invisibleflash

I make lots if RPPC from my photos. But don't put anything on the image.

Op...either the photo hits me or not. A good photo has poetry. Poetry and Photography

I had finished up one of the last fade tests I was doing in March. I made some time today to scan it. Been working on the cine' film Archive which is fairly massive. No time for much else. At the end of the summer, I will have the other 2 sun fade tests done. A 1-year fade test of a 1980's dye transfer print and a 6-monh fade test of a 1950's carbro print. Carbro prints are very, very rare. It will be interesting to see how it holds up in the sun. Anyway, let's get on to the dye-based inkjet print. I've tested other dye-based prints at the beginning of my dye stability testing years ago. But I didn't bother to record all the printer info. I was just working informally for my own education at the time. For me it was good enough to distinguish dye-based vs pigment-based inkjet. I've only tested a handful of dye-based inkjet printers, but the results are all the same. Terrible light fastness for them all. They fade in normal room light, let alone sun. But I redid the test with a known printer just to have a model number test done. A proper anal lab tester would get all the data and lumen they received over a 6-month session down. That way they can say each test got all the same amount of light. You see this dye-based test is even more troubling than my normal tests, as it was mainly done in the winter. In the NE US, sun is weakest in the winter. So, it got less sun than my normal sun tests I do in the summer. But I already knew dye-based inkjet is crap for light fastness, so winter is fine for fading it. 6-month sun fade test of a dye-based print made on a Canon MG2522 printer. Print was cut in half and one half exposed to the sun, one half stored in dark storage. Here is a master file of the image for comparison. Faces of Gentrification Here is a print from an old Epson R2000 pigment-based printer. 1 year of sun with it. Section that was in sun is marked with an S.

That is nice! I always like seeing photos! Flatbed Scan Photo - Selection from With Due Respect Beloved One project Just getting back to this thread. Have not read much as yet. Tied up with organizing the Cine' Archive. Still got a month or more work left, but took some time off to check some threads. They had a similar debate on another forum about how digital camera scanning was not scanning. They threw me out, so could not comment. But I'd add to their / this debate the following for those that think camera scanning is not real scanning. For a couple decades cine' film scanners have used a high speed digital cameras to photo each frame of the film. As far as the flatbed scanner image vs photo? I will read on some more.

Looks like the trend for online photo downloads is WEBP files. I just got introduced to them over the last few weeks. They don't show up at the I.A. for preview or can be used with the photo viewer on Windows. Hopefully they get up to date with the software and I.A.. If not, I won't bother archiving memes any longer. I've got a huge archive of memes from various online forums. Somewhere about 5,000 memes at the I.A.. Almost all are political based one way or another. Maybe if you got a new version of Lightroom you can bulk convert to jpeg. Lightroom 5 won't do anything with them. They have online WEBP converters, but I wont use anything online. Can't risk my computer to scams. You can convert them to jpeg with Paint...one by one. But I can't fool with thousands of files like that. Of course, this won't affect many of you, will it? But as an archivist, with a huge archive of material archived off the internet, it is a big pain to me.

There is something I do hate here. They don't allow putting up other people's photos. It is more or less unique to this forum only...and I've been on hundreds of forums since 2-1998. I do it all the time at other forums. NO problems at all...NEVER. The photos are for 'Fair Use' for discussion...editorial and educational. Now, I got no problems taking museum quality photos myself. But, no matter how great you are, there is more to the photo world than just our own work. Selection from Anatomy of an 8mm Cine' Kodachrome...by myself.

Should photos made with a flatbed scanner be called imaging or photography? Image made with Epson flatbed scanner. Selection from Anatomy of an 8mm Cine' Kodachrome project. ...and should photos of chromes or negs made with a digital camera be called scanning?

Get them to build a little manual M43 that is Leica-like and the size of the old half frame 35mm cameras.

OP...I just like manual cameras with maybe an A setting. (Which I almost never use.) I like manual shutter speed, manual aperture on lens, ISO and a foot scale on the lens.

I like everything as is. Flickr banned me years ago. FB banned me many times and gave up on them. Tumblr shut down all 48 of my websites in 2019...deleted it all. Bans from Peta Pixel, YouTube, Vimeo, tons of forums and on and on. ...but I seem to do OK here. Just like I archive SPAM...I archive the bans! Anyway, if the forum stays great! And if not, well I was happy to be on it while it was alive. It is always nice to have a home and community.

Ah...that is why it shows up so much in searches about odd topics. It is a classic!

Don't know what tech changes it needs. Happy with it.

They have a gal at the Data Hoarders Forum that has archived 25,000 chromes with online access. She has done a bang-up job at providing hi-res scans of found chromes for open content CC use. She scans everything, bad exposure, fogged chromes, whatever. But she does not scan naked babies and said so when some kids criticized her for 'privacy and copyright issues' for working with other people's found photos. Well, leave it to the kids to come up with privacy and copyright with found photos. The job of the archivist is mainly to deal with other people's material and some of it was copyrighted at one time or maybe still is. The job of the archivist is to sift out what needs to be archived balanced with copyright. And for the women and for the young people, maybe privacy is a concern. (Although, from what I read, privacy is a big issue in Europe, so it may all depend on which country you are in.) As a candid street photographer for 50+ years and an archivist for many decades, privacy seldom enters my purview. My concern? Is it legal? If legal, I do as I like most of the time. And with copyright, the legal question must be balanced with preservation. This comes under the auspices of the greater good or the greater right. Although if I know something may hurt someone, I will inject some privacy concerns in it, such as I did with 'Hakenkreuz in a Dress.' Or when I put certain photos up at Wiki Commons and they demand commercial use license. I will block out the face, and in the description, I mention the same photo is available at the I.A., with no censorship for non-commercial use. But getting back to these naked babies...what should be done with them? Trashed? Archived as is? Censored with privates blocked out? Her Archive is totally unorganized, so if the naked babies would have been done, they would have been mixed in with everything else. As it stands if the naked babies were done, they would stand out like a sore thumb as a collection of naked babies! I have a large VHS Archive and some of the home movie found footage may have the family's naked baby in them. I think nothing of it. I copy the tapes as-is. I guess if a woman or young person was digitizing the tapes, they would cut out the naked babies.

Ok, thanks!

It is not insane for negs. For paper I scan at 600, 800 and 1200 dpi.

That is more or less how it is with the V500. Super high dpi offer lower res it seems.

My Epson V500 would scan film on the glass just fine, sharp with no film holders and any size up to the lid glass size. The Epson V600 has trouble on the glass. It seems to crop the image into rectangles. But more important, the image is not sharp on the glass and needs to be raised. I'm looking for a good film scanner that will go to 6400 dpi or more with on the glass film capability, hopefully up to 5x7.

Covid hit and a few months later I hurt my foot and can't walk much. So I gave up on street photography and put most of my effort into archival material and cine' film. I use the scanner a lot and do lots of copy stand photography. I also do a lot of screenshot shooting off the internet. Cine' film is an issue because I only have a silent film scanner and it is a pain to get the sound off the film without a sound scanner. It has been almost a year and foot has still not healed. So will see how it ends up. You never think much about feet until you hurt one. Right now I'm working on developing my technique for film scanning with a digital camera. I have a huge archive of material. So always busy. A good practice for shooting is shooting the the TV screen.

I told you before, even the old gen m43 were great. The problem with them is no easy-to-use use manual controls.

Get a different hobby. Try decay in abandoned homes.

Shoot your TV screen! Great practice for timing and comp. M43 would make a good street camera if they made an all-manual Leica clone. Something along the size of the old half-frame 35mm cameras. The M43 sensor is amazing, and it is a fantastic little cam...if you could adjust it easily on the fly. They got an electrical box to do stacked macro shots. Check it out. StackShot Macro Rail Package (cognisys-inc.com) I'm not into macro, but need to get into it 'some' to do some film scanning with camera. I do lots of copy stand and cine' work now that I've retired from the street.

Too bad you didn't get some photos. I never did, never thought about it. Same with all the camera stores. Then one day...poof! Back then there were no scanners. Everything reproduced was photographed on the process camera.

My trips were generally 100% about photography. I hurt my foot 10 months ago and covid hit before that. So have not done any street photography in that time. Now I do mainly archival work and cine' film preservation.

Anyone try camera scanning negs and chromes? I can never get my Epson film scanners to focus that well. Tried all sort of adjustments and raising the film. It always seems slightly out of focus no matter what. Thinking of getting into camera scanning. Will it produce a better scan than the Epson? I'd be using a 42mp Sony most likely.

Thanks for the replies. I was going to build a copy stand setup for camera scanning negs and chromes with a mirrorless. I'd be doing 35mm to 4x5. Maybe an 8x10 neg once in a while. But not too worried about the 8x10. Just want good 35mm and 6x6.