Dear Kathy: We shoot in RAW from our camera (Nikon D60) and save those as our masters. From there, we process into TIFF and JPG. The TIFFs we use for reproduction requests, and the JPGS are used mostly as thumbnails or previews for our curators and also for our collections management system.
Our scanners don't scan into RAW, so those end up being some pretty large TIFF files, from which we make JPGs. Nice thing about RAW is that they're compressed in a rather handy way (5MB as opposed to a 20MB or larger TIFF). You don't want to save a master JPG, because the compression algorithms don't allow you to scale back up. Perian Sully Collection Information and New Media Coordinator Judah L. Magnes Museum -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kathy Amoroso Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:42 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] RAW vs. TIF Hello all, I am new to this group so pardon me if this discussion has already happened. If it has, please direct me to the correct month in the archive. I was wondering what the museum trend is now for using RAW format files in photography of digital objects. We at Maine Memory Network (www.mainememory.net) have a camera that saves RAW and JPG and for now have been sticking with JPG. We are getting questioned internally about RAW, however. We save our scans as TIF and then convert them to JPG for the website. Any thoughts on the subject would be greatly appreciated. ************************ Kathy Amoroso Director of Digital Projects, kamoroso at mainehistory.org Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
