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On the high-priced scanners can you adjust the magnification easily? On my scanner, getting an over-scan is a job. You have to change the extension tubes / washers and it is a big over-scan. There is very little range to it once it is set.

Thanks Robert. I will have to see if my software has a constant crop option. As of now I crop it out but have to manually crop the rest of the sides to get it timed with the uncropped segment. BTW... I looked at some of your photos of Cinelab at the site. Very impressive operation you got! And that is understating it. I like how you are open to working with experimentation and encourage film students. Only suggestions are... 1) Finish up the walls and paint over the drywall tape. 2) Put a few people in the photos with lab coats and ties like the old dye transfer techs used to dress up. Bob Pace in his lab Of course, if someone comes to visit, they will say...where are all the techs in lab coats!

https://news.artnet.com/market/melania-trump-launched-nft-platform-first-offering-watercolor-eyes-branded-amulet-inspire-2049967 I can't figure out exactly what they are. Is it like selling shares in a company or a thing? I looked them up. It said NFT's are related to cryptocurrency, which would mean it is nothing. But it looks like with NFT's you have something physical or at least digital. Is it like selling the exclusive digital rights to an image?

Seems to be more and more people going into scanning. Is the archival scanning biz...going up, down or steady? And what about big and indie budget movie film scanning. What are the trends for it? 'Deakins as a teenager' DDTJRAC

When you get a timed scene scan do you get a bunch of individual scans of each scene that has different needs? Or is it just one scan of all the timed scenes combined?

Film Collectors forum mentioned microfilm as well. Possibly oxidation. Also this, it covers a lot of issues. https://psap.library.illinois.edu/advanced-help/slide-film-bw Has anyone seen it on color stock?

Age, maybe 1940s or so. I've seen it only on BW stock as far as I can remember. All the stock I've seen it on is vintage. No telling about storage.

Is there a name for it? I've seen it on a few films. Many times, it migrates to a figure in the film.

A lot of the warped films continually get out of frame when being scanned. It is about impossible to keep up with trying to adjust on the fly. Do the hi-priced scanners automatically adjust for framing? If so, how fast do they adjust once detected? Or for problem films do you just over scan and crop?

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I mean the full size maximum the scanner would produce. DPI is dots per inch. It is adjustable on flatbed scanners. It is a measure of resolution. Just wondering the resolution ability of a cine' scanner compared to a digital camera or flatbed scanner.

I saw on eBay someone was selling a set of 16mm lab prints. One reel had the image (I think it was a neg) and one had the optical track on film. Is this the common way things are done? How is the reel of optical sound synched with the final film? Is it contact printed?

If a 4K cine' scanner was a camera...how many megapixels would it be? If a 4K cine' scanner was a flatbed scanner...how many dpi would it scan?

Post some photos of your setups. Or is that verboten at the L.O.C.? I'd love to try the flat machines. Do they have dealers in the USA for used film editing / scanning gear?

Thanks! They got some beautiful gear. How does their film scanner stack up?

Any new breakthroughs or improvements coming out? Any new scanner options on the low budget front?

Castle was the Netflix of its day for 16mm and 8mm films. They also had Sterling. Coronet and some others. But Eugene Castle was King! Here is a fantastic 16mm 1946 Castle film of various hunting dogs and a rare English stag hunt, western Bobcat hunt, various pointing and retriever dogs on bird hunts and an 'ice breaker' dog. https://archive.org/details/wonder-dogs-castle-1946-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c.

https://www.videomaker.com/how-to/lighting/lighting-for-video-the-dos-and-donts "Our cameras run on light. They need it to produce a clear image that’s both meaningful and pleasing to the eye. Without enough light, you’ll be left with noisy, distracting footage."

Photo: L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation Used under auspices of 'Fair Use'

Wow...Great article! Like the article said, in the old days they shot live broadcast to 16mm film to preserve it. I see 16mm kinescope films on eBay once in a while. Kinescope - Wikipedia 16mm ad: TRUE TEMPER TOOLS- 60's vintage KINESCOPE ABC-TV network ad SUPER RARE! | eBay Why don't they just copy to M-Disc / BD-R? That is as good as it will get unless they put it on quartz. I don't know how much better video tape is than audio tape. But over time much of the 1/4" tape goes south with oxide shedding. Oxide shedding from reel to reel tape. Amount of debris from (2) 7 inch vintage tape reels ran on a Revox B-77 tape deck. I guess they got the problem of finding working machines to do a transfer. Reminds me of looking on eBay to buy used bulbs for some of my Zeiss film editors / projectors. Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. Crazy machine. Has 2 levels for reels! http://susanetheridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Ampex-7800-Type-A-1-1024x682.jpg

Cine' film editing table detail from Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive. Details of photo are: press tape splice holder, old pens turned into splice burnishers, aluminum splicing block, marker, scrap paper, loupe, stamp to mark film labels as scanned and waste tray with trash composed of old artist's tape, masking, scotch tape, snips of film and press tape refuse. I like those little colored plastic ashtrays. Walmart does not seem to sell them. Amazon does not have anything like that. Not the size and colors I'm looking for other than soft silicone. That one is an old one I found in the trash. I like them for organizing small things. I use the splicing block for pin registration only. I use an old Siemens glue splicer, one side of it that is, to make the cut. Does a great job in cutting between film frames. I guess I'm lucky to be an archivist. I get tons of practice making film splices with all sorts of film. I was trying to buy a guillotine tape film splicer, but the brand I was looking for is $$ and hard to find. I had one splice burnisher that came with my old Kodak splicer and was always worried about losing it. A film collector told me he used old ballpoint pens. Sure enuf...they work great. I can lose as many as I want! When I'm working hard, I have to empty the trash tray every few hours. Before I got it, trash was all over the place. If you had a high-class setup, you could have a waste hole cut into the table to sweep trash into. Selection from D.D.T Jr. Advertising Archive 1970

Hey, no one said you can't go home to visit in the Philippines. Cold water flat - Captain of Wall Street 90014 L.A. 1974 - D.D.Teoli Jr. In the old days 1970's and earlier, you could get cold water flats that were next to nothing in NYC and L.A.. Like $65 a month. You had a room and a sink (to pee in) and the communal bathroom was down the hall. But those days are over. They outlawed them for zoning. They got PODs now, but they are pricey. Pod Life D. D. Teoli Jr. 10m 10s : D.D. Teoli Jr. as archivist : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Whatever direction you take...great luck on achieving your dreams!

I haven't used Vimeo for a couple of years. They banned me way back. Then I complained and they reinstated my videos and account...but all the links to the videos I had used were now dead. It just wasn't worth the hassle, so I gave up on them. I have a lot of followers at Vimeo and I felt bad for them, as I never send in anything. So, for Christmas, I sent in a short video. In less than 1-1/2 hours, Vimeo removed the video and sent me a notice. The problem child was a 16mm nudie cutie, maybe 1930's or 40's with no copyright notice that I had scanned. I tried to dispute it, but the reply address won't work... Maybe they are pissed I don't pay them money? All my previous work there has been archival material. Never an issue with that part. The ban a few years ago was from sexual content and not because it was archival...but they reinstated it. And it was hard-core, not tame like this recent one.

Christmas Eve's D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Christmas Eve's is a NSFW 16mm 'arts student' vintage nudie cutie film about 4 pretty gals waking up on Christmas morning and unwrapping their gifts. The film is a scratched up, worn out and badly warped, multi-generation dupe suffering from vinegar syndrome with lots of breaks, splices and blown sprockets. Most of the shadow and highlight detail are gone. Still, it is a most welcome and rare time capsule from bygone era. The films for art students or graphic art students were labeled as such to bypass censorship laws. The film stock code dates it at either 1928 or 1948. But neither date is necessarily what it could be. The film is a dupe and it could have been produced in a different year and duped in the year dated on the film stock. In the movie it shows Christmas on the calendar near the bed falling on a Monday. In 1928 Christmas was on a Tuesday. In 1948 Christmas was on a Saturday. Just no telling when the film was made. The book Dirty Movies: An illustrated History of the Stag Film 1915-1970 Di Lauro & Rabkin 1976 has no listing for the film. The film originated from a stag film librarian's collection. Back in the day, many men's fraternal organizations and lodges maintained a library of stag films for their members to view on stag night festivities. They also had stag librarians that were similar to the 'D.J.s' we have now. They would rent out their film collection and they service as a projectionist to college fraternities and bachelor parties. I was concerned with the sound I used on this film. There was a discussion recently on the forum about unintelligible dialogue and unbearably loud sound in movies. Normally I just add projector sound to silent movies, but I felt this one could benefit from some Christmas music mixed in. So I wanted to get some feedback as to the audio. I marvel at some of the big productions with zillions of people working on them. All those GD eyeballs previewing a project and still they can produce crap. With this film I didn't take the advice I had previously given you of not mixing background noise, wind sounds, car sounds, poorly recorded dialogue and music all together. It is just too much and can result in an audio track of unintelligible dialogue. But, I did limit the audio mix to 2 tracks to try and avoid that problem of just too much audio soup in the pot. To get some input on the audio I asked an old gal I know for her opinion as to the loudness of the band-saw audio and if the music was too soft. Very, very seldom do I get any help or feedback on any of my projects. There is just no one to ask here. Plus I got thousands of movies in the Archive to do, I bang them out as fast as I can. But with Christmas Eve's I spent more time on it than I would have liked, investing a good portion of a day on it. So I figured I could spent a little more time on it to seek out an audio opinion on it before letting it lose. Well, being 2021, after a few minutes viewing the film, the lady got offended, stopped watching it and would not help me. She said my music choice was sacrilegious and that finished up her visit. I told her I don't have months to work on films to find the perfect music and this was the best I could find within my time constraints that didn't have copyright worries. And I told her it is just a little nudie cutie, it is not like it is hardcore porn. But my explanation didn't matter to her. So, I was back to my normal way of doing things and did the best I could judging the audio on my own. When I talk to you about divorcing personal prejudice from work, this gal was a perfect example of not being able to do that. Her personal prejudice precludes her from being a good archivist. She would be the type of archivist that destroys something she finds offensive. Here is a previous post about that subject... Are women too prejudicial to be good archivists? – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection (wordpress.com) Best Wishes for a Pleasant Holiday Season Esteemed Forum Members! 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. Audio Archive Daniel D.Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography Selection from Ghosts of Christmas Past DDTJRAC