It was 19/3/04 9:48 am, when planty wrote:

> I'm archiving my work and was wondering what kind of scan size that is
> needed for 35mm film to capture all the detail/info of the original?

Simon

Does capturing more pixels equate to capturing more detail? I thought the
scanner's ability to capture detail and dynamic range were the
prerequisites...

> and if needs be produce another trannie from the file in the future.
> Most my work is scanned for one of my stock libraries and they require a
> minimum of 100mb files which to me seems to be overkill and I don't want to
> waste time scanning and storing that size for no reason.

I visited AGE Fotostock the other day and their policy regarding file size
and digital capture seems to be the most sensible that I have come across.
You can get to it from the photographers > submission link. Here's the home
link http://www.agefotostock.com/

Have to say, I found some of their views regarding color space, sharpening
and exposure when shooting digitally a bit perplexing. For example, they say
"Make sure that digital images are exposed correctly or even better a bit
overexposed (1/3) and avoid underexposure as much as you can as they are not
as easy to restore." I thought digital cameras were notorious for losing
highlight info so you should "underexpose." More precisely, expose the
highlights correctly.


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