Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do not see any real advantage of doing that. Besides, if you select the option "convert to DNG and import" in Lightroom, it does not actually convert TIFF files--all it does is make a copy in the directory where it keeps its DNG files. Cheers, Nathan On 30-jul-2008, at 16:24, leo wesson wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog