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An early rare-element aerial lens by Kodak. I think the glass was radioactive, but not sure. Were there any cine' lenses made with radioactive glass?
I was going to post it in Off-Topic, but have not been able to post or view that section for a few days now.
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Now, getting back to this Retroscan issue with people waiting 12 months and the company seemingly stopping production, per Dan's earlier post.
Has anyone ever been burnt buying a film scanner (Non-Retroscan) or have major problems with the company?
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2 hours ago, Tyler Purcell said:
From my understanding, there is zero competition.
Once Fuji stopped, that was the end of that.
OK, agreed, but film is not what it used to be as far as sales. If it was, do you think Fuji would have bowed out? Kodak has gone through so many down cycles it is pitiful. I don't keep up with the day-to-day affairs of Kodak, but the amount of product, chemicals, equipment and media they used to produce was staggering Tyler.
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4 hours ago, Robert Houllahan said:
This is a clearly uninformed statement.
Kodak film products and photo chemistry are excellent in quality and in plentiful supply, labs are busy.
No, nothing like the old Kodak in its heyday. A shadow of its former self Robert. I started using Kodak from the late 1960s. Their graphic arts division is pretty much gone and dye transfer division is extinct, Robert...just to name a few. And their graphic arts division was huge!
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On 2/25/2024 at 2:49 AM, Perry Paolantonio said:
you can buy them from Kodak. this is not an issue.
I'm surprised Kodak sells much of anything nowadays. They have really gone to hell, at least with their film products and chemicals.
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On 2/24/2024 at 6:52 PM, Dan Baxter said:
That's a very different takeaway compared to how I saw it! Moviestuff laid off most of their staff, and they have unfulfilled orders older than 12 months...
It won't matter if they do, the settings mean nothing to the customer. A lot of the settings are locked-down by the scanning manufacturer as well and to change them you need a tech/developer to change the hidden settings for you. Even off functionally the same machine, you'll have different levels of quality control.
Thanks Dan! That is something about Moviestuff. Too bad as it filled a niche for the broke film scanner.
It sounds like the scanning companies are making the scanners dummied down and not much control then. I've only used the Retroscan.
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On 2/26/2024 at 12:19 AM, Robert Houllahan said:
We are doing some tests for a film and ran some push +3 and +4 for 7222 but I cannot show that, it looks ok but obviously grainy which is what they wanted.
We regularly run 500t to +2 and have done +3 but going beyond +3 is a bit tricky because you really have to slow the processor down allot and possibly add heat to the developer which can have unintended color shifts which have to be compensated for with a different repo on the developer chems.
You should just do the tests...to show. That is your biz! Breastfeed the info to them. Your website does a pretty good job at it already...but go the distance, Robert!
Cine' / photo deals in images, not in words or charts.
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On 2/27/2024 at 2:13 PM, Kamran Pakseresht said:
As part of my growing mission to make it simpler and more affordable to shoot on film - I whipped up a 16mm split reel design yesterday that can be easily 3D printed. I have a whole fridge full of Fuji 16mm film that I finally decided to break down into some smaller reels and having a 400ft split reel made it very simple.
You can download the files here. You probably will need to flip one of them 180 degrees on the X-axis in your printing software. 0.1 mm layer height is best for the threads. On my Bambu Labs X1C it takes ~2 hours per side. Uses about 111 grams of filament so rather affordable if you're printing yourself.
As always my Onshape work is totally public - so you can very easily modify this if you want to make a smaller or larger reel - here is the link.
This pairs really nicely with the Short 16mm Film Rewind designs on thingiverse here, which I use for my setup (just double side taped them down to this ikea cutting board which fits nicely into my film changing tent)
And for those curious - I just ran 100ft of respooled Fuji 64d that I had been storing in a fridge for the last 12 years through my Beaulieu R16. Developed in a Morse tank and it came out great (rated it at ~25 iso)
Here are some close-ups of the reels:
Beautiful!
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Clip is from a stupendous time capsule film. Footage takes you on a morning routine of a typical family that owned some slaves. Also gives you a glimpse of the various outbuildings for smoking, spring or dairy house etc.
...and Google how nasty the wigs were that the men and women wore. Full of bugs and lice!
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$1 - $2 a reel sometimes for 'pig in a poke' collections...but 8mm quality is generally too low for me. If you have the time, you can throw the dice. And you can always put back up for sale and get most of your money back. But it all takes time! This would be good if you have some lackies working for you and could sift through thousands of reels. But they may not have the 'eye' you need to find the gems. Just depends.
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A while back there was a member on the forum in NYC that complained their movie career was not evolving as fast as they had hoped. I can't remember all the details, but my feelings on that would be...if you can afford to live in NYC, even just, you are a success!
Recently photographer Elliott Erwitt's NYC Central Park's residence came up for sale after he passed away. I seldom study NYC real estate prices. I could never even afford the co-op's maintenance fees, let alone the sales price. So, I was kinda shocked it was so high and it sold so fast. It is a whole different world in NYC.
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Erwitt had a little studio downstairs as well. Between the 2 co-ops, the monthly maintenance fee was just under $20,000 a month.
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Here are some of Erwitt's photos...
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I was watching the movie Downfall (2004) about Hitler's last days in his bunker. It is an outstanding movie on the subject. They had some German 'tank killer' kids using panzerfaust anti-tank weapons to take out Russian tanks. I had never heard of them, so I looked them up. Whenever I want to learn about a thing, I study it in pictures. I'm not much of a reader. I will do a little reading after I see the photos, but generally I like the photos. The amount of armor the panzerfaust penetrates is amazing. The cone shape design concentrated the explosive charge. The panzerfaust was the model for all future RPG's. Panzefaust means 'armor fist' or 'tank fist.'
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Here are 111 pages of them if you have an interest...
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On 2/23/2024 at 5:23 AM, Dan Baxter said:
The issue was that paper was that some of the operators were inexperienced with print and the types of film they were testing.
At the same time though, it did expose the truth in the sense that two different operators with different levels of experience and expertise can produce two entirely different results, even off the very same machine (or identical model machines).
Back in the day, people would always ask if photography was an art. If there are judgments to be made and the outcome is uncertain...there is art in the process. This art can be of a creative nature or a technical nature, but either way, there is art involved.
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On 2/23/2024 at 5:23 AM, Dan Baxter said:
The issue was that paper was that some of the operators were inexperienced with print and the types of film they were testing.
At the same time though, it did expose the truth in the sense that two different operators with different levels of experience and expertise can produce two entirely different results, even off the very same machine (or identical model machines).
Yes, that is why I've said the scanner companies should make videos showing how to operate their machines and the range of the scanner's abilities. Even offer standardized film with it to scan and compare to their scans. But this seems to be too much to ask for in the breastfeeding dept in this day and age.
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On 2/19/2024 at 6:05 PM, Robert Houllahan said:
Vague at best.
"Multi Spectral" i.e. sequential RGB? that is "multi spectral" as in red green and blue.
The example on their web site I actually prefer the look of the "other" system and think it will grade to finish better than their example.
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?
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On 2/18/2024 at 7:07 AM, John Rizzo said:
Sorry, forum closed me down for too many likes today...but thanks!
That is pretty impressive.
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On 2/14/2024 at 9:09 PM, Geffen Avraham said:
That's an awful story to hear, it's a shame to hear a beautiful machine like that being destroyed. Thanks for telling us about this scanner.
That said, $5000 still seems like a good price, given that one can build a pretty good "second per frame" scanner from a mirrorless camera and an Arriflex body for about the same cost. It would not have the heat and 240v issues though.
I wonder if the guy's design below could be improved by using a Leica Q2 Monochrom and a switching RGB light source instead of a Bayer sensor. That could give you an 8K RGB scan. I might build it if I ever find a broken Arriflex for sale - I'd hate to cannibalize a working one.
Amazing what people come up with.
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On 2/12/2024 at 3:58 PM, Perry Paolantonio said:
This is a terrible idea. Alcohol will destroy the roller. And don't soak them, just wash them. Use lukewarm water and a gentle dish soap like Dawn.
well if you clean them with alcohol they won't last. We still have the original pair that came on our ScanStation and they're in perfectly good condition. When the rollers on the scanner get dirty we rotate in clean ones and then wash the dirty ones. Once dry, they're good to go again. In the mean time you can use a little packing tape to remove dust. We rotate through a half dozen or so of these and millions of feet of film have passed through our scanner.
PTRs that aren't kept in the right climate will eventually break down. We found some of the small 1.5" rollers in a box when we moved. They came in an auction lot and we had no use for them. When we were packing things we discovered that they had turned to liquid goop. Probably they were stored near too much heat before we got them, or were really, really old.
Fully loaded, it has been around that price point since the 5k model came out, that's nothing new.
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.
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On 2/13/2024 at 11:21 AM, Perry Paolantonio said:
That machine has been on ebay for years. FWIW, we sold our complete and fully functional Northlight 1 about a year and a half ago for $5000. Sadly the freight company dropped and destroyed it at the destination.
It's a good scanner, not worth more than about $5k these days. Scan speed is measured in Seconds per Frame, not frames per second. Even a Northlight II, which is faster, is painfully slow. Like 12-18 hours to scan a single reel. They also require a 240V circuit, and they generate a ton of heat so you have to plan on ventilation to the outside to suck that all away from the machine, or it'll run even slower until it stops running entirely. The sensors are also prone to collecting dust, which shows up as streaks on the film so you have to be vigilant about cleaning all that with every reel change. And they don't like splices at all. We had many overnight scans fail partway because it was being fussy about a tape splice.
My understanding is that Filmlight no longer sells these. The old Northlight product pages are on the site but they're no longer listed under Products. You have to google to find those pages.
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.
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On 2/12/2024 at 10:35 PM, Tyler Purcell said:
We have 5 more films shot on 16mm in the works. We are actually in Colorado right now wrapping up our winter film. That should be released by spring. We have 2 more releasing this year, though that's contingent on how our summer and fall shoots go. Then we have 2 more releasing for 2025, which is the anniversary of one of the greatest remaining single class of working steam engine in the United States. So we'll have one film about those engines and one film about an abandoned railroad, which will take a long time to produce, but we started production last year and will continue through this year. We're scanning an archive of that railroad when it was originally made and we're going to be able to use the archive in our film. I'm very excited. It'll be a multi-year project but it's going to be made like a 1960's documentary 4x3 aspect ratio, mono soundtrack done by local Colorado musicians, it'll be a very nice piece.
We will be fundraising soon, we need to really stop spending our money! lol ?
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.
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On 2/12/2024 at 3:58 PM, Perry Paolantonio said:
This is a terrible idea. Alcohol will destroy the roller. And don't soak them, just wash them. Use lukewarm water and a gentle dish soap like Dawn.
well if you clean them with alcohol they won't last. We still have the original pair that came on our ScanStation and they're in perfectly good condition. When the rollers on the scanner get dirty we rotate in clean ones and then wash the dirty ones. Once dry, they're good to go again. In the mean time you can use a little packing tape to remove dust. We rotate through a half dozen or so of these and millions of feet of film have passed through our scanner.
PTRs that aren't kept in the right climate will eventually break down. We found some of the small 1.5" rollers in a box when we moved. They came in an auction lot and we had no use for them. When we were packing things we discovered that they had turned to liquid goop. Probably they were stored near too much heat before we got them, or were really, really old.
Fully loaded, it has been around that price point since the 5k model came out, that's nothing new.
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.
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On 2/23/2024 at 5:49 AM, Dan Baxter said:
@Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Here's your massive news for 2024!
https://web.archive.org/web/20240223104029/https://www.moviestuff.tv/
Wow, business must be booming for them! Didn't you start out with Retroscan Dan?
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On 2/10/2024 at 11:19 AM, Dan Baxter said:
$125K WAS the price, in 2021 (not 2024) and with no extra frills like hardware sound readers:
For TWO gates, not three. So whether you pick 35/16 or 16/8 that was the price, again I stress: three years ago. The post-pandemic price has gone up, but not to $197K - that's most likely a quote for a 3-gate fully-loaded ScanStation which would have all the hardware sound readers as well.
Everything is an optional expense though, so you can buy your third gate later for example and the base price is lower.
Soap and water. But the PTR rollers are designed for film that's already been cleaned, that was my point. On the ScanStation they can be bypassed entirely, so you can do your evaluation scans at 60fps on film that hasn't been cleaned and you're not risking causing cinch damage on the PTR rollers which can happen with abrasive dirt.
Yeah, IF. You don't need to buy it fully-loaded. Although it does have a support contract/extended warranty which you have to pay if it's financed so that needs to be factored in to any budget.
I think the SSP was designed to compete against the Blackmagic Cintels? Blackmagic have never changed the camera and it has worse dynamic range.
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.
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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.
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Why aren't there more used Lasergraphics scanners on the market?
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I've only seen 2 used LG's scanners in the last few years. 1 was in L.A., a Scan Station Personal. The other one was their big model, a Gov. surplus buy. With all the scanners they make you'd think more used ones would be available.