Message-Id: <mailto:199606051531.KAA25969@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:26:56 -0500 From: george holmes <mailto:george.holmes@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU> Subject: digitizing To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
We at the Archer M Huntington Art Gallery of the University of Texas at Austin are currently undergoing a digitizing effort for the WWW and our registrar's database. I did a lot of personal research and came up with the paraphrased old axiom that sometimes you get what you pay for. It's just that sometimes you don't need the top quality (resolution) nor the worst. Most of our uses will be at screen resolution (72dpi) and so we didn't go with $7.00/scan cd's, nor did we go with $17.00 for a 36 exp roll of film developed and put on diskettes. We took the money that would have gone to the outside processors and invested it in a 30 bit flatbed scanner with a transparency adapter and also a 35mm film scanner. We have access to student work study type workers so part of the actual scanning can be done by them, but someone will have to go back and tweak the scans for color/contrast/brightness/unsharp filter. You would want to do that with the $7.00 scans as well. You could use the $7.00 scans as is, but someone would find reason to have you change the way they looked. Sorry to use so much bandwidth and if anyone has any more questions please e-mail me direct.Thank you, George Holmes
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Visual Resource Center wrote:
> We are beginning an image digitizing project on Colorado architecture and
> are in the midst of deciding which route to go on scanning: in-house
> versus out-labbing the images to a production house.
>
> One of our program directors received some free film in the mail from
> Seattle Filmworks and was impressed with its results and cost. Apparently
> they give you a slide, an internegative, and now a digital version of each
> image as well for about $8.00 processing cost.
>
> My own memory of Seattle Filmworks from the past is that the image quality
> and archival quality was generally poor. But I admit I haven't tried them
> in many years. I plan to test the film myself, but would appreciate any
> feedback members of the imaging community could give me on their own
> experiences with Seattle Filmworks. Any comments specifically directed to
> their digital image quality would be greatly appreciated, in addition to
> the quality of the slides and negatives.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Lynn M. Lickteig
> Photographer V, Visual Resource Center
> University of Colorado/Boulder
> Internet: mailto:lickteig@spot.colorado.edu
>
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