Message-Id: <199802100607.XAA57380@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 23:56:14 -0600 From: "Gary L. Behr" <mailto:gbehr@MIDPLAINS.NET> Subject: Re: scanning 2 1/4" negatives To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Hi Lynda -I'm sure you'll get enough responses to solve your mechanical (scanner) questions,. However, it always scares me when I hear people scanning images for digital *archiving*.
Inherently the tendancy is to:
A) Scan at a lower resolution in order to save space, at the significant loss of image quality:
B) Use an *auto* setting on the scanner software and loose a lot of subtle detail quality (or worse yet, batch scan several images together on *auto*);
C) Expect to be able to preserve (and retieve) digital images on a long term bases;
D) Make the fatal error of not effectively preserving the original images after they have scanned (based on the false assumption digital *archiving* works);
Certainly the options are yours (as well as the consequences). This is just offered as food for thought -
Gary L. Behr, CPC
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lynda barnett wrote: >
> I am in the process of buying scanning equipment to convert our Television
> Production Photographs into a digital archive. We have many different film
> formats to consider but the 2 1/4" negatives (mainly from the 50,s and 60's)
> are a major concern. Is it true that they would have to be mounted, I
> presume like slides, before scanning with a slide-negative scanner? This is
> what we have been told by a vendor, or should we be using a flatbed scanner?
> Most of the negatives are in strips of 2 - I really don't want to cut them.
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> Lynda Barnett
> CBC Design Library & Still Photo Archive