Sorry for not making myself clearer. I was referring to the quad vtr 
(actually the mark one had 3 heads in arcuate configuration and AM). 
There was something that looked like a picture but not to any standard. 
It did show the possibility.
Shai

On 3/14/2010 10:34 AM, Ted Kendall wrote:
> Poor analogy. I have heard a straight dub of the first time the Ampex 
> was used in anger, namely the opening show of Bing Crosby's 1947 
> season. Nothing appalling there, I can tell you - technically, at 
> least...
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shai Drori" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 6:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] What do you think I should do?
>
>
>> I have already heard a sound file generated by image processing. 
>> Don't remember where it was, but I think it was someone here in 
>> Israel. Sounded horrible but it proved the possibility. Kind of like 
>> the Mark 1 from ampex.
>>
>> On 3/14/2010 7:53 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
>>> Alex Hartov wrote:
>>>> Shari
>>>>
>>>> Make high resolution images of all the pieces.  Use light at 
>>>> ~45degree incidence from two side ( two separate pictures).  I am 
>>>> sure it will be possible to revive the music from that.
>>>>
>>>>   PS
>>>>
>>>> If you want I'll make it a project to recover the sound from the 
>>>> pictures.  I teach a class in image processing.
>>>>
>>>> Alex Hartov
>>>
>>> I hope it works.  I must make a comment here because I have been 
>>> preaching about the possibility of playing phoyographs of records 
>>> for 40 years.  I realized around 1970 as I took photos of journal 
>>> pages and paper files to use as microfilm as a replacement for 
>>> notetaking while researching for my PhD. dissertation that it was 
>>> great that I could capture the page in an instant and read it later 
>>> but when I took pictures of records I could only read the label 
>>> info, not hear it.  No instant capturing of the sound.  Dubs had to 
>>> be real-time.  But I was sure that if the pictures could be taken so 
>>> that the record was evenly lit -- like using a ring light around the 
>>> lens -- and not have wedges of light, the sound could probably 
>>> *someday* be played.
>>>
>>> When the design for the photographic system for the Rigler Deutsch 
>>> Record Index was being developed I pleaded with them to light the 
>>> discs evenly. But their ONLY concern was legibility of the label and 
>>> the matrix number markings.  But there are now unplayable 
>>> photographs of 700,000 78s in the RDRI films.  (For those who do not 
>>> know, the records were photographed and the data entered into the 
>>> computer from the films.  Instead of the records being moved to the 
>>> computer in those days of the mainframe, the special camera came to 
>>> the archuve.)
>>> Mike Biel  [log in to unmask]
>>
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