Message-Id: <199805122135.OAA49306@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 16:24:49 -0500 From: Jim Beaven <mailto:jbev@OMNI.CC.PURDUE.EDU> Subject: Re: request for info on images to microfilm To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Stuart Glogoff wrote:Hello Stuart,
> One of my UA colleagues thought that our Sonoran partners might find it
> easier to digitize first and microfilm from the digital image. This
> surprised me, since I thought there would be considerable tweaking,
> adjustments, editing, etc. to digitize these materials. But, I've never
> microfilmed material so I have no frame of reference for comparing the
> complexities and learning curve.
This is not a good idea. It is better to Microfilm the documents then scan them. Microfilming will with 35mm picks up more details then scanning right now. There is a great book called "Preservation Microfilming" Edited by Lisa Fox. Scanning just can not eqaul the detail that microfilming can do right now. If you scan then microfilm from the Tiffs, you will loose details.
Plus technology is moving along at a very fast rate. Also saving your tiffs to HD or Floppy (3.5HD, zipp, CD) who to say in 5 years these will be the method of storage. Plus what is the life span of a CD? Most about 10 years. I look at the computer I am sitting at and it no longer has a 5 1/4 drive. While Microfilm will be around for a long time. You will always be able to view it and scanning it updating the Tiffs to put them up on the web or what ever means is being used down the road.
UCLA had a great short couse on this very subject and they have a great set up for microfilming there. If you would like more information on that you might email them or feel free to email me and I will be happy to give you a contact name out there.
With our special collections we will microfilm frist and scan second.
>
> I'd appreciate hearing your opinions and experiences in digitizing first
> and making microfilm from the images. Also, can you point me in the
> direction of equipment that would generate the microfilm from images,
> most likely TIFFs.
I would advise against it.
>
> Regards, Stuart
>
Jim Beaven
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