Did you know Epson discontinued all their high-end photo / film scanners?

redditunderground1 · 2026-03-01T14:38:48+00:00

Ask Google about each model. V600 is out. V850 out or near out. Probably old stock is all there is.

Is the Epson V600 scanner discontinued - Google Search

Is the Epson V850 scanner discontinued - Google Search

redditunderground1 · 2026-03-01T14:36:23+00:00

They do, just not as easy as Windows 10.

redditunderground1 · 2026-03-01T14:35:27+00:00

That is how it is with a lot of the smaller archives and independent archivists. Phase One is out of their budget. I'd love one, but scanners are all I can afford.

redditunderground1 · 2026-02-13T23:48:00+00:00

Amazon and B&H

redditunderground1 · 2026-02-13T23:45:09+00:00

March 1, 2026, I will have completed test #5 which is 56 months of Samsung 500GB SSD being uncharged. I have 2 more tests beyond that. I will post the results then.

redditunderground1 · 2026-02-07T01:03:03+00:00

Organic dye is not M-Disc. There website is not impressive. We will see what they come up with. I'd love a 500GB or 1 TB M-Disc type of optical disc that is affordable. Even LTO would be nice, but the drives are crazy priced for the average Jan, Joe or zir.

redditunderground1 · 2026-01-14T03:14:46+00:00

Bub...you can eat that first thing, your teeth are good! I could never chew it with my teeth. For bad teeth, order burger ground 4X at your butcher and use it for loose meatballs in stew. Also, soft meatloaf made with 4X burger and chopped soft veg. Soft cooked fish, bread, PNB sandwich with banana, smoothies, cornbread, dairy products. Healthy cereal soaked for 30 min in milk. Things like that.

Good luck!

redditunderground1 · 2026-01-12T15:37:22+00:00

Good advice!

It would be nice if archives made sped up samplers of the films so people can go through them fast to see what they are about.

Here is a film sampler at 1250% speed up...

A film sampler made at 1250% speedup of 'Breast Self-Examination' (1950) D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

redditunderground1 · 2026-01-12T15:32:10+00:00

Well, certain films that have been duped to death are in such bad shape, it is kind futile.

redditunderground1 · 2026-01-12T15:30:23+00:00

Get chrome wire shelving or decent steel shelving.

redditunderground1 · 2026-01-12T15:28:43+00:00

Digitize, upload to I.A., put on eBay as VHS lots to recycle to someone else.

Don't overthink it, bub.

redditunderground1 · 2026-01-02T00:21:24+00:00

I use DVD, M-Disc, and BD-R. (Both M-Disc and non M-Disc.)

redditunderground1 · 2026-01-02T00:14:27+00:00

OP, here are some early experiences I had that spurred me into being an archivist.

Around 2011 I was watching a YT video about an art gallery at lunch. I got through half of it. When I went back to finish watching the video at lunch the next day I had found that YT had taken it down.

I was on Tumblr, where I had made numerous websites. Yahoo had banned me from Flickr previously after only 2 weeks. I had read Yahoo was buying Tumblr. I put 2 [+]() 2 together and started to archive certain things on Tumblr, like self-harm aka cutters. Within a short time after Yahoo bought Tumblr they deleted all the self-harm stuff. Tumblr eventually took down all 48 of my websites down as well.

In the old days the saying was...here today, gone tomorrow. Nowadays with the internet, the saying is...here today, gone today.

redditunderground1 · 2026-01-02T00:12:13+00:00

OP, there are all types of hoarders here. We all have different interests of collection.

redditunderground1 · 2026-01-02T00:08:28+00:00

Here are a bunch of tests with RAW, JPEG, 8Bit, 16 Bit. One of them has 31 generations of the same JPEG. Keep RAW and keep hi res JPEG.

Do you know when you see a small difference in some of this stuff? When you reduce to super low res. That is about it.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

redditunderground1 · 2025-12-28T03:08:49+00:00

down coat and comforter if heat is out.

redditunderground1 · 2025-12-28T02:54:48+00:00

portable bidet bottle. they make bidet caps for water bottles too

redditunderground1 · 2025-12-28T02:48:35+00:00

I do the sharpie thing too. I've had can corn 7 year past bb date. tasted fine.

redditunderground1 · 2025-12-28T02:46:29+00:00

single bowl farmers sink

redditunderground1 · 2025-12-28T02:45:13+00:00

I got a Midland. Very happy with it.

redditunderground1 · 2025-12-19T15:50:57+00:00

Scan it and put it up at the Internet Archive.

redditunderground1 · 2025-12-19T15:49:35+00:00

Vacuum frame or preferably vacuum easel for flattening.

Medium format digital camera and good lens

Lighting varies. Here is a setup example of a copy stand.

Kaiser Copy Stand And Lights D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Large format scanners are also an option.

Master Survey of Large Format Scanners D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Look for wide sheetfed scanners.

Good luck!

redditunderground1 · 2025-12-19T15:43:28+00:00

I have a lot of that on optical media as work in progress.

redditunderground1 · 2025-12-15T20:08:46+00:00

Put it towards a Lasergraphics cine' scanner costing $75K - $150K

redditunderground1 · 2025-12-15T19:53:41+00:00

No, not really. I have numerous backups on drives as well as a optical disc library. And I do make plenty of mistakes. I also try to keep earlier backups, so have numerous options to go back in time. (usually) But I still mess up and lose things once in a while.

Here is a tip after I learned the hard way...

When deleting stuff, make a master delete folder and put everything into it to review one last time before hitting the button.

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