Message-Id: <199702132001.NAA67638@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:53:00 -0600 From: George Holmes <mailto:george.holmes@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU> Subject: Re: Evaluating the Use of Photo CD Technology for Preservation To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
I have a question that I hope someone can answer.Does the resolution of the largest file size on a Photo CD equal the output of a good drum scanner?
George Holmes
>>Bob Weaver,
>>I can receive from but can't post to the IMAGELIB listserv. Would you be kind
>>enough to post this for me? Thanks.
>>
>>Kodak is beginning to exhibit a new set of technologies for online image
>>management based on the FlashPix image format. They will be on display
>tomorrow
>>at the Visual Resources Association Conference in New York, and at the Seybold
>>conference in March. It is not accurate at this point to say that FlashPix
>will
>>"supercede" Photo CD Image Pac. FlashPix at this point is suited almost
>>exlusively for home imaging applications. The long-term prospects for adoption
>>of FlashPix by parties other than Kodak and Microsoft, particularly for
>>professional applications, are undetermined. There are many inside and outside
>>of Kodak who continue to feel that Photo CD Image Pac is and will remain the
>>format for choice for archival imaging applications. Kodak will always provide
>>forward compatibility between Photo CD Image Pac and FlashPix formats,
>whatever
>>direction FlashPix might develop.
>>
>>Jeff Heehs
>>Kodak
>>mailto:jheehs@kodak.com
>>
>>Is anyone evaluating the Kodak/HP/Microsoft/Live_Picture "FlashPix"
>>"resolution-independent" technology (they call it that--can it be so?)
>>It seems that this will supersede Photo CD technology if it lives up to
>>its promise, as laid out in Kodak's literature. Info is on URLs
>> http://www.kodak.com/drgHome/productsTechnologies/niftyTech.shtml
>>and
>> http://www.kodak.com/pub/neale/magnet/flashPix/flashNews.shtml
>>
>>Bob Weaver
>>Northern Arizona University
>>
>>
>>
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