Were I to start the project today, I suspect I would scan 300 ppi JPEGs to take better advantage of current Retina displays, though I wonder whether that wonderfully-hued Polaroid from the 1970s would look better to me if scanned at 300 ppi than 200 ppi on a 5k iMac scaled normally. We very much like how they display.Ĭurrently I scan very few pictures as everything new to me is already digital. We use Photos only for the purposes of displaying them on our array of Apple devices. We view those images in a copy of the collection imported into the Photos apps on Mac/IOS, but as I said do not use those apps to either organize or store the actual collection. Historically I used a simple flatbed scanner set on 200 ppi scanning in the JPEG format. I know I can see the pictures I scanned in the mid-2000s today on my iPad Pro/iMac far better than my family can see the same yellowing prints in paper albums behind plastic with the adhesive turning brown. But fundamentally the underlying file can’t have more information than the original print. I suppose the actual viewing experience is in part dependent upon the size, quality, resolution, and scaling of the screen you view them on and your distance from it.
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Getting a proper scanning target to fine tune your individual scanner is also a really good idea.Individual devices of the smae make and model wil have different scanning characteristics.Īnd once you have the files plan on how to migrate them to new storage media over time as technology changes. I’ve actually put the scanning of slides on hold until I can test some of his ideas. I have all the books and his one on using a high end digital camera instead of a scanner is great, if you already have the camera.
This resource has a lot of good info too Īnd of course the venerable DAM book by Krogh and its children. It goes into detail about how to determine what is suitable. “Digital Imaging A Practical Approach” by Jill Koelling For a really good book on how to determine what resolution to scan at get the book Long term archival quality scans is a huge issue for me becaue I’m working to scan a lot of stuff for the historical society as well.
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