[MCN-L] Conference Presentations?
Are workshop evaluations available to presenters? Robert Hickerson Photographer/Database Project Manager Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045 1-785-864-0134 -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of John Bedard Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:25 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Conference Presentations? Has the date been announced yet when the MCN 2006 presentations will be posted on the MCN web site? John R. Bedard Director of Information Projects and Services The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 Phone: 612-870-3268 Fax: 612-870-3004 Email: JBedard at artsmia.org www.artsmia.org www.artsconnected.org ___ 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
[MCN-L] Question about Scanning Negatives
Julie, I am a big fan of capturing every pixel that the hardware device can capture without interpolation. You should check the specs on your scanner. My Epson 1680 can scan at several resolutions, but 1600 ppi (pixels per inch) is the maximum resolution without interpolation. It has other settings from 72 up to 12800 ppi, but that is not a good strategy. If you capture the maximum real pixels that the hardware device can produce, you have the best file possible which you can then make smaller according to your specs, but never larger. Robert Hickerson Photograher Spencer Museum of Art -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Urban Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 4:22 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Question about Scanning Negatives Julie, I would avoid using scaling since this often means the scanner will be interpolating (aka making guesses) data from what it can't see on the original. This would also be the case in taking lower resolution images and increasing their DPI after scanning. It can be done, but it no longer accurately represents the original. Regarding resolutions, this is one of those cases where it may be better to look at the pixels on the longest dimension, rather than DPI. If your materials are all the same size you can calculate a target dpi for them. Taking CDL's best practice of 4,000 pixels on the longest dimension would give you ~1150 dpi for 3.5 photographic negatives. Some helpful tools are the Excel sheets from the Technical Advisory Service for Images, which let you estimate storage requirements based on resolution, bit depth and size. http://tasi.ac.uk/resources/ toolbox.html Setting your scanner to the highest resolution possible might not buy you anything, as film or prints have their own resolution. At some point you may be capturing more information than the original film holds, which may not be efficient use of storage space (and lets not forget that good digital preservation means you have multiple copies to prevent a single point of failure and should be included in your storage estimates). Richard Urban rjurban at uiuc.edu On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Julie Grob wrote: Hello, We are about to begin scanning a large group of early 20th century negatives. They are about 3.5 square. We will be creating master TIFFs of course, but we would like to be able to print larger than 3.5 images. Is it better to scale up and scan them at something like 200%, or to increase the resolution from 600 dpi to a higher dpi? Thanks in advance, Julie Grob Julie Grob Digital Projects and Instruction Librarian Special Collections 114 University Libraries University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-2000 (713) 743-9744 jgrob at uh.edu ___ 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 ___ 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
[MCN-L] informal survey of digital photography devicesin museums
Color management workflow has been in place here at The Spencer Museum of Art for three years. I have just finished a grant funded project to digitize our collection where we made over 23,000 images in the last 18 months. I will be teaching the complete digital workflow in workshops at the Mountain Plains Museum Association conference in September and the MCN conference in November. The short version goes like this: with a MacBeth colorchart and Photoshop, I can show you how to manage color by the numbers. This eliminates stuff like monitor variations and poor vision from the equation. This is a tried and true method and other researchers have independently come to the same conclusions. Hope to see you at one of the workshops! -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu]On Behalf Of Ann Sinfield Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:39 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] informal survey of digital photography devicesin museums Hi all, It would be very interesting to hear from anyone who has implemented a color management workflow. I know of a few places (Yale University Art Gallery has been very helpful as we develop ours), but has anyone smaller had any success? Thanks, Ann S. Ann Sinfield, Registrar Chazen Museum of Art University of Wisconsin-Madison 800 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706 608-263-3722 tel 608-263-8188 fax asinfield at chazen.wisc.edu www.chazen.wisc.edu Jeff Evans jfevans at Princeton.EDU 8/1/2006 8:19 am Will, At Princeton, we remain a film-to-press workflow, however we do use a Canon EOS-1Ds MarkII (and love it) for half page images and jpegs. Along with digital capture technology, you may want to inquire about match print / color management workflow. Those answers will be interesting to read as well. (unless commercial CMYK printing is not an issue for you) JEFF Jeffrey Evans Digital Imaging Specialist Princeton University Art Museum 609.258.8579 On Jul 30, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Real, Will wrote: As the time for submitting budget requests for our next fiscal year approaches I am curious to know what digital photography devices are being used in the museum community. Would any of you be willing to volunteer whether you are using any of the following for photography of collections? Please be as specific as you can. (respond offline directly to me if you wish to remain anonymous: realw [at] carnegiemuseums.org) Nikon D1X, D200, D2X Canon 5D, EOS 1Ds Mark II Leaf Aptus 75 Phase One P 45, etc. BetterLight 6000 etc. Sinar Bron 44, 54, emotion75, etc. Others (Imacon, Jenoptik, etc.) I would also be interested to know if you have switched to all- digital capture or not. Thanks, Will William Real Director of Technology Initiatives Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412.622.3267 412.622.3112 (fax) ___ ___ 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
Luna Insight and sRGB
I recently heard that when an image is processed into Luna Insight the color space is defaulted to sRGB. If this is true, that certainly goes against the recently published best practices. Any thoughts on this? Robert Hickerson Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
[MCN-L] Jpeg2000 deployments online?
Try this link to our collection: http://www.lib.ku.edu/imagegateway/index.cfm?page=detailcollection=10 Robert Hickerson Photographer/Database Project Manager Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045 1-785-864-0134 -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Real, Will Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:30 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] Jpeg2000 deployments online? Do any of you know of any museums/libraries/archives that are deploying jpeg2000 images online with a viewer that allows the user to zoom into fine detail? We are envisioning various scenarios as part of a budget planning process. I want to get an idea of the file sizes required (perhaps in terms of a percentage of the master TIFF from which it is derived) to provide a zoomable jpeg online. I am also interested in knowing what is being used, if anything, to provide the end user with the jpeg2000 viewer. A home grown application? Luna? Aware, Inc.? Etc.? Any tips or pointers appreciated. Will Real Carnegie Museum of Art Realw [at] carnegiemuseums.org ___ 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
