What’s the best digital format to save 35mm film pics as?
July 62010
I started on digital, and a friend suggested I try out film. Specifically Velvia 50 slide film. I like the results very much! Wow! I’m having a heck of a time, however, getting a lab to put them to a CD in anything other than JPG format. I know JPG is compressed, and loses a lot. What should I be asking for/looking for? What format should I have these Velvia film pics scanned as? TIFF, maybe?
Yup, TIFF.
Unless you’re lucky or paying extra, those files you’re getting now are probably low resolution JPGs. My local lab scans at 2.4 megapixels by default.
Rather than pay them some insane amount to scan things properly, I purchased a negative scanner myself. Just a simple Epson V600 (under $200 at B&H the last time I checked) but I’m quite happy with the results. A roll of 36 exposures requires 3 passes: it can handle 2 strips of 6 frames at a time.
July 6th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
TIFF it the universal image file format for scanned images that is NOT compressed.
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proFotog
July 6th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
You’ve pretty much answered your own question. Check out the amount of compression for all the formats and pick the one that uses the least amount of compression. The best of all, of course, would be no compression at all, but that will eat up the most disk space.
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July 6th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Yup, TIFF.
Unless you’re lucky or paying extra, those files you’re getting now are probably low resolution JPGs. My local lab scans at 2.4 megapixels by default.
Rather than pay them some insane amount to scan things properly, I purchased a negative scanner myself. Just a simple Epson V600 (under $200 at B&H the last time I checked) but I’m quite happy with the results. A roll of 36 exposures requires 3 passes: it can handle 2 strips of 6 frames at a time.
References :