Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

The SAS interface may cost $500 to $600 alone. They should make a secure USB port that screws in like the old cables did in the early days of computing to run a USB LTO drive. I guess the LTO makers just don't care about making it affordable. The LTO drive cost as much as 6 - 8 basic computers. Personally, I love M-Disc and maintain an M-Disc optical disc library. The only 3 shortcomings of M-Disc are: 1) Cost 2) Limited storage capacity. 3) Low availability. The best the M-Disc can do is about 93GB capacity. If they could make an M-Disc that holds 300GB to 500GB, then you could have something great to archive on. Still, I'd like to get into tape in addition to M-Disc...if it was anywhere near affordable.

Talked with a computer builder. He said they need replacing every 4 or 5 years. But have no experience. He said the pump goes out.

Here is a cute ad from 1912. Cream of Wheat spoofing Aunt Jemina. DDTJRAC

I used to have lots of shoulder issues, mainly on one side. I determined the stress of my hand on the table to use the mouse was the problem. I experimented with getting the mouse between my legs and resting my arm on my thigh as I used the mouse. That was the most relaxed position I could come up with. I used a custom cut plant stand something like this for the mouse. The hard part was cutting the stand to the exact height. If you cut too much you have to add some shims on the bottom. I also trimmed the sharp corners for fit between my legs. Got shoulder / neck problems on the mouse arm? Maybe you are getting old. Go buy a plant stand and give it a try. <><><><> Pan Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles Source: L.O.C. Post Processing: D.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'm glad someone said it...TEST! I was going to answer this thread telling them the same thing when I first read it...but I figured they didn't want to hear it. Some people are crazy for this stuff...they are usually the anal people. (As in analytics.) As I've told you all before, I like seeing the practical application and not charts and graphs so much. Here, look at this for an example of practical application... Left: Printed with Epson R2000 on matte paper with matte black ink. Middle: Printed with Epson R2000 on semi-gloss paper with gloss black ink and gloss optimizer. Right: Printed with Epson 3880 with the same semi-gloss paper as the middle sample using gloss black ink. Photograph above: The Lost Princess 2014 (Candid) by D.D.Teoli Jr. Being this is a visual medium; we need to see the end product and not a bunch of graphs and charts. You can have the prettiest chart in the world and the end result still may look like shit! That's the bottom line. Note: If you have trouble seeing a big difference in each print, view them on a color balanced monitor.

I got some early 16mm Kodachrome film I have to scan. This was the early, early formula that faded. I think they changed it around '37, maybe '36. Well, I got the whole transition...early faded Kodachrome and some pretty decent Kodachrome from the late 30's and on to the 40's and 50's. Beside Kodachrome, Kodak had changed the dye formula for their dye transfer prints over the years. The dye from the 1950's was pretty poor for fade resistance in the light. By the 90's it was pretty good. Not as good as a pigment inkjet print, but better than the type C prints of that era. Cibachromes were the best for fade resistance in that era. Agfacolor print dye stability test - 6 months of sun vs dark storage. I'll still stick with digital...as long as the electric is on! But if you can get physical analog backups...get em. The more backups the better.

Dunno. If they were cheaper, easier to connect and easy to use...why not? Is there something else holding them back from being more mainstream? What is so special that they cost $5,000?

Well, Kodachrome fades, although it was of the better fade resistant films...when it was made. If you like film for preservation, then you would need BW color separation film for color preservation. When you use a LTO drive is it similar to using a HDD or SDD or is it more complex to back up things, delete and replace, etc?

Thanks Perry. Institutional...yes it seems to be more of an enterprise thing. Maybe if they were more easily connected via USB they would have been more popular with the average data hoarder.

Some religious people complain about using the word Xmas for Christmas. I can't say how far it goes back...but they were using Xmas in 1900 as this ad shows. Same thing with some of the inhabitants of San Francisco that get offended when you use the name Frisco. I have heard the name Frisco used in many old films going back to the 1930's. And I've read it goes back to the late 1800's. Well, does not matter to me, I use any names I like...Xmas and Frisco included!

Photo: National Archives The reproduction office, back in the old days...72 years ago. These galls are all dead now. Just shadows in time. One gals runs the prints off on the mimeo machine. The rest collates, stacks and staples. I got a nice film for Halloween I hope to scan for you - Halloween Hallucinations 1931. I will have to pull the Retroscan out of mothballs. I hope to get it out by Oct 31. After Oct 31, people just move on to Thanksgiving, so one has to be timely with the holidays nowadays. Although that timeliness doesn't seem to apply to the stores. At Lowes they had Christmas trees and decorations up in September! You can't enjoy Halloween; you have Xmas pushed on you before Halloween and Thanksgiving. Well, that is how it is in 2022! Without continual and ever-expanding spending things will collapse! It is sooo nice when you are settled with your gear and don't have to keep spending and buy more and more...you can just concentrate on producing. Robert H, talked about labs with loads of different scanners. It would be nice to have ONE decent scanner and be able to just produce!!

I never used LTO tape, but I thought it was somewhat fast. I was thinking of LTO as an all-inclusive master archive for cine' scans. I would put scans on tape and I could 'grab and go' if I travelled to take a copy with me of the entire library in a tape or two as backup. I will archive the scans to the optical disc library on M-Disc and a second copy on high grade, archival BD-R. But I can't travel with the disc library, as they are too bulky. So, I guess I'm looking to a backup of the optical disc library.

Is LTO tape still favored by the scanning companies or are they moving over to HDD or SDD?

I like electric worktables, as you can adjust height instantly. But I have never used them. The problem is the price...very $$. Who makes good worktables for scanning / post work?

Some sellers on eBay list things for a penny....and sometimes they sell for a penny. Can you imagine all the work they did putting up that massive amount of film stills for a penny listing? OK, they got a little extra from shipping. But still, not much by the time they pack and pay for media mail. I believe they pay eBay commission on the shipping as well, but not sure. Screenshot: eBay As I've always told you. Acquiring films is usually not the problem...scanning films is what is unaffordable. By the time you are finished scanning this penny film, shipping both ways and the rest, you may have $150 to $200 in it. You want the TIFF files...cough up hundred/s more $$. If I ever acquire a decent scanner, I will scan all your archival films for free...but you share the digital copies with my Archive. Don't want to share? ...then go pay someone to scan it for you. <><><><> Found Photo : Weegee with Bolex Weegee Archive - DDTJRAC

1900 This was a big deal. Before it, you had to heat your water on the stove. Gasoline powered must have been something. Gas fumes are highly explosive. Crude oil and NG made an unbelievable change in how people lived. Here... Internet Archive Search: sodbusters in transition teoli

Anyone try one? What was your experience?

Look at these party dresses... and bodices Wild hairstyles! All from 1900. FIT in NYC has some of my fashion films and material in their Special Collections. Hair stylists also like my Archive. I have lots of crazy vintage hair in it for inspiration on historical work.

Who has the most impressive collection you ran across Robert?

Listen up...and I'm only going to tell you this once. You need example / comparison photos on this type of thread. OK, maybe I've said it twice or ten times. Whatever...you need GD example photos! Selection from: Dye Transfer Printing from the 1950's by Daniel D. Teoli Jr. 10 years ago, I was working on a project called the Encyclopedia of Photographic and Fine Art Ink Jet Printing Media. It turned out to be a massive project encompassing 12 volumes. (The reason I didn't spell ink jet as inkjet was my word processor was so old it didn't have inkjet in the dictionary and kept rejecting it!) In volume 12 I did a comparison of inkjet printing versus an Eastman Kodal dye transfer print. For the tests I took 2 dye transfer prints, I scanned them on an Epson flatbed scanner and made 2nd gen inkjet prints from the scanned images to compare to the original prints. This tested 2 things. It compared how well a scan can reproduce an original as well as the color gamut or range of a pigment inkjet print compared to a dye transfer print. The notes to these tests are long gone, but I remember using invisible HDR to increase the range of the 2nd gen print. I believe I used 0, +.5, -.5 for them. But that is not important. The question at hand was whether a pigment inkjet printer could reasonably reproduce the color gamut of a dye transfer print. While that question may not be answered 100%, my tests show that scanning can recover 85% - 90% of an original and pigment inkjet printing can reasonably reproduce the color gamut of a dye transfer print. The photo on the top is the original dye transfer print, the print on the bottom is the 2nd gen print made from a scan of the dye transfer print. The photo on the right is the original dye transfer print, the print on the left is the 2nd gen print made from a scan of the dye transfer print. Selections from: Encyclopedia of Photographic and Fine Art Ink Jet Printing Media by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Ladies Home Journal c. 1900 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Back in the day you could buy guns mail order with no questions asked. Even in the 60's I could buy a rifle at 13 and just lie on the mail order form that I was 18. The rifle that supposedly shot JFK cost $13 at a war surplus store on Pico BLVD in West L.A.

Meet Nicholas Coyle | Film scanning technician, filmmaker, and preservationist – SHOUTOUT COLORADO Internet photos - Fair Use Beautiful scan studio! But he should probably move up from the Bolex though. What do you film devotees think? Can the old Bolex still compete?

Over at r/DataHoarder they had a discussion about what will happen to their data hoards after they kick off. It is mainly kids at Reddit and most of the replies said they want it to die with them, along with the dead man switches and crap they use to destroy their archive when they kick off. They sound like a bunch of perverts trying to hide their porn stash! If you like your work to live on, shoot some time capsule material. It is routinely the highest price realized 16mm auctions on eBay for home movies. Here is a recent example. You can also work it into your films if you are not a historian. I bid on it but was nowhere in the ballpark. Some GD stock footage company with a Lasergraphics bought it or maybe a museum in NYC or maybe even a rich film nut. I would have loved to get some footage of gasholders. They were all around L.A., NYC and the entire USA. I collect gasholders in my Archive.

No, sorry, too confusing for me. I would need practical application applied to the words aka I need actual comparison tests illustrating all this. On another topic, with all the crazy filters and colored lights you use...how does fading affect them? Do they have to be replaced regularly? Do you have tests to show when they need replacing or just do it by schedule? BTW...I looked at Rober's Vimeo channel...he's got some weird stuff. One suggestion Robert - separate your personal material from your biz. Don't confuse the 2. It is more professional that way.

That's nice. Engine turning and all! You don't usually see such finishing nowadays. I will buy one as soon as the lotto hits! Are you happy with it Robert? Although I think someone mentioned it is complex to run, so it may not be up my alley.