Recent content by DDTJRAC

Artist's tape on the camera.

Source: LoC

LoC I never knew Weston shot panoramic photos.

Some of the replies on an online professional archivist forum on Reddit said that they don't care if Epson discontinued their flagship flatbed V600 and V850 scanners. Many said their Phase One camera or DSLR's and copy stands did better. A copy stand is not the same as a flatbed scanner when it...

Are you thinking about getting into camera scanning? Have you already got a camera scanning setup perfected enough for you? Or are you still trying to perfect it? I'm in the camp of working to switch from flatbed scanners to cameras. But only because of Epson's recent discontinuation of their...

Gotta fade test the dyes. Pigment inkjet are outstanding for fade resistance. Inkjet dyes are terrible. At least the ones I tested a few years ago. I have not kept up with it, so you check it out. Canon PIXMA MG 2522 Dye Inkjet 6 Months Sun Test. Photo was cut into 2 pieces. One part was...

This is #4 out of #6 SSD archival tests underway. The Samsung T7 500GB SSD was formatted on 9.1.22 and 449GB of data was put on it. It has not been plugged in since 9.1.22. I checked it today, 3.1.26 and everything was fine. Future tests will be for #5 / 56 months and #6 / 68 months. I will...

I had 3 of them. One died a few years ago. Another one died a few months ago. The last one still works, but it gets lots of use. Who knows when it will die. If I knew they would be discontinued, I would have bought a few more. They are the workhorse of my archive. What replaces the Epson V600...

I got an old V750 that I paid about $700- $800 for. Has the Epson V850 been going up a lot in price lately? This seems pretty high. But I have not been keeping track of them. BH Epson scanners seem to be pretty pricey nowadays... BH Does this give any better results with negs and chromes...

I see some panoramic photos made with pieced together photos. Did they have a special camera for that as well as single shot panoramic photos? Looks like train was moving, yet a pieced together pano. Some of the pan photos had uneven exposure, like they were made with a swing lens...

Here is an old article I wrote years ago on the history on infrared flash photography. It is not up to date, but it was up to date at the time I wrote it. I had some more samples of Weegee's IR flash work, but they got removed due to broken links. If a photo looks fuzzy or distorted, click on...

Dunno about the AI mode, but people will still be interested in capturing life as it unfolds. AI has certainly changed things a lot on YouTube with art, photography and video content. All AI photos... There are lots of options for stock photography with AI too. All AI photos...

That is funny! Since they don't have a thumbs up or thanks option here...

Yes, I guess it was doable with larger formats. I only used it in 35mm.

In the 70's I would wander down Freestyle's aisles of expired military film at their old location. I bought some 4x5 glass plates expired around 1954. They still worked fine. You never know about this stuff. But maybe hi ASA might develop a fog. I was broke so liked expired cheap film back then...