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Scan Photos

Scan Photos

Video, Film, Photos, Slides. Why Scan Photos? Photos can easily become damaged, torn, dusty, faded and worse. Your family photographs are a window to the past. This is your life, your family history. We help families and businesses RI and Southcoast MA preserve and...

360 Degree Video from American Museum of Natural History

360 Degree Video from American Museum of Natural History

This 360 degree video below from American Museum of Natural History is called "Fossil Hunting in the Gobi." It portrays 1920s fossil-hunting expeditions to the Gobi Desert with a legendary paleontologist, and then segues to the Museum’s modern-day collections. The 360...

Go Pro Karma Recall

Go Pro Karma Recall

On Tuesday November 8, 2016 GoPro issued a Go Pro Karma Recall and yanked its new Karma drone from retailers shelves because some of them lost power during flight. What caused the power loss has not been announced. The HERO5 Black and Karma Grip are not subject to...

HTML5 Video

HTML5 Video

HTML5 video is becoming the new standard way to show video on the web without plugins, instead of the previous de facto standard Adobe Flash. That program had so many critical vulnerabilities that it was finally retired. Adobe Flash is technically gone, with Adobe...

Digital Restoration of the Zapruder Film

Digital Restoration of the Zapruder Film

The Zapruder film is a silent, 8mm color motion picture sequence shot by private citizen Abraham Zapruder with a home-movie camera. Zapruder filmed President John F. Kennedy's motorcade as it passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. This...

My Video Transfer Business

My Video Transfer Business

When I started my video transfer business, I had intended it to be a small part-time business that would be a nice way to meet neighbors. I made all kinds of videos into DVDs and digital, but subcontracted the film transfers to a guy who does transfers full-time. I...

The Sweet Spot of a Lens

The Sweet Spot of a Lens

To understand the sweet spot of a lens, we need to look into the math of f stops. Don't worry. It's not that bad and once you get the basic idea, you will be able to apply this knowledge in many situations. F stop is the measure of how much light can pass through a...

5 Documentary Rules from Steve James

Steve James' documentaries brings viewers inside the lives of his subjects. One of the most popular docs of all time is James' 1994 film Hoop Dreams, An Oscar™-nominated film and one of the most widely discussed and well-received documentaries of the decade, Hoop...