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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
08-01-2017, 05:51 PM
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Indeed!
Perhaps two pieces of string could attach to the camera's left & right strap lugs to the drone's left and right landing struts forward of the center of gravity whilst two other pieces of string run from left and right struts in the rear and tie to a 1/4-20 bolt in the tripod socket under the camera. That four-point suspension mount would hold the camera under the center of gravity, keep camera from swinging, and tilt the camera down for a pleasing angle of view onto the horizon and ground.
Then you just need to cock the camera, set it on self-timer, hit the shutter button, and lift off straight up!
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
08-01-2017, 05:41 AM
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The violent swaying was almost certainly due to suspending the camera on string and the unstable interactions between the pendulum effect and the drone's control logic.
A three or four-string rig that holds the camera in place might enable stable flight.
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
07-25-2017, 01:17 PM
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Archiving is not a one-time task but an on-going process.
Maybe TIFF will be around for a long time, maybe it won't. The more likely problem is that the filesystem of the device or disk that stores the TIFF files will go obsolete or device interface standards will change resulting in a device that is unreadable even if there's still applications that can access the TIFF files. Thus a key part of the archiving process is forward migration of the files to newer media.
The big advantage of digital as tool in the archiving process is that the cost of copies is extremely low. That then enables duplication and off-site storage which can reduce the chance of loss due to fire, flood, theft, etc.
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
06-26-2017, 09:00 AM
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I'm voting with pathdoc -- film is much more archival than anything digital.
You may think TIFF will be around forever, but I would not bet on it. It's very very easy for digital file standards to change, for the popularity of different file formats to change, for software writers to change with them with the result that new systems can't read ancient variant or obsolete formats. You can't assume current day TIFF files (or the file system that is holding those TIFF files) will be readable by future operating systems.
Even worse are digital media that depend on special types of readers -- how many computers these days can read IOmega zip disks, Jaz drive disks, Sony minidiscs, laserdiscs, etc. A lot of PCs don't even have a CD/DVD drives and if current trends in broadband and cloud continue, consumer electronics makers will have less and less tendency to make or support removable media drives.
Scanning is a great way to make a backup of your images but I'd never trust it to be the only format.
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