Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

That is some interesting history!

Mark, I tried your website: www.londonsteenbeck.eu5.org For some reason it won't show up. Facebook had banned me twice, so can't do it.

Thanks Mark! Didn't know that. It is interesting to know. I never did any studio work with view cameras. I would have to lug it around in the field. Just too time consuming to use and heavy for me. Plus, dangerous. Going in the alleys in L.A. under the dark cloth and all. 'The Fashion Statement' Los Angeles 1972 Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. - Toyo View 4x5 with 65mm Super Angulon (Or was it a 75mm??) I always loved wide angles! He used to work in fashion in NYC before becoming homeless. Said he had made his pants from old drape material. I bought a pop-up hood for the 4x5 to get around the dark cloth, but not any good...too glary. Internet Photo: Fair Use You should go over to the Large Format Forum if you are not already on it Mark. Besides cine' work, you'd fit in well there. I gave up on large format photography back in the 70's. I sold it all off and bought a beat-up Hasselblad SWC from a student at Art Center that was quitting school. I eventually got an old Pentax 6x7. Medium format fit me much better than a view camera. We had to buy all out gear from the L.A. Recycler or stalking bulletin boards at the art school. They didn't have Sammy's Camera back then. Pan Pacific Camera on La Brea and Melrose was the big dog. It was run by Libby, an old, fat Jewish gal. I think her son took it over and it eventually went bust. But if you were on a budget you tried to avoid the camera shops and deal second hand direct to save money. Premixed Nacco D-76 or Microdol-X was maybe $2 a gallon...those were the days! 'Crazy' Los Angeles 1975 Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. - Hasselblad SWC Now, I still work with lots of large format film and glass plates in the Archive. But the Large Format Forum had banned me numerous times, so can't do anything there. Well, I still read it once in a while to keep up a little. Man, I'd be sunk if I was still into large format and had to buy 8 x 10 sheet film! It is $14 to $26 a shot! Mark, put up some of your photos in the Off Topic session. Photos are no good unless they are seen...same with films. Or add a photo at the end of your posts. I learned that from Les Krims. He would send out photos at the end of his emails.

Probably similar to Universal Mark-1. Ask the maker. The light pin does not seem to do good with warped film, at least with the Universal Mark -1. But I don't have much experience with it. Maybe someone that has lots of experience with the Light Pin can chime in. I think these Retroscan machines are great for the budget film scanning business trying to scan people's films on the cheap for them.

You know what, now that you mention it, I think I heard something about those flashguns and Star Wars, but had forgot about it. I recently scanned some silent films and 17fps was right. I guess it just depends, no telling. Do you think some silent films were shot at sound speed of 24fps? Getting back to the press photog. He is blocking his lens with the slide. I wonder what that is about?

NSFW Casting Couch 1924 Condition Sample D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Condition sample scan of 16mm 1924 film The Casting Couch aka The Casting Director. A best light scan was made of a film section to show you the condition that some films come into the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive. In this example, the title and some footage were missing, the film was ripped in a few spots, dirt, emulsion loss and sections were spliced in reverse. Due to exposure problems from making many generations of dupe prints, many of these films will need timed scans to extract as much highlight and shadow detail as possible. <><><><> Japanese Hand-Tinted Collotype from the late Meiji Period DDTJRAC

Retroscan Registration Example Scan 1939 NY World's Fair D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive I was wrong about Retroscan's ability to scan clear edge film - at least somewhat wrong. The Retroscan does do better with black edge film, but it can still do a doable job scanning clear edge films. You just have to fine tune the settings and have decent film stock. What contributed to my misjudging the clear edge scanning abilities is; much of my film Archive has sprocket damage and is warped. And this is what was messing up the scans with the Retroscan, as it registers from the sprockets. I also have an 8mm overscan at the Internet Archive you can look at for an example for clear edge registration with the Retroscan. I don't want to put the link here due to content. If interested, search for: El Perro Masajista The 16mm sample scan is not necessary indicative of the sharpness you get with the Retroscan. I used a different lens that I was testing for the overscan sample and not the standard Ricoh lens that comes with the scanner. <><><><> Amsterdam 2014 Selection from 180: The circular fisheye at large! artists’ book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

I've cut back on film acquisitions drastically. I have enough films in the Archive that I can't scan as it is. But, I was interested in seeing how a previous royal coronation looked, so I picked up a 16mm 400-footer of the CORONATION OF KING GEORGE VI. May 12th, 1937, for $11. I could have bought the same title for $8, but it was missing the title and end cards. Film acquisitions are generally not an issue...the cost of digitization is the issue.

Seeing the registration of the sprockets pretty much says it all with a cine' scan...at least that is what I'm thinking. I was scanning an old 1930's 8mm called El Perro Masajista aka The Mexican Massage Dog. It is in pretty rough shape. So, I thought I'd do something different and scan about 3/4 of the sprockets and a thin black border around the frame to be more artsy and / or distract a little from the low I.Q. Normally I would not even bother with a film like this, but it is pretty rare. It is an old stag...so you can figure out what it is about. I had never scanned so much of the sprockets before. When I looked at it, I was pretty impressed with the Retroscan's registration, even with clear edge film. I thought the Retroscan registration was bad due to a jumpy picture. But it occurred to me, since a lot of these films I get are duped and duped and duped, the poor registration of the image is built into the film copy. Even with rock steady registration in the scan, the image jumps around because the image has been duped to death in haphazard ways. <><><><> Cyanotype DDTJRAC

Yes, me too. I will defer to those that know more about this than I do. But it sounds right to me, as it was explained in the OP.

eBay Photo: Fair Use Amazing what people come up with for solving the scanning cine' film problem. Res is 1.3mp 1280x1024. Too bad it is not higher res. Me? Have no interest in building things. Just want to get the output as simply, as inexpensively and as quickly as possible. AKA...I'm an end user. But isn't that want most people want? Easy, cheap and fast. BUT...it has to be decent quality. I don't like signing my name to shit. Even if my brain required complexities in my life...I couldn't afford it and still get my work done. Some people like complexities...their brain requires it. But if we didn't have the brainy people...we wouldn't get the film scanners built! <><><><> Statue of Liberation through Christ, Memphis TN 2016 Selection from The Americans...60 years after Frank artist's book. By D.D.Teoli Jr. Backstory... I had boondocked outside of Memphis at a Loves truck stop parking lot. I got into Memphis about 9AM. The sun was behind the statue. No time to screw around waiting for the lighting to change. I scouted the best option for 15 minutes and this was the result. Within 20 minutes of my arrival, I was on the road. I drove by Graceland and got a few shots of the graffiti wall. By 5.30PM I was in Paris, TX. Barely enough time to get some shots at that destination before sunset...light was failing fast. ....and was back on the road again. 3000 miles, $500 in gas, boondocked all the way. Showers at truck stops for $15 a pop. Most of my time for the project was spent on both coasts. But one can't neglect Mid-America and still get a proper snapshot of America.

My apologies if I was harsh in my earlier reply to you Robert. http://www.kinetta.com/images/clipboard.jpg?crc=416629225 From what I recall I had written them years ago, but am not sure. If I did write them, I got no reply. I will give them another try.

Kinetta? I had looked into them years ago, but could not find out much or how to buy one.

Thanks for the info, Dan. Yes, it sounds like it is not for me. I like things as simple as possible. Cine' film work is just a small area I work in and I don't have the time or the knowledge for highly technical machines. I had settled on the HDS or an Archivist to order. I had a sponsor that was ready to buy one for the Archive. But things didn't work out and the sponsor eventually retracted the offer due to financial reasons on their part coupled with my indecision on ordering a scanner. I am usually very fast to make decisions. But members have brought up audio issues with the HDS. And I've written many times about email issues I have had with Lasergraphics. As well as Tyler had said the HDS is not that easy a machine to use. After reading this feedback, I was not in a rush to buy a $50,000 paperweight and was trying to put in more study time. I am happy for your friend! Glad he found a scanner that works for him and is preserving history + he makes $$ at it! You can't beat that!!

Does he build the machines or is he the salesman Tyler? Right now, as I write this, I'm scanning the Crossdressing Beatnik 8mm film on my Retroscan on a split screen. I'm pretty busy as well. Just make no money at my busyness.

I don't run a business, Robert. I run an open content Archive. I've run it like this for years. I got a phone in my car Robert. A cheap $85 a year Tracfone. But as I said to him, I'm pretty much email. I'm not talking to you on a phone Robert. Never have. Yet we have communicated for some time. Years ago, I wrote to a guy in 1998 in Inverness Scotland. He made Moniack Mead. It was the finest mead in the world. Made from caramelized heather honey. He had no email account. He only communicated by mail via a typewriter. Should I have written him off Robert? No email? Must not have been serious. All anyone has to do is Google my name or my Archive or do an image search of me Robert. That tells them how serious I am about my work. I never lie to people. I tell them up front the info is for future interest or reference. Are rich people like you Robert, the only ones allow to study up options and learn?

. I'd buy it in a second, but no room and already in the $$ hole this month. Waiting for new credit card cycle. Wooden case or casket as some call it. If you are short on space, it only needs a small footprint when folded up. I guess the kids call it 'small form factor.' Opened up This was the film they rented you for it. Example film, not in the listing. VINTAGE 1920'S KODAK LIBRARY KODASCOPE MODEL B 16MM MOVIE PROJECTOR wWOODEN CASE | eBay With shipping it is about $300 buy it now. They got another on you can bid on, but with current bid price and shipping it is getting close to this one. ($250) If anyone buys it, send in a photo of it on display. If you are tight on $$, keep looking on eBay. Maybe one will come up for $125... then all you will need is space! All photos: eBay - Fair Use It would make a great movie prop too! The guy tells the girl let me show you what is in my casket. He takes her upstairs and shows her an old stag film on the fold-out screen. She slaps him, but succumbs to his desires once she runs her hands over the fine oil finished wood casket...or some such thing. <><><><> Child actress Shirley Temple, holding a rifle, guards camera equipment while the photographers take part as guests of the motion picture stars at a dinner and dance party in Hollywood, Ca., Sept. 19, 1936. Found photograph, post processing and upscaling by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

As I looked at an 8mm Wolverine scan, it was very fast. The same film done with a Retroscan was exported at 17fps and looked slow. I read 16fps is supposed to be the standard 8mm silent speed. Yet it was very slow at 17fps and had to be sped up 25% in post. And it is not an isolated case. Do you have problems with your scans when the output does not match your idea of what the fps should be? What do you do...eyeball it for speed? Any tricks to settling on the right speed other than eyeballs? <><><><> Weegee Weegee wannabe Selections from Press Photographers Archive DDTJRAC

Here is the same film scanned on these 2 scanners. The Wolverine scanner seems to speed up the scans. Film synopsis: When a model needing money for her sick mom decides she does not want to pose nude, the beatnik photographer wrestles her to the ground to try and convince her to take her clothes off. NSFW Raw scan: Wolverine Reels 2Digital Movie Maker scan The First Time I Did It : Don Juan Amour / Daniel D. Teoli Jr. as archivist : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Some post work: Retroscan Mark-I scan The First Time I Did It 8MM 2K D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Robert, when you say 2-flash; do you have the base exposure plus 2 other exposures? Are you ending up with 3 exposures of +1, 0 and -1 in the HDR mix? If so, do you have control over the under and overexposure, so you can dial in +1.5 and -1.5 instead of +1+ or -1 if need be or is the 2-flash fixed in exposure?

Beautiful setup! It is kinda hard to follow total cost that was invested in parts in your post. Was the camera $3,000 alone? When you change the camera, did the original software still work? I've tried a light pin gate for 16mm. Worked terrible on warped film. That was my experience anyway. After he made all the mods, how did the scan compare to the Lasergraphics? You had sent in a sample scan comparing the Retroscan to the Lasergraphics a long time ago. Was that Retroscan sample output photo made with this scanner after all the updates? Or was it a stock Retroscan output photo?

https://www.videouniversity.com/wp-content/uploads/RetroScanUniversal.jpg Internet photos: Fair Use I've got their old Universal model with 2K camera. The diffusion LED light has worked fine for me Dan. Is the light on the newer models subpar? With 16mm I use it at 80% light at get a f5.6 scan. I found with slight overscan with 8mm I can get by at f5.6 using 55mm extension tube instead of the 75mm tube I was using. Only with the densest underexposed films do I have to go wide open with the lens. Every once in a while, I found having more light would have helped. But 98% of the time it is fine. That Universal seems to be built like a tank. I see old ones on eBay all the time. Hope mine holds up. If it goes, I will be in trouble!

That is a great lens. Too bad Retroscan didn't use a M39 mount instead of a C mount.

Well, cinematographers are usually an anal bunch, just like large format still photographers. And they have to be. The more exacting they are, the better the product usually is. Unless time is of the essence, and they fail to produce in the time allotted. Such as newsreel or war cinematographers that work on the fly and can't afford to be very anal. And when I say anal...I mean analysis. But sometimes you can get stuck in analysis paralysis. So good to be balanced. I'm still trying to catch up with the forum. I haven't read the rest of the replies. I hope to eventually see some images here illustrating some of the text. All this text means nothing to me without illustrations.

I thought a little sprocket area would help with stabilization. No option for pin register. Just Retroscan for now. Normally I'd do what I tell all you to do...TEST! But this is the computer I have and it is hard to test... Computer Fan To Cool 720 : DDTJRAC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Anything slightly intensive heats up the computer like a blow dryer. If I don't give it extra air it shuts down. And it takes hours to run one stabilizing test on a small 400-foot 16mm reel. I hope to get a better computer that is more conducive to video work. The Movavi stabilizer has a number of settings, so lots of tests needed.