pretty creative. Too bad he didn't spend a little more creativity time on basics like focus, as it is off for a good part of the film. Well, he may have had a fixed focus camera or shot wide open because of low light or maybe he wanted the film to look more dreamlike and soft...dunno. Everyone you see in the film is just a shadow in time and dead now...so, no one to ask. The film was shrunken and warped. Apparently, the mothball treatment and humidor film can couldn't keep the VS away. Humidor Film Can - D.D.Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Reel and Can Archive Or maybe the humidor did work some and it would have been much worse without the fumigation? We just don't know how things would have turned out one way or another. I left all the glue splices in, as was suggested to me in a thread here discussing doctoring archival material. Homemade Humidor Film Can - D.D.Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Reel and Can Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Although humidor cans were meant for adding humidity from water; I was told people would add camphor oil and other things to the humidor to try and preserve the film - hence the stink! Bergen was pretty good with exposure, at least a lot better than he was with focus. Most of the film could be scanned as a 'best light' scan with only a couple of sections needing a 'timed scan' rerun. At the end is a cute End card animation made with a string. I'm thinking he may have pirated it from a commercial film. This film is an example of a museum quality home movie that would possibly be in an Institution's permanent film collection. This film was kinda pricey as films go, selling at auction for about $230. I normally don't buy such $$ films due to being on a low budget. I'm more into $5 - $15 films and try to keep a film's acquisition cost at under $35. But I had got good news about an upcoming 8.7% cost of living raise in Social Security payouts due to the big rise in inflation. And in anticipation for the small windfall, I spent the raise before I even got it for this special film! Can you imagine the excitement that a picker must have experienced finding this film at a yard sale for .50 or $1. I mean, forget the profit they made...I'm talking about the excitement of finding such a gem of a time capsule and seeing it for the first time in 80 or 90 years. The film archivist can get the same excitement as they dive into an unknown historical time capsule like this. There are lots of exceptional 16mm films that come up for sale. But you have to have the $$ to buy them. If a special film does come up for sale and I can't afford it, I write to the seller and ask if they have a scan of the film to sell. But I have yet to acquire any films like that. Either they don't have a scan or they want hundreds of $$ for a scan. One seller, who turned out to be a stock footage company, wanted to sell me scans that were priced by the second! Stock footage companies are always bidding up films on eBay to sell them by the second. Who knows, maybe a stock footage company bid this film up. I've posted here before how some films can sell for as little as .01 on eBay...as long as no one bids on them. Now, I have purchased lots of scans of photos in the past...but no films. The closest thing to films was one seller sold me a standard def DVD of some films someone had scanned. But it only cost about $1 a film. Cine' scans would be an ideal way for me to acquire films...as long as they were decent quality and cheap. I'm not a film collector, I don't actually need the physical film. I'm just interested in the cine' scanner's digital output. Halloween Hallucinations was scanned on a Retroscan Universal 2K scanner by D.D.Teoli Jr..

Internet Photo: Fair Use No, nothing really to it to write about Phil. I got an old 2K Retroscan Universal. I keep it on a shelf and have to break down my flatbed scanning to use it. Or I break down my guillotine cutter to use it or I break down my sheet-fed scanner to use it. In other words, I have no good place to work where a dedicated setup can be had. Sadly, my scanning ability is very subpar. Especially when compared to the big boys like Robert and Perry or the stock footage companies or the film Archives out there. Almost everyone has a better cine' scanner than me except someone with a Wolverine. Now, I don't need to be like Perry or Robert, I don't need to collect scanners as Robert pointed out in one of his posts. I'd just like one half-ass decent scanner. If I do ever get a better scanner, I will have to make room for a dedicated scanner table where it can be set up permanently. But until that time, I'm not that worried about it. You never know what you will find on these old film reels Phill. Much of the cine' work is acquiring and sifting through 'pig in a poke' films where pickers buy them at yard sales for .50 and put them up on eBay as unknown reels for $25. The only limiting factors are money, time and space. Actually, money solves all those problems more or less. And the limits of my cine' work usually boils down to a lack of money. I've asked the Internet Archive for sponsorship. I've asked many film Archives, art philanthropists and scanner companies for sponsorship...but get nowhere. And when I talk about sponsorship, I'm just talking about getting a decent cine' film scanner so I can get to work...even if it was on loan. I've got thousands of 'pig in a poke' reels to go through, but have little incentive to do much unless the scanner situation improves. Cine' film is only one small area I work in Phil. Collection Scope Of The Daniel D.Teoli Jr. Archival Collection : D.D.Teoli Jr. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive I don't have the time to scan millions of feet of films on the low-quality scanner then start over and rescan them all if and when I get a better scanner Phil. Also, my current scanner does not do sound. And sound films are a big part of the Archive. But if I happen to see something notable, such as this film, I'll scan it on the low-quality scanner just to get it out there. You never know when all this will be lost to history. You're in England Phil, you got tons of great films on eBay UK I'd love to buy, but global shipping $$ precludes it. Start picking up films and work on getting them scanned Phil. Can't say about the UK, but in the USA Retroscans come up for sale used on eBay for about $3500 to $4500. Anyone can do it...it just takes some $$ for the digitization. That is the problem Phil.

I was breaking down some old 16mm home movies of the circus from late 30's and found this. I wonder if they use the elephants to pull it out once the circus was ready to move on? Black Roustabouts Robbin Bros. Circus 1938 D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive It is only so-so for a scan. I could not find my extension tubes, so it was heavily over scanned and cropped back down. That is the problem of not having enough workspace for a permanent setup and having to stow all your gear every time you move on to a new job. Well, luckily C mount extension tubes are not too $$. If I can't find them, I will just buy some more. It won't be the first-time things get eaten and I have to rebuy.

Yes, the archivists agree with you. I checked with some professional archivists and they said to leave it in. Here is what they sent me from the archivist book... From the FIAF Code of Ethics:

I just scanned a film from 1931 called Halloween Hallucinations. It is an advanced amateur's record of their Halloween costume party on October 31, 1931. Made right when the depression was going and the roaring 20's were over. At the end of the film, they do a stop motion of a piece of string spelling out 'The End.' Really interesting film. Anyway, there are tons of intertitles and cuts and they all have a jumpy splice along with a white gap. Should the splices be left in or edited out?

Screenshot: Lasergraphics Website - Fair Use What benefits does the Arriscan have over the Lasergraphics Scan Station? I had heard the Arriscan cost 3 or 4 times what the Scan Station cost.

No one knows a thing about it??

Does a diffused light source on a scanner produce as crisp scans as a non-diffused light source?