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Hi Lynda -

I'm sure you'll get enough responses to solve your mechanical (scanner)
questions,. However, it always scares me when I hear people scanning images
for digital *archiving*.

Inherently the tendancy is to:

A) Scan at a lower resolution in order to save space, at the significant loss
of image quality:

B) Use an *auto* setting on the scanner software and loose a lot of subtle
detail quality (or worse yet, batch scan several images together on *auto*);

C) Expect to be able to preserve (and retieve) digital images on a long term
 bases;

D) Make the fatal error of not effectively preserving the original images
after they have scanned (based on the false assumption digital *archiving*
 works);

Certainly the options are yours (as well as the consequences).
This is just offered as food for thought -


Gary L. Behr, CPC





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lynda barnett wrote:
>
> I am in the process of buying scanning equipment to convert our Television
> Production Photographs into a digital archive. We have many different film
> formats to consider but the 2 1/4" negatives (mainly from the 50,s and 60's)
> are a major concern.  Is it true that they would have to be mounted, I
> presume like slides, before scanning with a slide-negative scanner?  This is
> what we have been told by a vendor, or should we be using a flatbed scanner?
>  Most of the negatives are in strips of 2 - I really don't want to cut them.
>  Any advice would be appreciated.
> Lynda Barnett
> CBC Design Library & Still Photo Archive