[NMUG] Negatives

[Simon Royal]

Martin

On the subject of saving to TIFF, do you use any compression.

I worked for a printers a few years ago and our collection of images -  
saved as uncompressed TIFFs was spiraling out of control. After much  
searching about it seemed LZW compression wasn't a lossless format.

I just wanted someone elses take on it as I have a collection of  
images and running out of storage space.

Simon

On 1 May 2009, at 17:37, Martin Fry wrote:

> Hi Peter
>
> It's no great secret, I have a large light box.
>
> I  fit the camera to a 'copy stand'  to to keep it parallel to the
> light box and neg.
>
> I use a macro lens for close work.
>
> Cut a black mount or 2 x "L's. to fit over the edges of the negative  
> to
> hold it down flat and also to cut out unwanted light from around the
> neg.
>
> The camera's metering system normally takes care of exposure.
>
> As my camera is  12.8 MP.  I get a 15 x 10" image file from it 38.6  
> Mb.
>  (ample for most publications and prints)
>
> On photoshop I turn the image to black & white or sepia ( to cut out
> any colour casts from the old negs)
>
> Save as a Tiff file for quality
>
> Done!!!
>
> Hope this helps
>
> if you have some aircraft shots that might sell for greetings cards I
> might be interested for my stock library
>
> Regards
>
> Martin
>
> www.martinfryphotography.com
>
>> Dear Martin, would you be prepared to go into greater detail about  
>> how
>> to do
> _______________________________________________
> NMUG mailing list
> NMUG at durrant.co.uk
> http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug
>

Simon Royal
---
Visit my Mac site at http://www.simonroyal.co.uk. Or Skype me on  
'Simon-Royal'. (Apple PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD,  
SuperDrive. Mac OSX 10.5, 10.4 & 9.2.2...)