Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: High Capacity Storage (was CD RW Deal)

["Robert Kehl" <bobkehl@kvernkehl.com>]

Good point Walter.  Perhaps I have been aiming too high in wishing to keep
4000dpi TIF's of all my images on CD.  Perhaps a 4000dpi JPEG will suffice.
It would sure save a lot of storage space (AKA $$$).

Thanks for your thoughts.

----- Original Message -----
From: Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: High Capacity Storage (was CD
RW Deal)


> But for >40 year storage JPEG's should be quite fine particually 4000
> dpi high quality JPEGs, those found to be of importance can be
> transfered to lossless formats and edited. If you can push something
> forward that long with only the loss of one high quality JPEG
> compression you are well ahead of the game.
>
> It's a small loss compared to making a print say, much less pushing a
> collection of prints that would fit on a CD. Much easier to store so
> likely to be stored under favorable conditions. Of course it's also
> easier to make multiple copies
>
> Also possible to much easier and cheaper to make multiple copies.