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Is it a C mount? Who makes it? I've got a Ricoh and it seems pretty good. But I've got no res charts, I'm judging just from eyeballing it. I use f5.6 mainly, sometimes f4 if I have to. It would be nice to test these scanner lenses with a good res chart. You can also get C mount lens adapters for M43 and Sony E to see how the lenses perform. But flat field is not the same as 3 D on a still cam. When you get caught up make a YouTube video on your machine. Also another way to spread your name around online. I had contacted Filmfabriek a while back. (US Sales) They didn't impress me with their sales material. Hardy much at all. You would figure a company selling $$ machines would have some decent sales material / video's. Now will you machine scan this? What about the cheap Lasergraphics Archivist...can it handle it? Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. The Retroscan can do it. Anything worse and the Restrocan won't do it. I'm talking warpage where you take the tape off the film head, sit the reel flat on a table and the whole film unwinds under its own power to the very end because of the warpage. I had a reel like that or two. Too bad I didn't make a video of it. Kinda mesmerizing to watch the film unwind on it own power and end up as a pile of film on the floor!

Is the focus on your machine manual? If so, do you focus still frame or as the film is running? I'm asking since you brought up sharpness of grain, so was wondering how it focuses. The Retroscan has a still setting for focus. But I found the best focus is achieved by running the film some, then rewinding it once focus is achieved. I move be head over enough to see the sprockets. That helps a lot as a focus aid.

I had mentioned in another post I was thinking about giving Kickstarter a try to raise some money to buy a film scanner. Here is a rundown on my Kickstarter proposal. https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/using-kickstarter-for-funding-projects/ If you think Kickstarter may be of use to you, check it out. I detail the whole application process which can usually be completed within 2 - 3 days of part-time work. That is not bad if you are successful and can get tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for your project.

When you are doing 14k for 70mm what size file do you get for a feature length film? Looked at your link,, but still not sure how the overscan works for registration. Can you scan films without a section of sprockets in the scan or are some sprockets always included in the scan for registration and they have to be cropped out?

When you say slow, what is the difference between Arri slow scan and one of the faster scanners?

How does it do with severely warped film?

What replaces ink? Silver based paper is not practical for my work, especially printing artist's books. Anyway, a guy told me maybe the ink shot up because each cartridge has a chip. Maybe? Or just greed? But each cartridge does have a big gold plated contact. M-Disc? The whole Archive and my personal work is library based on optical disc. Optical M-Disc and quartz are the only two archival means of preserving digital. Elon Musk has quartz, but he is not sharing the tech. He sent a disc into space for the aliens. Blu-ray (BD-R) is also pretty archival. Although it will hold up to a year of sun and has a claimed 50 year life, I don't count on them as much as M-Disc. But I use them as secondary backups. ...I'm still playing CDs from the mid 1980's!

I'm not buying much gear nowadays. But my staples have skyrocketed for the most part. 100gb M-disc has gone from $241 to $298 per 25 disc spindle.My ink has gone from $52 - $54 per cartridge to $74 - $80. My printer uses 9 cartridges.Blu-ray 25gb M-disc has gone from $52 to $80 per 25 disc spindle.4.7gb M-disc was discontinued. eBay has some from scalpers at almost triple the original price. 4.7gb name brand DVD's are still inexpensive at .22 each. These are all recent jumps. Another big hit for me was when they started to charge sales tax for internet purchases...it all adds up!

For HDR you should have 3 exposures minimum 0,+1,-1. What type of exposure for HDR does the Scan Station do? Rewinding and rescanning might lead to registration issues. Or does the Cintel have rock solid registration?

Here... https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/cintel

I had checked with Arri a couple months back. They said their scanners were 1/3 million $. But maybe you are referring to old Arri scanners or we are discussing different machines. Yes you are correct about the highlights. With the Retroscan 2K the highlights get blown very easy and no recovery. No sweet spot to speak of. I've settled on rescanning for highlight exposure only on some troublesome films. It seemed to me like a camera sensor would have been able to deal with the range. That is why I asked the question. From what I recall, I thought you had mentioned in another post your FilmFabriek was producing kinda hazy scans. Did you find out what was the issue? Or do I have the facts wrong? If it is producing top notch scans...send some in. We should have an archive here of the quality of scans these machines produce.

Now this Kickstarter is a little harder than I thought. Doing it only took 1.5 days. But I hadn't realized you have to offer contributors a reward. With no rewards, Kickstarter won't review the proposal for approval. My problem is I sell nothing to speak of. If I deaccess something in the Archive, I may sell some odd thing here or there, but as an Open Content Archive I give it all away for free already. I wrote them back and asked if I can mention people in the credits as a reward. So will see what happens. I think Kickstarter is more for people that will ship them all a DVD after the film is made or something like that. I could offer them a print of The Lost Princess 2013 (Candid) It is a photo that appeals to most people and offends the least amount of them. But GD, sending out hundreds or thousands of prints is just drudgery. If I wanted drudgery...I'd get a GD job! All my energy goes into producing what I produce, not in doing jobs that others demand. BTW...my foot is on the spoon...I work up close!

It seems the camera sensors have a much higher dynamic range of capture than what they have been using in scanners. Why reinvent the wheel?

Internet Photo - Fair Use Now, that's dedication! De Niro in training for the role in Taxi Driver. I hate De Niro as a person, (you know...politics) but love his acting. I have no issue divorcing the two. That is also what makes me an exceptional archivist...no prejudice. (At least when it comes to the Archive.) Every time I hear the title Taxi Driver I think back how Scorsese said on an interview he had to desaturate the blood at the end of Taxi Driver or he would have got an 'X' rating. Where is the GD fixed version of Taxi Driver with red blood??

Nowadays some sites are almost unusable because of so much pop-ups. In the early days of the internet I used a free dialup internet provider called Juno. This is going way back to the 1990’s. But being broke…I loved it! I couldn’t afford internet at home and Juno saved me from a trip to the library to use the internet. Back then our little library had 2 computers and a line of people on the wait list to use them. So they put a strict half hour limit on your use. If you wanted to get back on, you got back on the wait list. So you could spend hours at the library trying to do something on the internet. Now most libraries have Wi-Fi in their parking lots. You just need the password and you can be a digital nomad. Anyway, Juno worked out well for some time, then it got slow, then it got tons of ads and would kick you off if you didn't click on the ads - the combination made it pretty unusable. Maybe that was the era when pop-up ads got their start? The library eventually got more computers, dumped their slow dial-up service and let you have an hour of time, so I found that a better internet source than Juno. Part of the scope of the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection is vintage advertising. I don’t do much with modern advertising, but I have added modern pop-up ads to the collection. When I was a kid I wanted to be a fashion / advertising photographer. But after a few years it sunk in I have no talent for studio work. So I sucked it up and moved on to areas that I do have talent in. I’m glad I didn’t force things for a life of misery and accepted my capabilities. My early roots as a advertising photographer wannabe must be where I got my interest in advertising.

Part of the SD card hoard transferred to Blu-ray disc I’m in the process of backing up about 10 years worth of SD memory cards to Blu-ray disc. This project has been eating at me some time. I can’t sleep and wake up at 5.30 A.M. and think about the 513 SD cards slowly decaying away that need to be transferred to disc. So last week I got my ass in gear to start on the project. So far I have transferred 111 cards to disc out of 513 cards. Full report as to how the cards have held up for the last decade.... https://daniel-d-teoli-jr-archival-collection-ii.home.blog/2021/08/02/sd-card-report/

I periodically get emails from Eric Kim. He promotes himself as a street photographer, but from looking at his work over the years, he seems to be more of 'ask permission street portrait shooter' than hard-core candid street photographer. He is the type of photographer that gets rich by giving lectures around the world telling others how to be a great street photographers. Anyway on his latest email he had a nice street shot of a lady in NYC. I thought to myself, wow he has really improved. Up close and candid, great work! Photo: Eric Kim Then a paragraph down he shows the backstory... Photos: Eric Kim So he punked me again...a staged, bullshit fashion shoot, passed off as candid street work. OK, he didn't actually lie about it, but sometimes it is better to not say so much and destroy the dream. Other times we should give more info, so the historical record is correct...just depends. As a curator as well as social documentary photographer, if someone claims to be a street photographer I don't want to look at street portraits as being the majority of your output. Call yourself a street portraitist if that is your specialty. Of course none of this matter to most people of this generation. They don't care. But within the realm of 'street photography,' candid street work is what separates the men from the boys. With all the photoshopping and BS people do with photos, that is why I started years ago to label my candid work as candid. And some of it I label as 'not staged,' if it is just posed, but some may think it is staged. Monsoon Thailand 1982 (Candid) From Monsoon project (All of output was destroyed in a flood in 2001. This is one of the last remaining negs from the project.) Infrared Flash Photo (Candid) Whoop-Whoop Project (Candid) Now, most street photographers shoot street portraits once in a while, we all do. Nothing wrong with it. But candid work requires a whole different skill set than asking permission and shooting a fashion shoot. The problem of all this arises for the young guns starting out trying to learn the ropes. You want to learn how things are really done, not fantasy and posed bullshit photos passed off as candid work. Selection from 180...the Circular Fisheye at Large! (Paid $1 for permission.) Las Vegas Sure, I could have shot this candid...but it would not look like this. If a photo can't be perfected as candid...then you have to pose it. I discuss this below in the Hierarchy of Documentary Photography Elliot Erwitt is a well known street photog. Here is a famous photo of his of a man with 2 bulldogs. Then a few years later the proof sheet surfaces... Yep, another posed bullshit, fashion shoot. But Erwitt is actually a great candid street shooter, so while disappointed, I can't hold it against him. As I said...we all shoot posed work sometimes or another. Faces of Gentrification Selection from The Americans: 60 years after Frank Staged or posed? It is posed. If I had a crew drop off an old tub and hired some models to pose, it would be staged. These were people of the neighborhood looking at the aftermath of tearing down their block for new construction. I asked them to sit in the tub and shot it. Here is the Hierarchy of Documentary Photography* 1. Candid events unfolding as they happen. 2. If it cannot be perfected or obtained as a candid, then the photo must be posed. 3. If it cannot be perfected or obtained as a posed photo, then it must be staged with the proviso it is a recreation of past events, preferably with the actual persons reenacting the events. 4. Figments of the imagination. Varies in documentary value. Can be based on pure speculation or a recount of events. *Created by Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Hen Party (Candid...but caught!) Amsterdam Busker Subway (Candid) NYC Bishop that got canned for sex issues (Candid) WV How is it candid?? I shot with the 2 second self-timer...Candid! If I can make my candid photos look like they are posed, I've succeeded...in being invisible! Order Women Like Pizza (Candid) World record on how close you can shoot a candid photo...just a few inches away. The backstory... Order Women Like Pizza…the backstory – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. (wordpress.com) Now, getting back to the 'staged photo' discussion... When I first made the transition from film to digital I was on many photo forums trying to learn digital. I used to post my work and get lots of feedback from the 'flower and sunset' shooters. (And lets not forget the smoky lake at dawn with the mandatory boat dock shooters!) One day I had read some of the comments and I found out they thought I had staged this photo. Hakenkreuz in a Dress 1973 Los Angeles So I did a poll on it and sure enuf, majority thought it was staged. The reality is; it is a posed photo of a neo-Nazi in her bedroom from 1973. Everything is exactly as shown. (I did block out the face. That was 1973, I don't know where she ended up or if she still has an interest in this subject.) So whenever I send out certain posed photos to institutions I label them as not staged....right on the back of the photo, so the info won't get lost. Someday we will be all gone, no one to give the scoop. So have your say while you can for the historical record. Selection from Whoop-Whoop project Ohio

Apparently not much blowback in the end. Just got an email from PBS. They are showing a film directed by Dan Reed. Up Next: In the Shadow of 9/11 As the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, approaches, FRONTLINE presents In the Shadow of 9/11 — the latest documentary from Dan Reed, the acclaimed director of Leaving Neverland. The film chronicles a pivotal but often forgotten landmark case from the post-9/11 “War on Terror,” for the first time in-depth on television. Tune in or stream Tuesday, August 10.

Mel Blanc VHS Clip From Strictly GI D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Found a 1943 clip of him on an old VHS tape. Just amazing what he could do.

Can't say Jacob. From what I gather, most of the giant process cameras were dismantled and scrapped. A few ended up in museums. Some of smaller ones were adopted by large format photogs. But in the graphics arts biz, these smaller ones would be considered as toys. No one used them other than small fry operations. eBay photo - Fair Use The big process cameras required 2 rooms to use, consequently huge, heavy and needed a team or workers to dismantle and reassemble. Giant film that feeds them can still be had if you have the $$. (I don't know who is telling the truth. One listing says 100 sheets, another says 10 sheets.) Arista Ortho Litho 3.0 Film (30 x 40", 100 Sheets) 531301 B&H (bhphotovideo.com) If you developed the litho film is special developer, you could get a reasonable continuous tone image. Although the litho film was designed for stark black and whites only.

I knew of this guy from way back in my early days of getting into infrared flash photography. He had experimented with IR flash as well and I studied what he had done. I had spent 4+ years trying to perfect IR flash photography, then one day it all came together. I could have just as easily given up a day before the breakthrough success, but luckily I was too stupid to quit. Recently he put up a video about someone giving him a Heidelberg Tango Drum Scanner for free. The person had to hound him for a year to take it. He got it going with the help of a consultant that charges $200 an hour and it is pretty impressive. I had read here that people give away $$ cine' film scanners for free. I could not believe it. ...well, apparently people do give away $$ scanners for free.

Now Phil, when you add cinematography to your name you get the following... phil rhodes cinematography - Google Search and change it to cinematographer and you get this... phil rhodes cinematographer - Google Search Names in searches mean a lot. Even a little change can make a big difference. Anyone having an issue with showing up on Google needs to look at their name and distinguish it if it is not working for you. I got a middle initial and 'Jr.' to help me out. And I've talked about this before....naming digital files. Lots of people putting things online use some gibberish for the file. Use your name and info. It helps with search results. Here is an example... image daniel d. Teoli Jr. small gauge film archive - Google Search video daniel d. Teoli Jr. small gauge film archive - Google Search Here is an old post on it...strong NSFW The Importance of Naming Digital Files. – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. (wordpress.com)

Yes, you are right. But that is for the big boys & girls! The grunts don't usually get agents till they have arrived...somewhat. It is the same for photographers with gallery reps.

Article on right of publicity. Lawyer & photographer gives the scoop on candid photography with no model release. https://alj.artrepreneur.com/is-street-photography-legal/ Author says ... "...even if your street photographs are well within the bounds of artistic expression and non-commercial in nature, you never know ... how the law may change over time." I'm thinking that they can't change laws on right of publicity retroactively and suddenly make old photos illegal. But I'm not sure. There is just no telling about anything in 2021. The Chinese have a saying...something can happen in a second that has not happened for a million years. Things have happened in the USA that I never would have thought happen. So I never say never. From the very beginnings of photography people have liked to photograph candid photos of strangers. Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection The Wikimedia Commons requires whatever you contribute be released for commercial consumption. Since I get no model releases I don't contribute much there with people in them. And if I do send something in, I block out the faces for the Wiki and specifically say that version is the only one released for commercial use. 35mm film sound tracks Cold water flat - Los Angeles 1970's Living in a cardboard box project - New York The old ICP - New York Maybe someday this will be how it will be for photographers with recognizable people in photos. Our candid photos of people will be like Japanese porn with the privates mosaiced out. <><><><> Linhof Catalog Cover 1963 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection

Regarding soft footage? You gotta pretest everything. I tested how all my lenses perform wide open and stopped down a few stops. That is mainly where I shoot....wide open to f5.6. I need to know how the lens will perform wide open if I know I will be shooting low light. Some lenses stink wide open. If you know you shoot a lot of things stopped down, test that extreme if you are worried about diffraction. Also keep a box of alcohol pads, Rocket Blower and Kimwipes handy. Gotta keep the lenses clean. Rocket Blower - Google Search Forget lens fluid and lens paper. Alcohol pads and Kimwipes are the winner...and I've tried them all in 52 years. (Certain B+W German filters are very hard to clean. They must have a crazy coating on them.) If you have the sharpness in the film, you can always rework the film if the scan is poor, but if your film is soft and you want sharpness, you a F'd. Sometimes I've had a dirty lens due to being slack, but most of the time the lens is the first thing I check to see if it is sparkling. It is slickening when you take a look at the image and it looks soft and hazzy. Even with digital it sometimes sneaks by if you got a small screen...and sometimes the view screen is dirty as well and you can't see it. Alcohol pads and Kimwipes! kimwipes - Google Search ...and don't forget to check your scanner lens to see if it is clean...on both ends!