Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, Have you considered converting your tiff's to dng's? Leo On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Nathan <photo@frozenlight.eu> wrote: > By coincidence, I have been going through my scans from the late 1990s > until 2003 during the past week. Specifically, I have copied them from the > hundreds of CDs onto an external HD (all TIFF files), and as I write this, > I > am importing them into Lightroom. The CDs are up to 10 years old, but since > they were the Kodak gold CDs, they have all held up, without exception. Our > of about 3000 images, there were 2 corrupted files, both on another brand > CD > (also gold, but not Kodak, ironically only 5 years old). > > It is fun to look at the old images in Lightroom, but they will need some > work. The scanned film is not equal by any means to the DSLR images I make > now. The one exception are the IR images, which are better than anything I > have seen done with digital capture. > > Dan, I think you should spring for the TIFF files. They take up more space > of course, but I assume your lab can do DVDs as well as CDs. You will have > much more headroom to work with 16-bit files (instead of the 8-bit JPEGs). > > Nathan > > >