From: "John H. DuBois III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:43:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I used a Nikon Coolscan 5000 to batchscan
> > several thousands of EOS slides..
> And you didn't save the data in lossless form? Tsk! :)
The idea was to scan all the pictures and carry them with
me on my laptop harddisk.
But a 48 bit 5472x3568 (~19MP) TIFF is at least 60 MB.
So, with 60000 pictures to go, there was no way to do that.
Scanning in full 48 bits takes much longer than 24 bits as well.
I traded speed for the last bit of quality.
I can always scan a picture that deserves it a second time.
I started scanning in March 2004 .
I batchscan during business hours in the office.
With automatic slidescan I have done some 800-1200 scans per week.
Now I am done with slides.
The negatives are better in quality but worse in handling.
One batch run is only 4 negatives instead of 40 slides.
I am now at 180 GB of JPGs at 2-6 MB each (full resolution, reasonable
compression).
The data represent some 50000 pics.
The remaining 10000 negatives will probably take one more year to scan.
I am not able to carry all the pictures I have taken on the
built in hard drive, however I can carry them on an external drive.
And within 5 years or so internal drives should be large enought.
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