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[Cecil E Monson]

> Let's not get in a tiff over TIF (the pun is fully intended.)  The
> professional digital photo people use TIF all the time and swear by it.


	Larry,

	I bought my first copy of a good manual titled, "A Few
Scanning Tips" by Wayne Fulton, quite a few years ago. It is a
very well written and informative manual that covers all anyone
needs to know about scanning - and that includes almost all file
types. He goes into detail about tif file format. It is hands down
one of the very best file formats for archiving (saving for long
periods of time) photos. It is a valuable tool in that it has an
option of using LZW lossless compression. It is the most important
file format for archiving photos, whether or not the images are
of high resolution, if you intend to keep them for the future. It
does not matter what resolution the camera used - 640 X 480 can be
used with tif as easy as anything larger. Most of my photos are
taken at 1024 X 768 so I'm not talking about humongous file sizes.
I have an entire 120 Gb 2nd hard drive devoted to scans and photos
so shouldn't run out of room for years. Compared to REAL photo
enthusiasts, I am just a piker when it comes to photography. But,
I have thousands of photos covering my career of 28 years in the
Cable TV business plus a lifetime of photos of my family and our
activities that goes back to the turn of the century or earlier.
I don't want to lose any of whatever quality these old - and even
recent - photos may have had because I worried about file sizes.

	Also, in my original post, I wasn't asking for advice as
to file types from anyone. What I said was in a post I thought was
going off List to Dave Ernst about scanning some manuals that I
would like to have for reference. Walt picked up on it and gave me
some advice for some reason. Most days I am open for good advice
and not others, I guess.

Cecil

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Cecil E Monson
Lucille Hand-Monson
Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole

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