Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Kodak (Mexico?) Inkjet Paper Deterioration See yellowing edge of paper compared to white paper. The entire sheet of Kodak paper has yellow blotchiness. The edge is the easiest way to see the yellowing in a photo. If you have a laptop or unbalanced monitor, you may not be able to see the yellowing. This was Kodak's cheapest paper at the time. From what I recall, the paper was made in Mexico. Paper shown here is 10 years old, stored under normal household conditions. It started to show yellowing about 3 to 4 years ago. All of the rest of this Kodak paper shows the same yellowing. It is hard to get a good photo or scan of the yellowing, but it is easily detected by looking at it under 5,000k lighting. A couple of other major photo paper makers also suffered from yellowing of their cheapest brand of inkjet paper. I didn't record the maker's names. I didn't purchase this paper to print on. I didn't purchase this paper to do archival testing. All these papers were purchased to use as interleaf while printing artist books with an inkjet printer. Unless interleaf was used while printing, the pages would transfer freshly printed ink to the page stacked on it. This was a big problem when using matte black ink, but not a problem with gloss black ink. RC gloss or RC semi-gloss inkjet paper worked best as interleaf as it did not accept any ink transference on the RC coated verso of the paper. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival CollectionDaniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film ArchiveDaniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising ArchiveDaniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video ArchiveDaniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture ArchiveDaniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio ArchiveDaniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Do people even use Steenbecks anymore? I mean somewhat mainstream use and not the odd filmmaker?

Mark, you should compete with the Cinema Museum. If you find any good paper ephemera to scan in the USA, have it shipped to me and I will scan for you and put up at the I.A. I can also give you hi-res scans. Or if you find things in the U.K., buy them to scan yourself. There is so, so much great stuff in the U.K. to get, but shipping breaks the deal for me. You can open up your own online cinema museum Mark.

White on one side of the reel where the tape has been applied. And nothing on the other side of the reel. Some reels have a huge amount of repair. Looks like the tape picks up lots of hairs and debris over time. Photos - Scans by 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

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Single perf B&W 16mm roll of film if you need practice film or leader. Film has been processed and is clear. Looks to have an optical soundtrack on one side. Sorry, do not know the feet. Just guessing 250 feet to 300 feet. $22 including shipping within USA via PayPal. write direct if interested or questions: w1000w@aol.com Dan

OP...you gotta test them. If you like the results...you have your answer. No one can answer this but yourself. Assuming you like the color match, there are many other factors and variables involved such as the quality of post work, depth of field and I.Q. Test em all! Soemone that says no problem may have quality post work that you don't have for timing. <><><><> Selection from Press Photographer Archive DDTJRAC

DDTJRAC - VHS / Betamax Archive After seeing Top Gun: Maverick, I went back to the original Top Gun to refresh my memory. The DVD has a great commentary about the 1986 film. Art Scholl, aerial cameramen, died shooting it. Cruise is 5' 7" and Mcgillis is 5'10" (They said she was 6 feet tall in the commentary. Maybe that was in heels.) They had to work to shrink her down and extend Cruise up. He had special cowboy boots to give him a raise.

Was working with the Advertising Archive. Ran across some 1962 shots from the making of Lawrence of Arabia in Life magazine. Lots of sand sweeping when shooting in the desert! I thought this guy was the sound man. But it may be a light. The guy in the hole was supposed to be caught in quicksand.

Well, I'm not going to take someone's money, just to sit on it and do nothing. That isn't right. I would have gladly bought a HDS+ or a Lasergraphics Archivist with her $$ . But, both companies have problems, and I don't want to take the money under false pretenses. Lasergraphics refuses to answer emails, and I won't send that type of $$ to a company that can't be bothered to answer emails. If I still lived in L.A. I could drive down there and bang on the door until they talk with me. If the scanner broke, I could drop it off for repairs to avoid a $7,500 service call that I don't have the $7,500 for. But being on the other side of the country, that won't work. Companies nowadays are pretty shitty to deal with. And it is not just scanner companies. You'd figure Lasergaphics would hire an illegal alien to come in a couple days a week to answer their emails. Tyler's report on the HDS+ was very troubling. I need something that works out of the box and is fairly easy to run. If Tyler has trouble working it...I'd be sunk! In addition, there are the sound sync problems with the HDS+ and the need for a warped film gate. About 75% of my film Archive is warped! From his report the company doesn't know what he is talking about or doesn't care when he brings it up to them...all very, very troubling for $50K. Believe me, I was ecstatic about the possibility of getting a HDS+ until I found out about all these problems. Also, Tyler mentioned image quality is somewhat subpar. The scans should be crisp...no sleepiness to the scan. This isn't a $300 Wolverine scanner. She felt bad too about this mess. I kept telling her scanners are not like buying cars or refrigerators and the companies are really terrible to deal with. She did buy me 1,000 4.7GB M-Disc for the VHS Archive as a donation and I was very happy about that. I stopped buying M-Disc after they raised the price from $2.10 to $3.15 per disc. I mean, sure, I can afford a $3.15 disc...but I can't afford $3,150.00 of M-Discs. Everything has skyrocketed in $$! Those 1,000 M-Disc have helped take a chunk out of the VHS tapes that have been sitting and building up. Anyway, I'm slowly getting out of cine' film and will just stick with still photography, audio, popular culture and VHS. I've sold off about 15% of the 16mm film Archive and 40% of the 8mm Archive. I was never really into 8mm. At the height I only had maybe 700 - 800 8mm films. I hate 8mm. I'm down to about 2,000 - 2100 16mm reels. Still need to finish the inventory to see what I got. I may get rid of most of the 16mm as well down the road, but I am still working on the VHS Archive digitizing tapes and burning her discs. When I get to finishing the 16mm inventory...I will get to it. I don't care anymore. Well, I keep buying lotto tickets here and there. If I can hit, even a small lotto I may buy an Arri scan. But who knows? It may not run warped film. But...at least they do answer their emails! You know, if you got millions, it does not matter if the HDS+ is crap or the Lasergraphics has issues or what the Arriscan cost. You can buy 5 of each to sort it out...$$ just does not matter to you. But if you don't have the $$...then working with cine' film, the digitization part, is a real nightmare for the broke archivist. As a plan B, I still got the Retroscan. I've been trying to get a cheap custom computer built so I can do some image stabilization with the Retroscan scans. The Retroscan would be doable (just) for silent film, especially black edge films, if the films can be stabilized. But my computer is crap and overheats under any little video job. And guess what? Almost none of the custom computer companies will answer their emails. I sent them all the specs upfront. Just basic stuff, nothing crazy. Well, a couple companies did answer. One wanted $5,000 to build one. Another one wrote back promptly. They said they would give me a quote in a day or so. That was a month ago. GD...what a mess! <><><><> Selection from Memes & Gif Archive Part of the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive

DDTJRAC Advertising Archive Here is an ad from Woman's Day Magazine in 1946. Even after WWII ended, they were still rationing food. I like this type of material for the Archive. It covers two areas for the price on one...it fits the Advertising Collection and the WWII Rationing Collection. WWII rationing is a fascinating area to study. It was hard to piece the puzzle back together as a lot of the people in the know are dead and no one to ask. So many things were unavailable back then. Let's say you were a writer. If you wanted a typewriter you got on a list for one, you couldn't just go out and buy one. Typewriter companies retooled to build war equipment. The gov even asked for used typewriters to be donated to the war effort. Really, it was pretty complex learning the rationing rules. And the rules constantly changed. They also had ration token for making change for coupons. These tokens belonged to Sylvia Schneider from NYC. They were in a little purse she had that I acquired off eBay. After she died, the pickers got ahold of it for recycling. GD...the pickers will sell anything! Even dirty, empty bottles of old lens cleaning fluid! The troublesome area of the puzzle to put together was to find out what the tanks, planes, artillery and ship coupons were used for. Eventually I found out the answer to my puzzle. They announced what these stamps would be used for in the newspaper or on the radio for various short term uses. I have a press photo of one of the weekly announcements, but have not got it scanned as yet. It is buried in the storage locker for now. <><><><> Memes Archive Part of the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive

Here are how the 2 rogues gallery glass plates ended up. Way above my budget.

Selection from: DDTJRAC Years ago, I was lucky to run across a wealthy collector in Europe of early erotic stereo cards. The early erotic cards are almost impossible to find and unaffordable to buy even if you do find them. He sold me a large part of his collection in the form of decent quality copy photos. He didn't want to sell me scans, but the copy photos were next to nothing. Really, I just had to pay for the cost of printing and shipping. I also acquired a huge amount of rare non-erotic card copy photos from him as well. Below are just a very few samples from the hundreds I had acquired from him. Vintage Stereo Photography – Vintage Stereo Photography from the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection / Walter Stein Archive (wordpress.com) I don't have time to get them all up right now, but I was able to put up a decent portion of them. I kinda lost interest in blogs after Tumblr deleted many years of my work, trashing 48 of my websites in 2019. Then the Internet Archive deleted my account of over a hundred thousand uploads. Later on, the I.A. restored my account...but it was just by happenstance that it was saved. The ******** in Frisco would do nothing for me. I'm not going to post the explicit porn cards. Go to the link if you are a lecher and have an interest in them. (BTW, a lecher is better than a pervert...so don't be ashamed!) But these explicit stereo porn cards are the rarest of the rare in stereo cards. And he had an unbelievable collection of them! Donna Mae 'Busty' Brown I found that people go crazy when you work in the old cameras into a scene. Something you may want to do with your cine' work. This guy had some stupendous cards. It is nice to be rich! If I was your run of the mill, anal bastard curator that runs an Archive, I would have missed out on this fantastic collection. I had contacted an Archive awhile back and offered to donate a copy of 'Splitting the Difference' which was the cover photo I used in my artist's book Iconoclastic Reporter. The snobby bastard there said they only collect original photos. Hell, I don't even have the original photo of 'Splitting the Difference'. But that didn't stop me from using what I could get. So, I acquired a copy photo from the original photo from a collector and used that. And it worked fine enough for other Archives to acquire it into their collections...but not that one. This all comes under the auspices of...something is better than nothing. But anal bastards don't see it that way. Let me give you another example of how your run of the mill, anal curator works. I had contacted a curator at an institution that was new to the job to inquire if they were interested in any donations. They said they are on a self-imposed acquisition moratorium of 18 months so they can study the collection before new acquisitions are made. GD...that is anal! I would start acquiring before my first day at work! But I'm an ADD curator and not an anal one. Now...if something is too low Q, then I may pass on it. I always tell you I have no prejudice in my collecting - except low-res garbage. And as I mentioned in another post, sometimes I won't sign my name to a project if it is crap and I don't want to be associated with it. But I try to stay away from that type of work unless it is absolutely necessary to a project. Every time you see the garbage it is an eyesore and an embarrassment, but you sometimes need it to round out the story. As was the case in this project. I included low-res garbage in the beginning to round out the story. And every time I see it, I cringe! Internet Archive Search: china doll teoli Getting back to the anal bastard curator that snubbed me...they wouldn't even let me look at their Archive...the NYC hi-brow shits. I run The Peoples' Archive. It is the highest quality, most diverse, open content Archive in the world. Now, it is not the richest or the biggest or the best Archive in the world. But it is the highest quality, most diverse, open content Archive of its type in the world. As an example. This rich Euro collector had a fantastic stereo collection that I could never hope to approach...but that is about it for him. Whereas I have hundreds of areas of collection. Virginia 'Ding Dong' Bell Beside copy photos and digital files, I've got a large number of physical stereo cards in the Archive as well as more modern stereo slides and glass mounts. Here is a sample glass mount from 'Erwin the Duck Hunter' series from Nebraska. If you ever become a curator...don't be an anal bastard curator...check your prejudices at the door and who knows what treasures you will find! <><><><> Selection from Shadows in Time DDTJRAC

Where are the screenshots / photos being discussed? You can't discuss visuals with text only. Forget about people comments...go with what appeals to your eye. Be true to your vision. If you are a hired gun, then give them what they ask for. But if you are embarrassed or hate the work they demand of you...don't sign you name to it. Tell them you don't want to be credited as it is not representative of your work. <><><><> Atomic Bomb Family - Found Photo Post Processing: D.D.Teoli Jr.

OP...dunno about your case. Usually a laser is marked with a warning label about eye damage. If it has a warning label, be careful...they will damage eyes and cameras. I use Class IV lasers for self-defense. Just one of my self-defense tools I would use in NYC. You can't have much there for self-defense. Later on, I graduated to a 1200 lumen tactical flashlight. Blinds people without permanent eye damage. Over the years from fooling with lasers I got some eye damage from them. You can get hit even from the reflection of a laser on chrome, mirrors etc. Whenever you work on a laser...always take the batteries out! If you are worried about your camera, pop the lens cap on. Or have the camera operator hold up a piece of black carboard over the lens. You may also want to test it out on a junk camera to see what happens to the sensor. I've built up lots of old, out of date digital cameras that are useless more or less nowadays. They are disposable cams I would use in high-risk shoots. In the Mosh Pit - 2015 D.D.Teoli Jr. Yes, the Juggalos would routinely destroy my gear. You only used gear you didn't mind losing. After this shot, they broke the flash off at the hot shoe. If you don't have a disposable camera, buy a cheap digital still cam on eBay and do a blog post about it. Best way to find out is to test, although you still might be taking a risk as every sensor is different.

eBay: Fair Use They had a little pride in their work back in the day. The more modern publicity photos they used for newspapers, etc., were a lot lower quality.

Correction to original post. 14 films for $105. I would write #PNP 14 -110 on each reel. Should read... 14 films for $105. I would write #PNP 14 -105 on each reel.

I have more or less closed down the cine' film Archive. No way to scan it, so no use adding zillions more feet of film to the proverbial fire. I never got finished organizing it, (Got about 45% done) but I estimate it was at one time +/- 2700 reels. I sold some reels off and it is somewhere north of 2000 reels now. As you can see, organization was always a big problem area with me. This was especially true when I would buy 'pig in a poke' film lots. The pickers get them from estate sales. They don't know what is on them, so you buy them blind. Originally, they all get categorized as 'home movies.' Pig in poke film lot As I told the film fanatics here, there is no shortage of film in my life, even though I'm 100% digital now! You can't pay too much for the pig lots unless you got money to burn. Sometimes the lot is all crap and a waste of $$. I like to keep the lots together if possible as they may have a continuing story or theme. The big boys have no problem in this area. They bar code the films. But I don't have the $$ or time for that. So, I devised a pretty simple method to keep the lot connected once it is inevitably separated to work with. For instance, let's say I buy a pig in a poke lot of 14 films for $105. I would write #PNP 14 -110 on each reel. The price is important to me as I will try to recoup as my purchase price as possible if the lot turned out to be garbage...and believe me, a lot of the pig in a poke film lots are garbage. One picker used to specialize in buying junk film wherever he could to make big lots of films, boxing them in boxes that didn't match the films, breaking down from 1 reel into 2 or 3 partial reels, etc. He advertised them as great estate sale finds...but he has no projector to view them. Basically, it was a scam that gave out hope to the film buyer, when no hope was to be had upon the film's arrival. Pig in a poke film work can be fascinating. Sometimes you get interesting stuff. But you need a decent scanner or all you do is keep acquiring lots of film that has no use to you. And as I said, if you don't pay too much, you can usually recoup 70% - 80% of the costs. The problem is with all the fees eBay charges. You can usually sell for near what you paid, but after all the fees you are in the hole. It is just a cost of looking at the films to see what is on them. You know the deal...you have to pay to play! Agfa Color print 6-month sun fade test. Selection from Dye Stability Testing of Color Imaging Media II - D.D.Teoli Jr.

One other thing... Do better with your still photography. I see a lot of cine' devotees do shitty still photography. It is more of an afterthought to them. Have a little pride in your still work even if it is not your main area. Although still photography and cinematography are brothers and sisters, they are not identical twins. Even so, you can do better with your still work if you put in a smidgen more effort. You never know when some job may do a Google image search on you and your crappy still work pops up and they lose interest. Try only to sign you name to decent work you are proud to show. Good luck!

Amsterdam - De Wallen Project (Candid) Digital Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. Sure, it is good to know a little about film, history and all that. But it is bad to shoot projects with film wondering if it will 'turn out' as we used to say. If you want to be film specialist, then great. Maybe you will be one of the last film specialists left when they call for a film project. But don't be a slave to your ego. And by all means, don't ruin a project over your ego and infatuation with film. Film had its day...time to move on! Ego is a big problem with film fanatics. One film fanatic once said he would rather give up photography than leave film for digital if film was ever extinct. He is a film masturbator. I looked at his work. He produced your run of the mill garbage for photography. His pride was in 'shooting film' and not in making museum quality work with his photography. Nitrogen Burst Film Processor DDTJRAC I still work with millions of feet of film in the cine' film Archive. In the still photo Archive, I work with everything related to film. From half-frame 35mm to 8x10 sheet film and glass plates. And I worked with film for my own work for 3-1/2 decades. I also worked with film and silver imaging of all types in the wet darkroom for that time as well. But...I'm done with film, other than in the Archive. (OK, I miss the gas bust sound sometimes, but can do fine without it.) I'm 100% digital now. And stupendously happy with it! After you film nuts get your fill of film fiddling...move on to 2022 or even 2012. The poor film photogs will go to any lengths NOT to get the picture. – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. (wordpress.com) Digital Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr.

Have you had any luck talking with Filmfabriek about designing a warped film gate? Are you able to change gates easily on your HDS+? Filmfabriek advertises they got a 'passion for film,' so they should be receptive to user input and improvements, unless it is just a money-making deal. I could have had a HDS+ for free. A lady would have donated one to my Archive, the $$ that is, to buy one. But with the HDS+ sound issues...warped film issues...'it won't run right out of the box' issues, I didn't / couldn't accept her offer in good faith. Hopefully they improve the machine to fix these problems. <><><><> Selection from Linholf Archive DDTJRAC

Yes, they got lots of sounds there. Very useful to filmmakers. I tried submitting audio there, but it keeps jamming and could not do it, so I put my audio donations at the I.A.. If you produce audio Mark, donate some to Freesound or the I.A.. Internet Archive Search: foley teoli Just carry a little USB digital recorder with you everyplace. Lots of field recordings you can do. You are already there, so why not? I made this a few days ago on a walk at night... Night Sounds In Forest D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive As far as garlic presses Simon... Films get constantly destroyed. If I kick off, my film Archive may end up in the nearest dumpster. I work to get the films digitized and shared before they are lost to history Simon. Or not...if you would rather they be destroyed. I read about such people, still photographers, on the large format forum. They wanted their life's work destroyed when they die. As a preservationist and archivist...I don't! This film was rescued from the trash after a hurricane in Florida. Should I have left it in the dumpster if the only other option was to digitize it? It was a filthy mess. nsfw Internet Archive Search: prescription for love teoli No Simon, I love scanning films and preserving what can be preserved. My only issue is getting them scanned...as in being able to afford it. I produce many tens of thousands of scans a year in my non-film Archive. Scanning should be my middle name Simon. <><><><> Infrared Flash - Candid Selection from Piercing Darkness by D.D.Teoli Jr.

Why scan? Internet does not accept film. I can't share 1 film, but I can share scans. Plus, many of the films won't be here much longer.

This RGB scan mode you talk about. Doesn't the HDS+ just scan out of the box in true color? Why adjust in-scan on not in post? What is the verdict on the synthetic corundum bearing film guides you were working on Tyler? I think you said you are using sapphire or ruby bearings. Any progress with holding the film flat with the HDS+? If and when the guides are made, do you think they will work holding badly warped film pretty flat with the HDS+? Or is it for slightly warped film Tyler?

Mining, ghost towns and the wild west...all fascinating material. Thanks for the stupendous rundown on your project Tyler! Too bad more of the other members don't use you as an example Tyler and invest in the forum like this. But it is like that on most forums. I've been on forums since the bulletin board days of the 1990's and generally only a very small % really participate regularly. The rest are just sucking off the tit, taking what they can, and not contributing much. Well, maybe they are too successful and don't have the time...so I will give them the doubt benefit. I got a small collection of mining photos in the Archive. This mining scene is from Getty Museum. Too $$ for me to ever afford. Sadly, I was a little late to the party on some of the material at Getty, as they went downhill with what they offer now in res versus the old days. For instance, in 2018 this mining scene was +/- 450% higher res than what they offer now. Well, good luck with your project Tyler and thanks again for the wonderful reportage!