Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/30

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Subject: [Leica] Hybrid Photography
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Wed Jul 30 07:24:13 2008
References: <f135946b0807290425u12be51daib45c757445d25ea0@mail.gmail.com> <0FD83252-6095-4826-8579-6220D99CF116@frozenlight.eu>

Nathan,

Have you considered converting your tiff's to dng's?

Leo



On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Nathan <photo@frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> By coincidence, I have been going through my scans from the late 1990s
> until 2003 during the past week. Specifically, I have copied them from the
> hundreds of CDs onto an external HD (all TIFF files), and as I write this, 
> I
> am importing them into Lightroom. The CDs are up to 10 years old, but since
> they were the Kodak gold CDs, they have all held up, without exception. Our
> of about 3000 images, there were 2 corrupted files, both on another brand 
> CD
> (also gold, but not Kodak, ironically only 5 years old).
>
> It is fun to look at the old images in Lightroom, but they will need some
> work. The scanned film is not equal by any means to the DSLR images I make
> now. The one exception are the IR images, which are better than anything I
> have seen done with digital capture.
>
> Dan, I think you should spring for the TIFF files. They take up more space
> of course, but I assume your lab can do DVDs as well as CDs. You will have
> much more headroom to work with 16-bit files (instead of the 8-bit JPEGs).
>
> Nathan
>
>
>

Replies: Reply from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan) ([Leica] Hybrid Photography)
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