G?enter, The Yale Art Gallery has two Rapid Imaging workflows occurring currently, one is for Coins (our first RIP project) and then one for works on paper. In just a few weeks we are planning to do a short Rapid Imaging Project with 300 objects from our painted mourning miniatures project.
Our capture rates vary by material but as a general rule comparisons are as follows for us: Coins: 150/day with Rapid Imaging, 4/day with high end Works on paper: 150-200/day with Rapid Imaging, 15/day with high end Miniatures: 40/day with Rapid Imaging, 2/day with High end The main differences in these two approaches are one, grouping of similar sizes, and two that they are being batch color corrected. When we do high end, what we would call publication, we are hand color correcting each file, often shooting multiple shot and compositing the image and in the case of coins and Miniatures also needing to create a file that is to scale. I am happy to share our workflow documents for each project to those interested. ********************* John ffrench Associate Director, Visual Resources Department Yale University Art Gallery 203.432.8051 http://artgallery.yale.edu/
