Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Looks like academics designed it. Academics like big words. Not being an academic or intellectual I just look at the pictures...or in this case the scanning output. Have you seen any output from their scanner Robert?

Sorry, forum closed me down for too many likes today...but thanks! That is pretty impressive.

Amazing what people come up with.

I guess you are pretty safe with Lasergraphics. But if your scan company goes out of biz and you need the PTR rollers, you will be dead in the water.

That is terrible! How long did you use it, Perry? If that was the case, overnight scans and all, I can see why scans would cost so much.

Sound great! Just too bad you need to raise $$. It is always nice when you can just concentrate on a project and not worry about $. You are lucky to be able to work in an area you like and are interested in. It would be terrible to work on projects you hate and just do for $$. GD...even though I've always been a documentary photographer of people; if I could go back in time, there is nothing I'd find more fascinating than shooting the old trains! O. Winston Link is one of my idols! Last time you did your train film you said you had some problem with dirty lenses or some such thing. Images may have been a little sleepy. Whatever, use good glass! We never know when our documentary work will be the last surviving testament to the subject matter. O. Wintson Link - Fair Use

Can't say Perry, as my sheet fed scanner rollers seem to be rubber. But I've used alcohol to clean them many hundreds of times over a 5-year period. They are still good. But they do wear from use after 100K+ scans. I guess time will tell for the PTR alcohol cleaned rollers. Your goo rollers sound like my silicone watch band. I had one of those solar watches and put it in the window to keep charged. I didn't use it for a while and when I grabbed it many months later the band was a sticky mess and had to be trashed. Looks like a lot of extra work go into your scans Perry, with cleaning rollers. So, it is not just running films through the scanner as fast as you can load them.

Wow, business must be booming for them! Didn't you start out with Retroscan Dan?

Thanks, Dan! I use alcohol wipes to clean my sheet fed paper scanner rollers. But they are not PTR as far as I know. They get dirty slowly over time. Or they get dirty very fast if you scan matte black ink as opposed to coated gloss stock. If on a scanning marathon, I may go through a box of 200 wipes in a couple of weeks. So, something you want to consider if you are not using alcohol wipes. Very convenient. I also use them for lens cleaning with Kimwipes.

DDTJRAC I got a few old photo albums in the Archive. You find some interesting things in them. But you need space to store albums and some $. While they are not overly expensive, interesting ones can go for a few hundred dollars each. Here is a photo from one of the European photo albums. Yearbooks are another interesting area of collection. Since there are so many yearbooks, I tried to concentrate most of my yearbook collection scope to women's colleges. This idea came about as an offshoot of my collections on flappers and bobbysoxers. Many of the yearbooks have collage pages and I made a separate collection just of the yearbook collages. Smith College 1949 Bryn Mawr 1939 Bryn Mawr 1960 - sometimes the girls would do some pre-Photoshop trick photography. <><><><> 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

Thanks David! I will label it as anamorphic lens breathing. Do you have any clips of anamorphic mumps? Or can you suggest any content where I look for such a clip?

Health is an important concern. If you can, run a hi powered fan / ventilator between takes to pump in fresh air. I wonder if they have an air quality meter to measure air pollution like they have for CO2? Good luck!

Memes are one of those things I'd always see online, but I never thought about archiving...until one day I did. Can't remember when I started to archive them, maybe 5 years ago. But once I started to collect them, I went back in time to find earlier ones to make up for lost time. I notice today the memes collection hit 20,971 files. Plus, I have close to 2,000 GIF files I keep separately from the memes. In the beginning I just mixed memes and GIF together. Memes take a lot of time to fool with. In the beginning I would just save any I ran across. But as I got more serious about archiving them, I spent time searching out memes. Some of the collection are just photos that are used as memes...no text needed to get a message across. Lots of creativity out there... Memes are a good record or daily of life at the time they are made. They emanate from the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive. I used to be on Reddit, but they banned me. One of the subreddits was for archivists. A person on the forum asked if anyone collected memes. A professional archivist said that archivists usually look after collections decades after they are made...by someone else. In other words, they are hired to 'caretake' and not create. I guess it is the curator's job to create a collection, as well as caretake. No one in the group seemed to collect memes other than me. Vast majority of the meme collection are of a political nature. Since they don't like politics here, I have posted non-political memes. But probably 99.5% of the collection are political memes. I guess it is better that the political parties battle with memes instead of guns. <><><><> 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'd go for the middle one.

Dial Destiny Jones : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Here is an example. Should I call it an example of lens breathing to name it properly? If not, what should it be called. See the effects in the window shade when focus is pulled. Lots more of thse lens effects in the movie, but no time to watch the whole film again to cherry pick them. Also, the effects seem more prevalent in Blu-ray, but can't say for sure. I'm just working from memory. This sample is from a DVD and slowed down about 20% to show it better.

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Too bad they would not upgrade the scanner. Looks good. I love the old trains. Do you have any more plans for train films Tyler.

If I had a decent scanner, I'd scan all those archive films for free for the special collection libraries and museums...as long as I had an interest in acquiring the scan for my film Archive. But as soon as the libraries / archives hear they have to share the scans with me for noncommercial use, they won't go for it. Archives are generally and almost always shit to deal with. Very greedy bastards. And it is not just this example. They won't share decent res copies of what they already have in their collection. These institutions are for preserving and sharing history. But greed always has its say. This is why humans can't be good communists like ants or bees can...greed! To be a good communist you have to be selfless. Humans can't do it! Really, my ultimate goal instead of getting free scans from someone else's film would be to acquire hi-res scans of films...and not having to deal with and scan the actual film itself. Sure, you are not going to get them for free, but say for a nominal fee. I'd be very happy just dealing with hi-grade scans and not having to handle physical film anymore. To be a good film archivist you need to handle film. By now I've handled enough film to satisfy me educational needs. Although handling film is not the same as scanning film. That is an entirely different part of the educational process. So, the scanning education would be lacking if one only dealt in scans and never handled the physical film. I model my Archive after the old Getty Museum Open Content Archive. Getty used to be fantastic to deal with, but Getty went downhill after a few years and tightened up with offering free hi-res material. 'Pig in a Poke' 16mm eBay film lot. Fair Use

Pretty interesting David. Especially since it was done so cheap.

A while back they had a ScanStation Personal on sale at eBay for pretty cheap. Can't remember, maybe $20k - $25? Dunno. Anyway, too bad you couldn't get it Tyler. I thought the big boy ScanStation was $125K. They must have gone up a lot to hit $197K. You would think this market is hitting its peak somewhat. Or do the scanning companies have lots more headroom for price hikes?

Thanks Dan, great points. What is involved in cleaning the PTR rollers? Is it a big job? I wonder how they hold up over time when it comes to deterioration. Maybe not that big a deal unless replacements become unobtainable and scanner won't run without them. Do any other scanners use the PTR rollers to clean film before it is scanned?

That is interesting about the Archives and the scan types they want. Do you do much timed scans Tyler? Do you solicit the Archives much for work Tyler? Or is it word of mouth?

Thanks Perry!

Thanks for the rundown on the sound options Tyler.