Re: Books / scanning

Ken,

Sorry to be so late. Xmas and all has me goofing off for the past week.
Ken, anything you have you feel is important hang on to. I'd be happy to
take whatever you have ocr's or even image wise. I have Omniscan pro and
Finereader here.

We practioners are the best judge of what is important. Don't know much
about resurrecting bad drives. One of the tricks I've heard does work in
some circumstances is to deep freeze the drive and then quickly install and
try to copy off what you need. No joke, apparently it works sometime.

--Dick

>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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> > message. You
> > can send an address so I can mail you a catalog or check out
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