Books / scanning

Richard,

I am a wet plate photographer who has several books of that period that I
DID HAVE SCANNED until the drive died.

I still have some books that I photocopied before scanning so I could re-do
them for a site that will be backed up.

I also am the person who has the carbon manual OCR'd and on line for
download at the moment. I would whole heartedly support your effort to get
this material on line and available for the world to see.

I am hoping to run across another drive of the same model number so that I
may recover them. I believe the electronics died on that drive vs the
hardware inside the drive.

If you want to contact me directly: watsok@frii.com

  Ken Watson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-carbon@spitbite.org
> [mailto:owner-carbon@spitbite.org] On Behalf Of Richard Sullivan
> Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 9:00 AM
> To: carbon@spitbite.org
> Subject: Re: [carbon] relief
>
>
> Halvor,
>
> I am in the early stages of starting The Center for
> Photographic History
> and Technology, a tax exempt non-profit organization. The focus is on
> preserving the technology of the past. We plan symposiums,
> and educational
> programs, etc. I also want to build a library and scan and
> ocr important
> books like this. The OCR part is unique. Other groups have
> scanned books
> image wise and republished them in paper form but I want to build an
> online database where people can search the information. The
> Gutenberg
> Project does something similar but with important works of
> world literature
> and the photo technology focus is obviously not on their agenda.
>
> So please hang on to that book and when I am up and running I
> am hoping to
> get volunteers to do some of the work in scanning and
> OCR'ing. I plan to
> sell paper versions that are printed on demand but the online
> versions will
> be handy for research.
>
> If you can make jpgs of the pages on Wooodbury I can ocr and
> format the
> pages myself. That would be a nice favor.
>
>
> --Dick
>
>
> At 08:24 AM 12/23/2004, you wrote:
> >Richard Sullivan wrote:
> >>Halvor,
> >>Thanks!
> >>I'll try to get a copy from the Woodbury Encyclopedia.
> Eastman House
> >>has
> >>been helpful in doing things like this for me in the past.
> >If problem, I can always scan the pages OCR&PDF it and send it as an
> >email. This is no problem to do.
> >
> >Have been considering copying the whole book, but it was this time
> >thing.., It is an original, left behind in a shelf by a
> retiered teacher,
> >I rescued the book over into my shelfs.
> >
> >>I was interested also in your comments that seemed to indicate that
> >>you
> >>needed a very high relief to pull a Woodbury plate. Is that
> your opinion?
> >my impression is that for a woodbury print to function as a print it
> >doesn`t need more relief than a (high) carbon print, this
> article mentions
> >1/200 of an inch, I think some was done in color that is
> several layers
> >which then would be thicker. The gelatin relief makes an
> impression in
> >lead - which then is filled with "carbonised" or pigmented
> gel and printed
> >on paper. So basically a layer thickness that works for
> carbon would be
> >enough to print / color a paper.
> >
> >It might be that earlier formulaes operated with higher
> relief, which I
> >would like to see..
> >
> >
> >have to run now, more later
> >Halvor
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