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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] >