Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe you guys are pickier than me, but this shot: _http://www.sonc.com/christmas_2004-fw.htm_ (http://www.sonc.com/christmas_2004-fw.htm) was scanned from Reala to a jpeg, edited, saved again as jpeg, and sent out for the most luscious 16 x 20 you can imagine. I shoot way too much to save on Tiff. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish In a message dated 4/27/2005 7:09:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time, scott@adrenaline.com writes: I have the same problem with tiff files of large hi res scans. A 4000 DPI scan saved as a 14 bit (Nikon V) Grayscale TIFF is something like 41MB per frame. A roll of film is over 1GB and won't even archive to a CD, perhaps a more serious issue for me than HD space (although, that too quickly becomes an issue). Different applications have different problems with TIFF lossless compression schemes (zip, lzw), so that doesn't present itself as a viable option. What's worse, though, is that JPEG is 8 bit, so I loose alot of information before even JPEG compression kicks in. The whole thing is odd to me, I recall the days of PCX, and we've come a long way since then. But why isnt' there a universally supported lossless compressed format that supports 16 bit gs and 48 bit color? Really wierd to me. What do other folks do to archive hi rez scans of rolls of film? Scott