Monday, Jan 29, 2007 at 23:21
Hi DIO,
We scan consumer negs/slides at 2700 dpi for the best trade off and save them as a compressed tiff.
We can scan higher but then as you have seen, the size gets unmanageable.
If we are sending them straight to the large format printer we scan them at 6400dpi.
The compressed tif is good as it remains editable with no loss but good mathematical compression. And it is compatible with most programs and labs.
If you have a large number of slides to scan, as your favourite lab for a bulk discount. They may appreciate the work (if they can still do it). They will put them on DVD and also may include 6x4's for little extra.
Only a minor nit pick from GMD's comment.... you will compress a jpg every time it is edited, saved, closed, opened, edited saved etc but you will not lose info every time it is saved and remains open (
well that's the way Photoshop works anyway). I agree to steer clear of it for your primary unedited images though.
The main thing is to enjoy your images no matter what. Are we still going to have images to enjoy in 50 years time that we have taken and kept filed on CD/DVD/HDD and not printed or film archived??? I would love to be around to see what actually happens. :)
Cheers Cam
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