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    Been downsizing and cleaning up things. I finally found the lost SD card from a 2018 IR flash shoot at B&H in NYC. It got lost a short time after I shot it. As in...lost so fast I didn't have time to put it on the computer. It was Christmas time and I was out doing some street photography on a Sunday afternoon in Manhattan. It started to rain. I was in the area, so I thought I'd step into B&H to give them some infrared radiation. I spent about 20 minutes looking around. Took 109 IR flash photos then left. All candid stuff. I was in a rush to get back to Jersey City as I was leaving that night for Ohio. Being is a rush, the card got misplaced when I packed up. Glad I finally found it. My worst nightmare was finding the card after the data had degraded. You can't keep SD card data forever and not plug it is every few years to keep the data fresh. I was told they hold data for 10 years without a plug in. The longest I've gone is 5 -6 years without a plug in and data was still good on the SD card. Nothing spectacular from the shoot. But it was interesting to do and sure beats standing in the rain! Zir can also go in 'Burkas & Hijabs of New York' project. I like it when I get photos that are useful in other projects. More bang for the buck so to speak. IR flash does not go too far. It is not the best thing for long distance shots. You benefit very little from available light unless you are getting tons of it. But if you were doing staged work you could set up a bunch of IR flashes for distance. They got a room when leaving B&H for people to unbox and fondle their new gear. If it was a gun store people would want to unbox and start loading up! Still doing post work going through the photos. Lots of post work. These are all shot from the hip with zone focus and zone exposure. Consequently...lots and lots of PP!
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    RD-1 was what I started with when I moved to digi rangefinders. Could not afford a Leica back then. RD-1 was a very important camera in the evolution of digital cams. But maybe not if you are talking Leica. Epson RD-1s
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    Live within your budget and keep going. Sell ads as well as advertise the forum. Was the old forum cheaper to run?
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    Still photographers don't think much about VS. But for cine's film users it is a big problem with acetate film stock. The Vinegar Syndrome Files…5 Year Test Results – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection – II (home.blog)
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    Yes, concur.
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    Been very busy reorganizing all my workspace. I scanned this one from the Archive for you yesterday. Something you may like for your personal collection. From Glendale, CA. No date. I sure wish I had taken some photos in the 1970's at my old camera store in L.A...Pan Pacific Camera. Never occurred to me. You just take them for granted. Then boom...one day they are gone. Happy Holidays to all and thanks for everyone's participation at the forum!
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    I'd like to try it if they ever make a stand alone version.
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    Alan, every monitor is different. Everyone sees them differently. Have you printed anything? Happy with the prints from your scans?
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    Excellent job!
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    Op...I miss out all the time. But I do ok bringing some home too.
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    I used a monitor and wireless keyboard with my HP laptop all the time. The monitor, a few years ago, was like $100 at Walmart.
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    OP...I would generally agree with you. I statred with film in the late 60's. I gave it up in early 2000's. I still work with a ton of film in the Archive. But for my personal work, I'm very happy with digital.
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    invisibleflash commented on wl_schlueter's gallery image in Nude and Erotic

    People , photogs, always like girls and cameras.
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    An easy area of archival preservation to get into is documenting gallery and museum shows An easy way to contribute material to the Internet Archive...or your blog...and preserve some history in the process.
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    Just saw this thread. Thanks! Didn't know he died. I will download the video at the I.A. as soon as my upload to the I.A. is done. The internet here is too puny to do both. Always liked Klein's work. He was an early inspiration of mine. Just because anything is online...it doesn't mean it will stay there. Even at the I.A. They had banned me and removed over 100,000 uploads of mine a few years ago. Yes, one of the reasons I became an archivist... Years ago, I was watching a video on photo galleries at lunch. I finished half of it, by lunchtime the next day...poof! YT had pulled the plug. I watched a lot of Klein's films, but I could never find the Ali film.
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    Dunno. I was thinking final photos maybe 200. Raw photos maybe 3,000 - 4,000. But 13,000 seems excessive. I was told National Geographic photos shoot 20,000 photos for an assignment more or less. I think that # was still in the film era. I say you need to shoot a hundred photos to get a good one. (if lucky) I almost never go to weddings, but did go to one a few years ago... Dancing Queen Bride 2014 It is kinda interesting that I don't like weddings, yet I have a huge collection of archival photos of vintage weddings / brides. I find them interesting as long as I don't have to go to them. I even have a category for nosegay, which is a small floral bouquet the bride used to carry to stifle smells.
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    That is interesting. Didn't know about that Archive. Trouble is you need to know info to get info. I was scanning this morning. Found an unknown Diane Arbus photo of a topless gal standing outside with apron. Title was Waitress in a Nudist camp...or some such thing. Estimate was $60K - $80K. You find all kinda interesting things in these catalogs. Plus, it had some interesting historical backstory. Also, some carbro prints by Outerbridge. Just countless photo history in the catalogs. I'd post some samples, but they don't like posting photos other photogs took here. Scanning is not that big of a deal...but it is still a big deal. I use a sheetfed scanner. Even so, you have to look for lines in the scans and you can't scan big amounts of paper at once. If you get lines, you have to rescan the group. The paper is heavy and kind of a sticky, gloss paper. You can do maybe 20 - 25 pages at a time or they jam. The last big job I did (a month ago) was scanning 27 issues of Sex to Sexty magazine. It was a matte paper and no problems with sticking paper. That was about 2500 pages. Luckily it was a half-ass, decent matte paper or the matte black ink transfers to the rollers and makes a mess of the scanner. In that case you have to flatbed scan. Still, there was some transfer with matte black ink to the rollers, even with the half-ass decent matte paper. If I didn't have the sheetfed scanner that scans both sides at once and auto crops, I'd never do it. It would have to be something very special to flatbed scan 3500 pages. ...I have tons of high-quality digital collections of all sorts, if this one is not up anyone's alley for trading.
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    Large Sotheby's photograph auction catalog collection. Still scanning, but as rough estimate, the collection will be somewhere around 3500 pages and 24gb. Don't have collection handy, but will count # of catalogs and update later. Scans are 600 dpi. Will trade digital collection for another interesting digital collection. Min res for trade is 300 dpi, preferable 600 dpi or more. Trade would be done with Blu-ray disc or thumbdrive. Catalogs cover late 1980's to early 2000s. Some have realized price sheets. Some catalogs from London and NYC. I have a very wide ranges of interest for trades. I'm just not interested in text and prefer historical material. Your trade doesn't have to match scan for scan. The better it is, the smaller it can be. But any way you slice it, scanning +/- 3500 scans is a lot of work.
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    My older Sony is the same. I need silent shutter and infrared flash. But can't get it with the Sony.
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    Yes, I've been using a household fan to blow air into mine. As I look at the vent holes, they have dust showing. It blows out tremendous heat. You can feel it as you walk by. Looks like they are pushing liquid cooled computers a lot. I'd like to stick with fans. Just don't like having to use a house fan.
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    It is hard trying to figure out what works with what. Everything is not fungible.
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    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.
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    That is the oddball thing about this forum. Discussing others work comes under 'fair use.' There are a lot of posts I don't send in here for that very reason.
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    Is there a benefit to the new site? Like lower operating costs?
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    That is a comment...as in ease of use.
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