Message-Id: <mailto:199511012156.PAA21700@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:56:59 -0700 From: Richard Rinehart <mailto:rinehart@UCLINK2.BERKELEY.EDU> Subject: Re: Mac vs. PC for imaging To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Here at the Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley, the Library has undertaken an extensive imaging project (over 200,000 images of clippings and film documentation). We chose to go with (mostly) Mac equipment for the project. The Macs are used for the indexing, and scanning of images, image-manipulation, etc. and several campus Unix machines are used to house the final retrieval database, image storage, etc. So the project has included a combination of MacOS and X-windows emulators for using the Unix servers remotely as well.Without going into *all* the technical details of the project, this decision seems to have worked well for us. There did seem to be fewer options initially for production level imaging solutions on the Mac, but part of the decision for us was that our campus is very Mac friendly, and our museum is mostly Mac, so everything fits in well in terms of efficient use of resources, etc. In the end it's working for us.
I just thought I'd toss in to this thread a sample of an existing project and our own OS decision - which may not be universially applicable, but shows one possible mode anyway.
Hope this helps,
Richard Rinehart | University Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive Systems Manager & Education | University of California at Berkeley Technology Specialist | 2625 Durant, Berkeley, CA 94720-2250 mailto:rinehart@uclink2.berkeley.edu | http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/
>On Nov 1, 9:25am, Joel Wolfson wrote:
>> Subject: Re: Mac vs. PC for imaging
>> (Although Windows 95 does not have any built in color
>> management as does the Mac).
>>
>>-- End of excerpt from Joel Wolfson
>
>Actually, Windows 95 does indeed have built in color management called Image
>Color Matching (ICM). As Linotype-Hell provided the core interpolation code
>and device profiles for Apple, Kodak provided the core interpolation code and
>device profiles for Microsoft.
>
>Having been the color architect for ColorSync 2.0 while at Apple (now I'm at
>Hewlett-Packard research labs), the founding chairman of the International
>Color Consortium (ICC) device profile standards effort and now working closing
>with Microsoft on their color management, I am familiar with the low level
>aspects of this work.
>
>Also in fairness, Apple has published a book "Advanced Color Imaging and the
>Mac OS" which describes Apples color imaging technologies quite well from a
>software developers standpoint. Equivalent documentation from Microsoft is
>almost non-existent.
>
>
>Also, just my two cents.
>
>--
>-- Michael
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