Re: Microfilm digitizing

Owen (mailto:Somerset@INTERRAMP.COM)
Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:29:12 EST

Message-Id: <mailto:199503162108.PAA14693@library.wustl.edu>
Date:         Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:29:12 EST
From: Owen <mailto:Somerset@INTERRAMP.COM>
Subject:      Re: Microfilm digitizing
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB

>I recently had a vendor try to scan 14th century manuscripts
>from microfilm. The vendor's hardware/software combination
>only supports black/white digitizing. Does anyone know of
>vendors who can generate 8 bit grey scale images from microfilm?
>Please repond to me directly to avoid cluttering up the list
>and, if there are responses, I will post them in one batch.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this.
>
>Mark
>
>Mark Olsen
>Assistant Director
>ARTFL Project
>University of Chicago
>(312) 702-8687
>Gopher: gopher.uchicago.edu/11/uscholarly/artfl
>WWW: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html
>
>Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections
>must first be overcome. --- Samuel Johnson

Pardon my Ignorance, but I thought that microfilm was black&white w/o grey.

Which vendor did you try?

Owen.